Battalion

Tue, 2016-10-04 09:10 — Anachron

Battalion—Less tools, more fun.

Battalion is a style which adds a variety of new gameplay modes that can be enabled.

Normal mode

Introduction

On game start, a group of 8 hedgehogs will be randomly selected from 12 variants.
Then all hogs in teams will be replaced by this group.

All hog variants have their specific name, weapons, helpers (mostly utilities), health and settings.

Gameplay

Before every turn, your hog will get random weapons and helpers.
Use them to destroy the enemy team. You have 25 seconds for each turn.

If hogs have below 25% of their hitpoints, they receive a bonus weapon (Kamikaze).

Goal

Destroy the enemy teams by using the hog's weapons and helpers in an excellent way.
They are limited, so use the enemy turn to plan yours!

Crates:

Utility: 9% chance (+7% in Sudden Death): Adds 1 or 2 helpers (95%/5% chance)
Weapon: 12% chance (+9% in Sudden Death): Adds 1 or 2 weapons (95%/5% chance)
Health: 7% chance (+5% in Sudden Death): Adds (10 or 15) +10% base health (95%/5% chance)

Sudden Death

Water rises by 37 per turn.
Hogs get Kamikaze as additional weapon.
Hogs loose 1-7 health based on their health (if below 150% of their base health) or 7% of their base hitpoints (if above 150% of their base hitpoints).

Highland

By adding “mode=highland” as exact text into the script parameter, you can enable the Highland submode. Hogs in this mode collect weapons of their (enemy) victims into a pool and get a random weapon of this pool at the beginning of each turn (+10% health).

Hogs that have an empty pool get a bonus weapon on the current turn from the victims weapons. Friendly kills clear the killers pool (-15% health).

Hint: Pools of the victims do not get collected on death.

Kills will also add 5% more health (enemy kills) or remove 10% more health (friendly fire kills).

Specials: King and Air General drop helpers like Extra Damage or Vampirism

Sudden Death: Hogs will get 2 instead of 1 of the collected weapons randomly.

King Mode

By adding “mode=king” as exact text into the script parameter, you can enable the King submode. The last hog of each turn will be a King who collects its health from all other living hogs in the same team (50% of all other). On each turn, the health will be recalculated.

In this mode, kings, and only kings, wear crowns. This is not affected by the mutate script parameter.

Points Mode

By adding “mode=points” as exact text into the script parameter, you can enable the Points submode.

Each round, teams get 5 weapon points and 2 helper points. Using weapons will use points, keeping them will also keep those points. At the start of each turn, a team will get random weapons and helpers with a total sum of those team points.

Weapons and helpers have different costs, depending on how strong they are.

Sudden Death: Teams get 7 weapon points and 3 helper points per round.

Miscellaneous

Using the script parameter, you can change a few other aspects of the game.

Key	Value	Explanation
`strength`	`number`	Multiplier for the amount of ammo taken from a crate
`luck`	`number`	Luck percentage. High luck increases the chances of a crate dropping in a turn and for crates to contain bonus ammo or health and decreases the chance of a crate being empty
`mutate`	`false`	By default, the hats of hogs are replaced to match their variant. Set to “false” to use the original hog's hats.
`mutatenames`	`true`	Set to “true” to override the hedgehogs names to match their variant. Default: false