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Zeldor
Known Hero
The Bringer of Pestilence
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posted February 26, 2006 10:05 PM |
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Edited by Zeldor on 1 Mar 2006
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ICTC: Insectopia
INSECTOPIA [alternative name The Hive]
Motto:
"Eat your enemy"
Facts and Traits:
Aka: Bugs, Insects, Mutants
Associated Colours: Dark green and dark brown [grass and ground]
Worship: Noone
Core Philosophy: Survival
Country/Kingdom: Their name cannot be translated into any language, but best translation would be 'feeding grounds'
Capital City: Translation would be like 'the biggest Ant-hill'
Key Symbol: Scarab beetle
Description
Giant insects are the youngest nation in the world. They were created after war between wizards and necromancers. It turned huges areas uninhabitable for ages, but inhabitable only for normal creatures. What used to live there before mutated for tens of years and started to form one nation. Although they are not strong they grow in numbers very fast - if you are not carefull you will be surrounded by legions. Their homeland does not possess knowledge about any spells, but their heroes can learn and use them by conquering other towns.
Town look: In the center big anthill with dwelling and other buildings around it.
A Summary
Insectopia is lead by ant queens, who manage all the society. Most important tasks are done by ant workers, they also breed other insects, which joined the faction. They do not have any god nor religion, they just live. And in nature only the strongest survives - the weaker is eaten.
Insectopia: A Chronological History
610-660 YSD: Rise of the Necromancers
The Necromancer presence grows until they are a powerful political force in the Seven Cities.
751-770 YSD: Purge of the Necromancers - Civil war in the Seven Cities
Necromancers were able to take control of huge territory of the Seven Cities and trying to take control of the rest, but wizards had plans for that situation. They launched massive attack on necromancer towns.
Necromancers used every possible way to win, both sides used magic of power never seen before. After 19 years of fights necromancers started to weaken and were forced to flee in the east.
771-813 YSD
First mutations can be observed in magically destroyed territories.
813-822 YSD: War of the Broken Staff
Second war between wizards and necromancers. Part of it is fought on destroyed lands, sinking them with more and more devastating magic. Mutations get much faster, giant ants start builgind huge colonies and hunting on manticores, chimeras and other mutated creatures.
861 YSD: The Hive
Faction is crystalised, ants leading huge armies and making colonies all over magical wastelands.
897 YSD: Explorations
Insects start to starve and fight with each other due to lack of food. Expedition consisting of legions of insects goes to south and enters jungle and marshes, finding food source. Food source that can defend and fight for life. It is the begginnig of the war with lizardmen and their minions, which starts till now, with insects gaining constant lead.
Relations with other towns:
Insects know only 3 factions: Wizards, Necromancers and Lizardmen. First and last are treated as food source, although wizards are very hard enemy for insects and attacks on Silver League territories are very rare and driven by hunger.
Relations with necromancers are neutral, as long as they do not enter insects' grounds, because they do not attack anything that is not edible.
Buildings:
Dwellings:
Ant-hill - The Level 1 Ant/Fire Ant creature dwelling.
Humus Plant - The Level 2 Earthworm/Giant Earthworm creature dwelling.
Hive - The Level 3 Bee/Bumblebee creature dwelling.
Still Pond - The Level 4 Mosquito/Infected Mosuito creature dwelling.
Spider Web - The Level 4 Sand Spider/Button Spider creature dwelling.
Mantle Den - The Level 6 Mantis/Praying Mantis creature dwelling.
Cave - The Level 7 Centipede/Red Centipede creature dwelling.
Other:
Insectopia does not have magic guilds, they have 5 levels of mutator instead.
Mutator lvl 1-5 [I hope that I named it well - it is building for mutations] - Every level adds random mutation for all insects, each giving small bonus. Mutations may repeat. Creature must mutate in Mutation Chambers to receive those bonuses.
Mutation Chambers - Enables mutation of creatures - gives chosen creatures mutations enabled by mutator. If creature had any earlier mutations it looses them and gains new ones.
Ant Queen Lair [Grail building] - Gives 50% more town population growth, gives an additional 5000 Gold per day, and makes every insect stack, belonging to grail builder, increase by 10% each weak.
Ant Breeder - Increases Ant/Fire Ant growth per week by 8.
Standard Buildings
Village Hall
Town Hall
City Hall
Capitol
Fort
Citadel
Castle
Tavern
Blacksmith: Produces First Aid Tents
Marketplace
Resource Silo: Produces 1 additional Sulfur per day
Shipyard
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Units:
lvl 1: Ant
The power of those weak creatures is not some special abilities, they are just in large groups.
Walker
Attack: 1
Defense: 1
Damage: 1-1
Speed: 4
Initiative: 9
Hit Points: 2
Growth: 32
Cost: 10
Square: 1x1
Shots: N/A
upgraded:Fire ant
A bit more dengerous variacy of Ants.They commit a tenderous pain in near dead bodies of their enemies.
Walker
Attack: 1
Defense: 1
Damage: 1-2
Speed: 4
Initiative: 9
Hit Points: 3
Growth: 32
Cost: 15
Square: 1x1
Shots: N/A
Special ability: No Mercy - If Fire Ants attack a stack consisting of at least 3 creatures and decrease its number to 1 they kill the whole stack instead.
lvl 2:Earthworm
Non-membranous ,long shaped,with chitinic armor. They have an ability to dig under the ground to their enemies, which is usefull while they are on hard terrain.
Underground
Attack: 3
Defense: 3
Damage: 2-3
Speed: 4
Initiative: 7
Hit Points: 6
Growth: 16
Cost: 40
Square: 1x2
Shots: N/A
Special - Moves under ground, so can pass under obstacles or other creatures.
upgraded:Giant Earthworm
Upgraded version with ability to spit small stones.
Underground
Attack: 3
Defense: 3
Damage: 3-5
Speed: 5
Initiative: 8
Hit Points: 7
Growth: 16
Cost: 65
Square: 1x2
Shots: N/A
Ranged, No Melee Penalty
Special - Moves under ground, so can pass under obstacles or other creatures.
Special Ability: Eat Ground - Reloads Ammunition and Restores Health [cannot resurrect]
lvl 3:Bee
Flying death. Their bite isn't nice. And bad of hundreds of them isn't nicer.
Flying
Attack: 6
Defense: 1
Damage: 4-6
Speed: 7
Initiative: 12
Hit Points: 8
Growth: 14
Cost: 70
Square: 1x1
Shots: N/A
upgraded:Bumblebee
More evolved bees, that are better with fighting anyone that tries to stand in their way, everyone touching themm will receive damage.
Flying
Attack: 6
Defense: 3
Damage: 4-6
Speed: 7
Initiative: 12
Hit Points: 15
Growth: 14
Cost: 100
Square: 1x1
Shots: N/A
Special: Deals small amount of damage to attacker.
lvl 4: Mosquito
Small and nervous - that's what we think about those small insects. Problems get bigger when they are bigger than our head - and aim at it.
Flying
Attack: 7
Defense: 2
Damage: 5-8
Speed: 6
Initiative: 10
Hit Points: 10
Growth: 10
Cost: 150
Square: 1x1
Shots: N/A
Life Drain: Drains half of the damage dealt to the enemy and restores its own Hit Points.
upgraded: Infected Mosquito
Those mosquitos got infected with malaria, noone knows where. It does not look like problem for them, but for their victim it may.
Flying
Attack: 7
Defense: 2
Damage: 7-10
Speed: 6
Initiative: 11
Hit Points: 12
Growth: 10
Cost: 210
Square: 1x1
Shots: N/A
Special ability:
Plague - bite gives plague to attacked enemy.
Life Drain: Drains half of the damage dealt to the enemy and restores its own Hit Points.
lvl 5: Sand Spider
Their bite does not do much damage. At first. You start feeling consequences later. Its poison starts working.
It's web slows enemy.
Walker
Attack: 10
Defense: 10
Damage: 10-14
Speed: 5
Initiative: 9
Hit Points: 20
Growth: 6
Cost: 180
Square: 2x2
Shots: N/A
Spellcaster: Can cast Slow [being not spell, but spider web...]
Special ability: Poison - poisons attacked enemy.
upgraded: Button Spider
The most dangerous kind of spider, and of enormous size. It can entangle enemy with web, it cannot move until web is destroyed [other units may attack web to destroy it or unit may be attacked and web is destroyed then].
It's web slows enemy.
Walker
Attack: 13
Defense: 13
Damage: 12-15
Speed: 6
Initiative: 10
Hit Points: 30
Growth: 6
Cost: 280
Square: 2x2
Shots: N/A
Spellcaster: Can cast Slow [being not spell, but spider web...]
Special ability: cocoon - there is a chance that spider will close enemy in cocoon, it cannot do anything until other creature frees it [by attacking it].
lvl 6: Mantis
They look dangerous, and they are.
Walker
Attack: 17
Defense: 20
Damage: 17-21
Speed: 5
Initiative: 12
Hit Points: 70
Growth: 3
Cost: 1000
Square: 2x2
Shots: N/A
Special:
Eat Corpse - may eat corpse of dead creature to regenerate.
Canibalistic: May attack own units to regenerate.
Unlimited retaliations.
upgraded: Praying Mantis
Walker
Attack: 20
Defense: 24
Damage: 20-24
Speed: 5
Initiative: 13
Hit Points: 80
Growth: 3
Cost: 1300
Square: 2x2
Shots: N/A
Special:
Eat Corpse - may eat corpse of dead creature to regenerate.
Canibalistic: May attack own units to regenerate.
Unlimited retaliations, no retaliation.
lvl 7: Centipede
They are the fastest unit you will see... maybe except for their bigger brother, Red Centipede. Their bites are really nasty - you can get whole collection of plagues and sicknesses at one time.
Walker
Attack: 30
Defense: 20
Damage: 30-40
Speed: 7
Initiative: 20
Hit Points: 100
Growth: 1
Cost: 3000 + 1 Sulfur
Square: 2x2
Shots: N/A
Attack triggers Slow, Curse, Disrupting Ray, Plague and Weakness on attacked creature.
upgraded: Red Centipede
Faster, deadlier... you will never be fast enough to run away.
Attack: 35
Defense: 25
Damage: 35-50
Speed: 7
Initiative: 20
Hit Points: 120
Growth: 1
Cost: 4000 + 1 Sulfur
Square: 2x2
Shots: N/A
Attack triggers Slow, Curse, Disrupting Ray, Plague and Weakness on attacked creature and additionally dispels all beneficial magic on that creature.
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HERO - Predator
Special Racial Ability
1. Mutation
Improves the level of creatures that can be 'mutated'.
Basic Mutation: Ants, Earthworms, Bees
Advanced Mutation: Mosquitos, Spiders
Expert Mutation: Mantis
Ultimate Mutation: Centipedes
2. Breeding
If breeding is chosen than all creatures have ability to mutate from start.
Breeding increases creature stack by 10% each week [daily growth would be useless for small armies].
Basic Breeding: Ants, Earthworms
Advanced Breeding: Bees, Mosquitos
Expert Breeding: Spiders
Ultimate Breeding: Mantis
Comments
It surely needs some more balance, I did not spent too much time on it and some veteran player probably could make it better.
I think it would be really interesting to kill that insects 
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friendofgunnar
Honorable
Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted February 26, 2006 10:20 PM |
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I like this town...just the thought of attacking a giant earthworm makes me laugh.
BTW Zeldor, if you don't explain how all these creatures came to be in the same organization then you will get slammed.
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Zeldor
Known Hero
The Bringer of Pestilence
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posted February 26, 2006 10:58 PM |
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FriendOfGunnar:
I would need to read more about heroes history, but was thinking about some magical experiments or mutations after huge magical battle.
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frakel
Adventuring Hero
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posted February 27, 2006 12:14 AM |
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Go for it - but remember, the deadline for the Nival contest is the 28th of february. So you are in a hurry if you want to submit your faction there as well.
Best of luck to you.
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2XtremeToTake
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted February 27, 2006 12:45 AM |
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you have got to be kidding me...just bugs. they fit nowhere into the HOMM universe, they are mindless bugs. What are you gonna make as a hero? The Spider Queen? Spiderman?
Or even better, have the Ant queen, she doesn't move, she takes up 6 hexes, but she just shoots out ants!
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FriendOfGunnar
Honorable
Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted February 27, 2006 04:05 PM |
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Attention passengers.
Please fasten your seatbelts, we are getting ready to depart Heroes of Might and Magic.
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Zeldor
Known Hero
The Bringer of Pestilence
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posted March 01, 2006 05:24 PM |
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Town is ready, history, buildings, creatues... only hero specializations missing.
If anyone could judge it I would be grateful [unless you want to give bad score  ]
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FriendOfGunnar
Honorable
Legendary Hero
able to speed up time
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posted March 02, 2006 10:26 PM |
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Bastion
Race(4 +0 )=4
History(3 +0 )= 3 history too short
Creatures(3 +3 )=6 Earthworm isn't an insect
Balance(3 +4 )=7
Originality=7
+23 for making me laugh every time I read it.
Total Score=50
How I graded these:
Race (Originality [1-5]+Compatibility with HOMM5 universe[1-5])
History (How interesting is it to me [1-5] +Compatibility with HOMM5 universe [1-5])
Creatures (Originality [1-5] +Internal Consistency [1-5])
Balance (are the special skills inventive [1-5] + Does it have a variety of flyers, shooters, walkers, spell-casters [1-5]
Originality (all the originality scores added up and divided by two. This means that creativity counts twice. [1-10])
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