Serpent

[paulb84]

Hi everyone,

First of all, great game! Addictive, fun and strategic.
Great playing with/vs mongolian and others.


This post concerns the latest update. I don't like the new update that give serpents a 'pikeman' attack vs approaching enemies. I thought they were a balanced unit before. Given that the AI hydra spawns 5 a turn, they are also quite common in single player games.

Your thoughts?

[zatikon]

There's going to be a revision of the unit summoners and the units they summon. The Hydra is at the top of the list.

[mongolian]

The problem is that the druid's serpent is perfect (as it previously was pointless).  But yes, Hydra's serpents are too powerful.  The 2 clear choices are make Hydra weaker and keep serpents as is or let the Hydra summon a new type of spawn (something similiar to the old serpent).

[Kran]

I do not think its overpowered. The serpent is very easy to kill. But could be added something like serpents cant attack automatically by diagonals.

[travcm]

Oddly, I haven't seen a single hydra in single player since serpents were boosted.

[mongolian]

Serpeant's only triggering on horizonal/vertical (no diagonals) seems like a great solution.  But, I have almost never seen a Hydra in constructed which makes me believe it's still worth it's heafty $550 pricetag.

[Kran]

I use the hydra in contructed myself sometimes... With a mourner ^^

[mongolian]

1x Hydra 550
1x Mourner 200
1x strategist 50
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I agree that even for $800 above, that's pretty powerful.  There aren't many decks that can handle it if given time.  It would make sense to only make snakes trigger on vertical/horizontals.  No diagonals.

[Lunaraia]

Here is an idea for a new hydra Summon:


Wyvern

Life 4
power 3
actions 2
armor 1

Movement does not cost actions

Move to target lovation within 2 can be done 1/1

Attack target enemy
Range 2
Cost 1


Might Poison?

[Lumen]

I think I'd prefer if they could only attack on diagonals and not laterally.  Then a couple of them together could still hold off from any direction, but cannot combine attacks with one another.

[Kran]

Making it just defend in diagonals will make the defense of the snakes a bit better.

[Kran]

Lunaraia, i think 1 less actions is better in the wyvern ^^.

[xsherlock]

Lunaria,

That would be insane  power for hydra

[Kran]

The hydra is nice like it is.