Skirmish at the Border v1.3

[Loongball]

Looks pretty good to me, description credits and everything. I hope you get a decent review later.

 

[CapAd]

Hi, we played the map today, quite interesting!

What I noticed:
1. Lumber Mills (the ones that cost 600g) were pretty much useless, we had a lot of lumber. But Gold Mines were useful.
2. There is no orb of fire and no orb of lightning? It's needed in recipes.
3. One of the human army camps (the one with the captain) couldn't be rescued.
4. There's no way to revive base player hero? It would be nice to have one expensive option that takes like 2 minutes.
5. Base player gains no points. Can't buy items or summon the army using the army shop guard, or repair the towers (circles).
6. It would be nice to have more unit upgrades, it's max 5 now. Or some special abilities for units that can be unlocked for a very expensive price, like 8000 gold 80k lumber.

 

[ElricDeRey]

Hi, we played the map today, quite interesting!

What I noticed:
1. Lumber Mills (the ones that cost 600g) were pretty much useless, we had a lot of lumber. But Gold Mines were useful.
2. There is no orb of fire and no orb of lightning? It's needed in recipes.
3. One of the human army camps (the one with the captain) couldn't be rescued.
4. There's no way to revive base player hero? It would be nice to have one expensive option that takes like 2 minutes.
5. Base player gains no points. Can't buy items or summon the army using the army shop guard, or repair the towers (circles).
6. It would be nice to have more unit upgrades, it's max 5 now. Or some special abilities for units that can be unlocked for a very expensive price, like 8000 gold 80k lumber.

Thanks!
1. I'll think about it.
2. In the center of the map there is a secret shop (well, not really), where they are sold.
3. Camps(with circle) are capture points, they serve as a teleportation point and as a fountain.
4. At the beginning of the game I even write a warning that they are disposable and need to be taken care of. But I will think about their long revive.
5. Only heroes can get points, so the base doesn't get them, for balance Base can already build armies in the barracks (and reinforced ones at that) and summon armies with Hero first ability. Base can also repair towers, but not fort ones.
6. Hm, maybe make 10 upgrades then?

 

[deepstrasz]

Quite a fresh take on the AoS genre with more strategy involved. However, I feel some abilities could be less like the original ones.
Some text is in Cyrillic especially in hero abilities.

Approved.

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