Battalion

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. It is the same as Normal mode, but with a twist:

The last hog of each team will be crowned King and once he dies, the entire team is wiped out.

The King’s health is linked to the health of his team. He will have 50% of the total health of the other hogs in the team. If there are no other team mates, the King will have 1 health. His health will update according to this rule at the end of each turn.

In this mode, kings, and only kings, wear crowns. The mutate script parameter cannot override this.

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.

List of hedgehog variants

Overview

  • Pyromancer: A hog that is good with fire, use it to destroy land, objects or deal damage to a larger group.
  • Builder: Builds girders and uses its tools to get from one part of the terrain to another.
  • Rifleman: Can shoot either frontal or in the far distance, good for single enemies.
  • Warrior: The top fighter in the game, has only ranged weapons but is rather powerful.
  • Chef: Good for trapping other hogs with girders, can climb using cleavers and slap enemies to death.
  • Medic: The perfect healer, can teleport and resurrect and has a spare mine to defend.
  • Ninja: This type does fly through the whole map to punch others and place sticky mines everywhere.
  • Athlete: While the weapons are not very strong, the Athlete can be very powerful in combination with cliffs.
  • Scientist: It is not only fast to move but has futuristic weapons as well.
  • Air General: If you wish to call airborne attacks for support, this is your hog.
  • Hunter: The allrounder that can both target short range and in a distance.
  • King: Best hog in game, has only super weapons, protect him carefully.

Equipment

Hog Weapons Helpers
Pyromancer Flamethrower, Molotov Cocktail, Whip Rope, Parachute
Builder Dynamite, Whip, Hammer Blowtorch
Rifleman RC Plane*, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle Low Gravity, Parachute
Warrior Cluster Bomb, Grenade, Bazooka Parachute, Rope
Chef Cake**, Cleaver, Whip Rubber, Parachute
Medic Resurrector, Mine, Old Limburger Teleportation, Parachute
Ninja Sticky Mine, Mine, Shoryuken Rope, Parachute
Athlete Baseball Bat, Shoyruken, Seduction Rope, Pick Hammer
Scientist Portable Portal Device, Sine Gun, Freezer Teleportation, Flying Saucer
Air General Mine Strike, Napalm, Air Attack*** Rope, Parachute
Hunter Homing Bee, Mortar, Drill Rocket Rope, Parachute
King Watermelon Bomb, Hellish hand-grenade, Ballgun Rope, Parachute
Footnotes:
  • * = The RC Plane only carries 2 bombs instead of the usual 3 and each of them only deals 20 damage.
  • ** = Cake damage reduced to 50.
  • *** = Bomb damage reduced to 20.

Properties

Hog Chance Health Team limit Special
Pyromancer 7.3% 70 2 No
Builder 10.4% 100 1 No
Rifleman 7.3% 70 2 No
Warrior 12.5% 120 2 No
Chef 7.3% 70 1 No
Medic 12.5% 120 1 No
Ninja 8.3% 80 2 No
Athlete 8.3% 80 1 No
Scientist 7.3% 80 1 No
Air General 5.2% 50 1 Yes
Hunter 10.4% 100 1 No
King 3.1% 60 1 Yes

Note: Percentages don't sum up to 100% due to rounding error.

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

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