Hi everyone,
First of all, great game! Addictive, fun and strategic.
Great playing with/vs mongolian and others.
This post concerns the latest update. I don't like the new update that give serpents a 'pikeman' attack vs approaching enemies. I thought they were a balanced unit before. Given that the AI hydra spawns 5 a turn, they are also quite common in single player games.
Your thoughts?
There's going to be a revision of the unit summoners and the units they summon. The Hydra is at the top of the list.
The problem is that the druid's serpent is perfect (as it previously was pointless). But yes, Hydra's serpents are too powerful. The 2 clear choices are make Hydra weaker and keep serpents as is or let the Hydra summon a new type of spawn (something similiar to the old serpent).
I do not think its overpowered. The serpent is very easy to kill. But could be added something like serpents cant attack automatically by diagonals.
Oddly, I haven't seen a single hydra in single player since serpents were boosted.
Serpeant's only triggering on horizonal/vertical (no diagonals) seems like a great solution. But, I have almost never seen a Hydra in constructed which makes me believe it's still worth it's heafty $550 pricetag.
I use the hydra in contructed myself sometimes... With a mourner ^^
1x Hydra 550
1x Mourner 200
1x strategist 50
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I agree that even for $800 above, that's pretty powerful. There aren't many decks that can handle it if given time. It would make sense to only make snakes trigger on vertical/horizontals. No diagonals.
Here is an idea for a new hydra Summon:
Wyvern
Life 4
power 3
actions 2
armor 1
Movement does not cost actions
Move to target lovation within 2 can be done 1/1
Attack target enemy
Range 2
Cost 1
Might Poison?
I think I'd prefer if they could only attack on diagonals and not laterally. Then a couple of them together could still hold off from any direction, but cannot combine attacks with one another.
Making it just defend in diagonals will make the defense of the snakes a bit better.
Lunaraia, i think 1 less actions is better in the wyvern ^^.
Lunaria,
That would be insane power for hydra
The hydra is nice like it is.