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From: | Richard Kettering |
Subject: | [Wesnoth-dev] Orcish Slurbow |
Date: | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:19:41 -0500 |
I gave him a weak increase over the orcish crossbowman in stats, however, I feel that we should perhaps reconsider the stats of the entire line, or at least the top two units.
In general terms:Orcs, I think, should be able to hire bowmen. Their bowmen should not be very good, though, and should act in some ways as more of a support unit for their true units - the orcish warriors. To this end, they should be primarily concerned with wounding (whittling down), but not killing, enemy units, and soaking up damage.
We should make an effort to coerce smart players into making the majority of a northerner faction out of orcish grunts; inasmuch as one is coerced to make an elvish faction out of elvish archers and fighters - trying to, in multi, hire a force of nothing but, say, shamans, or elvish scouts, is a foolish move, and players know that. However, I've seen a number of multiplayer games, and games against the AI, in which northerner opponents have not hired a single grunt.
Orcish archers should never be quite as powerful as elvish, or even human archers, in the same way the elvish champions are never quite as powerful as orcish warlords, but even more so.
One possible complication with the orcish crossbowmen, that I have seen, lies in the combination of their chaotic bonus, and certain enemies' vulnerability to pierce. Two orcish crossbowman can, IIRC, kill a Grand Knight at full health in one turn. I would almost rather that the crossbowmen were more resilient, but had one less attack, perhaps.
I'm not quite sure what to do.
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