Chosha: Godly unit, or military academy bug?

[Puce Moose]

Thanks for the information. I actually found a pretty reasonable work around; I modified the file battle_academy.lua to lower the upgrade cost, then dropped the file into the sessions/orcs/Mods folder. Just in case anyone wants to do similarly, the file is located in orcs.kfs. On line 62 the function that controls the pricing begins:

function tc_army_price_up(i) ---- íîâàÿ öåíà
return {3,15,250,100,9,50,80,190,19,75,80,85,85,6,8,370,1 80,50,95,370,45,10,11,35,110,110,2,140,75,1,85,15, 1,750,50}
end

110, 110 are the chosha entries (it's 810, 810 in the default file).

[BB Shockwave]

How did you find out which entry is which?

I'll probably use the training academy a lot in my game, as I want to use Royal Griffins with my human army, and there aren't many to recruit - so I will have to train them from Griffins.

[onepiece]

@BB; Curious. In my previous walkthrough (paladin impossible) there where like 30 royal griffin and in my current (mage, hard) there are like 300 only in Verona.
You really have to use the Scanner to avoid things like this.

I've also come to realize that the lower your difficulty level, the more chances of getting better items, units and altars.

[Puce Moose]

BB:

I compared the entries for the upgrade to the army list. Here's the relevant section from battle_akademy.lua:

function tc_army_price_up(i) ---- íîâàÿ öåíà
return {3,15,250,100,9,50,80,190,19,75,80,85,85,6,8,370,180,50,95,370,45,10,11,35, 810,810,2,140,75,1,85,15,1,750,50}
end
function tc_army_af(i) --- íîâûé áîåö
return {"robber2","footman2","archmage","paladin","barbar ian2","bear2","bear_white","griffin2","beholder2", "snake_royal","snake_royal","kingthorn","kingthorn ","spider_fire","spider_fire","assassin","elf2","e nt2","unicorn2","assassin","dwarf","droideka_guard ","ingeneer","gorguana2","chosha","chosha","goblin 2","goblin_shaman","shaman_blood","zombie2","vampi re2","ghost2","imp2","demon2","archdemon"}
end

Assuming that griffin2 refers to royal griffins (Not sure what else it could be) the bolded entry should be the one that controls the griffin upgrade cost.

[smartguy]

I wonder why you not simply use the "sacrifice" chaos spell. I used it all the time to "breed" the units I wanted, long before the addon was released. Dunno if it still works that way and for warriors though but for mage back then there was no problem.

[onepiece]

The only problem with sacrifice is that is very expensive in terms of mana, units sacrificed and requires lots of intelligence to raise a small number of level 4 units (it makes it difficult for a warrior who has the most leadership and the least mana to use it).

Plus sometimes you get it near the end of the game so most of it you're gonna play without it. And it makes problem if you're doing a no-loss game.

[BB Shockwave]

I managed to use it with my Warrior - I ran out of Gorguls around the end of the game, and had to Sacrifice my Tirexes. Works well as all you need is to eat a corpse and the Tirex is healed again, a Warrior doesn't have enough Intellect usually to kill one with a Level I-II sacrifice.