They're called Achievements by some, Awards, Medals or Rewards by others but they are all the same...They are 'things' you get by doing something hard or specific.

We are doing this in Archon and want to know your opinions. What would make a good Achievement? Currently we have about 20 or so that include things such as:

'Dragon Slayer' - Kill the Dragon with a knight.
'Use them Grunts!' - Use only Knights/Goblins to win the game.
'Quick Draw' - Win a combat in less than 3 seconds.

If you have any other ideas, let us know now. I'm interested in really hard ones. We'll be implementing them this week and last day is early next week, so hurry in!

Thanks!

CAMELOT: How about a power point win where all 5 points are held by knights, and where at least a third of the other team's pieces are still on the board, and where the difficulty is skilled or higher?

The reason for the other team having some pieces left is to show that you actually earned the win/defended the points with the knights, as opposed to beating the other team down to its last piece and then moving the knights onto the power points once the other pieces did all the heavy lifting.

"Master of Disguise" Shapeshift into 8 different creatures in the course of one expert game.

"Kissing Your Sister" Generate a DRAW for the entire game by battling to the simultaneous death of the last two pieces on the board.

OR

"Sole Survivor" or "Last Man Standing" Win a game with only one piece remaining on the board.

"The Burninator:" Kill ALL the Knights with the Dragon on consecutive turns...and with no healing to the Dragon.

(...anyone here a fan of Trogdor the Burninator??)

"TOTAL Annihilation:"
Kill all 18 pieces, plus a Revived piece, plus a Summoned Elemental on Expert.

"The 8 Team":
Get at least one win with each of the 8 piece types on your side in the course of a single game. I PITY THE FOOL WHO DOESN'T!!

Great ideas StormBringer! Most of them seem challenging but doable after a few tries for a good player. I like the idea of achievements that are well balanced like these.

An obvious achievement is winning on the highest difficulty with the least number of possible moves. I will try to think up some more ideas but I am blank at the moment.

One thing that I used to try on the C64 was to win and leave the board looking like one team just didn't show up.

I would usually accomplish this by teleporting my unicorn or basilisk over to the oher side, defeat all but one piece, bring it back using an echange with a flying piece, then use a summoned elemental to finish off the enemy's last unit.

Risk big, win big:

"Black Magic Woman": Annihilate the Light Side using only the Sorceress.

"A Wizard Did It": Annihilate the Dark Side using only the Wizard.