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Yes.

Can have a burn.

Can remove damage in principle but need to look at target requirements on the 'heal' spells. Conjuration not creature.
Probably some Druid love coming soon....

Yes.

Burn your house down, little piggy wiggy.

Quote from: calisk on August 25, 2013, 10:58:31 AM

Quote from: ringkichard on August 24, 2013, 08:13:12 AM

The ease with which you say that assures me that you are not a programmer, nor in business.

I've been a professional programmer for 9 years, and a game designer for 6.

I'm not really sure what you think would be difficult about designing and developing a project like this. It seems like it would be any other project I've worked on before.

the only issue that would arrive with a mage wars online app honestly would be the low player count and small fan base resulting in either no return or a slow return, but that would be up for market research to decide on, really, thankfully octgn serves that purpose if enough people are playing it that it is an issue then their is indeed a market for it.

What kingrichard was snarkily trying to convey is that it's very probable that Arcane Wonders doesn't have the means to finance such a project and a partnership with an existing studio is probably difficult because of the high difficulty barrier of this game for average players.

I have to say that personally i would love to see Playdek work on this game.

That's ringkichard and he ain't no snark, generally.

I just taught my son how to play Mage Wars. He is aged 11 and more into rugby, but he is pretty smart. Smart enough to beat his old dad in game three!

We ran three straight core set Apprentice games with him as BM and me as Warlock. He picked it all up in five minutes. Several questions through each game, but just playing through was all he needed to get to grips with it.

In the second game, he saw what a buffed werewolf could do, so in game three he pulled out the Grizzly and went to town. I wasn't playing deliberately badly, he simply played well, made good choices and cast a particularly effective Tanglevine at JUST the right moment.

I am a proud dad. Watch out Charmyna!

On a serious note, it really did take only ten minutes for an 11 year old to pick up and play the game. The Apprentice mode is just great. We got three games in in around 90 minutes. Get the word out and build the player base.

Very, very cool game.

Wise words all.

My latest thinking on this stuff is to have a general strategy to a book, with 'burst packages' to take advantage of tactical opportunities should they come up.

E.g. In my Air Wizard Assassin / Big Few / Position deck, the strategy is pretty much described as the title.

In a vacuum, I will start with a few turns which end with a Grizzly and a Nec Vamp out.

However, if the enemy are careless, I am very happy to drop a tactical package of Wall of Thorns plus Push.

But still the strategic route to victory is damage to the mage from the big few. Very little indeed will make me move away from Assassin. I.e. ignore the creatures and kill the Mage.

The best thing to do is to try lots of strategies yourself.

Sometimes, the obvious strategy doesn't work so well in practice. That is very true of a low level swarm.

 I love you ringkichard.

'chain multiple free actions to cause mayhem'.

We need to stamp that out.

My initial thought when I first saw it was that it'd be interesting for its attack to only be able to target Conjurations. between itself and Arkiro's Hammer it would create the theme that the main function of War Machines is Anti-Conjuration devices  and create a niche for it in War School (breaking down walls, blowing up temples, spawn points, totems, altars, death locks, wizard towers, outposts, etc).  Arkiro's Hammer would then be the longer range, more expensive version which also includes a creature hitting zone attack while ballista would be a cheaper version that was only exclusively conjuration control.

Another thing worth pointing out about Ballista is that Reverse Attack stands a good chance of making a Ballista 1-shot itself on a decent roll due to its own heavy pierce rating.

Reverse is ok but I don't fancy carrying four of the little buggers!