Land and Sea Combat icons?

[Swordsman761]

These icons are just simply your "status", if you know what I mean...

A good example would be to use Pokemon. Yes, it's a childish game that I'm sure everyone used to play, but it's a good example. Think about in the game when you would battle others. Some attacks would "poison" you, or "freeze" you, or "burn" you, etc.

Those icons are basically that. Some of the counters too also look similar to the ones you see/use when using broadsides at sea or voodoo on land.

Here's a couple of them from the top of my head:

Land

1. The yellow cross is a dizzy icon, and that makes you walk really slow until the counter ends.

2. Green bubbles like the above poster mentioned, means you slowly lose a tiny bit of health every few seconds until the counter ends.

3. If you deal with witchdoctors, they use voodoo extremely similar to yours, so some icons like the fire one or the curse one will appear when used by them or by you.

Sea

1. Whenever you pull a ship maneuver, like the speed one or the turning one, an icon will appear to tell you the remainder of the time until the effect wears off.

2. I believe you already know what this is because you mentioned it, but whenever a fire cannonball is shot at you and sucessfully hits, your ship will lose a little health every few seconds until its effect wears off (and of course you can see fire during that time on your ship... which is cool and bad at the same time, lol).

All these examples use counters, and I'm sure there are more.
Hope this answers your questions or at least helps you out.

-Swords