Orthus and the custom setting for additional animals

[Mailbox]

I had a barbarian champion spawn a game or two ago and I decided to watch what happened if I was to give him march (via Ctrl-Z). He ended up wiping out 3 civilizations single handedly without any help (well, the Doviello killed the Balseraph's last defender). That was a fun game because the barbarian was a real threat, something that Orthus should be every game.

 

[Keeper_GFA]

Yeah, creating new Orcs for Orthus would be way way better than having him Command units. It makes sense for other Orcs to rally to Orthus as he becomes more successful, and fearsome. Having your defeated warrior decide to fight for Orthus does not seem right.

 

[MaxAstro]

My solution was to give Orthus March and Crazed. Try it some time. Suddenly it goes from "Oh, look, I get the Axe" to "@#$%! ORTHUS! Start building Warriors NOW!" XD

Keeper: Actually, if you read Orthus' backstory, having defeated units join him is actually fairly appropriate... What I might do, partly to prevent Orthus from holing up in cities, is make it so that whenever Orthus takes a city, the city is razed and spawns barbarian units on the tile based on the population of the city.