Sea Combat Mod 95% complete, now needs balance testing.

Like the topic says, it's almost done, i basically just need balance testing now. If you're interested i'm El-Enfoiro on USeast so drop me a line.

The mod introduces the following new units and abilities (and also generic ship defense/attack upgrades) as well as race specific shipyards in melee mode:

HUMAN-

Shipyard - builds ships and houses the Forcefield and Imbued Ammunition upgrades

Transport Ship - self explanatory
Magi Skiff - light combat ship that can use the Forcefield ability
Battleship - heavy high damage combat ship that can benefit from the Imbued Ammunition upgrade


ORC-

Shipyard - builds ships and houses the Ram Ship and Bombard upgrades

Transport Ship - ...
Battleraft - light combat ship that can use the Ram Ship ability
Juggernaught - very high damage and resistant ship that can benefit from the Bombard upgrade


NIGHT ELF-

Shipyard - builds ships and houses the Strength of the Sea and Crushing Wave upgrades

Transport Ship - ...
Frigate - light combat ship that can use the Sea Elemental ability
Moon Vessel - heavy combat ship that can use the Crushing Wave ability


UNDEAD-

Shipyard - builds ships and houses the Unholy Rituals and Frost Cannons upgrades

Transport Ship - ...
Ghost Ship - light SUMMONED combat ship with high damage that has timed life (4 minutes) can use the Frost Cannons ability
Bone Titan - heavy combat ship that can use Ghost Form to go ethereal and summon Dead Sailors with the Unholy Rituals upgrade


--ABILITIES--

Bombard - Lets Juggernaughts use a high damage, long range (but long cooldown) anti building attack
Crushing Wave - Sends a large wave against enemy ships, doing 1000 total damage spread amongst all targets
Forcefield - Grants the Magi Skiff a short lasting invulnerability
Frost Cannons - Adds an area of effect freezing attack to Ghost Ships
Imbued Ammunition - Slightly lowers the cooldown and significantly increases range of Battleships
Ram Ship - Sends the Battleraft chasing the target ship, colliding into it to deal good damage and take some damage itself
Sea Elemental - Summons a Sea Elemental to support the Sentinel armada
Unholy Rituals - Allows Bone Titans in ethereal form to summon Dead Sailors from corpses, and doubles their regeneration rate in ethereal form.


OTHER:
Race specific Shipyards can be built from all workers, using a new ability "advanced building" which allows them to create even more buildings. They can only be built on shallow water (ground and sea pathable)

Naga Myrmidon mercenary added to neutral shipyards. Can be good for last resort defense against a few ships assaulting your base. Comes into play after about 7 minutes.

Each race has generic weapon/armor upgrades that apply to their ships.

Neutral transports at neutral shipyards are cheaper and take no food, but are half as resistant as race specific transports. Do you really wanna risk losing your army ? :p


SOME STATS:
most transports are 170 gold, 40 wood, 1 food
most light ships are 250 gold, 75 wood, 2 food (UD one is cheaper cause timed)
most heavy ships are 500 gold, 175 wood, 4 food (Orc Jugg is the most expensive ship, but you get almost double HP and great attack too)

light ship upgrades and heavy ships require tier2
heavy ship upgrades require tier3

heavy ships have fortified armor and are countered well by siege if you can catapult their *** from the coast


AND NOW-
i just need some motivated balance testers :D
El-Enfoiro on USeast or blahtheoriginal on AIM to contact me
feedback appreciated!

yea ill beta test

sounds interesting

w00t :p im about to go out on Bnet and try it out with a few ppl :D

oh hell ya dude, ill test for ya

people that want to help, i would appreciate some contact info T.T ive been looking for serious testers that SOMEWHAT know how to play melee ... the custom game commoners on Bnet are just NOT the people im looking for, sadly.

I would but i'm rather busy making a map at the moment.

Though perhaps I will have some time, just say when.

And, I know how to play melee.