Earlier I had asked about going about making an MLP based Faction, this is sort of the idea I came up with. Any suggestions are welcomed. I am not going to be adding in any point values or stats. Just general list of traits.
Cabalis: Because ponies
Partial Plate: I wanted some sort of generalized protection
Scarred Veterans: The ability war veteran I think meshes well with the spirit of friendship
Open Landscape: Speed, just speed
Safety in Numbers: Larger squads
Built for speed: all the movement (plus more class 1 squads)
Side Vision: they're horses
Dirty fighting: Odd I know, but in the show ponies are depicted as being rather all in when they fight
Melee Combatant: They have no ranged
Skilled Combatant: Again. no ranged
Level 1 Classes
Earth Pony Herder
Beasts of the great hunt: Something of a cheap unit. Pony and their dogs
Earth Pony Engineer
Shamanism, Earthen Wall: I want some form of Magic early on. Somethign to offer defense should I be counter charged
Earth Pony Scout
Recon: I wanted a unit with recon.
Unicorn Student
Occult: Basically a cheap resource unit. Have them on the field supporting the casters
Unicorn Mage
Shamanism, arching bolt : An offensive magic ability. I realize this does not scale well with the students, but at least it offers something of a ranged attack
Pegasi Messenger
Biestal Crossbreed: Avian: A flying a unit, not much else
Level 2 classes
This is where things get weird, and confusing.
Griffon Mercenary
Monstrous Beast
Griffon
Avian flight
Quick speed
Primitive weapons and armor: Primitive Spear
Weapons and Armor: light armor
Ambush
Basically a more offensive minded unit, though one that lacks any war veterans trait
Changeling Mercenary
Monstrous Beast
Biestal Hybrid: Cabalis
Trampling Attacks
Scarred Veterans
Insekt Hybrid: Coleoptera (This was hard since....well changelings in the show are weird. Went with this due to mimicy.)
Coelopterawings
Mimicy
Camoflauge
Extreme Charger
More in you face unit compared to the Griffon.
Pegasi Soldier
Biestal Crossbreed: Avian Flight
This was more of a dump unit. I initially wanted lizard man soldiers (lizard people exist in the show) But I got confused with how to make a dinosaur. Plus I wanted 3 units of each of the ponies, so I went with this instead
Dragon Messenger
Monsterous Beast
Dragon
Draconic Bloodline
Leathery wings
Draconic Presence
Fiery breath
Heavy hide
Stong Creatures
Again, still confused with how lizards work. Especially with classes/
Pegasi Stormer
Biestal Crossbreeds: Avian Flight
Shamanism
Create Fog
Another defensive magic unit
Unicorn Commander
Occult
Occult Powers
Ritual Mastery
Spere of Protection
Courage
Ether Bolt
The main casting unit. I will of course put lots of points into will.
Alicorn (based on Twilight Sparkle)
Occult
Biestal Crossbreed: Avian FLight
Ritual Mastery
Shamanism
Dimensional Walk
Black Bolt
Embolden
The addition of Shamanism is wierd, I will admit, but Twillight was known for teleportation, and I wanted Dimensional walk. Black bolt and Embolden are for combat and supporting the rest of the army. Basically more of a support leader.
Concerns. My concern with this faction are the monsters. I think I built them correctly, but I as a first time, I am not certain.
Also the magic. I worry if Iam not goin deep into the magic.
So yeah, any suggestions?
That looks like a good way to go. It looks correct from an overview. I really like the Occult for MLP (friendship is magic type of thing), so its hard to say which one to go with. Personal preference though. I also like the War Veteran too though.
Perhaps Twilight could also have Shamanism? or learns it down the road. There is nothing restricting you to a single type of magic in the system
Actually I think I am going to put more emphasis on Shamanism. Occult is nice and all, but thinking it over, War veteran makes more sense as an analogue to friendship