Red team:
Lewwyn
sunrise089
El Grillo
WarriorKnight

Blue team:
DaveV
JR4
superdeath
Bobchillingworth

I must be in the mood for demo games (demonstration, not democracy ). Soon, Bob, MJW, and I will show off Age of Wonders: Planetfall, but for a while I had wanted to share my love of an old, cheap masterpiece called Eador: Genesis. Here I’ll walk through a game and try to highlight as many of the positives as I can.

I’m not an expert at this game. I play on the fourth of seven difficulties (so the equivalent of Civilization’s Prince difficulty) and still lose most of the time. There’s lots for me to learn still, so if you are an Eador savant, please don’t be offended.

Eador is, essentially, a hero-based 4x game in the same tribe as the Heroes of Might and Magic and Age of Wonders series. Doesn’t this look familiar:



The world map is divided into tiles. My cursor is on our capital, “Homeland.” I have put a red box around the “locations” counter. Each tile in Eador contains numerous locations to visit, usually with the intention of killing the locals and taking their stuff.

To do said conquering, we have heroes leading armies. Each hero gets progressively more expensive. We start with enough gold to buy one from a pool of Wizard, Warrior, Scout, and Commander. I picked a scout:


On this screen, we can view the hero’s army, equipment, skills, and memorized spells. Looks a lot like HoMM (which I’ve barely played…).

In Eador, you only have one stronghold. If you lose it, you lose the game. There is an extensive building tree. I want to unlock the “Barbarian” unit, but first I must build a Tavern.



The flow of the turns in Eador is fascinating. You can only build one building a turn. This happens instantly. All movement, yours and your opponents’, happens on the interturn. If you’ve played the boardgame Diplomacy, think of it like that. I have to wait until next turn build the building to get my Barbarians, so I might as well put my scout to use.


Here, I’m ordering my hero to visit one of those six locations indicated in the first screenshot. My hero currently has two terrible units and his weak starting weapons, so the enemies in any of these will slaughter us. All the same, I want to see what we’re up against, so I tell the hero to go to the Ancient Ruins (Brigands). I give him the order; he promises to do it; and then I press End Turn and the order is carried out.
In the interturn, I’m presented with this:



I don’t know exactly how many of each unit type my army would face, but I definitely would lose this fight. I retreat. The next turn I build a Barbarian Camp and recruit three Barbarians. I again send my hero into the Ancient Ruins. I thought I took a pic of the start of the battle, but I didn’t. Here’s halfway through:



I’ve killed on enemy unit and I’ve sent my Barbarian to attack an enemy brigand. The red numbers above each unit’s head are the damage. So far, so Wesnoth, or any other fantasy hex-based game. Here’s how damage works:


The sword is the Attack stat. The two swords is the Counterattack stat. The shield is the Defense stat. (The shield and arrow is the Ranged Defense stat, but let’s ignore that for now.) Brigands have a high Attack stat but a low Counterattack stat. Barbarians do, too. When a unit is attacked the damage received is Attack minus Defense plus or minus one (I think. I actually don’t know the combat formula precisely.) Counterattacks use the Counterattack stat. So we like to attack first with our Barbarians against their Brigands. Note in the previous picture that the Brigand received 7 damage to our 4.

I win the fight, and all my units survive. (Barely. One Barb has 1hp.) In addition to a little bit of gold and magic gems, Eador’s two currencies, we get experience. The scout gains a level and I get to pick from three randomly drawn Scout skills:


Regular units get to choose between two random upgrades. I give my promoted barbs an extra point of health. If certain conditions are met, the game tells you certain units performed heroically and can be given awards:


I guess barbs pin medals onto their kilts.

Here's what I got. I rolled a fractal, and then literally cut chunks and pasted them into this doughnut shape, plus added connectors. Anyone have a working Novicetool? Balance pass is really needed.

Attached Files

  Candidate51.6.zip (Size: 18.84 KB / Downloads: 3)

Here we go, Thanks for being open to a new person! I've never done pitboss before and I'm new to RB. I'll probably need some help with the technical side of just how pitboss works. 
I do play simultaneous turns MP with friends, but not much, so this is a pretty new experience for me. Please don't hesitate to tell me if I'm being stupid.

Leader and civ choice: I'm already questioning my Pericles of France, but here are some reasons I picked him:
-I didn't want to try an obviously warmongering combo, because I doubt my own ability to pull off an early rush.
-I've heard the Musketeer is really good with knights/cuirassiers for fast warfare. That sounds fun at least.
-I really like creative for freedom with early city placement. Maybe I have a problem of using creative as a crutch...
-Creative libraries go well with Philosophical for getting early great scientists, even if I don't get any wonders. Since there is no tech trading, I figured extra early beakers will be even more valuable.

I've been wondering: Why is PHI only worth one point in the picking system? I thought PHI was arguably better than FIN, at least for singleplayer.

Hello bro, im not sure how to play this and i hope you can help me so i get started well in this gamemode. I ve never played agains other humans, so im not sure if my knowledge of the game will be good enough.

Sorry about being spaniard and unable to speak proper english, i hope your eyes dont bleed too much

Anyone here have some good car know-how? I got my job back and with that backpay coming + making more moolah, im thinking about purchasing a car. Specifically:

Looking for anyone down to play anything from Chess to MTG to some random Civ 4 games. Right now outside of work i am... quite literally bored to death.

I know this discussion would belong into the RtR subforum, but I'm not sure how many members show up there, especially those that aren't interested in RtR. So to increase awareness I post here.

As some of you may know Krill has quitted in PB46 and hasn't returned to these realms since the 10th of February. In his last post he wrote about quitting:

(February 8th, 2020, 05:16)Krill Wrote: ... but the reality is I needed a temporary sub in about 3 weeks anyway, for a period of up to 2 weeks and it's fairer to have a permanent sub.

1. I will merge my BUG implementation with the core RtR project unifying the mod back into one version
   
2. The minor changes Krill asked me about will be merged into the mod. Don't worry about them, they are absolutely minor changes regarding late era starts.
   
3. I will add the three missing trait-combos/leaders discussed here: Vote here for new leaders
   

(February 8th, 2020, 05:16)Krill Wrote: The whole mod idea came about from a series of chats between Cyneheard and myself in August and September 2010 and then we went at it properly after Civ 5 was a bust.

My belief is that this means there is no objective measurement against which to measure the objectives achieved since that point. OTOH, I have been working to the following objective since PB37 ended, and we ran the test mod in PB42. That new mission statement is defined below:

"The aim of the RtR mod is to provide a new ruleset that allows games started with a reasonable number of players on an appropriate map size to reach a game defined victory condition".

Reasonable number of players on an appropriate map size is dependant upon, but not only to the recommended number of layers for a map size, and number of tiles per player. In game victory conditions defined as Conquest, Domination, Science and Culture victory conditions.

By this metric there isn't a "Too much". Whether that is a good mission statement is another question: I accept that many people focus on minimum changes.

(February 8th, 2020, 05:16)Krill Wrote: Also, I'm done with RtR mod at this point, at least after I do a final update. There's no way to test the next level of changes without problems with map generation and relative player skill being solved and that's beyond me to fix.

Loaded up the thread today, as well as the voting doc, and what's this? I have a dedlurker? Glad to have you on board, Irismono! (Unless I've misread somehow. That would be, uh, embarassing.)

Equally importantly, it's my turn to pick Civs, so I will do that in the next couple of hours when I have a little more spare time.

What to chose.. What to chose.. I almost hate being first to pick for this style PB.