V0.9.18 – Merry Christmas!

A belated merry christmas from me, and a new build featuring an event chain dealing with a strange creature known as Santor Glaus. He will sneak into your fortress or tower and deliver present of varying usefulness and quality. That is if you have been good. If he deems you have been bad, your gift might turn out to be a lump of coal.

Assasinating Santor Glaus or raiding his secret workshop is possible, but this is not without consequences. Prepare to face attacks from elven helpers and clockwork golems, as he will hold a grudge for a very long time if you antagonize him.

For this build the event will always happen during the first week of each year. In the next build it will be moved to the proper season, and not always happen.

There has also been a few bugfixes, and a neutral cities and villages now use the same mechanics as the player controlled ones.

Zip with build: http://wizardsandwarlords.net/files/WizardsAndWarlords0918.zip

V0.9.17 – Wizard Tower Mechanics, Summoning Mishaps

Spent some time fleshing out some of the wizard tower upgrades. Here is a summary of the upgrades available so far:

Enchanted Garden: Produces 1 herb resource per turn.

Stables: Enables the training of mounted regiments. Gives all followers a “mount” bonus to overland movement speed.

Archery Range: Enables the training of regiments with ranged weapons.

Summoning Circle: Reduces the chance of mishaps when casting summoning spells. (also implemented summoning mishaps)

Shrine: Provides passive experience gain for “Religion” type followers.

Guest Chambers: Contributes 0.25 influence per turn.

Arena: Provides passive experience gain for “Martial” type followers.

Barracks: Enables the training of better regiments.

Armory: Enables the training of heavily armored and armed regiments. Requires Barracks.

Observatory: Increases chance of positive random events, and decreases chance of negative random events.

Crystal Vault: Produces 1 mana per turn.

Tunnel Network: Produces 0.25 iron, 0.25 granite, 0.25 copper, 0.1 gemstones per turn. Increases siege defense.

Mystic Furnace: Produces 1 eternal fire per turn. Provides passive experience gain for “Artisan” type followers.

Library: Contributes 0.5 research per turn.

Academy: Provides passive experience gain for “Scholar” type followers.

Underground Waterways: Enables the binding of Giant Albino Alligator regiments. Increases siege defense.

Enchanted Fountain: Heals wounded followers. Reduces the time needed to recuperate between assignments for followers.

Aviarium: Allows the transportation of followers to friendly sites in 1 turn via airborne transportation.

Voltaic Coils: Leeches mana from grand spells and lesser scale air magic spells.

Bazaar: Produces 0.25 gold per turn. Provides passive experience gain for “Mercantile” type followers.

Passage to the Underdark: Enables recruitment of Troglodyte regiments. Produces 0.1 underdark goods per turn.

Prison Cells: Enables twiddling of your evil moustache while contemplating how to torment your prisoners-to-be (ie not implemented yet).

Zip with build: http://wizardsandwarlords.net/files/WizardsAndWarlords0917.zip