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[nenjin]

It will be great fun to eventually design an entire arena, complete with mechanical/trap hazards to spice combat up. Maybe a hill in the middle of the arena with a pressure plate on top, that when triggered drops a single weapon into an arena full of unarmed combatants.

Yeah, there's lots of potential for Arena mode to grow into it's own game mode entirely. Imagine building and managing a little arena, scheduling the fights, strategically planning seating and vendors, buying huge megabeasts to draw really big crowds....

Gah, I'd make a suggestion thread all it's own if I wasn't sure the thought hadn't already crossed Toady's mind.

[Footkerchief]

Gah, I'd make a suggestion thread all it's own if I wasn't sure the thought hadn't already crossed Toady's mind.

There's already a Suggestions thread for arena improvements, so feel free to post your ideas there.

[nenjin]

And I'm off! (Thanks)

[Dwarven WMD]

You're all forgetting the potential of this:

Reenact 300!

...No seriously, that's probably going to be the very first thing I do. Only 300 spearmen against HFS.

[RedWarrior0]

It could work. If Shield Wall formations work, mod in "Spartans" who use a round shield, a lance, and a secondary weapon that looks like a sword, swings like a sword, and kills like a sword, but is trained under spear skill, so your Spartans can use it as a secondary weapon. A two-man one square shield wall would be required, with one crouching and forming a low shield wall and one on the same square forming the top half of the wall. Then just use a spawn macro to spawn Persians when the ones on the field run low, and Spartans if they run low.

All you would need is a Phalanx formation and a touch of modding.

[Dwarven WMD]

Hmm... I wonder how Fun it would be to pit Spartans against Elves?

[Diablous]

Hmm... I wonder how Fun it would be to pit Spartans against Elves?

They'll slaughter the Elves! Once the next version is out this must be done!

[RedWarrior0]

Dibs on SPARTANS! mod.

[Dwarven WMD]

Dibs on SPARTANS! mod.

Dibs on credits.

[piecewise]

Doubtful you could get this to work till formations are official, and even then it might be hard. Besides the Spartans from 300 barely used the phalanx; Leonidas just ran in and stabbed everything to death in slow motion. Something tells me that with 300 units on screen you're going to have slow motion too.

[RedWarrior0]

They'll be more like real Spartans were. Aren't formations in for the next release? With my description of the battle, I was planning on using a spawn macro every now and then instead of having everyone on screen at once.