BETA Berserker Mod

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:48 pm

Just released today!

Please note - this is a BETA mod and is still being balanced. If you have any feedback on the mod please post your comments in this forum.

In this mod you will get vastly resricted amounts of fame. This means that if you lose a battle badly you may noit even have enough to replace all your men. You'll have to decide who to replace and make sure you minimize casualties. This adds a whole new dimension to gameplay. Missions that used to be easy are now transformed as you care how many casualties you take. This is actually what we intended Legion Arena to be about, but some players found it too hard and we had to scale back the role of fame.
We hope you enjoy the mod!
Install Notes
1) Point the unzip operation at your Legion Arena directory. This is usually C:\Program Files\BlackBean\LegionArena. The zipfile will create a \mod directory and the \berserker directory under that.

Download mod pack from www.slitherine.com/LegionArena/files/Mods_27_4_06.zip

miki · Post by **miki** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:44 pm

Hi Iain,

I'm on to play the Arretium battle, and have 4500+ fame points left. I'm playing Romans, Hard level. Hardest battles are still to come, so i think that having a fame points pool will be handy.

Its tougher than before. I think that very hard level will be really challenging.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:15 am

Thanks for feedback. What would be really useful is a guide to how much spare fame you have after each battle. If you could track that & let me know it woudl be great!

I need to reduce the fame at the beginning and beef it up at the end. I want you to be counting the cost of replacements all the way through.

miki · Post by **miki** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:21 am

Hi Iain,

I will be on vacation - with no pc at hand - until tuesday, sorry. I'll begin a new campaign, and test what you want, then.

tora_tora_tora · Post by **tora_tora_tora** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:29 am

Just downloaded. I'm still in Brit campaign at Rubicon river.

And I'm thinking about modding 平将門(taira masakado) around AD890s.
One of famous samurai in early era.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:57 pm

tora_tora_tora wrote:Just downloaded. I'm still in Brit campaign at Lubicon river.

And I'm thinking about modding 平将門(taira masakado) around AD890s.
One of famous samurai in early era.

Brit campaign? At the Rubicon? OMG, somebody is actually playing it! Tora, thank you. You have no idea how much better this makes me feel

Up to this point, as far as I knew, Ian had played the first 3 battles only, and nobody else had even looked at it. And I was feeling very unhappy about that. I mean, I was prepared to be harshly criticised, but I wasn't prepared to be totally ignored, LOL.

Tora, I'd really, really like to talk to you about your impressions of the Britannicus campaign at some point. When you're done, if you plan to finish, or at the point where you quit, if you don't finish. Up to this point, I've had no feedback at all beyond the first 3 battles, and damn little on those =)

This berserker mod looks like fun. I'll have to check it out.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:02 pm

Ian

Did you know that download file appears to contain both the Berserker Beta and my Britannicus mod?

I'm not objecting, I'm just surprised

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:25 pm

Yes

Check out the new on the website. It's now hosted on slitherine.com

28 downloads since yesterday when it was put up.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:05 pm

iainmcneil wrote:Yes

Check out the new on the website. It's now hosted on slitherine.com

28 downloads since yesterday when it was put up.

Woohoo! Finally, after waiting 46 years, I get my 15 minutes of fame

(Obscure reference to a quote from Woody Allen, who said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.")

That's very cool, Ian, very cool indeed. My grateful thanks.

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:16 am

I thought it was Andy Warhol? I'll grant you it doesn't diminish your 15 minutes of first mod fame

Cheers

Pip

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:38 am

Yes, I think it was Andy Warhol

OK, one thing about you guys hosting the Britannicus mod at slitherine.com

You have reproduced the readme, which is very nice. And you re-ordered it to put the Player Notes at the top, which is fine. But in doing so, you omitted the all-important Run Notes

Run Notes

1) Start the game. If you did the install right, you should see a screen asking you what mod to use. The two choices are "None" and "Brit".

2) Start a new campaign, choose the Celtic Campaign.

Without that part, the player has no idea what to do with the mod. I'm haunted by the image of somebody starting a new ROMAN campaign instead, and going "WTF, this is no different, this mod is bull****!"

Thanks for listening

miki · Post by **miki** » Mon May 01, 2006 7:59 pm

Possum

I'm eagerly waiting for playing your Brit Mod. I have not played anything at all this past month (but Gothic 2, ahemm) so your MOD is high here in the to play list.

ste · Post by **ste** » Tue May 02, 2006 12:49 am

pipfromslitherine wrote:I thought it was Andy Warhol? I'll grant you it doesn't diminish your 15 minutes of first mod fame

Cheers

Pip

Didn't Andy Warhol say you get 5 minutes of fame? I think Woody Allen just ment in the future ppl will get more fame :-/ I could be totally incorrect however.

tora_tora_tora · Post by **tora_tora_tora** » Tue May 02, 2006 1:22 pm

tora_tora_tora wrote:Just downloaded. I'm still in Brit campaign at Rubicon river.

And I'm thinking about modding 平将門(taira masakado) around AD890s.
One of famous samurais in early era.

well, I'm starting all over from the start in Brit campaign. My army have no hope at Rubicon river, as I got too many scouts and javelinmens.
I need warriors and fanatics. And I never realized lv.5 leginonaries could be such stout, hard to kill foes.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:27 pm

tora_tora_tora wrote:
tora_tora_tora wrote:Just downloaded. I'm still in Brit campaign at Rubicon river.

And I'm thinking about modding 平将門(taira masakado) around AD890s.
One of famous samurais in early era.
well, I'm starting all over from the start in Brit campaign. My army have no hope at Rubicon river, as I got too many scouts and javelinmens.
I need warriors and fanatics. And I never realized lv.5 leginonaries could be such stout, hard to kill foes.

Honestly, I have never tried using Fanatics myself. I tend to favor Warriors and Veterans and Heavy Cavalry. But I'm delighted to hear that you are playing the Britannicus campaign and enjoying it

tex · Post by **tex** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:56 am

Hi,

I am running through this mod at the Hard level on the Roman campaign and have just reached the fire devils (cannot remember whether that is the correct name) with advanced formations.

My leader has run out of skill options (he still gets a + but nothing to add).

My perception is that the final battles with regular troops were rather easy (essentially just press go and leave them to it) but the battles with CoM forces were almost impossibly hard (on the same scale that the regular battles were easy).

Its a challenge ok but possibly a bit of a big step?

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:23 pm

The CoM missions are tougher than the basic game and it is possible to get an army that stands little chance against them, but we wanted the CoM missions to be a challenge for players who were finding the basic game too easy. It was very difficult to balance LA because of the system and its one of the major changes in Arena Wariors. The new system will work much much better!

tex · Post by **tex** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:01 pm

Cool! When can I get a copy?

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:12 am

LOL, I'm with Tex. And stopped at the exact same point he is, first battle with the fire demons.

This may sound odd coming from me, of all people, but CoM is just incredibly difficult. Maybe too much so.

And to think I worried about some of the battles in my Britannicus campaign being too hard! They're a cakewalk compared to CoM...

And that leads me to a question. It talks about "the old man" and "the old man's troops". Was I supposed to get some actual troop units, or was that just storyline verbiage?