Dark Trolls

Dark Trolls

Description

An evil mirror to the rare Troll Tribe are the Dark Trolls, a group of trolls that worship pain (even their own), led and harshly ruled by a single troll known as the Painbringer.

This faction is still in the early stages of creation; I think I have the necessary roles filled, but it still needs balancing work (and better sprites!).

I'd like to add some right-click functionality to the Painbringer and the Mystic allowing them to experiment on adjacent trolls, turning them into Flaming or Spiky versions, or to convert them to Tormented Spirits. How to balance to this... can't make it too easy, or it can be used to deny kills to the enemy or save money on recruiting. hmmm...

Version Information

This is in the Tamers era, v0.5.0.

Unit tree

  Level 0        -> Level 1       -> Level 2         -> Level 3         -> Level 4         -> Level 5

                    Whelp         -> Troll           -> Troll Warrior
                                  -> Troll Rocklobber -> Troll Stonehurler

                    Troll Freak   -> Bridge Troll
                                  -> Two-headed Troll -> Troll Mystic  -> Troll Painbringer

                    Flaming Whelp -> Flaming Troll   -> Troll Firestarter

                    Spiky Whelp   -> Spiky Troll     -> Spiky Troll Warrior

Unwilling Spirit -> Tormented Spirit -> Tormenting Spirit -> Torturing Spirit

Units

Whelp line

Whelp

• Whelp

standard whelp

Troll

• Whelp
  • Troll

standard Troll

Troll Warrior

• Whelp
  • Troll
    • Troll Warrior

standard Troll Warrior

Troll Rocklobber

• Whelp
  • Troll Rocklobber

standard Troll Rocklobber, but with added advance to Troll Stonehurler

Troll Stonehurler

• Whelp
  • Troll Rocklobber
    • Troll Stonehurler

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 3 cost: 42 hitpoints: 70 movement: 5 experience: 150 alignment: chaotic fist 12-2 melee impact sling 24-1 ranged impact abilities: regeneration	id: Dark Troll Stonehurler name: Troll Stonehurler race: troll usage: fighter movement type: largefoot advanceto: null (AMLA_TOUGH 3)	With age comes strength, and rocklobbers naturally start using bigger stones.

Freak line

Troll Freak

• Troll Freak

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 1 cost: 14 hitpoints: 42 movement: 10 experience: 36 alignment: chaotic fist 5-3 melee impact jutting bone 7-2 melee blade abilities: regeneration	id: Dark Troll Freak name: Troll Freak race: troll usage: fighter movement type: freakfoot advanceto: Dark Troll Bridge Troll, Dark Troll Two Headed Troll	Some trolls are born with extra body parts - arms, legs, even heads, almost as if they were supposed to have been two trolls instead. These extra appendages give these freaks a lot of speed (for a troll), but it also makes them very clumsy. Also, their anatomy always seems to be at war with itself, leading to all kinds of odd problems which would cause death in a creature that didn't constantly regenerate (some even more than a usual troll, almost as if they received two trolls worth of that, as well). Most such freaks take to the water; it hides their appearance, requires less balance to move about, and their extra appendages make swimming easier for them than for other trolls.

Bridge Troll

• Troll Freak
  • Bridge Troll

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 2 cost: 29 hitpoints: 55 movement: 10 experience: 66 alignment: chaotic club 10-3 melee impact jutting bone 14-2 melee blade abilities: regeneration	id: Dark Troll Bridge Troll name: Bridge Troll race: troll usage: fighter movement type: freakfoot advanceto: null (AMLA_TOUGH 3)	Some troll freaks that survive to adulthood hear of the stories of trolls that live under bridges and decide that must be a good idea. Embracing their aquatic life and the hakneyed cliches of legend, they often take to guarding a random bridge, just because that's what they think they should do.

Two Headed Troll

• Troll Freak
  • Two Headed Troll

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 2 cost: 29 hitpoints: 48 movement: 5 experience: 66 alignment: chaotic club 12-2 melee impact share pain 9-2 melee arcane (magical) share pain 9-2 melee ranged (magical) abilities: regeneration, leadership	id: Dark Troll Two Headed Troll name: Two Headed Troll race: troll usage: fighter movement type: twoheadfoot advanceto: Dark Troll Mystic	Some freaks, through long and extremely painful abuse, manage to squish their extra appendages together, thus ending up looking somewhat normal-ish... except for that extra head. They've endured so much and hurt themselves so repeatedly that they simply don't hurt as easily anymore, taking a little less damage from any source, and they've learned the path of pain, proselytizing others with a simple stare - having two heads, they can stare quite hard.

Troll Mystic

• Troll Freak
  • Two Headed Troll
    • Troll Mystic

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 3 cost: 42 hitpoints: 60 movement: 5 experience: 100 alignment: chaotic club 14-2 melee impact share pain 14-2 melee arcane (magical) share pain 14-2 melee fire (magical) share pain 14-2 melee ranged (magical) share pain 14-2 melee cold (magical) abilities: regeneration, leadership	id: Dark Troll Mystic name: Troll Mystic race: troll usage: fighter movement type: twoheadfoot advanceto: Dark Troll Painbringer	As two-headed trolls continue to dabble in the path of pain, they typically gain a following of other trolls, some out of respect, many out of fear. Their continued experiments in pain help them find new ways to inflict it and new ways to enforce loyalty, creating Tormented Spirits to serve them even after death.

Troll Painbringer

• Troll Freak
  • Two Headed Troll
    • Troll Mystic
      • Troll Painbringer

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 4 cost: 55 hitpoints: 70 movement: 5 experience: 150 alignment: chaotic touch of pain 10-2 melee arcane (drains, plague(Unwilling Spirit)) share pain 20-2 melee arcane (magical) share pain 20-2 melee fire (magical) share pain 20-2 melee ranged (magical) share pain 20-2 melee cold (magical) abilities: regeneration, leadership	id: Dark Troll Painbringer name: Troll Painbringer race: troll usage: fighter movement type: twoheadfoot advanceto: null (AMLA_TOUGH 3	A true disciple of pain in every form, the Painbringer commands absolute loyalty from those around him, voluntary or not. Even the foes of the Painbringer often succumb to the terrifying Path of Pain.

Flaming Troll line

Flaming Troll Whelp

• Flaming Troll Whelp

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 1 cost: 17 hitpoints: 42 movement: 6 experience: 36 alignment: chaotic fist 7-2 melee impact fist 7-2 melee fire abilities: skirmisher, poison burn	id: Dark Troll Flaming Whelp name: Flaming Troll Whelp race: troll usage: fighter movement type: firefoot advanceto: Dark Troll Flaming Troll	The result of a Painbringer experiment in pain, flaming troll whelps are perpetually on fire, yet they do not die, primarily due to their natural regeneration. Their constant agony causes them to flail about wildly at high speed, making them hard to hit and hard to stop.

Flaming Troll

• Flaming Troll Whelp
  • Flaming Troll

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 2 cost: 29 hitpoints: 55 movement: 7 experience: 66 alignment: chaotic fist 12-2 melee impact fist 12-2 melee fire flame 5-3 ranged fire abilities: skirmisher, poison burn	id: Dark Troll Flaming Troll name: Flaming Troll race: troll usage: fighter movement type: firefoot advanceto: Dark Troll Firestarter	Constantly burning, trolls set alight by a Painbringer still continue to do their best to follow the directions of their tormentor. Each moment is a lifetime of pain, but the experience brings the troll into deeper understanding of the flames, which begin to do its bidding.

Troll Firestarter

• Flaming Troll Whelp
  • Flaming Troll
    • Troll Firestarter

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 3 cost: 42 hitpoints: 70 movement: 7 experience: 150 alignment: chaotic fist 15-2 melee impact flames 18-2 melee fire flame 10-3 ranged fire(magical) abilities: skirmisher, poison burn	id: Dark Troll Firestarter name: Troll Firestarter race: troll usage: fighter movement type: firefoot advanceto: null (AMLA_TOUGH 3)	This flaming troll has come to accept its fate and begun to converse with the flames that perpetually burn it. Oddly, the flames seem to talk back, and they often help the troll in battle, seemingly of their own accord.

Spiky Troll line

Spiky Troll Whelp

• Spiky Troll Whelp

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 1 cost: 13 hitpoints: 40 movement: 4 experience: 36 alignment: chaotic spikes 5-3 melee pierce abilities: regeneration	id: Dark Troll Spiky Whelp name: Spiky Troll Whelp race: troll usage: fighter movement type: largefoot advanceto: Dark Troll Spiky Troll	An experiment in pain with somewhat less extreme results than most is the so-called Spiky Whelp, a whelp that has had its bones broken and the pieces turned in the wrong directions, giving it bones spikes all over its body.

Spiky Troll

• Spiky Troll Whelp
  • Spiky Troll

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 2 cost: 29 hitpoints: 48 movement: 5 experience: 66 alignment: chaotic spikes 8-4 melee pierce abilities: regeneration	id: Dark Troll Spiky Troll name: Spiky Troll race: troll usage: fighter movement type: largefoot advanceto: Dark Troll Spiky Warrior	The bone spikes on this troll have continues to grow since the Painbringer put them in place, as has the troll they are attached to.

Spiky Troll Warrior

• Spiky Troll Whelp
  • Spiky Troll
    • Spiky Troll Warrior

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 3 cost: 42 hitpoints: 60 movement: 5 experience: 150 alignment: chaotic spikes 8-6 melee pierce abilities: regeneration	id: Dark Troll Spiky Warrior name: Spiky Troll Warrior race: troll usage: fighter movement type: largefoot advanceto: null (AMLA_TOUGH 3)	Like some kind of enormous living pincushion, these trolls are almost always in a foul mood - being unable to eat, sleep, or much of anything else without jabbing yourself with parts of yourself will do that to you.

Tormented Spirit line

Unwilling Spirit

• Unwilling Spirit

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 0 cost: 10 hitpoints: 10 movement: 6 experience: 12 alignment: chaotic brush of death 4-1 melee cold shriek of pain 4-1 ranged arcane abilities: aura of pain	id: Dark Troll Unwilling Spirit name: Unwilling Spirit race: undead usage: scout movement type: undeadspirit advanceto: Tormented Spirit	Foes of the Painbringer become loyal, even at the cost of their life - and this is the result.

Tormented Spirit

• Unwilling Spirit
  • Tormented Spirit

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 1 cost: 15 hitpoints: 18 movement: 7 experience: 30 alignment: chaotic brush of death 8-1 melee cold shriek of pain 8-1 ranged arcane abilities: aura of pain	id: Dark Troll Tormented Spirit name: Tormented Spirit race: undead usage: scout movement type: undeadspirit advanceto: Dark Troll Tormenting Spirit	Prevented from leaving this plane even after they die, Tormented Spirits are tortured and enslaved even after death. The hideous pain they endure leaches into all around them, and their only real desire is to escape the tenuous hold of their tormenters.

Tormenting Spirit

• Unwilling Spirit
  • Tormented Spirit
    • Tormenting Spirit

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 2 cost: 28 hitpoints: 27 movement: 7 experience: 60 alignment: chaotic brush of death 16-1 melee cold shriek of pain 10-1 ranged arcane abilities: aura of pain	id: Dark Troll Tormenting Spirit name: Tormenting Spirit race: undead usage: scout movement type: undeadspirit advanceto: Dark Troll Torturing Spirit	Tormented spirits that fail to find release in battle eventually succomb to madness, easing their own pain by revelling in the pain they inflict on others.

Torturing Spirit

• Unwilling Spirit
  • Tormented Spirit
    • Tormenting Spirit
      • Torturing Spirit

Battle Stats	Unit Info	Other Info
level 3 cost: 50 hitpoints: 27 movement: 7 experience: 100 alignment: chaotic brush of death 18-1 melee cold (drains) shriek of pain 14-1 ranged arcane abilities: aura of pain	id: Dark Troll Torturing Spirit name: Torturing Spirit race: undead usage: scout movement type: undeadspirit advanceto: null (AMLA_TOUGH 3)	Torturing Spirits have come to the next level, being so at one with the giving of pain that they literally draw life from it. Note: I would like to have this unit gain life equal to half of any that it unheals with Auro of Pain, but I'm not sure WML will support that. If it won't I'll probably need to bump the HP a bit.

Abilities

Aura of Pain

The Heals functionality, set to affect enemies instead of allies, and with a negative heal number. Basically, it unheals them, but it won't kill (bummer).

Poison Burn

Regeneration set to 0 hp, but cures poison.

Move Types

Freakfoot

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