Posts from UNIT - Creature Balance + Visual Changes

I'm against titans with a retaliatory attack. As for the infinite retaliation, it's okay, it's a decent idea, but it's more suitable for a non-shooting upgrade, if it ever gets there.
By the way, as a completely crazy idea: give the non-shooting upgrade a "Strike from the Heavens" ability. That would be great, a worthy alternative to shooting! But it would have its drawbacks.

And endless resistance is somewhat acceptable.

For example: combine the ranged attack penalty in melee combat with "enhanced arrow"? (I mean: when attacking in melee).
The result would be something like: a unit that deals less damage in melee combat (compared to ranged attacks) against weaker-level enemies, deals roughly the same damage against enemies of equal level (level 7), and also has a chance to switch melee combat to ranged combat.

Ad hominem, or argumentum ad hominem (from Latin – “argument to the person”), is an argument based on the opponent's personality, rather than on the essence of the discussion, objective facts, and logical reasoning.

I don't quite understand what the argument is about. In Heroes of Might and Magic, they have long removed the ranged attack from the upgraded Titans and enhanced their lightning attack. That's it. Formally, it's a melee unit, but in reality, it's a ranged attacker, but a very special one (direct attack, with complete disregard for defense, attacks, and perks related to ranged attacks and defense against them, unblockable). In my opinion, this is the best thing that could be done with the Titans. A fundamental change with minimal effort.

Mechanically and in terms of gameplay, it's interesting, but in other aspects, it's quite harsh. You could say they went a bit too far. Although the original upgrade also suffers from a similar issue. Wouldn't it be easier to just remove the creature mechanics from the Total Enhancement (TE) mod and release it as a separate mod? ))

Simpler, but not necessarily better.
Just because I praise certain mods or RTAs in some places doesn't mean that all the changes in them are successful. It's important to understand that the goals for those mods were different. The main focus of TE is on clearing maps and exaggerated hordes of neutral creatures, and the gameplay is tailored to this, so the balance is shifted accordingly. Leveling up units is a secondary goal, not the main one, and it's done specifically for the conditions of hardcore map clearing. Therefore, the solutions should be filtered or adapted. For example, skeleton archers in TE are left unchanged, even though they are underperforming in other formats, but in the conditions of such a specific map clearing style, archers look better than infantry.

When addressing an abstract person (yes, without using the informal "you"), I present logic, and in response, I receive illogical fabrications from the person who took it personally. Prove that an idea without implementation is worth something, and I will agree.

Wouldn't it be better to suggest all the ideas that seem good?

I am not interested in the game itself at the moment. I don't want to play it.

I am not an expert in tactical elements (TE). I have basically already mentioned all the solutions I remember and liked.
By the way, somewhere in the topic it was mentioned that they would increase the damage for alternate lizardmen attacks from 25% to 75%, and that would be okay. But it won't be okay because it was already done in RTA and TE, and lizards still remained outsiders. It needs to be increased further, to 100%. And maybe even that won't be enough, and other stats will need to be adjusted.

It's an interesting shift in concepts. So, one of the weakest Tier 1 titans is a tank, and at the same time, the most durable Tier 1 (shields) or Tier 2 (zombies) unit isn't a tank? They have "roughly" fewer hit points than a titan in a 1-to-1 comparison.

Titans can only tank in very limited cases, when the damage taken does not exceed the health of one titan.

I don't quite understand what the argument is about.

expressing his feelings

Nimble Riders indeed have damage that is ≈2-2.5 times lower than Dark Riders with a charge, even if you increase the random attack to 100%, this clearly won't be enough.

Here are a few ideas:
1) Balance it out with stats, give the alternate upgrade increased damage and slightly more survivability.
2) Give them the ability "Double Strike," but reduce the damage slightly.
3) Give them the ability "Swift Attack"; almost all heroes from the faction have the spell "Slow," so this ability would be useful...
4) The least radical option would be to give them the ability "Giant Killer," which would deal a small bonus against large creatures.

How imbalanced would it be to give them "Dragon's Breath"? (like piercing with a spear)

Agile riders indeed have damage that is ≈2-2.5 times lower than dark riders with a charge, even if you increase the random attack to 100%, this clearly won't be enough.

Here are a few ideas:
1) Balance them out with stats, give the alternate upgrade increased damage and slightly more survivability.
2) Give them the ability "Double Strike," but reduce the damage slightly.
3) Give them the ability "Swift Attack"; almost all heroes from the faction have the spell "Slow," so this ability would be useful...
4) The least radical option would be to give them the ability "Giant Killer," which would give them a small bonus when attacking large creatures.