Roles and Holes in HS- How OM affect Design (OM III)

[Tai-Pan]

I love the idea of covering fire. Something like this:

Covering Fire
Before taking a turn with (1), any ranged unit that follows (general) within four clear site spaces of (1) make attack normally. They may not move, and no modifiers or special abilities apply to the attack.

[Revdyer]

Jexik, nice article (as usual). I'm really glad we won't see "covering fire" for the 4th Mass...they would dominate even more than they do now.

[Jexik]

Originally Posted by Riggler

Jexik,

I enjoyed the special powers you came up with more than anything -- Lightening and Chain Lightening -- bravo. Don't know if I'd write them exactly the same way, but the concept -- anti-soulborg.

I've noticed reports of tournament winners and high placers typically contain the newer soulborgs (Deathwalkers excluded). Its unfortunate any power that counters soulborgs would likely hurt the already power-diminished Deathwalkers. But with their high defense, losing 1 def dice may be the best way to do that.

Additionally, one might add a Sujoah/DW8K-like ability to Lightning strike where a successful hit can then mean the chance for additional wounds on heroes. This wouldn't punish the Deathwalkers at all, but would make Q9 a slightly less attractive hero. Then you might get rid of the extra order marker removal part.

Necroblade, I'm glad to help! I'm not much of a visual artist, or photoshop wizard, but I hope my ideas can help out the custom community in some way.

Dnutt, I like the idea of a ranged Viper squad a lot, especially if they have Frenzy and/or are Scouts. I'd be hesitant to add more Warlords into the mix because the Romans would get more too. Perhaps make a Viper hero into a Predator? That way you could make some cool Aquilla/Ullar hybrid armies with spiders, armocs, mittens, etc.

[dnutt99]

Originally Posted by Jexik

Dnutt, I like the idea of a ranged Viper squad a lot, especially if they have Frenzy and/or are Scouts. I'd be hesitant to add more Warlords into the mix because the Romans would get more too. Perhaps make a Viper hero into a Predator? That way you could make some cool Aquilla/Ullar hybrid armies with spiders, armocs, mittens, etc.

I never thought about the unbalancing Roman Lego thing. Honestly I posted first in response to the poll, and then read the article. Very clever and interesting idea on making the my Armoc hero a predator though. That elaborate on a new class while still maintaining the synergies. Thanx.

[Roufus]

As far as synergy and bonding goes
I'd like to see more units like the queen vampire lady (not the summoning one).

She boosts Cyprien, but at the same time could be damaged by him dying.

More units should have this give/take type thing, and still be useful in their own right. There are so many units now that are useless without their counterparts. I think more things should be decent both ways, or have potential pitfalls as well as well as advantages.

[dickflea]

I didn't know which way to go with this, on one hand i'd like to see the failing Heroes boosted and on the other i trust the makers of the game have some yet unseen units that will solve this.

Anyways i'm just glad they haven't pulled the line completely.

[spider_poison]

Once again, great article. They're always well-written, thought out, and easy to read. I especially like the now technicolored Krug

As for actual content, I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I agree more strongly with these points:

-Saturation of human champions with similar abilities. They need a high priced hero or a hero in the 50 point range. Also, he needs to be distinctly different from the others (which pretty much follow the 3 attack, 4 defense thing).

-Vydar needs some cheaper units. It's fun to play general specific armies, and if you choose Vydar, it can be hard to fill a given point value.

-I'm not quite as keen to the idea of terrain specific guys as you, but I like the idea as long as the primary value of the terrain specific unit is in its default stats. I just don't like it when units like the Obsidian Guards, Marro Drudge, Yetis (to a lesser degree), etc. are pretty silly to use outside their home terrain. Give terrain specific units an "incentive" to be on their familiar terrain.

-I agree: enough with Utgar!

-I love that chain lightning ability. Anything that helps neuter Q9 and rats....errrrr....."Soulborgs" is good in my book.

Good stuff!

[Velenne]

Everything SP said.

[IAmBatman]

I think it might be interesting to see more anti-bonding powers besides just order marker removing powers like Dund's. I'm thinking a wizard or a spy that has a "mistrust" or "trechery" type power that would stop figures within a certain number of spaces from using bonding powers.
Or maybe it could be D20 based, but then it'd require some sort of marker to place on the card. The latter option would make it more permanent and would limit how many cards you could affect, though, in most cases, you'd only need to affect one card to cripple an army. (So it'd have to be a pretty high roll). I think I prefer the proximity option, though, just so bonders can take out the spy or wizard, or w/e and end the effect.