Nice, you made the AI pioneers and stacks yummier (that's an XML modifdier, right?)

I love an aggressive, hostile world, as long as we are all equally tasty!

Was the AI hitting the forest drake with spells with multiple small stacks, or was that part of what you fixed?  (AI not massing sufficient troops in an army to defeat an objective).

I'll brew you some good coffee to keep up the good work!

Brad was jammin' to something in that 2nd vid!

Hey Brad !!!

Just a quick question , are you guys planning to redo the fallen races face??

Because aside from the gameplay i must admit that eyecandy wise the fallen race ingame rendering was a big letdown in WoM , they were truly uncool and ugly looking , but this magnar guy is finally looking badass !!! wich is feeling me with joy !

So do you plan a visual pass on every FE faction , in particularity the fallen ? and what about Sovereign creation options? ( haircuts , tatoos , skins etc )

I'm all for gameplay > visuals but the art environement , monsters are really nice looking in FE but human / fallen faces and armor ( aside from a few very cool looking ) especialy helm has been somewhat underwhelming.

thank you for your answer !

Magnar looks a lot more cooler!

Seems that threat assesment might need to be adjusted a bit.

In the second example of the first video, it seems that the AI was hoping on luck to be able to out-maneuver the monsters based on a number of variables all of which were difficult to predict. But in the first example (the drake), the AI had ample, simple and, it seems, fairly consistent and unambiguous information available to it but did not assess the situation correctly.

Did you guys read the OP at all?

"I even found a bug with regards to the AI going after "goodie huts” (which is ironic because the AI is supposed to look at whether there’s danger around it)."

That's a comment about the way the AI acts against the drake in the vid.

filling me with joy ! sorry for the typo.

And the fallen races look was really anoying me , and i wasnt hoping for a visual pass on them , so i am really happily surprised !!

Now im only hoping that there will be a nice visual faction differenciation and that the human fallen rendering will be on par with what the new magnar look likes.

"If it seems slow it's because I'm videoing"

You are playing a complete turn every 2-3 seconds.  On my machine it takes 2-3 minutes sometimes, so no, it doesn't seem slow.

Beta 3 Question: Does a non-moving unit without shields gain a bonus against ranged attacks? I would think not.

Thanks, Mr. Wardell, for posting the random video tests of FE 0.87 -- the ( hopefully ! ) soon-to-be-released Beta 3.  They really do look interesting, and are helping to keep my appetite whetted!

The real-time Bug testing video particularly caught my attention, because you seemed to move your units so quickly; and the whole pace of the gameplay was very fast ... at least compared to my experiences thus far with FE 0.86.  Of course, you undoubtedly were using a PC that is considerably better than mine.  But that said, I noted another thread (the Beta 3 Status Update, Original Post, paragraph #10), in which Derek Paxton stated that  your work  with program threading was  markedly  improving the performance.  Can we expect the Beta 3 to operate significantly faster ? 

I realize that might be hard to describe, but could you perhaps say that the program speed is 10% faster, or 20% faster, or 50% faster (     ), or something like that, when comparing FE 0.87, with FE 0.86 ?  News, along those lines, would be great news, indeed !!