New Mod Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Babies!

[MattCaspermeyer]

Originally Posted by Fatt_Shade

Any idea about my moral question Mat ? I changed wife for Mirabella and got even more crazy thing (picture) - note that if i took regular swordman unit they`ll have +1 more because of `commander` guardsman talent.
I thought to make moral +/-6 lvls maybe , for each lvl 8% increase/decrease in unit stats. In this mod it`s very easy to get high moral for army, and in longer battles moral drop very low. So wanted to make it meaningful to got over +/-3 lvls.

This is certainly something to think about. I want to be careful about short-circuiting too much of the in-built code.

For example, on the Hero Attack / Defense bonuses, the way it works now is that I manually adjust each unit's Critical Hit / Resist All. I need to find a better way to do that (especially for AP/CW since Critical Hit is shown on the Unit Cards and can't be short circuited) and if I did anything with letting Morale go higher than the ±3 rating I'd want to use the current system if I could extend it.

The other thing would be to rethink the baby Morale bonuses, but really Mirabella is the wife with the easiest chance to exceed the +3; however, as you state, you lose 1 Morale for each extended phase of long combats.

Right now, if a HOMM3 Baby has the Leadership Skill, they give +1 Morale for each level of that Leadership Skill.

When I implement such things in AP/CW, I may do things slightly differently with having that bonus work more like the Diplomacy skill works now. Not sure, but Catherine's Leadership skill, for example, would give +1 Morale to all human troops. That would be with her item level at level 1. Then as you level up Catherine's item level up to 5, the bonus would give +1 Morale to other races (i.e. Elves, then Dwarves, or maybe a couple of races together) until at Level 5 it was +1 Morale to all races.

For TL, since the children don't have levels it might make sense to have Leadership Level 1 babies give +% to Leadership and then Leadership Level 2 babies give +% to Leadership and then +1 Morale to all, but Mullich is the only Leadership Level 2 baby so then there'd pretty much be no baby Morale bonuses.

The way it works now might still be the best way, plus if you go into combat with +6 Morale, at least you can suffer 3 extended phase Morale penalties and still have max Morale. Plus don't forget about the new Bone Dragon Dread skill which is -3 Morale for Level 1-2 troops, -2 Morale for Level 3-4 troops, and -1 Morale for Level 5 troops. I may give other units -Morale capabilities now that it is easier to get it higher.

So this is something to think about - I need to do more research into the game's Morale system and where it is implemented...

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