Warlords

12-22-2006, 03:00 PM

Warlords

By Captain Griffen

Story:
A kingdom lies broken. Leaderless, divided - weak. Hordes gather beyond the Heathen Wall, ready to strike. The Canith Empire has no desire to takes these lands, but the best chance of stopping the barbarian hordes is at the Wall. Imperial forces are dispatched, establishing a fort on the only pass though the wall in the area. Meanwhile, three warlords descend like vultures onto the striken lands. Only one may victor - but only if the barbarians are stopped.
Summary:
- The three warlords gain spawns and gold from villages and towns. By taking over other towns they can become more powerful. They gain victory by defeating the other two warlords and the barbarians.
- The barbarians start off in a strong defensive position, with a large number of towers, but penned in by the Wall and the Imperial fort. In order to win, they must break out and defeat the three warlords and destroy the other less well defended Imperial barracks. As time goes on, they become stronger and gain more income, meaning that if they are not dealt with then they eventually becoming overpowering and unbeatable.
- The Imperials must defeat the barbarians to win. Their income is at a fixed level.
- Each unit takes up upkeep, which equates to a reduction in gold income.
Features:
- Fast paced combat, and generally a quick game.
- Some thought and guile required for the warlords to win. If they decide to fight amongst themselves, they strengthen the hand of the barbarians. But if they decide to fight together against the barbarians, how can they know one won't hold back and backstab them?
- The Imperial forces cannot takes towns, but could intervene into the warlord's struggle to ensure one person takes rapid dominance. Though if the other two realise the plan, it would be in their interest to unite.
- Special buildings such as the blacksmith. Whichever warlord controls the blacksmith gains +1 damage to any units trained.
- Rebuildable towers, though they cannot be rebuild during combat easily, and only on designated and pre-selected areas.
- Barbarians can portal to anywhere on the map, enabling them to turn the tide by sneak attacks or attacking from multiple locations.
Progress:
- All special units done.
- Heroes done.
- Pretty much all parts in place, and polished.
- Reasonably balanced.
Planned or possible features:
- Tie-breaker ultimate abilities, which can be used to turn the tide of the war. These would be powerful and far reaching enough to dramatically turn the tide of the map, without being overpowering.
- Fire shot mode on trebuchets. Less accurate and less effective against buildings, but more effective against units with a considerable burning ground effect.
Team Required:
- In order to facilitate balancing and help in development, a quality team of testers who know the map is required.
- The best bet is to drop by the IRC channel between 5 and 9 (GMT).
- Requirements are basically being open minded, and capable of thinking.

Change Log

Download at the submission area (also up to date change log):

http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?p=932629

12-22-2006, 03:29 PM	#2
Jacek	will you include GTW-style physics? (knockbacks, throwing into air etc.) ??

12-22-2006, 03:30 PM	#3
Captain Griffen	GTW-style? It's called physics. GTW did not invent physics. But I do plan to have some units flying around from trebuchets, and probably some spells as well. Maybe some other stuff too.

12-22-2006, 04:11 PM	#4
ragingspeedhorn	Promising project, keep up the good work Griffen. Hopefully you will finnish this map.

12-22-2006, 10:24 PM	#5
Anitarf	The concept sounds promising, so finish it by all means. :)

12-22-2006, 10:49 PM	#6
Taur	so is this mainly hero oriented or more of a melee like map.

12-22-2006, 10:53 PM	#7
Captain Griffen	More like melee, but with strategy, no resource gathering, different spawning, proper sieges, and a raft of other differences. At present, there are no heroes. I've yet to decide on what role heroes shall play.

12-23-2006, 04:39 AM

Xlightscreen

mmk nvm I thought your using the orc race but guess not if you still wan't to use that tower just tell me and ill figure out a way to get it textured good.

Edit: Baa just relized how bad of screenshot that is lol.

Attached Images

Siege Tower.JPG (212.5 KB)

12-23-2006, 09:07 AM	#9
ragingspeedhorn	Griff, I would say there should be 1 hero per fraction, like the warlord itself. He should not be super imba hero to go and pwn the battle but act as a sort of general over the battlefield and have spells which is used mainly for boosting own units instead of casting mega-uber-lightning strike for mass killing.

12-23-2006, 09:20 AM

#10

Captain Griffen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xlightscreen

Barbarians are orcs. Imperials are human, and the warlords have a mixture of human and elves, and maybe some dwarves.

The siege tower looks good, but unfortunately it would fit in. The map doesn't have any stone walls at the moment, and definately none of any real height.

Quote:

Griff, I would say there should be 1 hero per fraction, like the warlord itself. He should not be super imba hero to go and pwn the battle but act as a sort of general over the battlefield and have spells which is used mainly for boosting own units instead of casting mega-uber-lightning strike for mass killing.

Exactly what I was thinking. Not sure if he should be replacable or not, and if so to what extent. For the imperials, probably also a commander.

For the barbarians, I was thinking shamans, who would be more offensive. Spells to take out siege, disrupt enemy towers, etc.

Hopefully I'll have an early beta by the end of the weekend. Then expect me to vanish for a week or so while I finish Oblivion.

12-23-2006, 09:58 AM	#11
ragingspeedhorn	Good idea. I think the heroes should revive at their base after a certain amount of time, perhaps it should cost something or if not, then have a rather large cooldown on revival.

01-09-2007, 06:00 PM	#12
Captain Griffen	Version 0.1 has been released! Terrain still poor, a few more heroes needed so different players have different heroes, and balance out, but this is the first beta release!

01-09-2007, 06:07 PM	#13
Anitarf	Moved to map testing. Looking forward to playing this.

01-10-2007, 05:41 PM	#14
Captain Griffen	Version 0.1a released. Few balancing things to the barb gold, and fixed some bugs with the ally/de-ally system. Also reduced filesize.

01-11-2007, 07:27 PM	#15
Captain Griffen	0.1c released. Much more balanced.