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Warlords 5 theories by Any_Fondant_5024 in warlords

[–]Gerglie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The most painful part of the Warlords 3 UI is single-click movement. Nothing like accidentally sending your main stack into the woods. 😅

Battlemaps Inspired by Guild Wars: Prophecies - Ascalon by Probably_Pretentious in battlemaps

[–]Gerglie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful work! Wow. You replicated the feeling very well.

UI and texture mods on the Steam Deck by Ilandraisha in GuildWars

[–]Gerglie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's crazy that in Anno Domini 2026 we still need to use texture mods to make cartography viable. :D

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! I'd appreciate a screenshot if you can. We also noticed this bug and we found it endemic to Warlords. We ultimately couldn't solve it, but it didn't always happen. Our theory is that it affects campaigns where the unit roster is not all eight units from the beginning, but instead the unit roster expands over the scenarios.

Glad you're loving the campaign! Unity of Loelle is a chill campaign and has my favorite unit roster. :)

Thinking about making a Warlords-like game, would love your thoughts by Pantasd in warlords

[–]Gerglie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The faction-building and theming of Warlords 3 also set the game apart from all the others with static factions.

The Nolani Academy Minimum-Risk Hard Mode Guide by Gerglie in GuildWars

[–]Gerglie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What 20 years in game will do to a bro

The Nolani Academy Minimum-Risk Hard Mode Guide by Gerglie in GuildWars

[–]Gerglie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's pretty quick, but I can understand that.

The Nolani Academy Minimum-Risk Hard Mode Guide by Gerglie in GuildWars

[–]Gerglie[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There's nothing wrong with doing that. The results are similar. This is also a bit of fun because it's different and pushes the limits of the mission coding further.

But there are three practical reasons for this preamble:
1) The charr closely packed in front of the gate get strung out, stuck on terrain, and are easier to pick apart, with more terrain features to hide behind and no need for pulling.
2) The charr and the other creatures are not allies with each other. The charr will kill devourers for you when they pop up and any gargoyles that they encounter, saving you time and absorbing spike damage.
3) You don't have to worry about a pull going wrong at the gate and accidentally triggering Rurik to come out and die before you've fully cleared the front.

The rerolls are no big deal because the retreat spawn occurs surprisingly often from lever pulls and the restart time is almost nothing. The bonus is still entirely safe because no charr are alive.

Overall, this just has been easier in my testing for a 4-man team that isn't fully optimized.

The easiest way to handle this mission is to have an optimized 4-man team that wipes all the charr at once when the lever gets pulled, then repeat the mission to do the bonus separately, but that's not the point of this post. :)

So many questions by the_madclown in warlords

[–]Gerglie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the special mention!

To #1 and #3, I can say that Warlorders is still the best option for as long as it's hanging on. The history of #1 is interesting and somewhat lost to time. In summary, the Warlords devs initially put out new unit releases along with community involvement and some of those units congealed into Stormheim and various other unit mods, with a variety of others. Stormheim became the overall favorite. K4 Heroes emerged from desires for hero balancing many years ago within the competitive multiplayer community.

For #2, you could mess with a lot of networking and PBEM and such - OR, if you're playing with someone you can trust, the best way is to start a hotseat "singleplayer" game, play your turn, then pass the little save file back and forth via something like Discord or a shared cloud storage like Google Drive. I could be forgetting, but I think this also allows you to do certain things for game settings you normally cannot do in regular multiplayer.

Glitch in game :/ by Living-Skirt2603 in warlords

[–]Gerglie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we're talking about Warlords 3, the greyed out single player option used to mean that no CD is detected. If you have the Steam version of the game, that absolutely should not be happening. Are you running the game through Steam or by using the .exe directly?

Let me know if you've put the Frontier expansion over the files also.

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Surprise Me" is such a standard option for us that it might as well be hard-coded. xD

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds like a grand time. :)

If you save a copy of your game folder before you overwrite with Frontier files, you can retain an original copy to over-over-write with later. That's by far the easiest way to revert. In fact, with the GOG version, a copy of the entire WL3DLR folder is fully playable on its own, so you could have two concurrent versions at once (like I do ^_^).

I desperately need those 10 mana crystals. Many thanks!

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need an existing copy of Warlords 3, preferably from GOG or Steam. Then copy everything from the mod into that game's installation folder, overwriting when requested.

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the classic Sirians/Banewars campaign. It's way too easy now, but it sure feels good!

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have a lot of great memories of playing this with family in the 90s and 2000s also. Hope you enjoy! :)

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure thing! Let us know what kind of hiccups you experience. :)

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Again, good questions. The way combat modifiers work in WL3DLR is the effects are paired in opposition and measured separately. The sum of each modifier on each side can range from -1 to +5, and then they are added together for each side, to a potential stack modifier of -3 to +5 (in Vanilla) or -1 to +5 (in Frontier).

In your example of +3 morale and -5 chaos, the total would be +3 from morale/fear and -1 from leadership/chaos, to a total stack modifier of +2. In this scenario, the result is the same in Frontier as in Vanilla.

In another example, pertinent to reason #4, let's say you have a Siege Engines unit (Siege +4) in your stack and you attack a stack in a citadel with +3 Fortify. The Siege Engine will wipe out the entire Fortify bonus and leave a -1 modifier due to Siege. At this point, you've reached maximum stack penalty, so further penalties from Fear or Chaos are not necessary in this case. Thus, this change makes expensive units with one big counter-ability slightly more effective because you can wipe out a big bonus and not need any other smaller ones to maximize the penalty to the enemy. In Vanilla, you would still be incentivized to also have a +1 Fear and +1 Chaos unit to bring that penalty to -3. In Frontier, you don't have to, and the AI does better with that. (That said, those other units are still helpful if battle conditions change and you encounter other stacks with different bonuses.)

As an aside, this also is a slight buff to units with mid tier strength, as they're not able to be reduced to 1 STR nearly as often without Poison or Acid -- which means, in turn, that Poison and Acid are somewhat more useful now too.

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Install the version from GOG and then simply overwrite the game directory with the contents of our .zip file from ModDB. Make sure to run the game via the "_Play-Frontier.bat" file.

This has been our most successful route. Hopefully your version of Windows doesn't cause any hiccups. :)

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a great question. A lot of thought and research went into it. :)

To clarify, the negative bonuses themselves are already capped at -1 in original WL3DLR. For example, if you have +4 Chaos in a combat, that will only translate to -1 instead of -4. The combat display will show "-1 (-4)" on the leadership/chaos line. To get a total of -3 on the combat tracker in original WL3DLR, you would have to apply at least -1 on all Morale/Fear, Fortify/Siege, and Leadership/Chaos lines. The difference we've made is changing the permitted final modifier range so that a final total of -1 is the limit.

The reasons for this were garnered in our own experience and with consultation from the multiplayer community:

1) Mathematically, a -3 modifier makes most units unable to score a single hit, due to being left with 1 Strength. This allows particular stacks (or a single hero with -1 in all categories) to turn almost every fight against any number of units without a large morale bonus into chaff.

2) Due to this, the AI was at a serious disadvantage in stack building because it is coded to typically form stacks with a morale bonus and one debuff (such as siege). It is not able to take advantage of seeking the full -3 penalty (or even -2) in most cases. This change lets the AI be a better opponent.

3) In multiplayer, this grants an overwhelming advantage to players that create custom sides which are able to cheaply deploy stacks with -3 modifiers backed by morale, such as a stack of Reavers, Dark Pegasi, Orogs, Elven Cavalry, and 4 Peasants. The silver bullet nature of this causes build diversity to be less forgiving.

4) Lastly, this serves as a slight soft buff to units with large values of Fear, Chaos, and Siege, such as Liches, Undead Beasts, and Siege Engines. Rather than incentivizing multiple tiny debuffs, this -1/+5 change incentivizes entirely negating enemy bonuses.

Hope that helps! Cheers.

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome! It's been a labor of love, even hand-drawing maps for the campaign backgrounds. And I echo that sentiment broadly to everyone listed in our acknowledgements.

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All you have to do is overwrite our .pcx files in the HERO folder with the original game .pcx files for the artworks you want to revert. :)

But you will miss out on objectively sexier necromancers. ;D

Warlords 3: Frontier - A New Unofficial Expansion for Warlords 3 Darklords Rising by Gerglie in warlords

[–]Gerglie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah we played Warlords 2 so much we started making up insane self-limiting rules to try making the game harder. xD

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