EB 1.0 Elephants... WOW

[stupac]

Well, it's not just in EB1.0, it has been that way from previous versions. Though I appreciate the EB team's attempt to keep elephants from being too incredible, they should at least take a few volleys of javalins to stop, and probably shouldn't automatically kill any infantryman they nudge. As of right now, they can single handedly decimate most armies without a unit of skirmishers if they are used properly so they don't get hung up in melee.

As far as buggy goes, I'm very impressed by 1.0's stability. It appears very polished. Though I may disagree with some of the teams methods of portraying certain units, I wouldn't consider them bugs or things that NEED to be worked out in order to enjoy probably the best game I've ever played.

[Moros]

the elephants are just a small mistake that apparantly sneaked in. The defence points (armour + def skill) of the riders and the elephants themselves accidently got switched.

The way elephants are now, is not our vision nor our intention or a product of a bad stat system. It's just a small mistake of a modder who worked his pants of on more than 400 units. You can imagine that some errors sneak in. Unfortnatley this is one is rather noticeable.

This issue will be addressed in a next version, a patch or hotfix (whatever will be released first). Also it's an easy fix just swapping the values in the EDU.
If needed I'll write a how to on it.

[stupac]

This issue will be addressed in a next version, a patch or hotfix (whatever will be released first). Also it's an easy fix just swapping the values in the EDU.
If needed I'll write a how to on it.

They just seemed to act to me like they did in previous versions, but I've only fought 2 battles with them. I'd like to encourage the "how to" if you have the opportunity, Moros, but would that be save compatible? Thanks for the info.

[Moros]

They just seemed to act to me like they did in previous versions, but I've only fought 2 battles with them. I'd like to encourage the "how to" if you have the opportunity, Moros, but would that be save compatible? Thanks for the info.

unless you'e changing actual units or their ownerships and faction skins, unit order,... Unit changes are savegame compatible. I can guarantee that such a small change (just editing stat values), will keep the game savegame compatible.

I'll write up a how to tomorrow, it's late and I'm lazy. Especially the latter.

[Watchman]

Unit-stat modifications to the EDU are fully savegame compatible and take effect instantly, more or less. AFAIK around the only stuff that isn't savegame compatible is anything that alters the actual content of the strategy map (although the incompatibility only means the modifications will have no effect on an ongoing campaign AFAIK), character trait files (which tend to go very spectacularly screwy) and some other such peripheral stuff.

As for the chariots, back in previous edition weren't they given two HP to represent the horse team ? Mind, I guess there's a reason that got ditched. Would still like to know it though, if only because I'm a curious person.