New Units: Land-based Troop Transports

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   Elves could get a magical time freeze, stopping everyone's unit movement and production for a day or so.
It would cost 0 mana because everyone knows we wouldn't abuse of this capacity.

Honestly, Zeppelin?
I take it you are a dwarve. 
This would make you able to cross water far too easely.
Has much as I like flying ships, I don't think it would fit too well in the illyriad world.

If you make transport of an army too easy, the environment doesn't matter as much anymore.

Mobile fortress? I find that its a bit ridiculous as they couldn't possibly be faster than cavalry. 

I think this game is fantasy/medieval oriented, airship and mobile fortress is more steampunk than anything else.

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bartimeus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Warrior Joined: 09 Jul 2010 Location: Right behind U Status: Offline Points: 222	Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 17:53
	Elves could get a magical time freeze, stopping everyone's unit movement and production for a day or so. It would cost 0 mana because everyone knows we wouldn't abuse of this capacity. Honestly, Zeppelin? I take it you are a dwarve. This would make you able to cross water far too easely. Has much as I like flying ships, I don't think it would fit too well in the illyriad world. If you make transport of an army too easy, the environment doesn't matter as much anymore. Mobile fortress? I find that its a bit ridiculous as they couldn't possibly be faster than cavalry. I think this game is fantasy/medieval oriented, airship and mobile fortress is more steampunk than anything else.
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Aelfric Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Greenhorn Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Status: Offline Points: 76	Posted: 24 Sep 2010 at 16:14
	I know we're getting ships to travel across bodies of water, but what about land-based transports to carry your troops so they would arrive sooner at their destination? The transports would have high maintenance costs in the form of gold and basic resources to replace "worn out parts" to justify their benefits. The transports have limited capacity, i.e. 600 troops or 4 siege engines per transport (the numbers are for illustration purpose). You'd still be able to transport a large army with siege engines attached if you assign enough number of transports to this army. For instance, if the army consists of 1,200 troops and 4 siege engines, three transport units are required. Each race should have different transport: Orc: Giant beasts (if you played Borderlands, the concept is similar to Rakkhive) Dwarf: Airships or zeppelin Human: Some sort of mobile fortress (found a Warhammer version of it, but can't seem to find the website anymore) Elf: Not sure, probably just a speed buff spell at extremely high mana cost? Elves are not so keen in technology anyway. Edited by Aelfric - 24 Sep 2010 at 16:41