Posted August 12, 2020 by BobbyTwoHands
A new version. Bit smaller than others, due to being busy with real world work. Such is life.
This one is focused on the undead. Introduces two new special agents for the player. Previously, agents only could be obtained by enthralling existing agents, but this new version introduces the concept being able to recruit your own darkness-specific units. This will allow specialists with their own powersets and gameplay styles, hopefully expanding the range of freedoms for the player.
The first is the simpler of the two, the vampire. Designed as an infiltrator and madness spreader, the vampire's special mechanic is, naturally, blood. They have an amount of blood, which slowly decreases over time, and can be spent on their infiltration ability. They leave no evidence when infiltration, but do when drinking, so they can avoid getting exiled from the nations they are infiltration. This hopefully should create a fairly international agent, which goes from one nation to feed, then goes to another to infiltrate and assist an enthralled noble by turning their political opponents insane.
The second is the necromantic doctor. Disguised as a plague doctor, they steal or obtain bodies, which they pile onto their corpse cart. These are then carried to corpseroot patches for long-term storage. Once sufficient have been gathered an army of the dead can be created, rising up to attack the living. When they raid a graveyard they can't gather more corpses from that location for a few turns, so to build up a decent supply they must go from town to town, constantly gathering more for the army. Again, this is designed to make a nice and mobile agent, travelling around the map.
We also have a new playthrough video, focused on the agents (the old agents, enthralled human agents). Should explain how we see the infiltration side of gameplay going, and give some idea of how we play the game.
Link here: Agent Playthrough Video
Not sure yet about the balance of these new agents, they might need a bunch more fiddling with in the next version, but are, I think, a good first start towards unique units.
As always, comments and feedback welcome.