Re: [Wesnoth-dev] New dwarven unit proposal

[Joseph Simmons]

I think its a good unit idea. I have graphical concerns, but I am in 
favor of the unit.

> Basic unit, for which I have not specified stats (they would make it 
> more expensive than other dwarves, more sturdy than a thunderer, and 
> about the same movement).

20-21 gold. Probably ~8-2 melee (remember its magic). I figure you can't 
swing a hammer very quickly. If you want more strokes, 6-3 maybe.

Having a melee magic attack is not a new idea, AFAIK. The Shadow Mage 
line has it. (that's not an official unit, but its used fairly often). 
But that doesn't mean its not a good idea.


> I would also like to suggest an aura for this unit.  My idea is a 
> stoneskin aura, which would make all adjacent units subtract damage 
> from attacks dealt to them.
> The level-2 smith would cause an aura which would reduce the damage of 
> all attacks by one.
> Level-3 - two damage, level-4 - three damage.

This sounds rather complex. Why not give them the same specialty, but do 
something like leadership - it is more effective for lower levels? Gives 
~20% attack resistance to physical attacks per level difference. So at 
fourth level, it give ~60% resistance to attacks... that might be too 
powerful.

> This should, perhaps be limited to pierce/blade/impact attacks, and 
> should not be able to reduce damage below 1 damage per strike.

I think the limitation to physical attacks is good, but it might be seen 
as too complex. By reduce damage below 1 damage per strike, you mean it 
cannot make them do 0 damage, right? That is i believe already done for 
all damage-reducing effects (like resistance and bad time of day). Or do 
you mean it cannot reduce damage by more than 1? That would be odd, and 
I doubt its what you mean, but its how I read what you said at first.

> The whole point of this is to make the dwarves (and by this, I mean 
> the dwarves alone, not the knalgans) more powerful, without 
> sacrificing their "dwarvenness".

It is very dwarvish, I'll give you that.

-turin