My hero mod

[I like Serena]

What I'm doing currently is taking existing art (for the Stag Beetle, Wolf Riders, Centaur, Dragon Turtle, and War Trolls; it's only 160 icons because Janus doesn't need one) and adding a star in a top corner. Unfortunately, because of limits on those icons I had to swap between different corners, which is what looks bad. I could probably put something on top of the unit, though there can be as few as 5 pixels available; something like a row of dots can be fit. Maybe

Okay, here's the way an army of the 6 new counters looks. Not perfect, but livable I think. Changing base hero chance to 5% (which works out to 2% at fame 0, since only 10/25 heroes can actually be hired), and time to try playing.

It would appear that I didn't create an LBX image editor for naught!!

Oh wait! It seems there are a couple of flags missing...

[Anthony]

Oh wait! It seems there are a couple of flags missing...

If anyone wants to work on that (I'm betting on no...), I'm using:

• Hivemother: stag beetle, which is figures8_112 through figures8_119
  
• Turtle: Dragon Turtle, which is figures9_048 through figures9_055
  
• Centaur: Centaur, which is figures4_072 through figures4_079
  
• Packlord: Wolf Riders, which is figures6_104 through figures6_111
  
• Troll: War Mammoth, which is figure11_024 through figure11_031
  

I used breath weapons for a lot of caster heroes (Lightning Breath is actually just called Lightning..) because I needed to give them something useful they could do, and I'm tired of the primary value of casters being ranged attacks with huge max ammo.

[I like Serena]

If anyone wants to work on that (I'm betting on no...), I'm using:

• Hivemother: stag beetle, which is figures8_112 through figures8_119
  
• Turtle: Dragon Turtle, which is figures9_048 through figures9_055
  
• Centaur: Centaur, which is figures4_072 through figures4_079
  
• Packlord: Wolf Riders, which is figures6_104 through figures6_111
  
• Troll: War Mammoth, which is figure11_024 through figure11_031
  

I used breath weapons for a lot of caster heroes (Lightning Breath is actually just called Lightning..) because I needed to give them something useful they could do, and I'm tired of the primary value of casters being ranged attacks with huge max ammo.

Analyzing and modifying the code is more my thing.
... and I'm quite willing to play with heroes that do not have flags... if it really bothers me I may even fix it.

[FrancoK]

Interesting.

Where can we download the mod?

[Anthony]

Interesting.

Where can we download the mod?

So, I've been idling on doing any further work, in part because some things I was trying didn't work right, but I think what I have is currently working (other than the hero changes, it has a couple nerfs to white spells -- prayer doesn't add to attack rolls, heroism is +1 level and may not totally work at the moment). Where do people prefer to upload that sort of thing?

[Anthony]

So, I decided to actually make my work available. I didn't upload any of the files I hadn't changed, and this is a modified Insecticide, so you'll need to replace files in an existing copy of MoM (I suggest creating a new clean copy and then dropping in place). No changes that aren't in this thread.

[I like Serena]

Now that I can, I have stickied this thread.

[mxtu]

I made portraits for the heroes in this excellent mod that I felt needed a new one. I tried to make them match the in-game depictions of the various races and not stand out too much from the original portraits. I also changed the warlock graphics to that of a Nightmare rider.

[Laruku]

I have tried the Heroes patch with your new icons over the Insecticide Patch 1.40n. The new hero, Chiron, appeared ok, but Janus has no traits.

[Anthony]

I have tried the Heroes patch with your new icons over the Insecticide Patch 1.40n. The new hero, Chiron, appeared ok, but Janus has no traits.

Janus in fact has no traits other than the fact he's twins (he'll also get traits shown if he acquires them from an external source, such as spells or items).