i currently have suicide sheep, flying attack sheep, sheep scientist(a flying caster unit), mega sheep(super unit), sheep wool thrower and sheep healer. the sheep race is intended as a form of comic relief race. i am completely out of ideas for what units to create.
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Use Tauren Tents for their Buildings as they are wooly.
Sheep Master (First Hero Unit)
Call of the Sheep (buffs sheep dmg)
Trusted Wooly (Summons guards)
Sheep Need No Armor (Wool blocks dmg)%
Stampede (Replace lizards with Sheep that explode)
Sheep Towers throw wool bombs.
Sheep workers should be night elf based they dont mine but summon wool (gold). And eat trees to gain lumber.
I made the sheep race when I was a kid, but mine was the ridiculous product of a childhood brain. It included ideas that are funny and do not quite make sense, such as Sharp Tooth Sheep that could harvest lumber in the same manner as a Goblin Shredder, and the Black Sheep which was your standard tiny sheep but tinted solid black just for fun. It also had the invisible flying sheep for scouting, but I didn’t want to or did not know how to spell invisible, so this one was simply named “Inv. Sheep” with an unexplained abbreviation.
A separate attempt at a sheep race years later included a flying sheep that could drop bombs using the Boat projectile art, which was also very silly and fun. In the original map from my childhood, titled “The Sheep Attack,” I also created a related hero character named Boing Boing Doom Sheep, if that is any sort of motivation.
the hero is an interesting concept. i already have a worker concept however with a sheep builder and a sheep miner. the sheep does not use lumber as they are unable to gather it. just one unit is not enough however to fill out the race, any other ideas?
I will state the obvious idea that you could create anthromorphic sheep, like Taurens or Pandarians, and make a race around those.
i do not have models for that. i am also not a modeller. the sheep is also one of the races that uses built in models. i started this topic to get concept ideas because i am completely stuck.
Mutate Taurens into sheep!
seriously? that is the worst idea i have heard. if you are not going to contribute, please leave.
I am pretty sure a worse idea would be to try and change human or orc units into sheep units. At least Taurens are more closely related…
Simple reskins would be fine with the current Warcraft III. Only in Reforged might they stand out since the model features are more discernible.
Have you thought about the more Arcane sheep arts? Like maybe a sheep hero who summons Elemental Sheep (Fire, Water, Earth, and/or Air)? It could either be a form of summoning (tweaking Summon Elemental, Lava Spawn and Feral Spirits?) Or you could make it the ultimate similar to the Brewmaster. Each elemental sheep would of course be tinted the corresponding color, and potentially have a VFX attached.
Other ideas I could come up with includes
- A fodder melee unit, similar to Ghouls, called a Sheeplet.
- An anti-building Sheep called “Baaattering Ram.”
- An aquatic/amphibious sheep unit could be named “Wet Woolie.”
- A hero named “Ewe Bacca” as a play on the name Chewbacca, as a ranged sheep hero, preferably with a female voice attached to it.
- Either a bulky melee or a high-tier ranged (lightning projectiled), abnormally large sheep called “Sheepzilla”
Edit: to be clear, I am submitting these ideas with the idea that all of them would be re-sized/colored/otherwise altered Sheep models
the wet woolie is interesting, i might use that idea for war at sea, as that is an aquatic map. i already have an abnormally large sheep, it is called the mega sheep. a fodder melee unit is not really needed when i have the suicide sheep. the theme of the sheep is technology and not magic. i could use the magic ideas in other maps however. i do have sheep in different forms in different maps. please explain the baaattering ram idea a bit more.
Ill make a race aswell for dogs though
Were they use wolves aswell.
I know your going technology but I’m going to include magic as I say stuff off the top of my head.
Sheep heroes
Capricorn = mage. Casts capricorn elementals.
The Shepard = healer.
Aries = warrior.
Sheep units
Chrysomallos = flying sheep of the golden fleece.
Trojan sheep = mech
interesting ideas but, please explain them in more detail.
Looks like this thread is already old, but I would highly recommend having the “black sheep” as it is a classic WC3 custom game unit that was used in a lot of maps. Generally it was a faster version of a normal sheep, often with increased damage. The elemental sheep idea someone else suggested is also a good idea imo.
i am not currently working on the map. i am busy with writing. i am still open for additional ideas.