Does anyone know when and if we are gettinga bew unit

[Pballman17]

I was just wondering if anyoe could tell me when and if tao admin has decided to release or even creat a new unit. Will it be a unit suggested by a subscirber???

[SlipknotiCX]

When? Who knows =\

Will it be by suggestion? Who knows =\ (Though it would seem sensible to create the Ents since it's had tons of votes)

Just will have to wait for an announcement from DR or Bills.

[LondonJack]

From what i hear there is a new unit slated for release some time next week, and rumor has it that it will in fact be one of the units suggested here.

[Omega_Paladin]

Probably mine and Green's Badger idea. I hope they don't make the Ent. It's too generic and all it would be good for is anti-Furgon type stuff and that was solved by the OVERPOWERED Mud Quake.

[LondonJack]

I kinda agree with you Omega, i mean i'm the one that nominated the ent back in the day, but honestly i never really got it. It's a melee unit, the nerfs healing and walks through shrubs, there is nothing there that would have much if any effect on the game as a whole.

[xyxaxyz2]

I agree, the ent just doesn't make sense with all the rest of the units, its sort of like a beast rider in that respect.

[Pballman17]

Which idea omega??? i saw an idea for a skeleton i like it. there are many a good idea in this forum

[Omega_Paladin]

Yeah, we need something that will help throw both mage-bombs and cornered in formations, not just stonie formations. I have only fought a spread formation ONCE. All the rest where either: A) Stuffed in a corner or B) a mage-bomb. We need something that will bring power to spreads or just foster some innovation in here to bring TAO out of the era of stagnation that it is going through.

[Pballman17]

what was the name of ur idea

[Serge]

They should release my viking idea, it would fit in a turtle formation, a spread formation, it's a melee unit so it wouldn't go in a mage bomb, but I don't play on Banff so I don't care.

[LondonJack]

Originally posted by Serge
They should release my viking idea

The TAO community does a collective sigh of relief because Serge has absolutely no influence on what units get made.

[Serge]

Watch it snarr...

[Cephkiller]

Serge,

Have you ever posted on a single topic without self-promotion? Just curious.

[Serge]

Yes, however, I apologize for you not being able to understand my subtle humor.

[Scipio]

Ha! My Viking idea is FAR superior to yours serge ....

The Viking Berserker - by Scipio (http://www.tacticsarenaonline.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4568&highlight=Viking)

:D

[Pballman17]

Scipio, your viking berserker is a unit worthy of creation. It would be nice to place it in my setup and destroy people with it.

[Bottle]

Yes, it would destroy people. Because it's overpowered.

[Serge]

Dude scipio, you are right, you your viking idea is way better than mine ! ! ! (!)

If by better you mean, overpowered and ridiculously useless. We don't need a unit that does nothing but a power attack. I came up with a berzerker idea before, it serves little to no purpose. Also, viking's didn't tend to use big axes in reality, or follow a code of honor, or believe in an honorable death. They used axes with small heads, or spears. Usually spears 'cause they were cheap and easy to make. A large axe-head would require blacksmithing skills vikings didn't possess. They had no code of honor or a belief in an honorable death, they snuck in at knight, killed the men, woman, and children, looted, and burned the village down.

[Fungi]

I agree that the unit is over powered and redundant.

However Serge, Vikings had quite a strict code of honor that is identified and explained in the earliest icelandic sagas.

Beyond that the only defensless people they killed were monks. They had a serious belief in the honorable death in battle. In fact that was the only honorable death.


Just thought I'd chip in. Wouldn't want my ancestors bashed.

[Pballman17]

hmm i wonder who really knows what they r talking about. Last i heard vikings killed everyone in their sleep because they were cowardice bastards

[Scipio]

I know my history....

These points are all quite moot.

I could not care less what the real Vikings were like. I have simply devised a unit for a game that would be fun to use and simple to code. It is also better than Serge's :D

I have also updated the unit in its original post. I do not think it is overpowered at all, especially now. Also, people think it wouldnt last long in a match. I disagree, they would just need to use barriar wards to keep the unit around longer. Also, it could be in the back of your setup, protected until later in the game, where it would prove more useful.

Toodles

-Scipio-

[Serge]

Originally posted by Fungi
I agree that the unit is over powered and redundant.

However Serge, Vikings had quite a strict code of honor that is identified and explained in the earliest icelandic sagas.

Beyond that the only defensless people they killed were monks. They had a serious belief in the honorable death in battle. In fact that was the only honorable death.


Just thought I'd chip in. Wouldn't want my ancestors bashed.

I wasn't bashing, I was just saying that I didn't think vikings had a code of honor, hell I don't have a code of honor. I was wrong, that's two times in a week, damn I am starting to slip. It also depends on what point of view you are looking from, I am sure the pople being looted would consider the vikings savages. Tis not but the opinion of a disgruntled enemy. However, what I said about their weapons I am pretty sure about, if a viking had a "big axe" it would have to be stolen, their lifestyle didn't allow most of them to develop good weapon crafting skills.

Also, scipio, it is not better than mine, also, the viking isn't my best idea.

[The Rooster]

Serge said:
Watch it snarr...

Doesn't anybody else find this amusing, since Snarr didn't post? Not once?

[Serge]

Man you need to get out of the Create-a-unit forum every once in awhile . . . nvm stay here.

[Bottle]

Dude... LondonJack is snarr.

[green97sierra]

Originally posted by Omega_Paladin
Probably mine and Green's Badger idea.

that would be GREAT if it was the badger... oh my dear lord... multiplys every turn, extra units spill over into adjacent battles... it would be GREAT! im going to have to find that unit and necro-post it...

[Pballman17]

Lets make a unit that is like a nuclear warhead. It destroys the whole field and other units that are in other peoples battles. No, that would be a gay idea, but im a sarcstic person and find green97sierra to be a blubbering idiot.

[Pballman17]

Hmmm i wonder if there is truly a perfect unit????

[The Rooster]

Dude... LondonJack is snarr.

AAHHHHH...right...that's why their both online now, eh?

[Pballman17]

Who cares rooster. This is a creat a unit post not a who gives a crap about if londonjack is snarr. get a life.

[Soothesayer]

I think that they should definately make this into a unit, even though it is unbalanced. However, I think that only I should only be given to a special category of people called "Morons," where It would attack the actual moron itself with an attack called "virus"

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by Soothesayer
I think that they should definately make this into a unit, even though it is unbalanced. However, I think that only I should only be given to a special category of people called "Morons," where It would attack the actual moron itself with an attack called "virus"

Ok, this one I got to agree with you about.

[Baeoin]

Originally posted by Omega_Paladin
Yeah, we need something that will help throw both mage-bombs and cornered in formations, not just stonie formations. I have only fought a spread formation ONCE. All the rest where either: A) Stuffed in a corner or B) a mage-bomb. We need something that will bring power to spreads or just foster some innovation in here to bring TAO out of the era of stagnation that it is going through.

If you want somethin like this I think this could help Tinkerer (http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5458&highlight=Tinkerer) (old unit I made back when I used to really contribute to this forum)

[Bottle]

Originally posted by Bottle
Dude... LondonJack is snarr.

Originally posted by The Rooster
AAHHHHH...right...that's why their both online now, eh?

Isn't it obvious that he has two computers? He even admits it himself.

[The Rooster]

eh could be....I wouldn't know.

[Pballman17]

my thread died nooooooo