[Warhammer Dark Omen Forum]

Warhammer Dark Omen Forum

I think that's sort of the point though. In real life, and in tabletop fantasy, regiments and men don't fight to the last man except on exceptionally are occasions. The way to win any war is simply to make your opponent not want to fight it, and to win any battle is to make your opponenet run away rather than fight you.
I don't tend to find people flee  ridiciously often in DO, they do flee, but under reasonable circumstances that semi accurately reflect the tabletop experience.

To move back on topic, I think Empire were intentionally made the strongest Race in DO. Because they were designed as the player race for the main campagin, they were designed to be able to win when outnumbered and outgunned. Can't really say no to mortars, steam tanks, grail knights, and wood elf archers now can we?

The best matchup is a harder question. I think Empire VS Greenskins. Largely because neither one of them has the fear/unbreakable mechanic. They are, 'Fighting on equal terms.' as it were. Similar in play style, but yet with completely different unit compostion.

I guess I'm just special. But I'm happy they finally made it!

Okay! That was seriously boring. But this time the files saved as themselves rather than autoreseting.
Is it something nifty in Wh32Edit that keeps the orginal file code embedded in the file? Or is it some EA edit protection defence?

Anyway, regardless, this is the -Real- *cough* Mod. Edited up till Drakenhof Castle, (Although the map before that hasn't yet been done, nor has the Steamtank level or the Steamtank itself.)

My applogies for the mixup/error. I'll start doublechecking my files before I upload them, although I couldn't see this one coming...

So. It really is whenever I relocate the file to anywhere else, send to zip file, copy paste, whatever, it just morphs back into the orginal Dark Omen file without any modifications. I am suddenly at a loss.

So, new theory. Open my modded files in Wh32edit, then save them anew, rather than copying them. *tests*

*blinks slowly*

Wow. This is epic.

File in Dark Omen directory? Correct file. Open with Wh32 edit? Correct file.

Copy file to directory on destop. Open file with Wh32edit. File has now magically reset itself to the orginal Dark Omen configuration. How neat is that? How does the file somehow magically remember it's orginal settings, and then reconfigure itself?

Gimme a moment here, and I'll see what I can do to fix this freakish oversight...

*blinks* Well that's feedback. Unexpected feedback. *frowns* I know it definatly should contain the correct files, and it works perfectly on mine. Provided I upped all the NMA files, rather than the other ones, it should work, since I don't even have the orginal unaltered files on this laptop anymore.

Are you running the full installed version of Dark Omen, from a cracked copy of Eng_Rel? (Because when I first started tinkering, if you actually let it look at the CD, it loads all the level files straight from disk, even if you use the maxium install.)

I'm uploading version 0.2 now, which I've just doublechecked and -should- work fine. Just extract the contents of the file directly into your Dark Omen directory.

Okay, as soon as people who have had a chance to look it up so far, and I've had a chance to incorporate there feedback. I'll upload version 0.2. It's now playable (currently) as far as Great Forest, with maps finished up to Castle Drakenhof, although I'm dealing with a missing mage that makes great forest unwinable.

The banner bug in Bogenhalfen is fixed. There's just this curious feature where it doesn't want to be a troll. Currently it's an ork boy. Experiements over tonight will determine how it feels about being a spider or a unit or Scorpians instead.

Game is becoming relatively balenced. Although in the long term it looks like the player is doomed. Attrition rates are high and even knowing exactly what I'm facing some battles are particularly tough. Maxium use of all magic is a must. Not sure what to do about the Countesses personal unit. They seem a touch too durable, and can often clean up missions largely alone, outlasting every other unit by far. (Not suprising really. 14 wrights and a vampire is hard to sniff at even without the magical aspect.) Perhaps a reduction in size is in order?

The replacement for Axebite pass is becoming rather fun. The assisination of an Empire Elector Count, complete with runefang. Very bloody battle. Might need to prune down on the magic items a little, then again, maybe not. Having a lot of fun with those.


Anyway, comment away.

(Big uns were max level. Uh, I think everything else was base level, except the shaman who was also max level?)

Skeleton Horsemen	Skeleton Horsemen	Skeleton Horsemen	Skeleton Horsemen	Black Grail	Wraiths	Wraiths	Wraiths	Mummy	Skeleton Archers

Go Forward. Kill stuff. Hope they don't have treemen. *nods* Clearly a brilliant stratgy. Alas, they had treemen.

Orc Big'uns	Orc Boar Boyz	Orc Boar Boyz	Orc Rock Lobber	Night Goblin Shaman	Troll	Troll	Orc Arrer Boyz	Orc Arrer Boyz	Gigantic Spider

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh.
Had the most fun with this one. Some quiet epic games.

Bright Wizard	Grail Knights	Grail Knights	Grail Knights	Mercenary Ogres	Mercenary Ogres	Wood Elf Archers	Wood Elf Archers	Countess' Guard	Countess' Guard

How many of them are actually finished though?

Simple answer - You can't.

Spells are randomly allocated to each wizard at the start of the battle. What you get, is what you get. A higher level and a certain magic item will allow you to cast more spells, thus increasing your chances of getting a particular one, but that's all.

*eyes* You do appear to be right. Let's try this again shall we?

Look, it seems much more professionally organised now. Thanks for the tip!
(Feedback. Always need more feedback. Even really hardcore insulting types.)

So, yeah. Clearly I can't work out how to use zip files. I'm sure someone will educate me before long. Here's the rest. Obviously the first file goes in 'Gamedata/1PRAM' while the remainder go in 1pbat, BR01, BR02, etc etc.