One of our fans posed an interesting query on our forums.
The questionnaire pertains the following:
"Dear Ronimo, did you ever have any scraped units/factions/spells for S&S and if so, can u tell us, please?"
Not only can we inform you about these canned and perhaps preserved game goodies, we can also show some preliminary sketches detailing these ideas.
Condor:
Only reserved for the Aztec faction this spell grabbed enemy units and dropped them back far away from the front line. Not only damaging units by dropping them from high but also removing certain units from the front line from a strategic point of view.
Due to camera issues in split screen multi player we decided not to implement this particular spell.
Valhalla ship:
The hardboiled viking warriors don't just perish and wither away when they fight bravely on the battlefield. No no they venture off onto the eternal planes also known as Valhalla.
One of the skills of the vikings that we thought of during preproduction of S&S was the Valhalla ship. This ship would be filled with the spirits of your fallen viking comrades and as they flew over your enemy units would chuck down some nasty ranged weaponry at them.
But seeing how cool Mr. Thor was with his whizzing lightning hammer we could do nothing else but to assign the ultimate spell to him.
Valkyrie:
Only for the bravest of warriors have a place reserved for them in Valhalla and it is up to the Valkyrie to select these few heroes.
In combat these units were intended to fly over the battlefield and heal wounded vikings.
However we decided to give the player more control over which units to heal so they didn't make the final cut.
Samurai:
Long long ago when we were deciding on which faction we wanted in S&S we thought of the Japanese. This faction had the Samurai unit.
Whats special about this unit is that this unit is the ONLY mounted unit.
He didn't make the cut because we decided on the Chinese faction instead.
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