On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:49:56PM +0300, Lari Nieminen wrote: > > Zookeeper notes that blades are already somewhat overrepresented > > and that it would be useful to have a L0 with impact weapons that > > can do a bit better against Skeletons than the Peasant. I agree. > > > > I'm imagining Townsman as the urban mob, basically. Not criminals, > > but by no means militarized either -- artisans, shopkeepers, upper > > servants, the "middle class" insofar as that's meaningful in a > > pre-industrial economy. They wouldn't generally have swords because > > swords are for gentlemen. > > Well, you already mentioned that I too prefer the townsman having a > staff dealing impact damage. A sword sounds quite frankly a bit boring > to me; every other unit in the game already has a sword. I don't think > it makes much sense to have ordinary townsfolk carry swords instead of > staffs. But as I said earlier, I'd prefer the unit not to have a ranged > weapon. >
I disagree. If you count the Ruffian/Henchman you'll have two similar unit (except the alignment) : melee impact with no ranged attack. About L0 units in general there is already two other units with impact : Mudcrawlers and WC. So far there is : - Only one l0 unit with blade : the Vampire Bat - 2 units (3 if you count the Woodsman) with pierce : Goblin Spearman, Peasant - 2 units (3 with the Henchman, 4 if we include the Townsman) with impact : WC, Mudcrawler. I think a 4-3 melee blade L0 unit would be a valuable unit (for a level 0) and would be useful against some kind of enemies (Elusivefoot in particular). I find it more interesting than adding just another L0 unit with impact (which is already the most usual type of damage for L0 units...). Also x-3 melee impact will probably cause a RIPLIB problem with the advancements (except if you create a new unit), whereas 4-3 blade will not be a problem with the Sergeant as a levelup. A 4-3 blade attack is not necessarily a sword attack, it could be a knife, a dagger, or something else... _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
