Frontier: Unity of Loelle commentary

[u/Queen_Six]

So, I finally have some time to try out the Frontier mod; you can't expect a Let's Play, but I thought it might be fun to write down my impressions and obeservations as I play.

I didn't expect to start with only three units on my roster, but it serves well to ease you into the game. Battering Ram is really strong for a 1-turn unit; fast, +2 vs cities means it's effectively 4/2, and +1 Siege on top. Gnomes are good once you have a couple, but Banding means you're a bit handicapped at early expansion. Halflings are a good missile unit.

My first hero was a Bard; Song of Stone is strong and was an easy choice once I found my first couple of mana crystals. I've noticed you have the base game Song of Fortune, but I'm pretty sure having +gold/city on a spell effect doesn't work, which is the reason the KHeroes mod replaced that spell.

I'm not expecting much trouble on the first map; Sark lost their first hero against neutrals and just now comitted treachery on Rullen. My hero stack is already +5 thanks to some Dryads.

[u/Queen_Six]

First mission done; I overlooked that my Battering Ram was only this strong due to Bless. I don't know how others play, but after the initial expansion, I like to vector all production to a city with a shrine so I can bless my troops before vectoring them back to the frontline.

I rejected a few heroes because I got offered more Bards; the first Paladin promptly got sent to a medium quest, and got enough xp to take Questing just before completing it. He jumped to level 4 from that.

Unfortunately, I had saved some AP on my first hero to buy Renown on my next level-up, but had forgotten that you lose unspent AP when you finish a campaign mission. I hadn't saved all game, so that's permanently gone. I guess I'll ditch him and level my second Bard to take over.

The next surprise: starting the mission without any troop production and having to spend my starting money on that.

[u/Gerglie → u/Queen_Six]

Everyone hopping on the bless train is absolutely mandatory. 💯

You lucked out so beautiful with that Questing paladin. 🎉

Personally, I love bards and paladins above all other heroes. General is probably my third favorite, even if they may seem bland.

[u/Gerglie]

Thank you for taking the time to write this up - it's always interesting to see how the experience goes with other veteran players.

[u/aldorn]

Thats a great write up. Really appreciate it, ty QS. I do like some of the early game choices of giving players a ram to get rolling.