Orcish Experimental Weapon

[Kam]

What would you expect an Orcish experimental weapon to do? This is a take from Total Annihilation so there needs to be a drawback.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Siege weapon: Fires troops at large distances, stunning all units in AoE and dealing damage (all units in AoE, including those fired from the weapon).

 

[Kam]

I like it. Any ideas on how I would go about doing that? I was thinking using cargo hold and some sort of play on the unload ability.

 

[cleavinghammer]

Load maybe, but the unload might prove tricky. Since it'll require triggers, I think a Channel-based ability renamed Fire Payload or something might be needed. That or something based on the Inferno spell, with a trigger to remove the unit from inside the catapult.

 

[Drunken_Jackal]

I dont understand much. Can you clarify?

 

[Kam]

The idea is that the cannon loads X units and fires them across the map to the target area.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Hmm... Instead of a giant catapult, how about a monster Kodo Beast that practically devours everything in its path?

 

[cleavinghammer]

^ What drawback is there to it?

 

[Edhel-dur]

^
^ It's slow. D:

 

[Deolrin]

He's really really slow, and can be kited around with archers and such and easily killed.
But the problem is that Kam's Tides of Darkness(assuming that it's the map we're talking about) is set in a WC2-ish era, the orcs never saw any Tauren, and they have no idea what a Kodo is.

 

[cleavinghammer]

I think it needs something more direct, like also eating allied troops.

 

[Kam]

I thought the unit cannon fit well because Orcs are a close combat race so the ability to drop 20 ogres into the middle of a base seemed nice.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Suddenly this came to my mind http://magiccards.info/pr/en/139.html

So I thought about some sort of kamikaze battlewagon, which is filled with troops, ordered to rush on some location and upon reaching the target is destroyed, dealing damage depending of number of units inside and the inside units would be stunned for short duration. However it may sound too complex.

 

[Kam]

That's pretty interesting. I might end up using that as a secondary ability for a naval unit.

 

[cleavinghammer]

There are naval units? Hmm...

How about this: A really big ship-mounted siege gun with very long range, very high cooldown, damages the ship it's mounted on and knocks it back (damaging anything it runs into), and does line damage (both on the way to its target and for a long distance afterwards, outright killing weaker units) and knockback to the survivors?


Also would be limited to one per army, and must be upgraded to an existing ship. Said ship can no longer attack and has very slow move speed.

 

[Narogog]

if you want to go with cleavinghammers idea, all you would need to do is give it an abillity based off of ships unload and set the range of it to 3000+