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[Myrdin]

hmm soo, summonable skeles, who ll be time limited, and uncontrolable - that souns a bit better then before.

hmm i think this is simple to make ( if its possible ) and still good looking, use it as example :

[{IP} Aridor]

Sweet. That is all folks.

[Myrdin]

glad you like it, from one of ma fawourite games - Heroes of Might and Magic V. there are a lot of cool looking units, just try and goofle a bit, gonna have to sit down when you see the footed paladin, or Archangel (droping saliva from opened mouth )

[{IP} Aridor]

It would be sweet see things like that roaming the battle.

[Myrdin]

yeah, i can imagine them as they smash the enemies, just to scatter in bones and rusted armor on the ground when theyre timer runs out

[Devon]

Jason and the argonaughts, anyone?

[Myrdin]

yeah but those were " grown " from dragon teeths

[{IP} Aridor]

It would be weird.

[dojob]

Perhaps one of the heroes could have an ability or a pp power where every dead unit in a horde is replaced by a skeleton/undead/etc guy in the horde that's like everybody else in the horde but with more armor and poison damage? And perhaps these guys could slowly lose health over time?

[lorphreak]

Perhaps one of the heroes could have an ability or a pp power where every dead unit in a horde is replaced by a skeleton/undead/etc guy in the horde that's like everybody else in the horde but with more armor and poison damage? And perhaps these guys could slowly lose health over time?

Great idea thats pretty cool.

[mike_]

Walking skeletons?

Hahaha. Haha. Ha. Ha.

[Scryer]

Walking skeletons?

Hahaha. Haha. Ha. Ha.

Ya, my reaction too. This time, I'm going to have to go with the lore on this one. I know that I tend to go with a gameplay choice in these kind of situations but there were no Animated Skeletons in Middle-Earth or in Arda from what I remember. Same with MOTE and the Goblins having little dragons... Wrong thread. I read the Silmarillion a long time ago so I quickly checked "The Encyclopedia of Arda" and "Thain's Book" for some answers and I couldn't find any. This isn't extensive research but those two sites basically cover most of the lore (or they atleast give you the general idea for something) and I am not in the mood to put anymore effort into it.

Anyways, Animated Skeletons weren't in the books (to my knowledge) and they definitely weren't in the films. There's not really much of a reason to add them into the mod. I do like Dojob's idea of having dead units being replaced by Skeletons, but my only suggestion to that would be replacing the skeletons with Wights.

I really enjoyed Myrdin's idea of the WK taking two different "paths". I liked the essence of that idea and I think that it should be played up somehow into Angmar. I would suggest something but I'm far too tired for making suggestions.

Edited by Scryer, 02 July 2008 - 05:03 AM.

[Myrdin]

well as i care, you can do the whole thing with wigth . . . . but if i have to see those idiotically flying bags full of wind, im gonna puke - really this " wight " need a resking !!! blue wight wtf, make them at least dark, grim, scary, the current ones are just for laugh ( or disgust )

[mike_]

So the only point of that post was, "Can Wights please be reskinned?"

[Myrdin]

So the only point of that post was, "Can Wights please be reskinned?"

that thing was asked for some time ago, scroll back pages

[mike_]

Then why did you reiterate it?

[Uruk King]

It certainly seems that we are indeed bound by the lore of Tolkein but still wights and other spirit creatures would be tolerable woudn't it?

[mike_]

To an extent, yes.

[Myrdin]

when you say necromancer, it always has something to do with undead, bones, skeletons, dark arts, power of death etc etc, soo i think its more than logical to expect a necromancer to summon few skeleton minions

[mike_]

Who said anything about a 'necromancer'?

Edited by mike_, 02 July 2008 - 03:57 PM.