[Wesnoth-dev] Changes to Steadfast

[James Barton]

cc/d to the Forum - http://wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=66588#66588

--------------

After playing a few games against Dwarvish Guardsmen, I must admit that 
I find them extremely frustrating. Not so much because I'm doing so 
little damage to them - though that's annoying - but because even my 
higher-level units suffer more damage when attacking the Guardsman than 
they deal. An Elvish Hero dealing 3-4 damage and suffering 4-3 (5-3 
now) seems stupid.

 Charging units currently suffer double damage as well as dealing 
double damage, when they attack.

 I propose that Steadfast units deal half damage as well as suffering 
half damage, when they defend. This would make Charge and Steadfast 
true opposites.

 Of course, to compensate for this the Guardsman line would have its 
damage increased - to 6-3 or even 7-3 in the first level unit. But I 
believe that this would make them a more interesting unit - they can 
deal considerably more damage on the attack than they can on the 
defence, offering lots of opportunities for trade-offs, much as the 
Horseman currently does.

 Thoughts?

James Barton
a.k.a. Sangel