Magnadine

[cyther]

The Hippus hero is very unique. It says nothing storylinewise in the civilopedia so I am wondering why he rides his horse sideways. The civilopedia also says that he recruits living barb units that he defeats and that he can hire mercs. He can not do either of these.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Magnadine rides Sidesaddle? I never noticed that.


He used to capture all living barbarians he defeated, but hasn't done so since the conversion to BtS. The Kael no longer has the part of the code that handled things like this exposed to python, but the <PythonPostCombatWon> tag/function could easily be used to add this back.

(In my modmod, I'll probably use this and the <PythonPostCombatLost> tag to add back Magnadine's and Tar Demon's special abilities.)


Mercenaries changed greatly between the Fire and Shadow phases. They used to be buildable HN units that had a spell to hire more of themselves, whereas now the hire mercenary spell can be cast by any unit in a city with the Guild of the Nine. Magnadine could cast this spell too, and his mercenaries started with loyalty. The Hippus then could cast this spell at half the normal price, whereas now they instead have the Mounted Mercenary UU. Oddly, Magnadine still gives the Loyalty promootion if he is the one to hire a mercenary in a Guild city.

 

[rocklikeafool]

Hmm...he doesn't look sidesaddle to me.

 

[Darksaber1]

Nor to me. He seems to ride stradaling the sadle.

 

[Annex]

Magnadine looks fine, but the Hippus elephant units look weird.

 

[rocklikeafool]

Wat do ya mean?

 

[Magnifficus]

The elephants rider is hanging anywhere in front of the elephants head!
It's looking really funny

And it's shorly not intended.

 

[dscarron]

The elephants rider is hanging anywhere in front of the elephants head!
It's looking really funny

And it's shorly not intended.

I've got to give MASSIVE kudos to the artists for the Dovello Elephants. Mean and very, very cool.

 

[InternalShadow]

Its been awhile since I've played Hippus, didn't realize Magnadine lost the ability to capture barbs. I enjoyed having a pet dragon .