Something I made two years back and finally releasing due to the fact 1.5 is now played commonly. This means UserPatch 1.5 has to be enabled at launch!



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House of Cards is a Blood type scenario with an aggressive approach to the game. The match starts off with Men at Arms combat and can progress all the way to the almighty Genghis Khan, although most games may not even last farther than a few minutes. As per usual, kills unlock new units and razes give units alongside with nifty trinkets.

A few more or less notable things in the scenario

• The Barracks which is your survival condition starts at 1 HP and will get increasingly stronger after obtaining kills or using the HP power.
• King power island what has an option of 7 different timer based focuses that you can switch between, once the required time is passed you will be given the bonus. All powers can be received multiple times.
• The middle gives +AP, but also -HP.
• A witchcraft store that has to offer a variety of potions for purchase. The potions apply to only currently living units and do not effect units spawned later.

Contents: 1 - General information - 2 - Passive Power Island - 3 ***Units 3.1 From Kills 3.2 From Razings 4 ***Technologies 5 ***Other 6 - Withcraft Store - 6.1 *Half a King cost potions 6.2 **One King cost potions 6.3 ***One and a half King cost potions 6.4 *****Two and a half King cost potions

- General information -

**Albeit your Houses and Barracks start at 1 HP, but are granted +1/+1 and +2/+2 armour respectively.
**The scenario features a middle which grants +1 AP (ice) and -1 HP (water and ice) every 5 seconds. You will lose the middle HP/AP exchange, if you should lose both of your Houses.
** Losing Houses causes your Barracks to start burning, -15 HP every 10 seconds per house.
**Once you reach 150 Kills you will activate the countdown for the Spell Store King spawn, it spawns every 4 minutes.
**In the Witchcraft Store your purchase units are attackable and may die in time, you can also transfer them to any other player aswell.

- Passive Power Island -

***2 Heavy Scorpions every 2 minutes at the back of your base.
***2 Siege Rams every 3 minutes at the back of your base.
***2 Bombard Towers every 10 minutes at the back of your base.
***The Accursed Tower on the elevation outside the base closest to your base (this tower also gets +5 HP/+1 AP every 5 seconds).
***Sea Walls get +100 HP every 10 seconds.
***Stone Fortifications get +50 HP every 5 seconds.
***Houses and Barracks get +10 HP every 5 seconds (stacks up to 3 Kings with a diminishing bonus).

***Units

- 50 kills - Archer unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 100 kills - Long Swordsman unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 150 kills - Crossbowman unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 200 kills - Woad Raider unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 250 kills - Throwing Axeman unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 300 kills - Arbalest unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 350 kills - Knight unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 425 kills - Heavy Camel unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 500 kills - Janissary unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 575 kills - Elite Huskarl unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 650 kills - E Throwing Axe unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 725 kills - Elite Mangudai unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 800 kills - E Cataphract unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 875 kills - Elite Mameluke unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 1000 kills - Tamerlane unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 1125 kills - La Hire unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 1250 kills - Robin Hood unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 1375 kills - E War Elephant unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 1500 kills - Subotai unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 1650 kills - Charles Martel unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -
- 1800 kills - Genghis Khan unlocked + HP to Barracks/Houses -

+HP is the value of kills earned by that stage, so unlocking the Archer gives +50 HP and unlocking the Long Swordsman gives +100HP, and so forth...

- 2 razings - Elite Tarkan unlocked -
- 4 razings - E Teut Knight unlocked -
- 6 razings - Charlemagne unlocked -
- 8 razings - Kitabatake unlocked -
- 10 razings - Nevski unlocked -

***Technologies

- 25 kills - Squires and Cartography researched -
- 75 kills - Forging and Scale Mail Armour researched -
- 125 kills - Fletching and Padded Archer Armour researched -
- 175 kills - Iron Casting and Chain Mail Armour researched -
- 225 kills - Tracking and Town Watch researched -
- 275 kills - Bodkin Arrow and Leather Archer Armor researched -
- 325 kills - Bloodlines and Scale Barding Armour researched -
- 375 kills - Chain Barding Armour and Husbandry researched -
- 450 kills - Ballistics and Ring Archer Armour researched -
- 525 kills - Blast Furnace and Plate Mail Armour researched -
- 600 kills - Town Patrol and Murder Holes researched -
- 675 kills - Bracer and Thumb Ring researched -
- 750 kills - Plate Barding Armour and Chemistry researched -
- 825 kills - Heated Shot and Parthian Tactics researched -
- 1275 kills - There we go, now you deserve Spies! -

***Other

- 1 razing - HP increase over time for Barracks and Houses -
- 3 razings - 2 Saboteurs -
- 5 razings - 2 Furious Monkey Boys -
- 7 razings - An additional King on Passive Power Island -
- 9 razings - An additional King on Passive Power Island -

- Withcraft Store -

Attack Potion - +6 AP
Health Potion - +70 HP
Stoneskin Potion - +5/+5 Armours
Haste Potion - +125 MS

Strength Potion - +80 HP/+7 AP
Bloodlust Potion - +30 AP/-70 MS
Dexterity Potion - +40 HP/+4 AP/+4/+4 Armours
Steadfast Potion - +150 HP/+10/+10 Armours
Barrel of Poison - -50 HP every 5 seconds for one minute (unlocks after 15 minutes)

Potion of Undying - Set HP 1000, Set AP 5 (unlocks after 15 minutes)

Overload - +500 HP/+50 AP/+100 MS/+1 Range/+20/+20 Armours (unlocks after 25 minutes)

Nice map. I feel the corner positions seem a bit too close.

Quick blood style, that is.

We played a few games and found razings were a bit op. Also no one really knew what to do in the witchcraft store maybe u could add explanation to item names or hints at least.

I do not remember the buffs in the witchcraft store. I will boost the HP of Gates and Sea Walls and most likely removing excessive amount of them aswell.

The strength and damage are a bit too excessive at mid imo. As soon as you get a decent power up, your unit is almost dead by the hp, which I think defeats the purpose of having a mid bonus. It happens fairly quickly. Or maybe not decrease the hp so much and spread the time for bonus/damage out a bit more?

Get us some hints!

The idea was to give a support role for Ranged units rather than being the main bulk of the army. You power them up and pull them behind your tanky Melee units and have them chip into the battle with those deadly hits. Or once you reach Knights, with a little extra AP they become decent at razing. The overall goal was not to have a game winning middle, but just as a bonus which might give you an edge.

not enough effort put into this

If I delete all triggers, how about that?

that be perfect

LOL??
Um sounds like a lie


but seriously not enough effort

Okay, Icey...
And that is just the oldest version I have after the reinstallation of my Windows.

So you say

Can confirm.