This will be for, as the title suggests, discussing troop types and what's been made so far.
BASIC ROSTERL1:
Arts Undergraduates - weak light infantry wearing coats and scarves and armed with placards saying "down with this sort of thing" (description done)
Science Undergraduates - weak light infantry with long knives, long hair, and geeky t-shirts (description done)
L2:
Phys NatScis - helmets, goggles, and lab coats. And crossbows. The basic ranged unit. (description done)
Historians - Early heavy infantry unit in tweed jacket and corduroy trousers, armed with a longsword and shield (description done)
Social Scientists - Form small spear-armed inf blocks (yay group psychology), with skirts and roll-neck jumpers. Defensive anti-cavalry unit (description done)
Bio NatScis - Light cavalry in lab coats, mounted on fast horses and armed with clamp stands. (description done)
English Students - Slingers on foot in woollen coats with pink scarves and a good book strapped to their belts (description done)
Engineer Scorpion - the earliest artillery unit, a single piece of very light torsion artillery. (description done)
Bedders - medium axe & shield infantry (description done)
Punts - basic naval unit (description done)
L3:
Engineer Ballista - Long ranged artillery piece firing bolts (description done)
Engineer Catapult - Long ranged artillery piece inaccurately hurling rocks (description done)
Engineer Scorpion Battery - Scorpions now being produced more effectively, a unit bringing three such engines to the field (description done)
Classicists - literally legionaries (description done)
Theologians - powerful hammer-armed heavy infantry (description done)
Battle Ambulance - the medic unit, a hastily crafted covered cart pulled by four horses. Boosts nearby troops. (description done)
Mathmos - Unit with specialist formation-disrupting abilities. Kind of confusing how they actually work. Armed with measuring rods and giant protractors as shields. (description done)
Geographers - Camel-mounted archers with suits, sunhats, and sunglasses (description done)
Philosophers - Ancient greek heavy hoplites (literally RTW vanilla's heavy hoplite unit, fighting in the style of the great Greek philosophers) (description done)
Catering staff - Foot archers that give morale boost to nearby units, with aprons, catering hats, etc (description done)
Gardeners - scythed attack chariots containing three gardeners with dungarees and spade each (description done)
Land Economists - Scout cavalry with javelins, shields, and knives, wearing longcoats and scarves (description done)
Musos - Tiny light inf unit with "druidic chant" of jazz and drums (description done)
CompScis - Scouts/Hidden Unit in Space invaders t-shirts (description done)
Second Boat - attack vessel well suited to destroying basic punts (description done)
Heavy Punt - better armoured vessel, weak in attack but with strong defense (description done)
L4:
Economists - Bull-drawn Chariot (description done)
Lawyers - Late-game heavy cavalry
(description needed)War Punt - heaviest defensive vessel, with a larger crew and better armour (description done)
First Boat - most powerful attack ship, doing multiple points of damage with each attack (description done)
Psychologists - Ultra high morale/never run away/wear silly hats (description done)
Engineer Cannon - Yup, it's a cannon (description done)
AREA OF RECRUITMENTL1:
CHESTERTON & ARBURYTownies - massed light inf (description done)
SAINSBURY'S & GRAFTONStore Workers - light early-game spear troops
(description needed)L2:
THE UNIONDebaters - Javelinmen
(description needed)THE ULLibrarian acolytes - low morale but high attack, inf unit
(description needed)ARUARU arts students - massed medium sword-armed infantry
(description needed)ARU scientists - massed archers
(description needed)CHESTERTON & ARBURYArbury Outriders - light bow-armed cavalry from the deep wildernesses of Arbury
(description needed)Bike Thieves - fast combat troops riding on weak stolen/bodged light chariots
(description needed)HOMERTONEducation - horde of light-armed children led by exasperated teacher, Homerton Only
(description needed)L3:
CHESTERTON & ARBURYChesterton Rangers - Effective Archer/Spear Skirmish Infantry
(description needed)THE UNIONUnion Stewards - Legionary-type unit with high-vis jackets, big shields, and pila
(description needed)SIDGWICKMedievalists - Mounted knights in full plate armour (description done)
ASNACs - Berserk axemen, immensely destructive in close combat with their two-handed war axes, viking helmets and chainmail (description done)
ENGINEERINGBallista Battery (Engineering Dept Only) - 3x ballistae (description done)
DOWNINGAnthropologists - use the fighting styles of little-known Amazonian tribes and throw the heads of their enemies in battle (description done)
NEW MUSEUMSSociologists - similar to the basic social scientist, but in a larger and more disciplined block with longer pikes (description done)
WEST CAMBRIDGEVets - Dog handlers, light infantry. (description done)
THE ULLibrarians Militant of Light - very small unit of devastating berserkers, but expensive and vulnerable to shooting
(description needed)Librarians Militant of Darkness - very small unit of devastating berserkers, but expensive and vulnerable to shooting
(description needed)SAINSBURY'S & GRAFTONStore Managers - very tough medium cavalry
(description needed)OLD ADDENBROOKESArchitects - Battering ram armed infantry for quick siege attacks
(description needed)L4:
ENGINEERINGCatapult Battery (Engineering Dept Only) - 3x catapults (description done)
Cannon Battery (Engineering Dept Only) - 3x cannon (description done)
DOWNINGWar Mammoth - extremely tough, with archers in a howdah (description done)
Triceratops Riders - squads of six, with tough-ish mounts and very high attack (description done)
NEW MUSEUMSWild Wolves (description done)
SIDGWICKNihilist Philosophers - literally invisible hiding troops (description done)
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies - Elephant riders
(description needed)CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENTChemist-Grenadiers - throw highly explosive bombs (description done)
WEST CAMBRIDGEFire Cannon - shoots fireballs (description done)
OLD ADDENBROOKESMutated Slime Moulds (description done)
THE ULLibrarian Knights - powerful heavy cavalry unit, expensive but devastating in close combat. Specialises in killing monsters.
(description needed)Daemons of L-Space - most powerful infantry unit in the game, capable of decimating whole battle lines if they get close enough
(description needed)SOCIETIESDrinking society - early troops with very poor defence but high attack (description done)
SPECIALPorters - general's guards in suits and wide-brimmed hats, armed with huge square-bladed glaives (description done)
Proctors - Powerful early heavy cav, Exarchate only
(description needed)REBELS & EASTER EGGSTownies - basic infantry (description done)
Tourists - slingers (description done)
STRAT MAPDiplomats -> Linguists
Assassins -> Assassins
Spies -> News Reporters
PLANNED TROOP TYPES
L1:
L2:
L3:
L4:
Strat Map:
Spies -> Student news reporters
Assassins -> Assassins' Guild
Other ideas:
College specific: Trinity Mathmos (Trinity), Bridgeguard (Magdalene), Martlet assassins (Pembroke)
Student socs: Drinking Soc members (Drinking Society), Assassins (Assassins' Guild), Spies -> Student Newspaper. Quizsoc, TolkSoc, Rowers?
Other: Zombies?
AOR UNITS IN CUSTOM BATTLESAOR units will be given to factions in custom battle mode as follows:
Chesterton or Arbury -> Outlands
Eng Dept & Chem Labs -> Exarchate
UL -> Backs Alliance
Sidgwick -> Western Treaty
Downing & New Museums -> Republic
Union -> Entente
Sainsbury's and Ruskin -> Pact
West Cambridge Site, Madingley Rise, Castle Mound -> Hill Colleges
TO HELP OUT- Get the following bit of code:
{art_ugrad} Arts Undergraduates
{art_ugrad_descr}
Arts undergraduates are a notorious group in the university, known for an eccentric dress sense and high levels of political activism. At the break out of conflict they have been pressed into service as a light infantry unit. However, they are very displeased with this, and express it with passive-aggressive placards whilst marching towards the enemy!
{art_ugrad_descr_short}
Arts undergraduates are a basic light infantry unit pressed into service against their will.
- Pick one of the units above that has a red (description needed) next to it
- Change the tag to something appropriate in your code snippet, so if you were doing a fire breathing alien {fire_alien} would make sense, then change it in descr and descr_short as well (so you always end up with tag, tag_descr, and tag_descr_short
- Write your descriptions! The one in the example is a good size for description length. Feel free to be a bit creative. It will say with the unit if they have a set area of recruitment, if they do you can mention that but you don't have to. Short descriptions can be really short, they don't even need to be a full sentence, and the key thing is that they describe the unit's battlefield function.
- Post the code snippet here (ideal because then I'll remember to edit the OP) or email/FB it to me or whatever.