Since this game is some kind of "training day" (really good movie btw ^^), I'll retreat for the moment.

Recover a bit but stay away from your former cities. Will take a look at the other guys now. Obviously just to say hello... :p

Sorry guys for the delay. Was busy these days. 

Really, I should quit the game on last turn but still was hoped on my luck))

Well done, El Lobo. You're descent player and you know how expanding on the map    

Good luck guys 

I've just got your in-game message on German language  Before I'll translate it I can give a quick answer: "Q: Sprechen Sie Deutsch? - A: Oui-Oui !"  

And you shouldn't retreat since you've arrived at my borders))

I wrote you back now I've seen your city nearby. I can retreat for the moment if you want me to go... ;-)

Eldriches can be nasty but I petriefied him with 20% chance. No challenge after that! ^^

Well, El_Lobo, we just met and it's already not an offer of friendship   

I lacked at least 1-2 turns to finish the quest for T3 unit  And I was curious to know - would be successful the fight my T2-T1 troops against quest's T4?!)) Now we won't know it  

Hi guys. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

I need to inform you that I'm going to new year's vacation from 31 of December till 8th of January. It looks like I can't play my turns during this period. Sorry for that

Err. Well turns out that Im quite dumb.

But well I could directly use a USB from a computer to a smartphone and use it as a router. So I solved it. Meanwhile, Christmas is upcoming so I will be gone for some time anyway.

It's bad news.  I hope you will fix it

For such inconvenience cases I bought USB Wi-Fi-adapter and can share mobile 4G internet from smartphone 

Umm. I have downtime on my internet connection. Since I'm on cable, its affecting it's that I'm unable to play turns.

That's great feedback.

I agree with just about everything. Thematically the Lizardman has this bond to create some sort of monoculture race. But arguably they have about the strongest bonus with water walking, armoured scales, and bond with 2+ per unit and morale which I can't recall at the moment.

The water walk has a caveat in comparison to swimming is that its slower by one point. I'm considering to add a Def/Res penalty on water only for Lizardman to offset there movement on water. It's insanely strong still to clear water structures early. 

The Lizardman bond was originally created with 5+hp per unit and had 50+ morale modifier aswell. However when it was transferred from a dwelling and became a race it was toned down. One difference was that Lizardman dwelling always started on -250 in morale. Which is obviously not the case now. Regardless Im inclined to change this ability since it checkes for individual members it's very few ways to incorporate anything else than health or morale. It's very unique ability but might make the race too strong.

The Renegade is probably too strong. I probably chosen some abilities that thematically would fit for this kind of unit, but at the same time making it ridiculous strong. The intention was probably inspired by a mix between Tigran Prowler and Orc units. At best it should be viable, but not soloing T3-T4 by itself. Creating some feral unit that resembles some wild mechanic is definitely a challenge. So it's good seeing how broken it is 😂.

The Renegade will therefore lose a few of those OP stuff.

Overwhelm might be moved to become an ability inside the Rampage mode.

Martial arts is probably something that can go away.

Likewise with Total Awareness.

First strike might be a candidate for gold rank or parry.

So for the Rampage.

I already toned down the bonus to be about 50%. It may be necessary to add some more downsides. The only caveat now is that you lose control of the unit. One initial way is to add a pre start cool down, no defense on triggered ability making the unit vulnerable on preparation or adding a negative morale modifier. Even adding some features like becoming staggered on chance while in Rampage mode. 

I will definitely look over the rampage mode and see how it can still be a core ability and yet not be the most OP since its also featured on the Berserker unit which is... certainly...more ridiculous.

As for the last noticeable thing regarding this mod and it's intention. I do believe pbem and strong rewards adds alot of utility. I consider them well rounded, however at some stage its generally pointed in favour of the vanilla expanded experience and broader audience of this content. Trying out Lizardman and Nomads races to it's best while discovering new items, synergies with Cosmos specialization, new avatar spell like "Enchant Weapon". Then it might be easier to navigate through all the new stuff added and limit the point of spectrum since the beta test I'd say is limited to specific race.

But I understand the reason of all exploits, evolve, mind control, Necro snowballs, rewards, and various good balance additions. I strive to make the content fair and not having the new added stuff super dominating everything else.

Wasteland Expansion and Shadow Realm Expansion in particular are actually getting way much content later since the author of "Chivalrous Intention" is creating a sub mod introducing much more variation to these particular mods where Lizardman, Nomads, Syrons, Living Archons, Shadow Elves, Dark Elves, Shadow Demons gets more units and stuff.

So getting things right is reasonable since it's a big mod with a also a super big campaign.

Things so far to the Lizardman. Imo this race is to strong regarding the early game (can't say something about mid and late game so far). Walking over water is crazy strong, no borders regarding rivers and water. Additionally the lizardman stack bonus with extra HP and happiness.

Renegades are too strong. First strike, martial arts, perfect awareness through medal and all on a t1 which can be one-turned from the beginning AND the rampage mode. Waaaaaaaay too strong. Imagine rampage mode and martial arts on gold medal. Renegades will kill most of the t3 units by itself and can handle even physical attacking t4.

Another thing is the balace mod. I recommend using it even in the testing games. The vanilla game has way to much stuff to exploit...

An update was made to the content.

And I managed to update all icons. So no more Draconian icon founds in any Lizardman faction. 

Cheers

Oh I intend to update the content on my next turn .

It wil fix a few things.

Lizardman has no requisite for the cadaver etc. Despite that I added text saying soo 😃

Circle throwers bounce 1 time to many. 4 units instead of 3. Vigilante on bronze is also a production leftover. 

Renegades sure pack some punch when they are in rampage mode. I will tone down it's effects. I saw some Halflings got punched with 52 damage in one strike.

Then Lizardman will gain -1 resist in general since they are not a magic race and got pretty good stuff.

Other things on the agenda is the Theo, Rogue, Arch Druid, Dread, and Sorc will have there class unit icons added.

Warlord and Necro needs some more design decisions first.

Recording could be useful.

Ul issues is rare but can happen in vanilla game. I had zero reports about crashes from steam users for several months. But I know a few things that can potentially lead to crashes.

New abilities with missing stuff. Game engine try to ignore stuff usually and if it doesn't it probably yield crashes.

Tome of Wonders.... Especially between races. Which now makes me think it crashes on a bad link of Lizardman since there is a faulty culprit there.

Double resource Id. 1 thing that is sneaky and can sometimes try to open two things at once with the game engine. Imagine that someone decided to mod skills and thought... " I move effect of age of deception to another rpk" and leave it there.." it would produce a error.

Leaders and heroes could have issues, but it's extremely rare since leaders should already crash on creation scene.

Regarding races. There is two emperor a.i. I could imagine Marky breaking the norm and played dwarwes

Hey guys, have had a crash. It's the "open the hero menue and freeze when clicking on close"-issue. Havn't had it for month. Can provide the recording if needed.

Just met one of you guys and I am wondering that he's playing dwarf. Thought we would all play the lizard guys...