Posted August 01, 2013
pi4t: If you're talking about what the mod actually features, do you mind if I ask if it solves a specific complaint I have? Namely, the fact that you can be 'punished' for having a high initiative. You act first, it's true, but you also have to play your units first, so you're doing it without knowing where the enemy is, while they can tell where you are and place appropriately. Since initiative is a stat which can be improved, as opposed to a random dice roll as in some other games, it seems like it would be more sensible to let the player with higher initiative place second, and act first. Does the mod do that? Is it something that could be done easily?
I don't think it is possible without reverse engineering the game. NH doesn't do that obviously. I also can share my experience. If you think that not knowing where the enemy is, is bad and that you can't predict where it is gonna be than you don't know how to use terrain to its fullest potential. You probably are not playing on the high level difficulty - expert is the best imo.
Explanation
On the higher levels of difficulty your units placement, who goes first matters. Also after some time, you'll find the optimal formations so that you can benefit from the terrain to the fullest. In the end it won't matter to you, where enemy units are because you'll have an ideal formation that can beat anything :)
That is especially true because in NH(New Horizaons) difficulty at the beginning is higher than in the original In NH you'll be forced to stay in the first circle for some time. It will be really difficult to conquer 2nd cirle right from the start. Humans now have Witchers and these guys can kill low level warrior single handedly.
On the other hand in NH there are a lot of really powerful that can wipe out the entire battlefield, of course thery are like M3-M4 spells. There also are a lot of strong units that can aid you, so the strategy is more flexible.
In NH there is a promotion system, all of the Castle units have promotions - a better units, with better abilities, kind of like in HoMM.
Oh yeah :) Sorry for my grammar, it's like 2 am and at night grammar and spelling in all my posts drops to extremely. low levels.