If you were a third race...

[Kam]

Lets roll back time to the days of the second great war. Undead is under Orc and Elves are under human.

The war has drawn to a close and the orcs have been pushed back again. Humans have ventured beyond the portal to seek vengeance. Both sides are weakened; the perfect time for a third force to strike.

If you were a third race, and you had never been seen before, what would you be? I'm not looking for a conventional race here. Humans have dwarves, all elves, gnomes. Orcs have ogres, trolls, undead, goblins.

Tauren and Draenei are creeps, this isn't wow.

I was going along the lines of a dimensional race, that is free of any kind of building techtree, but the door is open here.

Ideas?

[M4stah]

The dark elves, the dark variation of Night Elves which have watched and lived in the shadows forever, waiting for their chance to conquer the world tree or any other magical point to further strengthen their dark magic. This is not official but made up.

[Squiggy]

Guess wut?
Squids

[Super-Sheep]

Crab people.

[Nichita_00]

Jackasses. Or sheep.

[Gyrosphinx]

Sheep-Murloc Hybrids...
Their leader can be the almighty Gyrosphinx...


or something more serious, the Maka'Thar, a lizardlike race of plane shifters, which initially can phase shift. Their starting unit is the Etheral Mage, wich can summon warp points, temporary "barrackses" training warriors, and they can summon Gravity Harvesters, which is temporary income generators, generating gold and lumber (or whatever resources u use). They can also reproduce themselves for free, like a spell which splits the unit up in two, but with 3 min cooldown, cost nothing. Their basic warrior unit (warp stalker) can use nearby corpses to heal itself, or, if it has full health and mana, spawn a copy of themselves (2 at a time per warrior) which have no reproduction and half the stats. This makes the race a versatile one, but their weaknesses is low health and zero armor.

the spells for this race is mainly anti spellcaster, wich means Dispell, disenchant, silence and spellbreaker abilities.

I have some ideas myself, and with the sufficient time and skill, I'll make some models.

[Need_O2]

Cats, because all our base are belong to him

Lets see...
Ogres - Dont think so
Dark Elves - no
Nagas - not enough by themselves
Elder Voids and Facelesses - aww they own
Demons - I dislike em but they could be a good race

My suggestion ?
Corrupted Order:
Dark Purple wips as builders; they can destroy themselves to stun nearby enemies, they harvest trees quicky but they do harm them a lot so trees easly die
Units are kinda expensive, but all of em have at least one ability (minor cleaving, chance to drain 10 life etc)
Mystic spells of heroes are mostly debuff (DoT, armor reduction, slow)
Battle spells of heroes are evil (like killing an ally unit for temporary bonus damage)
More demonic then undead so no one say "lol this is just undead"
Heroes would be: Unbroken, Corrupted Ogre Chieftain, Firelord, Pitlord

Units: Faceless, Evil Sorcerer, Black Dragon, Harmbringer (mechanical), Blank (spell caster specialized with harming enemy units), Blood Golem
Items Sold:
Call to Fire; Sets all buildings on fire for causing them to damage all enemy units in your base, but buildings lose small ammount of HP per second
lol Im tired
cya later o_O

[Grave_Digger_]

Originally Posted by Squiggy

Guess wut?
Squids

Yeah, squids sounds fun =D And their leader can be Squiggy

[Kam]

I very much agree with the summon building idea, and the melee weakness but spell powerful aspect. Perhaps the shimmering portal as a starting structure, and you only get one. However all units are invisible and can shift like the spirit walker.

No food cost for any unit or resource need, but all units are summoned and have a timed life. Thus, this race can exist anywhere on the map without leaving any trace. The inherent weakness and timed lives force the player to attack, and lack of any base defense structures discourage turtling.

Mwahaha.

[Mechanical Man]

Is this for your Tides of darkness project?

[CaptainTesticles]

I think demons would be best. They could have massive air power.

[Kam]

Yes, and I'm already at work on it.

I decided that a third race would make sense at this time. This is turning out to be a micro intensive race, it's not at all easy to play.

[willydawiller]

"The Titans, ruled by an elite sect known as the Pantheon, brought order to a
hundred million worlds scattered throughout the Great Dark Beyond during
the first ages of creation. The benevolent Pantheon, seeking to safeguard their
structured worlds, was ever vigilant against the threat of attack from the vile,
extra-dimensional entities of the Twisting Nether. The Nether, an ethereal
dimension of chaotic magics that connected the myriad worlds of the universe
together, was home to an infinite number of malefic, demonic beings,"

something from the dark beyond or the twisting nether

perhaps pit lords, as they should be a race but you rarely see anything else then heroes, or eredar but i think they allready exist in TFT

the dragons could join the war on a large scale

[Grave_Digger_]

Originally Posted by Kam

I very much agree with the summon building idea, and the melee weakness but spell powerful aspect. Perhaps the shimmering portal as a starting structure, and you only get one. However all units are invisible and can shift like the spirit walker.

No food cost for any unit or resource need, but all units are summoned and have a timed life. Thus, this race can exist anywhere on the map without leaving any trace. The inherent weakness and timed lives force the player to attack, and lack of any base defense structures discourage turtling.

Mwahaha.

Sounds good. But the starting structure should be some building with a shimmering portal in it. Maybe a large Altar of Damned (The undead altar) with some shimmering portal(s) on it.

About the NoFood and NoResource its also a good idea. But the buildings that summons units can have mana so it costs mana to summon something.

[The_wand_mirror]

The Nathrezime >.>