DO/Rules/Fair Omen

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Fair Omen reorganizes the Regiments/Items giving them a suitable Size/Price/Order and corrects some mistakes from programmers.

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Contents 1 Background: Problems with Dark Omen 2 Fair Omen Changes 2.1 General Info 2.2 Experienced Troops 2.3 Items Costs

Background: Problems with Dark Omen

1. Regiments numbers: Very boring. All cavalries, except Pistoliers, with 12 men, most ranged/infantries with 16 men or 20 men.
2. Artillery: How many times did we have to play Defensive due to our static artillery?
3. Shields costs: Who dares to buy shields? This feature is not used because of high values, for example Zombies shield cost 600gc!
4. Experience evolution: Who can afford for Top Wights (8400gc) or Top Orc Boar Boyz (7680gc) in a serious army?
5. Items costs: Terrible! Swords too expensive for their performances, Horn of Urgok powerful effect at only 750gc, Shield of Ptolos and Spelleater Shield (which is better) at 500gc…

Fair Omen Changes

General Info

Fair Omen uses Epic Size scale for the Regiments: 1-3-6-9-12-16-20-26-32.

Mobile Artillery: All machines now have 2 Movement points and “Will never rout”. Siege machines are single units with 2 Wounds/2 Toughness. Don’t have close attack. Imperial Cannon has +1 Ballistic Skill (to 4). Orc Ballista has +2 BS (to 5).

Leadership Boost: All regiments now have +1 Leadership to run less, fight more. There are few exceptions to this: Wights & Trolls +2 L. Mummies & Elves +0 L (same L8).

Movement Tweaks: Vampire -1 MOV (to 5); Wraiths +1 MOV (to 5). All Goblins and Dwarves got “Unimpeded by difficult terrain”.

White Grail: It replaces Knights of the Realm to make the battles more interesting when it has to face the Black Grail, his Arch-Enemy. The White Grail has “Immune to fear”.

Monsters Squads: Greenskins monsters have been increased in order to get Tank Regiments similar to Mercenary Ogres. Trolls: 3/3; Spiders: 3/3; Scorpions 6/6 (alone were useless in big battles).

Errors corrected from programmers: Checking Regiments descriptions with Editor I found that Mercenary Ogres didn’t have “Cause fear” and Zombies weren’t “Immune to fear”.

Experienced Troops

Old System: In DO, next level doubles the Regiment last price: Zombies go from 270gc (level 1) to 540gc (level 2) and then jump to 2160gc (level 4 FE). Considering gold spent, 2 Zombies lvl-1 are better than 1 Zombies lvl-2 (here only quantity matters, not much the quality).

New System: In FO, next levels will have a small increase depending on the Regiment performance. Also it has a Shield Structure where Regiments with higher level also come with higher armor, always based on Dark Omen limitations.

Items Costs

They are multiplies of 50 because help you spend all gold when playing with 5k/7k Limits.

SWORDS	Cost	SHIELDS	Cost	BANNERS	Cost	MAGE	Cost	OTHERS	Cost
Skabskrath	400	Spelleater	450	Defiance	600	Wand of Jet	450	Horn of Urgok	4000
Hellfire	300	Ptolos	250	Wrath	600	Staff of Osiris	400	Potion of Strenght	200
Grudgebringer	200	Dragonhelm	100	Mork's War	350	Book of Ashur	200	Heart of Woe	150
Storm	200	Enchanted	50	Arcane Warding	350
Runefang	50