(December 6th, 2024, 20:49)Suppanut Wrote:(December 3rd, 2024, 05:34)occasionalplayer Wrote: A word on Trolls: Maybe consider giving the thrown-attack to Mammoths instead of War Trolls, or perhaps to shieldbearers?
One of Trolls' weaknesses was the lacking ability to attack flyers. If you give it to War Trolls, there is little incentive to ever go for Mammoths. Attack is very similar, armor does not matter so much bc of high regeneration and resistance needs to be improved on either one of them if you are going endgame. First strike is also less important if you have regen.
If you gave it to Mammoths, there would be more of a tradeoff. Of course with Frost Club Hall you get regenerating mammoths, but only regen 1 and quite the investment (it is proper that Frost Club Hall units should be very strong or even winning, since you usually cannot easily mass-produce them).
Current design of War Troll is coming from feedback about how Shieldbearer is much better than War Troll as they are similar units with similar stats yet cheaper as you could field 2 shieldbearers for resource to use on 1 War Troll. So design of War Troll need to be very different from Shieldbearers to justify its usage.
For War Mammoth, it get a nerf several times to reach this point due to how powerful it is. The most significant loss of this unit is armor piercing. Perhaps I should make Frost Club Hall give it Armor Piercing back too.
That is a fair point. I agree that War Trolls should indeed be much better than Shieldbearers. Indeed Mammoths should probably get armor piercing back with Frost Club Hall. There should remain an incentive to build Mammoths in some situations.