Circe's power only seems useful if Hippolyta is there to heal the group. Frost gives an insane armour boost..

Atalanta's power looks the funnest and most interesting.

Circe's power is useful for stopping enemies short for getting to crucial locations before you, to buy vital time to bring in your reinforcements if you're outnumbered, to teach enemies not to keep all their units so close to each other that they can be all frozen for 45 seconds, to stop enemies running away, etc..

Personally I see it more as a tight tactical game than rpg, insofar as it is heavily combat based with strong bonuses which support highly planned tactical engagements and retreats

(next part of the showcase comes tomorrow)

This is such a clever way to showcase, revealing a bit of tantalising information at atime.

So nobody has a clue whether you're only 10% or close to 99% . Excellent tactics.

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[This message has been edited by Arch and Shrink (edited 09-15-2009 @ 10:24 AM).]

Nice, we also get heroes, but do we get soldiers besides the heroes?

You'd like to think we get soldiers,

Great map guys, I'm really looking forward to it.

You don't get soldiers, at least not in the manner you are thinking.

If anybody would like to help playtest this scenario, please approach me on MSN where my address is mudo14@gmail.com
My ESO name is The_Shrink

lostrozzacavalli
scacchisti@hotmail.it

I want become a playtester.

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This is really awesome!

How will you be able to modify troops in a specific location without modifying every single protounit? Or is every single unit a unique protounit?

Everything is a unique protounit.

I will playtest the singleplayer version.(I can't play online!)
JDmino
JDmino@gmail.com

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Thanks all. We'll probably like to playtest with five humans tomorrow night (GMT-night, which is in about 20 hours from the time I'm writing this post). We don't really need single player testers, because we can test that ourselves, or just let our A.I. test it for us and tell it to write a report Sorry JDmino!

Tomorrow we'll send emails to the addresses provided, and post on the forum. First come to ESO, first serve, of course.

If you are sad about not being able to playtest, please don't shed tears: the release will not be much later, and you can always playtest our next scenario of course.

What are you kidding? Crying people is funny. Post some pictures if you feel especially bad.

Arch, I've tried to try the map with Shrink, but I can't connect with he... But maybe I can connect with you, so can you tell me your MSN email (if you have one, obviously!) so you can say me when we can try?

Easiest fix would be for one of you guys to switch comps. Switching roles won't help

Tried finding you on MSN, you were never on...so I am posting my email here:

tyrano-coke@hotmail.com

We'll be on ESO in about 30 minutes.

ESO Names:

The_Shrink
Archaeopterix

Wow, i just got to test this. Its really great right now, although i cant figure out how the fifth player will work (but i know who it is haha to all of you).

A few things i wanted to suggest before i left...

Music

A fake counter displaying current terrain and its bonuses

A different gp than frost. It was in the end a bit bland, although it was more useful than it appears...

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I got online when I saw the message, but it appears I was a bit late, you were already testing the map. Perhaps I will catch you online some other time.

AWESOME PLAYTEST

I got to playtest OH YEAHHHHH!

I'll tell you that the map is [SPOILER] [SPOILER] and that it was pretty [SPOILER] and you should all [SPOILER] yourselves.

Thanks for playtesting THYMOLE and sneaky_squirrel. We gained a lot from the test and I appreciate your suggestions.

In specific reference to these suggestions:

# Music
# A fake counter displaying current terrain and its bonuses

Music is involved but unfortunately you didn't last long enough into the scenario to see it!
In the early-game, which is all you really saw, we're really going for the desolate, cold and hostile atmosphere - so we have a lot of blowing wind sounds playing as well as wolf howls, etc. Music would take something away from that at that point, I think.

A fake counter for current terrain, while undoubtedly helpful to the player, would detract from the natural 'analogue' style of terrain bonuses we are going for. I particularly like them subtle and exploited by the canniest of players.

Thanks again!

@Kode Nightingale - I'm sorry you couldn't join us yesterday. We'll be playtesting again possibly today or tomorrow, and again we'll let people know in the thread. Hopefully you can catch us then.

Previous See this showcase in the raw HERE!

[This message has been edited by Arch and Shrink (edited 09-17-2009 @ 11:23 AM).]