Re: [Wesnoth-dev] Changes to Steadfast

[John McNabb]

My experience with dwarvish guardsmen is that you don't want to attack
them with melee unless you have a brute like the wose.  They are meant to
be tough melee fighters.  They can be really powerful on villages, but
fortunately, villages typically aren't right next to each other, so they
can be overrun.  Try attacking them with ranged units or a couple of
woses, which should knock them down pretty quick.  If they really are
overpowered, I would not turn steadfast into charge, but rather make it
only work for melee attacks; However, currently I don't think such drastic
measures are needed.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, James Barton wrote:

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> After playing a few games against Dwarvish Guardsmen, I must admit that 
> I find them extremely frustrating. Not so much because I'm doing so 
> little damage to them - though that's annoying - but because even my 
> higher-level units suffer more damage when attacking the Guardsman than 
> they deal. An Elvish Hero dealing 3-4 damage and suffering 4-3 (5-3 
> now) seems stupid.
> 
>   Charging units currently suffer double damage as well as dealing 
> double damage, when they attack.
> 
>   I propose that Steadfast units deal half damage as well as suffering 
> half damage, when they defend. This would make Charge and Steadfast 
> true opposites.
> 
>   Of course, to compensate for this the Guardsman line would have its 
> damage increased - to 6-3 or even 7-3 in the first level unit. But I 
> believe that this would make them a more interesting unit - they can 
> deal considerably more damage on the attack than they can on the 
> defence, offering lots of opportunities for trade-offs, much as the 
> Horseman currently does.
> 
>   Thoughts?
> 
> James Barton
> a.k.a. Sangel
> 
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