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Suggestions Corner / The Timurid cavalry pike : two handed polearm on horseback

« on: September 17, 2014, 10:42:52 pm »

First, let me show you :

Battle between Timur and the Mamluk Sultan

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Battle of the Twelve Heroes

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Source, and more Timurids http://greatestbattles.iblogger.org/Persia/Timurid/Timurid_Soldiers.htm

It would behave somewhat like the Great Lance from Native, except you can't couch, and can't use a shield, but you can block manually.



Proposed stats: (I don't know exactly how it could be balanced. Help from players with more experience in cRPG is welcome.)

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- Timurid Cavalry Pike
Polearm (no shield)
weapon length: 230
weight: 5
difficulty: 11
speed rating: 66
weapon length: 230
thrust damage: 26 pierce
slots: 2
Can't sheath

- Great Lance (comparison)

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weapon length: 230
weight: 5
difficulty: 11
speed rating: 66
weapon length: 230
thrust damage: 47 pierce
slots: 2
Couchable
Bonus against Shield
Can't sheath

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Realism Discussion / Re: Accuracy penalty for ranged weapons, based on helmet type.

« on: September 17, 2014, 08:39:16 pm »

Thanks to binocular vision, it would be more like this though :

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But i don't like the idea of restricting the FOV because in a video game you don't "feel" your environment or the relative position of all your body parts, you can only see through the screen.

Yes you would be min-maxing, like in real life. Do you need more protection or more awareness?
- For a heavy shock cavalry (cuirassier/gendarme/knight/cataphract), you want the maximal protection : great helm, armet, those eastern helmets with a face plate (litchina and the likes)
- For all archers and typical eastern mounted heavy lancers/archers you want good visibility, and being able to use your bow. So you have helmets like all the mongol helms (and the Timurid/Golden Horde helm) and that tall byzantine helmet. And for Europeans, open bascinet, sallet (with raised visor, or tilted back).
- For armored infantry, you could probably sacrifice awareness for face protection, since you wear a full armor and your face is the only weak spot.
- For lighter infantry, you will NEED that awareness to avoid being hit in all your unarmored parts (see pikeman armor, and in fact everything except full armor).

You should try War Of The Roses, it's F2P (well, free demo : you have 4 default characters, no customization). It has locational damage and limited FOV for helmets. This means that hitting plate with a sword deals (almost) NO DAMAGE, But...hitting the armpit that's only protected with mail WILL.

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General Discussion / Re: Describe crpg with gifs

« on: September 17, 2014, 04:45:24 pm »

What it feels like as a low level to fight a STR build wearing plate armor. Literally, he then sheathed his masterwork dadao and punched me to death.

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Realism Discussion / Accuracy penalty for ranged weapons, based on helmet type.

« on: September 17, 2014, 04:10:19 pm »

Soldiers using ranged weapons throughout history always tended to use a limited range of helmet types due to practicality and physical restrictions.

As an archer and owner of a nasal helmet, i can tell you that you can't properly use a bow with these kinds of helmets, because the nasal gets in the way of the string. You can still shoot, but you must use another stance, with the hand holding the string way lower, decreasing your accuracy. This would be the same for any helmet with face protection (all the close helms) or very broad brim. The broad brim is less of a problem when using a short bow. This shouldn't affect crossbows and thrown.

Thrown weapons should get a small accuracy penalty when used with very broad brimmed helmets and those helmets with a spire (like the tagancha) and a bigger accuracy penalty when used with helmets that have random stuff on top (like the horned great helm and the strange helms).

This is deduced from my experience with bows and javelins while wearing different types of helmets and armors.

There should be even more restrictions or penalties, like the complete inability to use ranged weapons with mittens, be it bows, crossbows or thrown (this is from experience, wearing kote and trying to throw a javelin that ended in a total failure).

But all this will probably never get implemented in the game, and that's the reason I'm posting it in the Realism section. ;)

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Scene Editing / Orange fog.

« on: September 15, 2014, 10:14:16 am »

Hello.
Most maps are good. But this orange... fog, looks bad. You know, on desert maps. I guess it represents a sandstorm, but it looks really bad. A nice normal (sunny, cloudy, foggy and even rainy) would be much better. Quoting the chat : "Mars mission again!"

Thank you for reading.

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cRPG Technical problems / Colored lance icon missing

« on: September 13, 2014, 06:48:21 pm »

Hello, me again.
Sorry about the double post (delete it if it's inapporpriate).

I know it's just a small problem. In the shop, the icons for colored lances are missing. I'm wondering if it's just on my computer.

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cRPG Technical problems / Re: Recaptcha always incorrect

« on: September 13, 2014, 04:25:42 pm »

Really? I'll check the forum rules.
If it's true i guess i should start posting :p

Like This :3

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cRPG Technical problems / Recaptcha always incorrect

« on: September 13, 2014, 01:29:03 pm »

Hello.

I have a problem sending a PM on this website. After correctly writing the captcha, i get an error, something like "the letters you typed don't match the picture".

Thanks.