[Mod] Updated Weapon Mod 0.5

Thanks Kenata

Cool, I'm gonna have to check this out tomorrow and give you some feedback. Looks good though!

does the ai use these features?

Cool. This would give the units some unique abilities... Will test it out.

Short swords are insanely powerful on casters.  A +2 combat speed is way too much!

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I tried to balance the weapons so that any weapon was usable throughout the game if necessary. Is the short sword too powerful for the entire game or just at a certain point? Suggestions?

something i noticed and i dont know if you could workaround this, some weapons give essence.

then when you level up you can assign more essence. so basically its "imbue hero" without losing anything.

just a thought.

Good mod but is there any way to implement "Tactical Essence" instead of normal essence?

The problem with the short sword is that it is overpowered not due to its abilities in melee, but because of how many spells per round it allows a mage to cast.

I will attempt to address the essence problem as that was not intended.

Do you think it should be +1 instead of +2? I had actually intended the short sword to help out mages in this way, but I do you think it is too powerful?

Just a note, I am going to be working on the mod and hopefully will have 0.6, done by the end of the weekend.

I have it changed to 1 in mine... I guess its your call.  My sovereign has 2 base + 1 horse + 1 from magic items, and then +2 from a shortsword... thats a lot of infernos on round one.

Yeah its alot but how many infernos does it take to kill 3 companies of longbowmen which will snipe you on their turn?

For 3 companies of Longbowmen, I prefer to use Freeze Enemies and get my men to whack them with big sticks.

So does the AI use this?

I was thinking of doing something like this. One idea I had was adding a strength modifier to some weapon types and lowering their base damage. Making that weapon group better with items that add attack (as the extra base str should increase the extra attack).

As for items to help mages Wisdom used to decrease the casting cost but altering the stat does nothing as it is fixed at a cost of 2 now. The only safe attributes to modify I can see are UnitStat_TacticalManaRegen and UnitStat_Intelligence. To which I was thinking of adding in some new staffs unlocked through the magic research that add differing amounts to both.

It may also be possible to create staffs that fire magic bolts by adding in <TacticalRange>8</TacticalRange> and creating new effects for it. However I think the damage will still be based of strength.

I was also thinking of adding negative Intelligence and strength modifiers to heavier armours which would make using them more of a choice of extra defense or higher attack. I think they should also get a dodge bonus to simulate the heavier armour deflecting blows out right (like shields). Which may go some what towards how things are stacked in favor of the attack at the moment.  

For a apear: a short range "throw spear" spell so a normally melee-only unit could moonlight as a ranged one.

Tower shield: Shield wall.  Increase defense, reduce offense

Smaller shield(s): Shield Bash.  Small chance to trip/stun opponent.

Warg: Maul (seize 'em!)

Horse: Cavalry charge. I'll be damned if I can figure out a way to make it useful but it sure sounds cool. The best implementation of a charge I have seen in Shadow of the Horned Rat.  A cavalry unit had to go in a straight line for several squares before it became "a charge".

Elemental: To move up to the enemy, stop, and then click "charge" would be dumb.
You can't just make it expensive "so the unit needs full movement points" because even 0,1 points are enough to activate any ability at all.

The effect of a charge would be easier to come up with. Something to reduce retaliation/counterattack, possibly stun the opponent or reduce morale.

I'm afraid that any "cool" way to make it work would have to wait until things can get scripted properly.
Then cavalry units could become very cool but they would need maneuvering space to line up their charges...

It would be cooler if it has an animation of charging through the enemy (provided there is space behind them) and ended up behind the enemy lines..

I thought about modifying the shield to have special abilities. However, doing so currently, I would have to give the abilities but no essence as units who already have special abilities from the weapons could then cast their weapon special abilities multiple times. This would result in a unit using say the short sword which does not give mana being unable to even use his shield bash or shield wall. The same thing goes for the wargs and horses. Again though, these are things in the current version, and my desire is to be able to add cool downs for the abilities instead of mana usage.

I never worry about tossing out an idea even though I have no idea if it's at all possible to implement it right now.

When scripting/modding X3 (over there I'm Gazz), I almost always found a way to implement "stuff" - if not literally then in spirit.
And as long as it looks like it works it doesn't matter if it's possible that it works within the game engine.
Games are all about creating an illusion and mods are no different.