Project Groove

A Wargroove mod for re-balanced and enhanced competitive play compatible with game version 2.1

Balance and Design:

• Barrett

Contributors:

• Unicarn
• FlySniper
• CMAvelis
• Emo Tarquin

Changes:

Commanders:

• Caesar
  • charge speed: medium -> slow
• Dark Mercia
  • groove changes:
    • charge speed: slow -> medium
    • damage: 30 -> 25
    • can overheal (see Game Mechanics) to a maximum of 200 HP, which lasts until the start of your next turn
      • see Game Mechanics for information on Overhealing
• Elodie
  • charge speed: slow -> medium
• Errol & Orla
  • groove mechanics:
    • both grooves may be used once groove is charged, instead of one or the other
    • Scorching Fire is shown as the only groove, then Cooling Water appears as an option afterward (due to simplicity of programming it this way)
    • choosing "Wait" while the Twins can use Cooling Water will reset groove charge to 0 (use it or lose it)
• Mercia
  • groove can now overheal units (and self) to a maximum of 105 HP
    • see Game Mechanics for information on Overhealing
• Mercival
  • groove replaced: Diplomacy
    • Fast charge
    • 2 range: Convert an enemy structure to yours at full HP
    • steals 100 gold from enemy as well
    • HQ not included, but production buildings convert with action ready
• Nuru
  • groove can no longer summon "non-formation" units:
    • Golems, Trebuchets, Ballista, Wagons, Dragons, Balloons, Warships, Harpoon Ships and Barges
    • "non-formation" refers to their appearance in fight animations as a single unit, instead of multiple
• Ryota
  • groove damage ramp per jump: +5% -> -3%
  • damage floor set to 0
• Sigrid
  • 2-range teleport added to groove prior to targeting enemy
• Vesper
  • groove change:
    • Vesper now teleports to the targeted location
    • smoke AoE range 2 -> 1

Units:

• Giant
  • movement type: walking -> riding (what knights use)
• Harpy
  • damage edits
    • spears 0.45 -> 0.5
• Mage
  • damage edits
    • harpy 1.4 -> 1.3
    • witch 1.3 -> 1.2
• Trebuchet
  • min range: 2 -> 4
  • structure base damage: 0.85 -> 0.65
• Thief
  • Steal can now target transports, which will take it over AND kill the thief
• Barge, Turtle, Harpoon Ship, Warship
  • New mechanic: If the unit's action is to "wait", it gets an additional move-only turn
    • Turtle move-only movement range: 6 (rest of ships have same mvt for 1st and 2nd action)
  • Barge has a special action that's only activated if it's not carrying any units
• Barge
  • new action: Free Turn
    • Barges may activate this action to refresh their action if they are not carrying units
  • movement range: 10 -> 12
• Turtle
  • new action: Swim Under
    • Turtle can go to the other side of an enemy air unit or ship (barge, harpoon, warship)
• Harpoon Ship
  • movement range: 4 -> 8
  • attack range: 3-6 -> 3-4
• Warship
  • movement range: 8 -> 9
  • attack range: 2-4 -> 2-3

Game Mechanics:

Terrain:

• Tile movement for "sailing" type units, i.e. non-merfolk naval
  • Ocean: 1 -> 2
  • Beach: 2 -> 3
  • Sea: 2 -> 3
  • Bridge: 2 -> 3
  • Reef: 4 -> 6
• Reef terrain defense: 2 -> 3

Damage Calculations:

• Damage variance capped to +/- 10% of the median damage, or +/- 5 HP damage, whichever is lower
  • e.g. for median damage 20, the range will now be 18-22 instead of 15-25
  • However, for median damage 90, the range is 85-95, as before. (not +/- 9)

Overhealing (NEW):

• Certain abilities will now cause units to "overheal", i.e. go above 100% HP
• Mage heal is not one of them
• As of 0.7-beta:
  • Commander health will go back down to 100% at the beginning of the CO's turn, when they regenerate
  • units will retain overhealed HP indefinitely
  • damage scales with overhealed HP like normal
  • defense does NOT scale with overhealed HP

Mana (NEW RESOURCE):

• Mage heal and Witch hex now cost 1 mana instead of 300 gold
• Recruiting a golem, mage, dragon or witch now costs 1 mana in addition to the gold cost
• New structure: Mana Crystal:
  • Can be captured, and neutralized
  • Cannot reinforce
  • Adds 1 mana to the owner's pool
  • When consumed, it's turn is spent
  • All mana is restored at the start of the player's turn
• A crystal indicator will now display your total mana on your HQ
• All villagers are transformed into mana crystals at the start of the first turn

Implementation Notes

• All double actions (turtle, harpoon, warship) currently uses temp_units.lua to modify:
  • Wait:onPostUpdateUnit
  • buff_loader.lua
• Twins double-groove modifies the following:
  • Verb:onPostUpdateUnit