@redsky: Sorry we assume you are being lazy, rather than realize you are posting in a foreign language
and using slang at the same time. :oops:
Anyway, I don't think a weak aliens vs. melee-weapon-using-Humans mod would be that terrible, but most of the current futuristic science-fiction based maps would be inappropriate, as would almost all Human structures. :-?
The Humans would need
some ranged (yet low-tech) weapons like the simple and composite bow (with various types of arrows), javelins, a throwing stick (atlatl - for increased distance), a sling and etc., in addition to hand-to-hand weapons and armor like the sword, shield, helmet, perhaps battle-axe and mace, thrusting spear, pike, etc.
Default Human might have a sling and self (recurve) bow with 30 arrows. Humans could get better weapons from Ye Olde Armourer's Shoppe.
The Aliens would have to be mostly Stage 1 classes.
You could say the Humans ran out of power but managed to survive and utilize "Age of Muscle" technology.
I'm reading a history of late Bronze Age warfare, which is why I find the idea to be interesting.
Drews, Robert.
The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993 :wink:
P.S. There is a place for putting a location in your profile. Even if you don't want to be too specific, you could put something like "not an English-speaking country" and people would be a little more understanding. Also "8" sounds like "ate" in English. As in l8r (later) or gr8 (great). It does not sound like "ith", as in with. Hope that is helpful. By the way, what is your native language, and where are you located (if you don't mind saying so)?
P.P.S. If you didn't mind renaming the thread, I would recommend something like "New Mod Idea: Ancient Weapons" or "New Mod Ideas: Post Here!" or something like that. Note that many English-speaking gamers will draw a distinction between
mod (a modification of original gameplay in any of a variety of ways) and
mode (particular variety of gameplay such as Capture-the-Flag, Assault, Domination, Cooperative, Mission-Based, etc.).
Again, if you have a questions about how to express something in English, don't be averse to asking how to say something or prefacing it with "Sorry, English ain't my first/native/best/favorite language, BUT..."
Sorry if we came across like jerks. We are very defensive of the intelligibility factor, here in the Trem forums. Regular posters often flout these conventions, but only at the risk/peril/who-really-cares of flaming from others.
Welcome. Shall we discuss your Humans-with-melee-weapons idea?
Humans with Ancient Weapons OR Trem300ckit: wand or magic trowel
adv ckit: athame (magic dagger)
blaster: sling with throwing-stones or staff or crook or pike or halberd or axe
rifle: recurve bow with small-game arrowhead
psaw: short/thrusting sword (wakazashi/poignard)
shotgun: thrusting spear (javelin)
lasgun: recurve bow with big-game arrowhead
mdriver: crossbow with iron-tipped bolt/quarrel (optional zoom)
chaingun: weighted (Asian-style) chain or ball-and-chain mace
prifle: composite bow with big-game arrowhead
grenade: ancient incendiary rockets
flamer: composite bow with flaming pitch & iron arrowhead
lcannon: long/slashing sword with mystic blast as secondary fire (katana/broadsword)
larmor: cuirass & greaves
helmet: magic helmet with warrior-sense
medkit: bag o' herbs or healing crystal
battpack: spare quiver
jetpack: hawkwings or angelwings or even demonwings or dragonwings
battlesuit: samurai/knight armor or just current battlesuit powered by "magick"
reactor: High King's Throne or Sacred Standing Stone or Screaming Rock
nodes: Cauldrons of Rebirth
turrets: witches' familiars (demon bats, rats, cats, etc.)
teslagen: mana field
armoury: ye olde armorer's shoppe
defcomp: Sacred Circle or witches' staff or Maypole or something
medistation: healing circle
repeater: Duke's Throne or saint's reliquary or smith's anvil
Aliens stronger than basis, maras and dretches would be pretty overpowered, but maybe goons would be OK (but no adv classes - basis, maras, grangers, or goons) and definitely no rants. (Unless you make the mystic blast really powerful, and give the magic dagger both building and weapon abilities.
) Also, you could make it ninjas & samurai vs. aliens instead of wizards and warriors vs. aliens (in other words culturally-themed, Ancient Asian or Celtic or European Medieval or Bronze/Iron Age; or multicultural - future retro - if you prefer).
