Reworked Forgotten
Synopsis:
This mod reworks the Shattered Arc and makes minor changes to the Golem and Serpion Forgotten units.
Description:
I strongly dislike the Shattered Arc’s design. Unlike literally every unit in this game and in previous Age of Wonders games, the Shattered Arc’s strength is not an active ability but rather a passive trait. The Essence Channler trait gives the Shattered Arc and all friendly units in battle +1 shield for each essence the Shattered Arc has, up to 4 shields or 5 if you are playing the Heritors. This is crazy powerful if you are the Heritors because you can consistently give this unit full essence. If you aren’t the Heritors it’s an incredible struggle, the Shattered Arc’s abilities require an RNG roll to gain essence. So not only is this unit basically a floating permanent tactical op that you can use every turn for almost nothing, only the Heritor can make use of it.
The Shattered Arc’s active abilities aren’t much better. It’s main attack, Shattered Communion does hardly any damage and requires an eight strength RNG roll to setup a status effect called Corrupt Communion. If the RNG roll fails, the Shattered Arc cannot use any of its other abilities because they require essence or they require the Corrupted Communion effect. So, in essence, you have a unit that can’t do anything interesting or impactful on its own without succeeding at a low strength resistance check. This is essentially roll-to-move in video game mechanics.
This mod reworks the Shattered Arc into a support tank focused on debilitating single targets. It also makes small changes to the Serpion and Golem to distinguish them from each other more.
Compatibility:
This mod changes the Shattered Arc, Golem, and Serpion unit records and will be incompatible with other mods that do the same.
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Revelations
