Journey of a Frost Mage

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Uh-oh. I'll have to check it out. Usually the shadows don't bother me much.

I'm just unlucky

Scenario 03: A Very Long Road
Erinna has an AMLA for forest movement.

I saw that and I didn't want to waste an upgrade on that.

No supposed to be luck based. I personally don't like battles to be so.

I checked the doging chances. I overestimated the merman and naga. It is actually fine.

Okay, looked at the replays, you played very well.

Thank you, the Drakes were a great help. Especially the Gliderdrake. He/She (Gender unsure) distracted the undead a bit.

[bssarkar]

I saw that and I didn't want to waste an upgrade on that.

She'll get more movement once she becomes lvl 2 after the 3 major AMLAs. (But you most probably can't get them after that)

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tBfW Version 1.17.26
JoaFM Version 0.11.2.8
Medium difficulty

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Scenario 04: The Waters of Destiny
It was quite hard for me, many reloading. Not because of some of my precious units died. The merman Initiate died.
It felt real punishing, when I misplaced one of the Initiate. Maybe set a limit? No more than 2 or 3 are allowed to die.
For harder difficulty, you can make it harder.

Those Orc Assassins are quite annoying, but really good counter to my army. Love it.

The Naga were kinda strange. They attacked me in the south.
Maybe you can use this code. Just put that into [side] of the Naga. Then they should focus more the merman.

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			[ai]
				[goal]
					name=target
					[criteria]
						side=4
					[/criteria]
					value=3
				[/goal]
				[goal]
					name=target
					[criteria]
						side=1
					[/criteria]
					value=1
				[/goal]
			[/ai]

Scenario 05: The Secret Concil
Just cinematic.
I'm not so into lore, but why is there a Drake in the council?
I love the nostalgia to the council, it reminds me of one campaign, don't know which.

Scenario 06: Dark hour
Looks promising at first, I'll play it later.
Maybe thats a bug, Erinna can instantly level up, but I don't need to take the lvl 2 upgrade. (Still the best choice).
The swamps in the east are gone, thats sad. I already planned to overrun the east with merman. I guess the explanation is, that we don't have flooding season.

[bssarkar]

It was quite hard for me, many reloading. Not because of some of my precious units died. The merman Initiate died.
It felt real punishing, when I misplaced one of the Initiate. Maybe set a limit? No more than 2 or 3 are allowed to die.
For harder difficulty, you can make it harder.

I'll see if I can reduce the difficulty a bit.
Edit : I'll still adjust it, but you are not supposed to act so offensively. I'll add a hint for that.
Edit 2: I've added hints and dialog so that the player does not play too aggressively. Additionally, Mara will save the first Initiate from dying, but no more.

The Naga were kinda strange. They attacked me in the south.

The swamps were added so they can attack south, the orc army proved to be insufficient originally.

I'm not so into lore, but why is there a Drake in the council?

My own lore, it's a secret alliance between several races, somewhat like the northern alliance, but only for magi. It also has merfolk (Mara), but she got stuck in S6 so couldn't come.

Maybe thats a bug, Erinna can instantly level up, but I don't need to take the lvl 2 upgrade. (Still the best choice).

Erinna's level up is coded in and not a bug. She got so much experience from training with merfolk that she leveled up. I'll try to make that optional, but why don't you want to upgrade her??
Edit : Option to choose upgrade added in Scenario 6.

The swamps in the east are gone, thats sad. I already planned to overrun the east with merman. I guess the explanation is, that we don't have flooding season.

Probably I forgot to add the swamps?

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tBfW Version 1.17.26
JoaFM Version 0.11.3.0
Medium difficulty

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Scenario 06: Dark Hour
I liked it. I think I use the spoiler tag for now. I don't wanna spoil other readers.

Spoiler:

The right flank, I used my tactics that I learned in the last scenarios to defeat the orcs. That was easy.
The left flank, I used the merman armada, after that I didnt know, what to do with them.
The middle, I attacked it, after I defeated the orcs. Those high level undead always look scary.

The reinforcment is very nice. Even though I didn't know, what I should do with a swordsmen.

I was kinda confused with the turn order. I would have liked it, that Erinna is Player 1 and not the reinforcement.

The silver mage is very usefull to rush the gap.

I lost valuable elves anyway I only saw one bug. Maybe its not, Erinna isn't doing any animations, if she attacks. I checked the code, you got there a lot of comments, but no animation frames. Is that on purpose?

Scenario 07: Meeting the Council
I'm curious how that turns out.

Spoiler:

I can't recruit my recalls. Will I get them back?
I'm also curious, if I keep all the units of last scenario, like the gryphon and white mage.

Erinna is the antagonist in this mission and I have only level 1 units who are not good against undead, except the mage.

I think I'm now in the buggy territory right? I will keep a watchful eye.

[bssarkar]

I lost valuable elves anyway I only saw one bug. Maybe its not, Erinna isn't doing any animations, if she attacks. I checked the code, you got there a lot of comments, but no animation frames. Is that on purpose?

Sorry, I'm a bit bad with pixel art stuff, so the animation and other frames aren't done yet. There's also the time factor involved in making good art. Currently focusing on the story. (Also improving my pixel art skills, so they might appear in a future release).

Spoiler:

I'll check if the swordsman is necessary. But if you can level him up you get a Lumen Fighter (lvl3), who is very useful and can level up to Lumen Striker (lvl 4). Use him against ranged skeletons. The Lumens are good against anything the undead can throw at you.

Answer to your second spoiler : Yes.

Spoiler:

(I know it would hurt if you lose them).

I think I'm now in the buggy territory right? I will keep a watchful eye.

Yes, definitely. S7 mightn't be that buggy, but S8 and S9 are probably.

Thanks for liking S6. That's where the nasty stuff starts. Keep a careful eye on Objectives/Dialog too, they might have hints for you.

Spoiler:

Erinna's not really the villain, she's just posessed.

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Thanks for liking S6. That's where the nasty stuff starts. Keep a careful eye on Objectives/Dialog too, they might have hints for you.

Spoiler:

Erinna's not really the villain, she's just posessed.

I saw the Lumen Warrior, they are quite impressiv. I think the swordman, white mage and red mage can advance to them. If I remember correctly.

I meant antagonist for this scenario.

Spoiler:

I know that she isn't evil

I keep following the Dialog

[bssarkar]

I saw the Lumen Warrior, they are quite impressiv. I think the swordman, white mage and red mage can advance to them. If I remember correctly.

Yes, all of them can. Use the swordsman as best as you can. I might change the mage lines later, since it's a bit inconsistent for Red mage.

I keep following the Dialog

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tBfW Version 1.17.26
JoaFM Version 0.11.3.0
Medium difficulty

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Scenario 07: Eil-En-Seiril
Was pretty straight forward. I also liked that, that I got my recalls a bit later. So i was incentivise so try out new units and level up new units.
I used some of my Units as cannon fodder for the shadows.

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Scenrio 08: The Temple
Got some Bugs and I cannot finish it, because I did once an unequip tasks without an item. I cheated in the end otherwise I can't move forward. I hope I didn't miss anything.
I'm unsure, but my guess is, that you set here the yes to a no and then it should work.

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# Drop sword near dragon
[event]
        name=item_drop
        first_time_only=yes

Spoiler:

The Dragon acted strange. At first he didn't move at all and then he tried to run for a castle. I checked the code, my guess is, he tried to recurit some units. He is able to recruit units after the apperance event.

It is also very difficult to pick up the sword.
I needed to place a unit in 29 4 and a unit in 30 4. The unit is 30 4 gets the item. I also checked your code. I didn't find any mistake.

The scenario was alright. It was good that we didn't get any turn limits, because it was kinda hard to maneuver.
Besides that I had fun.

[bssarkar]

Got some Bugs and I cannot finish it, because I did once an unequip tasks without an item.

So the bug is that you unequipped without an item and it started behaving weirdly right? And thanks for the code related help, appreciated.
Edit : I've added code to make sure the player cannot click on 'unequip' unless they are holding an item. Also, added the

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first_time_only=no

that you mentioned.

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Yes.
That sounds like a good change.

Do I need to replay the scenario again?
I'm unsure if the last event was important.

[bssarkar]

Do I need to replay the scenario again?

I don't think so, as long as you get the main units (Lorendor,Erinna,Raizr and the Mage of Light) and recall your army in the next scenario. The last dialog might be important storywise, you can read the dialogs in the cfg file.

S9 is unbalanced, so it is possible you might not be able to beat the final boss (but you should try your best anyway). Note that if you lose too many units while defeating him, that also means he's too powerful. (I might be able to figure that out from the replay).

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I got a question about Scenario 9.

I am supposed to play the knights? If yes, are they are my enemies? Because I cannot see their movements. I just lost, because some knight died.
I added the replay here until this point.

The Lady is very interesting. Needs only 1 xp to level up. That happens a lot. So I can use her as meatshield.
The Lady also got a very very big portrait. It hides all the text, she is speaking.

It is quite hard to see on which fields I'm able to recruit. Maybe start with an fort and after turn three let them transform into normal ground.

[bssarkar]

I am supposed to play the knights? If yes, are they are my enemies? Because I cannot see their movements. I just lost, because some knight died.
I added the replay here until this point.

Spoiler:

They will help you after the final boss arrives. There's also an event when they see Side 1 (erinna), probably they switch after that.

The Lady is very interesting. Needs only 1 xp to level up. That happens a lot. So I can use her as meatshield.
The Lady also got a very very big portrait. It hides all the text, she is speaking.

Bug, will be fixed.

It is quite hard to see on which fields I'm able to recruit. Maybe start with an fort and after turn three let them transform into normal ground.

Got it

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tBfW Version 1.18.0
JoaFM Version 0.11.4b
Medium difficulty

Finished Pursuit.

It was real difficult. Not because of the initial enemies. That the rider faction got red mages and white mages, really helped a lot! Otherwise, I would be lost against the saurians.

Spoiler:

It is because of the ritual. The Undead from behind caused a lot of trouble. I lost my druid not because of the high lvl undead, because of their overpowered leader.
The Items that are around the map, are real powerful. It helped me a lot.

I had a bug, right after the ritual. I had 2 Erinnas afterwards and a lua error. Sadly I lost the Screenshot for hit, but maybe the that helps, that it was right after the ritual.
The second Erinna disappeared right after I savescummed, haha. Thats strange, anyway.

Another thing is, Erinna moves her whole body, when she is attacking. Is that on purpose?

I fullfilled my promise , but I am curious, when she learns frost magic. How many scenarios are in work?


I just replayed it a bit, cause I forgote the item in the bottom area. I hope I'll get the units from the other factions in my recall list.
Send down a Silver Mage of the blue faction.