The problem with the Rampart (the forest/elven city) was that their units were so darn expensive. Nothing beats a Gold Dragon though, but that's one of two units worth having in your army -- Silver Pegasi and Centaur (upgrades) weren't up there when it came to a decent punch, and Dendroid Soldiers and Battle Dwarves were just too darn slow (even if you used Haste). The only other unit I always liked was the High Elves, who shot two times (just like Marksmen from the Castle-cities) and had a decent punch.
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Originally posted by SecretMaster:
Wow, I never realized they had an expansion pack. What was so special about Rogues?
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Well, they had a bunch of expansion packs if I'm not mistaken. I saw one with undead on the cover.. I suppose that was just a new campaign, with mayhaps one or two new units and some new items.
Armageddon's Blade added a new campaign, some new items, and a bunch of new units, such as the Troll (slow-moving hard hitter), the Boar (imagine wolfriders, but now goblins riding boars -- more comical relief than actually a good unit), Halflings (possibly the weakest level 1 unit, their luck bonus not outweighing their extremely low attack power; pelting rocks has never been more dull), and the Rogues. The fun with Rogues was, that when they were present in your hero's army, you could see what your opponent had stalled in his town ("Zounds of hellhounds" or just "several lizardmen"), and you could check out the disposition of the critters that stood in the wild. That way - with enough Diplomacy - you could check out if creatures were willing to join you, pretty neat if you find an army of 46 Ghost Dragons willing to join!!
One thing the expansion pack also added is four new dragons (in order or strength (weak - strong): Faerie Dragon, Crystal Dragon, Rust Dragon and the godfather of all dragons: the Azure Dragon). It also added a new town: Conflux, in which you could build the Elementals (Air [Storm], Water [Ice], Fire [Energy], Earth [Magma], Psychic [Magic]). The other two units were Pixies [Sprites] at level 1 and Firebirds [Phoenixes] at level 7. The animations of especially the energy elementals were pretty cool, maybe you can find them online [img]smile.gif[/img]