Well I've still got the Jotuun next I've done all the upgrades just now, then there's the Astrais (angel creatures) and Aeriou (frost creatures) working names btw. I don't think it will have as many different units as the Necribus, lets see 8 spam units standard for all factions, then some basic melee and ranged creatures a small melee, big melee, small flying ranged, big flying ranged, some small flying melee creatures, then they will act as the main force alongside the angels and jotuun armoured up. Then the rest of the creatures will use emanations and effects to buff up the main force in terms of attack power, attack range, defence, attack splash radius and harvesting and building boost creature (will be fun to see some none-combat monsters roaming about).
The main idea behind the Hyperion is to throw forward a high defence melee army to fight things off upfront though with slow speed and attack but heavy blows then have a ranged army a good amount of distance behind firing away.
Hyperion and Necribus rival each other well though balancing will be important, the Necribus are fast and high attack, ranged units have a bit of a range boost but not much but they have a lot of attack boost. Necribus armies can zoom past Hyperion and will eventually beat down Hyperion melee but while that is happening the ranged Hyperion can do their job shooting from a good distance with high attack power.
Basically Necribus = Speed, Attack, Power; Hyperion = Defence, Range, Power
Attack = attack speed, Power = attack strength.
If stealth units come out then the Necribus are gonna have fun sneaking up to the ranged units with Darklings (good def against ranged attacks), but the sight boosting Hyperion unit will be able to detect them easily so they'll have to sneak past or have other units take down the sight units.
All good fun tactics, there're three more factions to come too all with a different mix of attributes!
Next release will be as soon as possible when GAE 0.3.1 and the G3D animation frame 'cutter' comes out! I might upload a preview of the Hyperion (just angels so far).
