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negative initiative- infinite attacks, maul- broken game mechanic

from Elemental Forums

problem #1:

unit defending my capital, by some fluke, has negative -2 initiative and thus can attack forever. these 2 archers fended off deadly armies because they could never attack. although it took 5 minutes of clicking.

 

 

problem #2:

the sword with the maul ability is too powerful. with dodge, crit, and accuracy i can take down epic armies with a single hero. even early in the game strong creep are easy to kill with my hero by himself. if i get that sword, i win. nothing more to it. even against a full map of ridiculous difficulty enemies, they have no chance against my level 9, 12 damage sword with maul.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

problem #2:

the sword with the maul ability is too powerful. with dodge, crit, and accuracy i can take down epic armies with a single hero. even early in the game strong creep are easy to kill with my hero by himself. if i get that sword, i win. nothing more to it. even against a full map of ridiculous difficulty enemies, they have no chance against my level 9, 12 damage sword with maul.
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Maybe the maul accuracy debuff needs to be re-thunk in regards to the new accuracy-dodge system they've implemented.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

The endless turns by negative imitative can be "avoided" by clicking the quick-fast-auto calculate, somehow it doesn't use the fact  that someone have endless turns for a fact in the combat to calculate who wins ^_^.
Mostly saying in-case you like me at mistake casts a slow for -14 initiative on an enemy's swordsman.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Has anyone posted this below zero initiative issue as a bug?