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Javelineer
Description: Warriors adept at throwing javelins at their enemy. Burning Javelins.
Stats:
Passive Effect:
Burning weapon
Produced At: Primitive Veteran Hut.
Cost: 2
Hitpoints: 10
Power: 6
Speed: 3
Range: 3
Armor: 1/1
Sight: 5
Mental Resistance: 40%
Bonuses:
25% Melee Foot
50% Foot Archers
75% Mounted Archers
150% Elephant Archer
Abilities:
Throw Lit Javelin -
Throws it's Javelin with the Burning Weapon effect. Cooldown 3.
Categories:
Ranged, Primitive, Foot, Anti-archers.

Burning weapon and bonus gains melee?he will thower jarid or spears?

image.

Edited Stats. @Endru1241 What do you think?

Projectile of Lit Javelin ability just in-case.

Badnorth wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 6:19 amimage.

The weapon look cut short in the top while it also don't have any outline?

I won't add outline to the weapon as i think it is okay. The Projectile will have it alas as it needs to be outlined, because it is a projectile sprite.

I'll change the "cut" top of the weapon though. It was intended to be like that alas.

Edit

Wat about the name head hunter?

godOfKings wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:33 pm Wat about the name head hunter?

Headhunter is a name for another unit i just posted lol.

Honestly - I am not comfortable with this concept.

What is the main concept this unit should be representing?
Anti-archer or anti-building?

If desired to be hybrid - I'd change it for higher cost - 2 turn hybrids are dangerous to pull off balance-wise.

From image it looks like melee fighter - that weapon could be spear or barely throwable heavy javelin.
Well - you did give rather low range, so I guesss it could be OK.
But it could have a little higher damage and e.g. totally different bonuses or none at all.

Remember, that weapon type presented on image should not indicate bonuses.
What's more - even weapon type really used is not enough to guarantee them.
Skirmisher could just as well be using some bow or sling - the point of that unit is being good anti-archer ranged unit.

Also - human on image looks a little too green, like zombie - maybe it's effect of both grass skirt and greenish weapon?
Lit javelin image doesn't look fire needs some change too.
Can you look at other burning projectiles?
They have more orange.
I think it looks a little more like a fire.

Endru1241 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:55 pm Also - human on image looks a little too green, like zombie - maybe it's effect of both grass skirt and greenish weapon?
Lit javelin image doesn't look fire needs some change too.
Can you look at other burning projectiles?
They have more orange.
I think it looks a little more like a fire.

Green: I'll change it to brown, but i don't really see that. But i guess that's because i made the image. I'll do some changes later..

Fire: I'm not really good with fire images either cuz i just started making them, i'll change.

Endru1241 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:55 pm But it could have a little higher damage and e.g. totally different bonuses or none at all.

I'll make another stats. I'll up the damage by +2 or +3, change cost to 3, and remove the bonuses maybe.

Endru1241 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:55 pm From image it looks like melee fighter - that weapon could be spear or barely throwable heavy javelin.

I'll try to change it too. Maybe just shortening the Javelin.

@Endru1241

I just copied the style of the arrow_torch.png and added it to the torch. As for the Projectile sprite, i just copy and pasted it to save some time. Is this ok now?

Changed stats to this:

Javelineer
Description: Warriors adept at throwing javelins at their enemy. Burning Javelins.
Stats:
Passive Effect:
Burning weapon
Produced At: Primitive Veteran Hut.
Cost: 3
Hitpoints: 12
Power: 8
Speed: 3
Range: 4
Armor: 0/2
Sight: 5
Mental Resistance: 40%
Bonuses:
None
Abilities:
Burning Weapon Effect -
The unit will deal the fire effect. Passive Effect.

Categories:
Ranged, Primitive, Foot, Anti-archers.

I wonder if some other name shouldn't be used - fire master or something (a keeper of fire )?

Could you also recolor skin a little (like soldier skinpack)?

Recolored.

Endru1241 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:14 am I wonder if some other name shouldn't be used - fire master or something (a keeper of fire )?

Hmm, Pyromaniac or something? Flame thrower? Flame Javelin? I'm bad at name picking.

Is there a problem with the Javelineer name?

Just thought it would be better to indicate usage with name.
I'll try to construct some text along with fire master.

Hmm, okay.

Endru1241 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:50 am I'll try to construct some text along with fire master.

I guess it is accepted? I'll set it to accepted just in-case.

Also renamed topic since it'll probably be the name of the unit.

Shortened Javelin

Fire master,now looks tribal...

Hm, i guess so. Like the guys in Farcry Primal that worship fire.

this could actually be the falarica thrower!
falarica was a heavy javelin that eventually developed into pilum and the scorpio amunition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falarica