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>>152778772 Previous Panto

okofire edition

Dominions is a fantasy turn-based war game created by two dudes. One of them is a teacher.

The game combines a simple presentation with an extremely wide array of strategic options, including over 2800 units, 800 spells and 300 magic items. Turns are resolved simultaneously, with players planning battles rather than directly controlling them.

It has simplistic graphics but is easily moddable and extremely deep.

Basically, it's an autist’s wet dream of a war game.

>Steamgroup
Join the steamgroup for multiplayer
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vanheimageofvidya

>Group chatroom
steam://friends/joinchat/103582791434709795

>Our work-in-progress wiki
http://dom4.wikia.com/wiki/Dominions_4_Wiki

>Our pastebin
http://pastebin.com/uTZnjYwm

>Dom4 Manual
http://jaffa.illwinter.com/dom4/manual_dom4.pdf

>Dom4 Inspector
This is a community resource that has every unit, spell, and item in the game in an accessible database.
http://larzm42.github.io/dom4inspector/

>Play by email guide:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=202096551

>Debug Mod:
For testing battle formations and spells
http://dom4archive.kermodebear.org/www.desura.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/thread/debug-mod.html

>Where do I get it?
It is available on Gamersgate and Steam. Desura is kill.

>THE BASICS
>Read the manual
>Read the wiki
>Read the pastebin
>Watch some LPs by Maerlande or NuclearMonkee
>Jump into MP feet first

Submit completed games here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jHX_ZoJi6zIvDq6ANdp-W1Y89W5_fmShuDyHmAj5qC4/viewform

Results Here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dlrvyEqLFYIaXRc49TheMmfdoP8jEh1m5rZJHJAzDWQ/edit?usp=sharing
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/v/anheim community clash team is Cirno and two noobs

/domg/ team is sum1won, Sy and coolstory
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>>152948424 seems to have been created a few seconds earlier but since this one already got a post, let's just use this one. What does /domg/ think of this unit (exhaustion 1)?
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>>152948524
What about this one?
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>>152948524

70r? You will be barely able to recruit two of them per turn with prod3 and good cap and as such completely useless.
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>>152948672
What about if the nation also happens to have a desirable +15res mage?
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>>152948656

This unit is great actually, not really for combat but for fielding massive armies of and patrolling.

Does some damage tho.
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Abysia 2h file received
Agartha 2h file received
Arcoscephale 2h file received
Caelum 2h file received
Man 2h file received
C'tis 2h file received
Gath 2h file received
Jomon 2h file received
>>>>>>Unexpected Nation Waiting for 2h file
Marignon 2h file received
Mictlan 2h file received
Midgard 2h file received
Patala 2h file received
Pythium 2h file received
Ragha 2h file received
R'lyeh 2h file received
Bogarus 2h file received
T'ien Ch'i 2h file received
Ulm 2h file received
Utgard 2h file received
Xibalba 2h file received

DO YOUR TURN YOU PIECE OF SHIT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>152948726

Could be monstrous if you could get 6 of those per turn with N9E4 or even N9E4 W/F9
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>>152948524
that bullshit thing should be able to expand alone from turn 2 with a N9E4 and a priest to bless it.

once i had an even better version of that, with no ethereal, but no exhaustion, slightly more hp, and H1 for autoblessing.
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>>152948656
super broken.
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>>152948826
TOP KEK
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>2 threads

That's it. That's the last time you fucked up /domg/. You're gonna regret this.
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>>152950171
You forgot
>you guys are evil!
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>>152950171
plz stop bringing steam drama into the thread
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>>152950420
how about
"no"
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Meanwhile on Steam
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>>152950529
Completely based
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>>152950529

That reminds me. Need to find a sub for him in Fistful as well.

I am not helped in this by the fact that I have no idea what the fuck he's playing in Fistful.
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>>152950689
tc
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>>152950689
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vanheimageofvidya/discussions/0/359547436744778145/
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>>152950742
>>152950779

Fair enough then! I'm pretty sure TC is fucking up Ys pretty good, situation wise.

Who wants it?
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>I play Vanheim
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what would be the quickest way to reduce your own dominion on just one province as Pangea ?
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>>152951273
shut up soph
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>>152948781
HOLD THE FUCK UP


>Next turn due: 08:00 GMT on Thursday September 1st

WHAT
NO NO NO NO NO NO

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Latus_3_Big_Trouble_In_Little_Ragha
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>>152952017
Lemuria asked for an extension until Thursday yesterday, anon.
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http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vanheimageofvidya/discussions/0/359547436748226560/

L O L
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>>152952237
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>>152952237
Your group is supposed to be all about happiness and having a fun.
>tfw you will never have a fun on vanheim
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>>152952017
>>152952145
If coolstory takes Lamberts turn you'll be fine.
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>>152952778
Lambert is Ragha though, not Lemuria.
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>>152952860
fucking lol changed the wrong email
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>>152952971
That explains things.
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Sorry
I wanted to write you a message to apologize.

my shitpost spree in the past was inappropirate, disrespectful, and wildy selfish. this general is supposed to be all about staling in pbems and forester bob memes. i want you to know how truly sorry I am for the shitposts i sent to this general last night. It was in very poor taste, and I am sorry that it offended you. Looking back on it, I am glad this general has accepted my memes. Please accept my sincere apology for my insensitivity and be assured that I will no longer shitpost you like that. I promise that I will change and you can trust me by posting much steam drama.
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So, Lemuria, email me [email protected] so I can give you back your nation.
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>>152950529
Okay what the fuck is happening to /v/anheim? Why is it so dramatic lately? Are these bans for real? Will I not get bombarded with Blitz announcements every four hours from now on?
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>>152952237
What did he say again?

And god damn how can people live with that sort of forum system nowadays, having to do a public apology to get back and all that shit, 4chan spoiled me rotten, if I say stupid shit it gets forgotten the day after, if I get banned I just reset my router and get back to calling OP a faggot, it's like a whole 'nother world out there.
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Defenders or tower guards?
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>>152953991
Tower Guards usually. It's a choice of 4 really good or 5 good. When it comes to crossbow-spam, which is their main use, numbers are what you want. Tower Guards can also hold a line very well and their extra numbers for the same price should go a ways towards making up for their slightly inferior gear.
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>>152954119
Cheers, Never played man before
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>>152954239
>Never played Man before
Prepare to fall behind and die due to having no mage versatility. I'd recommend looking for a neighbor who has no shields. You'll need to become very conventionally strong quickly if you want to stand up to the blood nations. Ideally you'll kill the blood nations before they gather any significant strength.

LA Man really aren't that strong a nation. They have awesome crossbow-wielding heavy infantry, but beyond that you're kind of strapped for options.
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>mfw someone burdens my time
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>>152954559
>play non-human nation
>he gets dogpiled while I occasionally prey on those throwing their all at them
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>>152952971
>>152953353
Goddamnit admin.

And goddamnit Lemuria who is surely in some weird timezone and will wake up in 12 hours at least because things can never go quickly.
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About how dangerous is 10-20 cavemen? Will mostly heavy infantry have a problem with them on an early expansion?
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>>152957298
they are decently dangerous against ermored troops.

they basically counter low defense high armored units but are as hard as 20-40 regular shitty indie units otherwise.
note that in a cave you'll have lower attack and defense and precision. archers do work well against them but unfortunately they will have low precision in the cave.
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>>152957298
Cavemen by themself are pretty crap, they're only dangerous because they hit hard and they're usually in caves and so all your troops get a darkness penalty. Just think of them as bigger barbarians.
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>>152957416
>>152957551

Alright, sounds decently dangerous then, as I imagine they can one-twohit heavy infantry. And with the penalties in darkness it might not be worth risking so early.
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>>152957416

>ermored troops
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Cavemen is also one of the types of troops that can consistently kill expanding earthsnake. They can hit through its prot and it can rarely kill them fast enough because of the high hp.
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>>152952017
>>152952145
>extension on the first turn
It's gonna be a good game, I can feel it already.
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>>152957979

Let's just restart because I got a shit start location.
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>>152957979
>>152958270
It was an error with the subbing, Lemuria will turn in his turn as soon as he gets his email back, I hope.
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>>152950863
What part of Trippical if not filled isn't obvious?
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>>152959854

"If not filled" is pretty obvious, yes.
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Uhh... Mr. admin, I already made my turn, what the fuck? Because of your mistake I can't sub for Ragha in the same game. Apply yourself.
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>>152960060
I meant if not filled before I left, whatever suits you though.


I'm as suprised as you are that I have Internet access.
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>>152960381

Yah, just figured I'd throw it open in case anyone else wanted. Will have to track down Trippical when I can get on steam, no doubt.
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>>152960223
YOU DUN GOOFED COOLSTORY
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>>152960457
LIKE IT WAS MY FAULT YOU ILLITERATE FOOL
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>>152960498
I TOLD YOU I WAS RAGHA
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>>152960554
WHEN YOU GET THE TURN YOU DO THE TURN THATS HOW THE WORLD WORKS
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>>152960618
I can't fault that, and everyone was waiting for Lemuria.
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Gonna need a sub
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>>152950863
>>152960381
I'm not getting fucked up, but that army is scary. I hope trippical is a noob for my sake if he's gonna steer that stack into my lands.
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>>152961328
Aka, can we find a noob sub?
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Get your Latus turns in boys! Work is less important.
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>>152962330
roger dodger

>>152962550
don't think you aren't welcome here.
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Where the heck is MemeOfTheAges admin hiding? There is some subbening to be done.
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>>152950863
I'll take it if it's free. Who are you on steam?
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>>152948998
>>152948741
If it has the gladiator tag, they disappear after one battle which makes them decidedly less good
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>>152950529
>August 26th, 2016. 6:19 PM.
>It's only 11 am where I live.

The future is bleak.
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>>152960456
Will be on Steam for the rest of the day sorry I was indisposed last night
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Just a heads up to anyone thinking of buying this game.

The AI is broken and it will never be fixed. Most people on this thread will lie or make excuses for it instead of pushing the devs to fix it. Don't listen to there bullshit.
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>>152965017
Bro, literally everyone here will tell you that singleplayer is only for practice because the AI is dogshit. Multiplayer is where it's at.
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>>152965017
You mean, telling everyone who plays the game in singleplayer to play it in multiplayer instead because the AI is bad?
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>>152965017
Are there lurkers in /domg/? Why would anybody who isn't already into the game come here?
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>>152965291
It's possible that someone heard about the game on /v/ or /tg/ and got interested.

Yesterday there was a thread about the new Master of Orion on /v/ that turned into Dominions shilling halfway through.
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>>152965414
>new Master of Orion
what's this?
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>>152965443
I haven't played it so I don't know if it's any good, but apparently there's a MoO remake that came out on Steam and GOG yesterday.
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>>152965562
groovy, I'll have to look into that. How did it link to Dominions?
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>>152965151
>>152965228


to anyone who's confused and looking to buy this game and listening to these morons.

The AI in the game is shit. Multiplayer unit AI is shit. The game is buggy and unintuitive. When you see all the excuses people make for it I hope you can come to the same conclusion.

Either way, don't waste your time on this broken game filled with niggers who make excuses for the devs and the shit game they play.
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>>152965630
People were complaining that MoO was too dumbed down and asking for alternatives, somehow Dominions got mentioned and some people asked questions about it, so I decided to post some pictures and answer questions.
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>>152964632

No worries. Now you just need to pit yourself in gladatorial combat against >>152964379 in order to determine who gets to sub in.

I'm at work at the moment and will be on steam in maybe two hours.
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>>152965875
groovy, we need more recruits
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That was a Great fight, Pan! Glad to see you didn't lose many mages, that would have sucked for you to recoup those, with all the unrest you have to have by now with all those Revelers. Maybe in 15 or so turns we could have another fight and see how our armies stack up to each other then. Good luck with your other conquests though!
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>>152965017
You might apply the same logic to virtually every strategy/tactics game from StarCraft to Civ. Most strategy games have an AI that does effectively random stuff, the primary difference is that Dominions gives the AI more rope to hang itself with rather than its decision-making process being particularly awful (for example, in SC2 it tends to do "a bit of everything" kind of builds on one base such that any attack with high-tech units it might do, could be beaten by triple blind expand because it's so undecisive and comes so late, while any determined early attack will push it over because it spends so much on tech it simply doesn't have enough troops to defend).
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>>152965797
For anyone who doesn't remember the previous argument he started, this guy's 'problem' with the game is that he gave an order to his units and they didn't do exactly what he thought they would.
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>>152966326
Literally this.
It's not good, but it's on par or better than most highest difficulty AIs of other strategy games.
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What happens when two commanders attack each other's province in the same turn?
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>>152967134
Random. Either one commander moves to the enemy province and the battle happens there, or the other way around.
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>>152967174

There's also a chance that they move past each other, but that's much less likely than a battle.
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>>152967303
I think that depends on the size of the forces involved
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>>152967174
>>152967134

it depends on army size and other factors. no one knows the exact mechanism, but we can safely say one very small army won't stop a definitely bigger one from moving for one turn .
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>>152951091
Superb taste! I main them myself doncha know?

-Aiwas
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>>152950442
yes
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WHICH NATION HAS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF BLACK PEOPLE IN IT?
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>>152968082
Machaka.
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>>152968082
All of them except Machaka and Beri.
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>>152966143
Reminder that next time, it will be tarts people fight against.
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>this feeding frenzy on slanteyes
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>>152968180

Devs of this game are revisionist fucks. Everyone knows Europe had mixed populations in them during the medieval and classical ages. The dream of a white utopia of yesteryear is just a myth spawned by neo-nazis and white nationalists.
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>>152969291
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>>152969291
Is this spillover from /v/ or /pol/?
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>>152969291
are you for real or just delusional?

aside from minor arab-north african presences in south italy and spain there was not much africa-europe racemixing going on.
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>>152969291
>magic beings, mythical beasts, undead and other minorities not counting towards diversity
Check your privilege, human
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>>152969494
>>152969563
>>152969578
>>152969818
I sure hope you niggers realize that's not an honest attempt at bait but sarcasm.
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>>152969578

Actually there weren't that much population movement during the Arabian conquest of Sicilly. Mostly just Arabian nobles that took up residence there, while the native population were Sicillian. It also didn't last enough to leave a lasting impact.

The Moors in spain though is another question. The medieval/modern Castillian ethnicity has long been a mix of north Africans, Visigoths and Iberian natives. While a lot of systematic purging is sure to have taken place during the reconquista, the cultures more or less merged together, even though there were a lot of forced conversion.
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At this point I want Tashna to die just so the turns will go faster
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>>152969818
>Human
>Privilege

What about health, magic resistance, recuperation, map move, strength, stealth and dick size privileges of satyrs for example?
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>>152969971
I think we all do.
>>152970128
And here it is, when others get good stats entitled humans are pissed. Shame on you.
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Which nations are best for raiding?
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>>152970690
Caelum
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>>152970690
Alfir
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>>152965875
>MoO alternatives

Just play MoO 2
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>>152970690
Tier 1:
Recruitable stealthy fliers: Xibalba

Tier 1.5:
Recruitable fliers: Caelum, Ragha

Tier 2:
Elves (ponyman thugs with stealth and ability to Cloud Trapeze in combined with strong stealthy armies)

Tier 2.5:
Other nations with powerful stealth armies (Pangaea being #1 in that regard)
Non-recruitable fliers that can be massed up in large quantities: Blood nations should they choose to summon units like devils or ozelotls en masse with flying commanders
Nations with good remote attack spells (such as Send Horror while tagging provinces with an indie scout)

Tier 3:
Other nations with stealth armies (for example, Kailasa could in principle engage in raiding game with stealthed apes but they lack the sheer efficiency of centaurs), affordable thugs or mobile troops that simply perform well in small numbers. Raiding doesn't require any special characteristics from units, pretty much every faction is better off diverting some of their forces at least to a degree
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I know some people have trouble visualizing province distances on maps like Oeridia and Flatus with a lot of indirect movement so I made this to show off how interconnected the fleet system in Flatus is.

A MM3 Flying army starting from a white province can reach any other colored province in one turn. The effect is even more pronounced with longer ranges. I'm thinking about doing one reaching out to 6 provinces to show Teleport and Cloud Trapeze options but that would take longer so maybe tomorrow or something.

Also, I knew that the blood plane was literally free money but I hadn't realized until I was making this how incredibly defensible it is. Unless you're attacking with amphibious armies there's literally a 1-province chokepoint for that entire region AND it's very far removed from the very interconnected rest of the world. Even if you're attacking over water there's still just two fronts, three if you manage to break through the portal.

If you're anywhere near that side of the map please get some scouts up there asap so we can know who's hiding in there and fund your fatwa against them.
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>>152971787
LA Caelum has recruitable stealthy fliers which completely TRASH the ones Xibalba has.
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>>152972774
Xibalba's dudes have no HP and no helmets, one rain of stones and they are literally all dead, however by the time RoS comes on line they should have all arch devils and ice devils and 3 turns away from all demon lords
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>>152968753
Who borders Jomon? How many free provinces did they get?

Also, damn this game is going fast all of a sudden.
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>>152973210
???????

The discussion was about stealthy fliers. Caelum's stealthy fliers are much better than Xibalba's.
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>>152971787
Situational: add +1 to your tier if you have sailing and are fighting someone along a coastline.
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>>152973494
you're using them to raid. Your goal is to hit low PD. Having cheaper, lower res flyers is better than more expensive ones. Xibalba's are also foreign recruit which is frankly HUGE and matters much more than many other factors (eg - I'd say that EA Ulm is better at raiding than most elf nations)
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>>152973494
>>152974221
That said, Raven Guard are dank af. Love me some LA Caelum
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>>152971787
desu having cheap squads is as good as having stealthy ones. I'd say that a nation like TNN is bad at raiding compared to Lanka or Sceleria, because it's easy for them to send 40 longdead to every province on your border, whereas TNN's troops are relatively expensive for what they do in a fight.
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>>152972070
I've got a person there, no contact yet.
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>>152974221
To be fair, a big asset for raiders is ability to redeploy them in pitched battles should this ever be required. This is especially true for flying armies that can fly to a single province at will and crush the opponent with overwhelming numbers and then immediately spread out to cover more territory (this is why I think flying is a much bigger deal than mere stealth).
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Was getting caught part of your plan?
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Alright, I'm home. Ye who would sub, show up in chat. I know Trippical's already there, but he's apparently fucked off AFK.
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How does /domg/ handle their games? Just let them crowd the inbox? Archive them into a seperate folder?

I'm using PBEM manager and it seems not to like if you delete turn messages. At least it will give you very confusing messages. Mostly I've dowloaded the turn and deleted it, but now I think I should archive them, if I can get PBEM manger to read the right category.
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>>152975118
I have a seperate gmail account. I rarely log into it, PBEM manager handles everything fine.
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>>152974330
How exactly do you play LA Caelum? EA/MA tactics with spammable Thunder Strikers seem to be effectively disabled due to absence of reliable A2s and Storm caster. Is it using buffs like Strength of Giants on Raven Guards while throwing out Shadow Blasts/Bane Fire Darts with harab Seraphs that were lucky enough to get useful randoms or how do you play them?
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>>152975118
I made an image showing how to organize Gmail to keep the games separate that I've shared a few times. I just use the built in label management. Takes about a minute to set up for each game I join and it works very easily from then on out. Plus it keeps everything archived for me which is neat if I ever want to go look back at old games for some reason.
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>>152975118
I just deleted 1500 emails of turn confirmations. I was losing messages from friends and family, and it's bad enough abandoning them in meatspace to play turns without also forgetting their attempts to reach me.
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>>152972070
>If you're anywhere near that side of the map please get some scouts up there asap so we can know who's hiding in there and fund your fatwa against them.
It's really easy to check who's hiding there, there are only like 3 possible candidates in my experience.
Ragha, Xibalba, Abysia.
I've done quite a bunch of respawn tests and nobody else spawned there.

Losers get dumped into a wasteland plane of death, fiery plane or a mountain plane of air.
So you just need to confirmation from two loser nations on their spawn position to know who's in Blood.
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>>152974960
I'm at work. I can't join chat, but if you have a steam name I can message you with my mobile.
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>>152975118

Got filters set up. If sender is turns@llamaserver and subject contains: [GameName] then shift it into that game's folder.

Makes it easy to see where I've turns pending and such.
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>>152975651

PyroICFF
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>>152975648
That's not a great position to be in. Either admit to an insanely strong start or admit to starting with lots of extra gems. I suppose starting in the fire plane is the closest of the three to a normal start since >fire gems.
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>>152974907

Black, you certain about your decision? I see the whole map, I see exactly how you are in the middle of quite a few nations. I see them massing their forces near your border and I see that you are already at war with Burgundy in the north. You broke your word and I gave you the chance to rectify it by returning that which is rightfully mine, even offering to pay for the loses you took in taking the province. You decided to taunt me instead. So, again, are you certain this is the path you are going to take?
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>>152975648
>>152972070
>>152974568
Don't bully bats pls
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>>152975440

Can you repost the image?
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How do you play asphodel? Popkill and expensive mages seems like a flawed setup. Should I just transform all my panic apostates?
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>>152976625
Unfortunately not now, I'm at work.
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>>152975708

Are you using a local client? I'm using the gmail web client.
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>>152976662
I believe W9 Black Centaurs give you an early start, and afterwards you rely on summoned mages and hordes of mannikins.

Of course, I've lost every game I've played as Asphodel, so I may not be a good source of information.
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>>152953887
No, i gave Tadgar moderator as a joke so he could shitpost without any of the mods being able to kick him. He proceeded to go on a banning spree i undid. I found it pretty funny.
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>>152977265
Sounds fairly based to me.
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>>152977392
Of course it was fellow mod- i mean anonymous poster. The moderation sure is based.
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>>152976601
You have to learn to share, or you have to learn about typos in summod.
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So, I'm getting ready for a new version. Any bugs people want to report?

I'm aware of the barbarian thing, abysia spell, Lemuria message, and raghan elephants.
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>>152977556
Merge my Ur + thed changes plx
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>>152977556
You know that when you blind expand turn 1 you get two welcome to summod messages?
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>>152977556
nerf skelies and buff EA Ulm
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>>152977732
You can have up to 4, awake pretender + fucking lucky scout.
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>>152977556
Wait is there a barbarian thing? Earlier I just bitched about them being buffed from vanilla which I thought was intentional.
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>>152977949
Somebody kept crashing due to a sprite error with them.
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>>152977556
The item Wound Fend Amulet, that costs 5E5S gems in vanilla, and is supposed to cost 5S only in Summod (from what I gathered), and cost 5S5S instead.
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>>152978063
99% sure that's intentional.
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>>152978416
Quality post
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>>152978062
Oh right that.
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>>152977695
Not a bug, also no pull to merge.

>>152977732
Easy to fix. I'll make it cap only.

>>152977783
Not a bug.

>>152978062
Yep. I can't reproduce the error, but I'll try messing around, see if that works.

>>152978063
Added to list

>>152978416
WAD
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>>152978586
Thanks friend
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"Bane, I'm CIA"
"Dr Pavel wasn't alone."
What did he mean by this?
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>>152978731
Fine, I'll set a pull.

Also just make there be two events, one with #notext and one without
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>Ragha working his way to Jomon's cap straight through like 4 provinces
>Lemuria just jumps right on it across the river the turn before Ragha gets there
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>>152975118
this. and when the end i shove them into a "multiplayerarchive" directory.
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>>152979073
Yeah sorry about that Ragha, you should have gone faster.
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>>152977556
i found a serious bug when playing Pangea.
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>>152979672
If you cast transformation and ended up with a spellcasting bug then that's vanilla.
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>>152976757

Yeah. My own mailserver down into Thunderbird. I dunno if gmail lets you set up message filters.
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>>152966526

I'll bite.

What can a player do to avoid having a ranged squad rush into melee when a single member is attacked in melee range? Because the "Pull Back and Fire" command doesn't work with a squad when a SINGLE unit is in melee range.

What can a player do to make it so his mages aren't retards that fight assassins with shitty spells? Because instead of retreating (They die if they retreat IIRC, even though they're escaping from there assassin) or casting good spells (Like Return or something useful) they just normally cast shit spells and die easy as all hell.

What other common "Not broken AI you're just bad" problems are going to come up that will push a player off this game?

Because as much as I want to enjoy this game all that shit is retarded as fuck and even if I "get used to it baddy" I expect to find a bunch more "Not broken" shit to get annoyed at because of it.
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>>152979534
>i staled
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>>152980195
Assassins versus mages is the most infuriating goddamn shit I'll give you that but overall it's hardly a problem and it's something you can work around if you need to. That does sometimes mean certain options basically don't exist (fire and keep distance) which is a flaw but the game is still very enjoyable, challenging, and rewarding in spite of its flaws.
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>>152979803
it's not that.
it was more about being the best nation to put up one of the best gemgen global early(which is accidentally in the same school it wants for battle), very good capital gems, one of the best expansion phase with sacreds, upkeep free freespawn in hilarious quantities, the best gold based non sacred troop, Really good paths in all of its mages, access to one of the most wanted and rare of the cheap boosters, access to blood troops, forest recruit of mages, commanders, scouts and troops, cheap temples,archer cavalry and troops of various kinds, palisades while having good paths to summon siege chaff, sacred mage assasins with summon paths that might automatically retreat into a safe province after having done their job(saving themselves from any patrolling),having an extremely good, big and thuggable mage that isn't cap-only, being able to recruit the best scout of the game in any forest, and above all having all of this shit stealthy.
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>>152980195

In order to prevent your ranged idiots from meleeing, a group of melee troops in line formation in front of them set to Hold and Attack Closest will prevent them from advancing close enough to get caught.

The casting AI is less than ideal, but providing your mages who are at risk of assassination with autosummon items will generally go a long way to helping. They also tend to perform better with deeper research, because the spells they have access to are better. Also, patrol regularly. If you're being attacked in your own castles you shouldn't have issues hunting down any assassins. If you're on an enemy fort, you're just gonna have to suck it up and gear those mages.

That and the gem use thing are the main ones.

Is that you, MAMemegames Machaka?
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I graduated from navy boot camp so now I can finally get into vidya again.
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>>152980895

Revellers aren't particularly amazing now that they're undisciplined.

They're still pretty good, but they're not amazing.

Also archer cavalry is terrible why the hell do you think that is good.
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Ragha has fire weapons

Burds have ice weapons

What if they touch?
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>>152981419
???

I didn't post a picture
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>>152981549
yeah u did
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>>152981419

Clearly you did, Black. Now answer >>152976526, instead of ignoring me.
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>>152981865
Fuck off, natgen games are shit
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>>152982007

We're not playing a natgen game, you furry faggot.
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Does PD count towards the army HP on the battlefield, for the purposes of rout check thresholds?
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>>152982296
Yes
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>>152982087
Say that in my game not in yours see what happens
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>>152977556
What about the LA Pythium snake transformations, I haven't check the rest of the things, oh also is it intended the Snake priest to become H4 when propheted up from H2
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>>152982394
t. Pan
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>>152982394

He's not the one who can't recognize a Cataclysm game.
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Atlantis, why the outrageous demands? You are not exactly in a position were you can do that.
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>>152982492
They are intended to become h4, yes. I remember being told about the snake issues, but I'll need more details.
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What exactly is the effect of the H level on preaching? Do you get more temple checks with a higher H level or does it just give a better chance at dominion spread?
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>>152983923
M A N U A L
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>>152980195
All games are about working within the limits of game systems such as they are and it's almost inevitable that non-trivial games tend to have some weird shit (many of the most celebrated games do). A game like Brood War isn't a lesser (and certaintly not worthless) game because you can unintuitively clump up mutalisks by including an overlord in the control group, and neither is Dominions because of its oddities. Flash didn't go "bawww, mutalisks shouldn't be able to be microed with such efficiency, Blizzard pls fix the group movement behaviour", he built turret rings and recruited goliaths and valkyries and generally devised his strategies and tactics to beat how the unintentional and flawed mechanics of the game actually caused mutalisks to function in practise.

Similarly, while scripting options in Dominions have some major limitations (fire and keep distance command IS one of them) even despite it being the best of its kind (there are squad-level tactics games with pre-planning but I'm not aware of anything army level), units not behaving exactly as you might want them to is an inherent part of the system. Lack of omniscient control where you can micromanage units at will is one of the big strengths of the game (it enables the simultaneous turns format, developing a plan to counter the opponent and then waiting to see how it works out is incredibly thrilling, and it approaches the mindset of historical generals - Hannibal wasn't there microing his Iberian and Gaulish troops to pull back, the troops were instructed to do so in advance and after the deployment Hannibal could only hope that they did follow his orders instead of routing, and that his plan would work as intended) and while there's room for improvement for unit AI, the nature of the mechanic is such that they don't always do what you wanted them to and you should have predicted this behaviour and planned accordingly.
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>>152982964
He has no bargaining power, I'm taking all his lands.
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>>152983923

Preaching does not generate temple checks.
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>>152980195
Already been explained to you multiple times, kindly fuck off
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>>152968753
Jeez don't you guys know you should buy a lad some dinner and some roses before a gang bang.
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>>152987098
>>152980195
As for the whole assassin deal, there would be even more mage deaths if mages immobilized themselves with Communion Slave or passed out from casting Army of the Lead so following combat scripts isn't a good solution. Unit AI trying to "intelligently" determine if they should follow the script is the exact opposite of what you want (not to mention it would be even more infuriating if a mage decided to not follow your perfect anti-assassin script, predictability once you correctly understand the mechanics is good). Having separate scripts for assassinations would be horrible bloat.

And besides, there are plausible thematic reasons for mages behaving such as they do (for example, suppose spells require various materials and other preparations in order to be cast and a mage surprised in his bed doesn't have them at hand) and there are plenty of assassin counters (ranging from autosummon items like Bottles of Living Water or bodyguards to patrolling or simply accepting the possibility of attrition and setting up redundancies in battle scripts).
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>>152987174
Well good, I've killed his snake. Everything on my side of the mountains is mine, everything on the other side is yours. Nothing goes to Atlantis.
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>>152987803
You can also bring a shitton of decoy indie commanders and scouts.
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>>152987098
Damn bruh. Nice.
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No Machaka, its not cool to send gems instead of gold. I am fucking broke and I needed that gold. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>152987803
Still, though, caster AI could really use another pass for assassinations. I about had an aneurysm as LA Abysia watching dozens of my H2F2D1 mages get assassinated turn after turn. They all started with Bless (I had no bless!) and Holy Avenger then usually died right around then. I know that the game weighs different spell options against some table of input to decide what to cast but there's absolutely no reason for those two spells to be valued so highly. The goal of an assassination battle is to kill the other person. Secondary to that is not dying. Bless and Holy Avenger technically fall into those categories, I suppose, but only in the tiniest and least helpful ways.

I know what I'm asking for is a complicated and time consuming effort but some of the decisions in this game seem so infuriatingly baffling. Maybe that's just because I can't see the low-level decision making process.

The B2 guys at least will cast Infernal Prison and Summon Imps with a few slaves. Love those guys.
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>>152989142
Just send your troops towards Vanarus, they'll die and you got some spare income.
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Any new games starting?
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Is it possible to repopulate a completely empty province?
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Ok what the fuck is going on. Is Lambert still around?

Also Lemuria email me you goddamn email so you can win this game.
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>>152989981
In principle it's possibly by wishing for population. There are also events that can change population.

Realistically, however, no.
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>>152989742
All the time. You just need to make one or wait a bit.
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>>152990117
>Wishing for population

You can do that? How? I just thought Wish just plucked single units out of the void for you to use, which is kinda unnecessary when you can just use Magical Enhancement on Sacred commanders to substitute.
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>>152990301
unfortunately it's very cost ineffective at repopulating provinces.
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>>152990301
Similar to some classic RPGs, you can wish for all kinds of things. The thing is, in real practise only a handful of units (such as Seraphim or Chayot) and gems are worth the massive cost (if you have Arcane Vortex up, by spending the gems on stuff you get enough astral pearls to cast another wish).
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>>152989983
>people let Lemuria win a game
/domg/ is such an unleashed scrubbery, that it's not even funny...
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>>152990529
I'm playing a bot game, and I have absolutely no qualms in wasting all my gems to repopulate the Scelerian capital and border fort.

Thanks for the advice, though. But do I seriously just type in "population" into Wish while having my mage sit on that province?
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>>152990301

Wish can do a lot of things.

But yeah, wishing for population doesn't actually generate new population, it just moves the entire population of some other province to the one wish is cast in. Including any army that was present.
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>>152990728
http://www.desura.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/thread/a-guide-to-wish appears to have a list of possible options
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>>152990710

Lemuria has won many games. Meme games with giant maps are especially fertile for Lemuria wins.
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What's the best nation for playing Simcity?
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>>152990710
If Lemuria survives their initial neighbors, it will take several years to actually beat them, so most people just AI or chainstale at that point.
And I don't mean in game years either. People should know how hard it is taking 1 fort from Lemuria. Now imagine taking several hundred.
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>>152990806
>>152990805
Oh, "kill [name]" is also a potentially useful command and in some circumstances wishing for an artifact might be. But those are already comparatively niche, gems and seraphim are what you typically wish for.
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>>152990849
Well, you are right, indeed, but that just means that people in an extremely large maps have to remove Lemuria with all their might.
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>>152990971

I've actually had my pretender survive someone wishing for his death before.

Monuments are hard motherfuckers.
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>>152990853
Sauromatia
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>>152990971
Things worth wishing for:
Gems (on an Alt site, or with Nexus)
Seraphs, Telkhines (depends on what you need)
Certain Heroes (Abductor, Kin-Breaker if N9, some others for rare diversities)
Demon Lords (if an enemy has them, and you want them to not have them).
Artifacts (Either the Gatestone, or again, if an enemy has them and you'd rather they didn't).
Bloodslaves (only if you cannot bloodhunt any other way - good for bootstraping).
Magic Power (only in memegames, cheaper than empowering in Astral after a certain point though).
Kill <name> (for when you want to maybe kill a pretender).
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>>152990971
>>152991079
>>152990806
>>152990805
Is there any downside to having an Immortal use "whatever"?
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>>152991217
How come?
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>>152990971
Oh, and Genocide can be useful for dealing with Lategame Blood if you're ahead of them in gems.
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>>152991296

You're out of a hundred astral pearls for some shit that is not worth 100 astral pearls.
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>>152991717
And even if you needed gold, on average, wishing for gold would net you a lot more.
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If I cast Transfer Mind, is there any way to pick out an individual to Transfer to?
I have a bunch of elephants that are all identical in an army and I want to leave one in the garrison for my nature mage to transfer his mind to but I see no way of knowing which one that is when I'm choosing a target for the spell.

Also if I cast Transfer Mind on a unit in an army that is moving this turn, will the Mind Transfer'd target remain in the province or move with the army?
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>>152991264
>Seraphs, Telkhines
I can tell those are probably SCs, but I don't exactly think SCs are that useful against the wide variety of bullshit Vanheim can deploy.
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>>152991872
also amazing magic paths for forging/rituals
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>>152991872
They're super-powered casters (both on and off the battlefield).

Seraphim are really good SC chassis, though, because they have such good resistances and other properties that it's actually quite feasible to cover the rest of the bases as well and make them survivable against all but dedicated counters. A Seraph with Phoenix Pyre and a lot of reinvigoration for example is really difficult to take down for most armies.
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Is there a spell to change chassis aside from transformation?
I remember a mind-transfer thing, but i don't know if it's the same.
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>>152991296
I usually have a rainbow pretender heavily favoring astral in games where I end up using wish. I always wish for magic power to boost all of his paths at once. It's guaranteed to be worth at the very least, twice its cost in gems.
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>spent weeks turnbullying, slowly advancing the turn timer from night to alte afternoon so i could do doubleturns
>llamaserver fuckups and the subbening push back turn timer at like 6 AM

fuck that.
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>>152992624
didn't Leumuria in the last Latus end up with an all 10 pretender?
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Can a "Magical Power" Wish backfire?
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>>152993645
No, it's always +1 in all magic paths.
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>>152993794
Excellent.
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>Moggers denies me a cap and a throne
>Go half way across the map to snag a two different thrones and win anyways
lmao
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>>152992978
No, I ended up with a whore of a god who got visited by 2-3 doom horrors per turn.
I had a Grand Lemur who hit S10, with at least 2 in everything else. Felt no need to go any further.
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Just got a Stalker from a random event. What should I do with him?
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>>152995224
call the police
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>>152995224
Stalk qties
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>>152995224
keep it as scout, then when you can craft water bottles use it as a surprise assasin with a water bottle.
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>>152995525
>craft water bottles
Dafuq? I'm looking over the crafting list, and the only water bottle I can see is the Bottle of Living Water.
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>>152996921
That's the one, yes.

Water Elementals are retarded.
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>>152996921
That's it. Best way to win a on on one is to bring friends.
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Units temporarily lose two defence PER ATTACK right?
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>>152997069
>>152997041
Huh.

Still, isn't there an item that gives commanders imp guards in fights?
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Spam camazotzs with black hearts, yes or no?
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>>152997320
Yes, but the blood slaves needed to forge lifelong protection are arguably more valuable than 10 water gems, and water bottles aren't cursed.
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yes take it berytoes before a random event pop up a fort over it like it did with madagascar; just leave poor madagascar alone, it's going to be used for housing refugees.
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>>152997320
Imps are trash, they flee if a stiff breeze hits them and deal no damage.

Water elements hit super hard, are pretty durable, and never flee.

Same theory, but one is a lot better than the other.
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>>152997794
Kay.

What's the most ideal setup for stealth-focused assassins?
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>>152997984
Better way of phrasing that, actually: What are the best stealth items?
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>>152997984
You can't assassinate without stealth what are you talking about? You could put ranger's boots and cloak for a total of +50 to existing stealth which will put you at 100+ stealth on most assassins
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>>152998352
Technically you can if you have a commander with a black heart in a beseiged fort.
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>>152997984
Chuck a ranger cloak and boots on them, give them two water bottles.

Expensive, but it works against 95% of mages in the game.
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>>152998352
Ah. Thanks.

What about for hands and head?
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I was testing out some stuff with the debug mod and I've had Kurgi and Hunter of Heroes under my control for about 10 turns, I thought they had like a 50% chance to go rogue. Is wishing for Horrors worth it now?
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Where does one get the nat gen mod?

Pic unrelated for visibility
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>>153000157
https://github.com/elmokki/nationgen

If you're referring to the specific seed being used in a game, you should be able to download it via llama. If not, ask the admin.
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Most female pretenders should have a seduction trait desu I mean you'd have to be gay not to say yes to some action from a (possible) Goddess.

>>153000157
Check the steamgroup thread about the game, mega and vola are dead but the zippyshare one still works.
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>>153000492
This poster is based
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>>153000492
There should be an item that gives seduction
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Now I can't select my nation; I already tried creating a new game with the mod enabled. Even started a new game and made a pretender too.
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Abysia 2h file received
Agartha 2h file received
Arcoscephale 2h file received
Asphodel 2h file received
>C'tis Waiting for 2h file
Ermor 2h file received
Man 2h file received
Marignon 2h file received
Nazca 2h file received
Pelagia 2h file received
Ulm 2h file received
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>>152960935
On turn two?
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>>153002418
>>153001941
He apparently bailed right as the game started

Well, anyone want in a MA game? You aren't really even picking up some one else's pieces, the game is on turn two so you're basically in a fresh game.
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>>153001647
If you were a virgin neckbeard sitting in the library studying magic all day and a 6m tall snakewoman with huge tits shows up and wants snu snu just like in your import-only Yomi scrolls, items don't come into it.
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>>153002418
I bet he blind expanded and lost his god or something. Play it out Jesus Christ...
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>>153002685
I don't remember posting that image but whatever.
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>>152977556
Please god let this new version work. Its a wasteland for non summod games and Im dying
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>>153002825
Nano'd, bitch
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>>153000735
Did you try turning it off then on again?

Serious suggestion actually.
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>>153002685
More like you are an alpha zealot making 200k a year working for God incarnate when Satan herself appears before you and tries to seduce you with lust.
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Best helmet and arms for assassins?
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>>153003408
Don't waste gems on helms and weapons, *maybe* a vine bow or a banefire crossbow or a wand of some sort. Just the skeleton talisman is fine.
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>>153003408
Generally none as it is a waste of gems and could fall into enemy hands.
But if you want to make a million dollar man tier assassin Skullface would be the best as it lets you cast horde of skeletons.
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>>153002967
No dice. I'm sorry Lambert, it's gonna stale.
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>>153003697

On the less ridiculously expensive side, the terror spam mask works pretty well. It only has one target, and they only need to fail once. Helps against shit that can chew through the skelespam faster than the assassin can spam.
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>>153003696
You sure about Banefire?
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>>153005563
Nope, it's pure theorycraft.
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>>153006537
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>>153002681
I'll do it, be in the chat for the next hour or so
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>>153007241
Typed in chat, awaiting email
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You know, I'm honestly a bit surprised that "slow turns" doesn't ever seem to be used as justification for coalition against a particular nation. You'd think it would be the one thing people could agree on.
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>>153006537
Then what's the next best weapon?
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>>153009716
Summoning more water elementals. Failing that, Vine Bow to nuke their defence while your bottled water beats them up.
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>>153008928
That would involve being a massively petty cock, and also opening you up to retaliation if you ever happened to make a series of slow turns.

For all it's autistic faults, the Dominions 4 community has some principles which it seems to stick to implicitly.
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>>153008928
As long as they're not staling I don't care.
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>>153002685
>>/x/
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>>153010313
more like /xxx/ amirite?
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>>153008928
That seems like silly reasoning. I base my in game actions on what's actually going on in game.
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>>153010529
Depends on if that person is weak. If they're strong, no one will want to fight them, so making a coalition against them is pointless.
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>>153011205
>let's not fight the strong guys and let them have their way
Classic /domg/. I really wish you were wrong, but it's a mindset. Everybody's too scared to take on the top dawgs.
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>>153013505
Good thing I'm always top dog
always
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>>153013920
Is that the badmin ?
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I'm sorru if I tale. I think I have a girlfriend now.
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>>153014639
That's not an excuse
t. have a girlfriend
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>>153014797
Me too. Pic related.
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>>153015189
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>>153014639
I'm going to rush you.
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>>153014639

I still do my turns and I've been happily married for three years! And married for another five past that.

No excuses faggot.
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I KNOW THIS HURTS YOU
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>>153015189
Best_girl.png

You forgot the "_for_ants" part.
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What are the best mages to wish for? Is there a list of commanders out there that I can browse?
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>>153015989
List of units: http://larzm42.github.i/dom4inspector/

It can depend, but usually you're wishing for demon lords, seraphs, telkines and some specific heroes like the Abductor.
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>>153015860
BETTER?
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>>153016310
Keep digging yourself deeper, anon.
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>>152991860
Anybody got any info on this? I just realized it's a spell from ME so it may not be something a lot of people know much about. I'll do some testing myself and post results if no one replies.
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>>153016148
It's spelled "github.io".
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Hey, wait a minute. The Dom4 inspector says there's an item called "Ivory Bow" that does the same thing as Banefire Crossbow, but isn't cursed. Why can't I use that weapon on my Stalker?
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>>153016148

Chayots are also potentially worthwhile, if you are rich in N. When Transformationed, they become 6F6A6E6S10H

Which is fucking bananas. If they don't turn into a foulspawn, at least. Needs 58N though.
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>>153017109
Because the banefire crossbow is much cheaper and easier to forge.
15 death gems and 5 air gems for a banefire crossbow that doesn't curse you and has more attacks (but no aoe on the decay effect) isn't worth it, especially not on an assassin that might quite easily die to a mage lucking out and casting a good spell.
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>>153017128
>58N
That's a funny way to say 200+ N. Need to empower to N7 and all sort of sucks.
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>>153017128
I like that picture of a chayot that has been turned into the most badass frog ever.
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>>153015843
Does it work if you go with two charms ?
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>>153017128
10H? Seriously?
Why would you need 58 nature gems? Or what do you mean with 58N?
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>>153017908
You need several hundred nature gems to transform them to a form without -6 pathboost All.
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>>153018018
Do you transformation doesn't usually have minus to paths? It's standard to transform your panic apostles as Asphodle.

Why is it different for those units?
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>>153017612
So you're saying if I didn't care about Gem cost, the absence of curse would be worth it?
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>>153018331
Because they start at -6 Nature path? You need to empower them 7 times before they're even N1. And you can't transform them before that.
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>>153018479
Possibly? Most of the effective assassin techniques involve the assassin staying well away from the target in question anyway. Cheap and plentiful is better than few and expensive, when it comes to assassins.
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Well, if you have all the boosters, you get +4 from items (+2 treelords, +1 moonvine, +1 ring of sorc) or even +5 if you want to give up the body slot, so you need to empower them to only N3
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>>153019120
Nope. Items cannot increase the path of someone who has no path. And anything 0 or below is considered no path.
You can use a booster to go from 1 to 2 though.
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Do Hydra Hatchlings turn into Hydras? If so, when?
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>>153020015
no
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Well, you need to empower it at least once regardless, and having a pathboost below zero still counts as having that path, so boosters still apply.

For example, you empower a monster with -4 pathboost all to N2. You then give it a Treelord Staff and a Moonvine Bracelet. It will display as having N1, because it now has N5, but -4 from the pathboost, despite having N0 without those items.
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>>153020236
That's fucking stupid.
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>>153020558
Hydras hit old age at 270. I've ne'er seen a dominions game go far past 10 years.
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>>153020558
If it worked like that, EA Riley's freespawn would become insane with BoT.
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Hey everyone.

I'm afraid I'll be moving shortly, and as such, I ask for understanding on any slow turns in the following games:

Persian dream
Big Trouble in Little Ragha
When you stale IRL

I don't forsee any causes for staling, but it may be difficult to find the times to play turns.
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>>153021193
>When you stale IRL
How appropriate
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>>153021193
>slow turns
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>>153016952
Transfer Mind is literally just Gift of Reason that can only target animals and kills the caster. It should work however Gift of Reason usually works.
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>>153021416
>>153021234
In the event I stale, I will happily endure the penance /domg/ demands of me.
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>>153019417
Have you never put D boosters on Pan's hero?
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>>153021861
If you stale, you must win a game as triblessed MA Machaka without summod to appease the dominions illuminati.
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>>153002815
He apparently didn't he's got a serviceable build actually, would have mixed the scales around personally and not gone for that particular bless but it should work out. I have no clue what my pretender chassis is or if it's imprisoned or not though, so I get a surprise. Oh boy!
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>>153022050
Well shit, I was gonna go with Tribless MA Ulm. That's marginally less shit.
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>>153022467
Well, at least tribless MA Ulm still has non-cap mages and troops worth a shit.
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>>153022218
Computer issue to be honest
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>back from the beer store
>two turns waiting for me

Awww yis
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>>153024720
What beer did you buy anon?
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Should I switch to ME 1.2?
I think I'm gonna switch to ME 1.2 unless anyone objects.

Here's the remake again btw
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=GinnungagapREBIRTH
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>>153025110
Coors Banquet
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>>153002685
>Your will never sire a pantheon magical semi-divine children with your pantokrator
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>>153025981
You should try getting some microbrew stuff if its a real liquor store, good choice though if all you've got is the big 3.
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>>152997681
Groovy. I'll move in now.

>>153015843
this triggers me
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>>153022467
Tribless MA Ulm can work. Smith battle saint shrouds, put them on Black Servants.
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>>153026575
Just want it to be known, I am moving into Madagascar, clearing the PD, and building a Lab there.
I will teleport out once Fomoria has a scout in the region. Operation Keep Fomoria Alive is still a go.
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>>153027013
>Operation Keep Fomoria Alive
Why exactly?
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>>153026769
To get tribless wouldn't you need an imprisoned god? With no native death you'll be waiting a long time for those black servants
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>>153027094
Fun and memes most likely.
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>>153027094
For the memes? To see if we can?
Also so I can continue to purchase his gems. I like gems.
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>>153027254
More like so you can use aboleths to enslave their elves and improve your land situation.

just like you're trying to bait sauro into fielding a coastal army so you can hit it with mass enslave
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>>153027774
As hilarious as that is:
a. I don't have Thaum 9 yet. I don't think even Sauro has a 9 yet.
b. If I wanted a land army, I wouldn't choose fucking Sauro units. I'd choose something better. Like Vanir or some crap.
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http://imgur.com/a/UjRyZ
Imgur is kind of a shitty website, but I have to say the most recent updates do make it easier to post a bunch of screenshots in one album. Making that album not be shitty, though...

Oceania, I accept your offer, and will send you gems this turn if you have a bracelet to send this turn.
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>>153028343
Thank you Arco. I love to look at these. Rest assured that while I could blast your eyeballs out I don't plan to.
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>>153029002
Even if you did, I have healers and lots of pearls. Still, that does put me more at ease. I do worry that someone will pay Abysia to blind me, though.
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>>153021193
>PersianDream
All good, it's getting to the point anyway where turns are bound to take forever.
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>>153028343
Sorry, didn't actually expect you to accept.

I'll craft it this turn and send it next turn if that's ok with you.
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Avites are cucks.
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>Will will never be a blood slave for a female Rephaite
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So apparently some of my scouts were drunk because this province jumped from 30 units to this over the course of a single month.

I have to choose between wasting 2 months worth of expansion starting on turn 2, or try to attack with my 20 good men.
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Scouts reports can underestimate/overestimate hostile forces by up to 50%
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>>153031868
Can indies change their units? i.e. either gain or lose them without you doing anything?
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>>153031638

Just go for it, man, they're probably most militia anyway.
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>>153032218
They lose units when the supplies go below a certain point and the units literally starve to death. You can have this happen with popkill nations. Otherwise no.
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Who subbed for TC? I was going to do a trade with Mr Lambert
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>>153032904
And gaining units?
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>>153034237
Nope.
As a side note I think it would be cool if routed indies scattered into other indie provinces instead of dying though.
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>>153034237
Only from freespawn that isn't dom-dependent or when a commander randomly gets a soul contract
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>>153034237
There are random events which can do it, but they're very rare.
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>>153035170
Ahh true I've seen this before.
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>>153035226
Fun isn't it? Turn 30 and no one's taken the province because it's FULL OF DEVILS NOW and nobody's got time for that.
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>>153034237
Onyx Amazons. You need to kill them as soon as you can because otherwise they start summoning fucktons of undead and conquering adjacent provinces.
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>>153035741
That's an event chain. It is fairly unlikely to happen
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>>153036020
But once it does it's an absolute bitch to stop and will fuck your expansion right up.
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I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask for a 2-day extenstion on the current turn, since I'm away from home and can't take it right now.
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>>153036470
Sub or stale
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>>153035149
>>153035170
>>153035198
I've definitely seen indie provinces with more units than the previous turn. Is there a margin of error for scouting that can give different numbers from turn to turn even if they remain the same?
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>>153036470
You ask for this now, 4 hours before the turn is due?

>>153036686
Yes. Scouting reports are inaccurate. They are better when you have a scout in the province but still have a margin of error. Scrying spells are the only ones that give an accurate count.
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>>153036470
Can you get on steam? I could sub for you.
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>>153038615
I already like it
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>>153036730
>You ask for this now, 4 hours before the turn is due?
I ask for this when I wake up and notice the 12-hour notice.

>>153036847
I'll try to figure out if the chat works on my mobile. If it does I'll be there in a minute. My screenname is Nayenezgani.
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>>153038730

I already extended the turn.
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>>153038871
All right, thank you.
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Reminder to lemuria, email [email protected]
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>>153039370
no it's okay just set lemuria AI everything will be better that way
t. totally not ulm
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>>153039370
Coolstory is now Lemuria, deal with it.
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>>153004215
I forgive you.
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So, Caesidh staled this time. Did Lambert go to his volcano trip now?
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>>153041869
Yes. His sub can't into the nationgen mod it seems
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Can you guess what happens next, /domg/?
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>>153042281
Your mom died because you didn't reply to this post.
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>>153042281
I was about to go running, but now I have to wait and see where this goes
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Could AllMAGamesAreMemeGames get put up to 48 hour turns?

We're into midgame at this point, and scripting shit is starting to take a while.
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I'm thinking of doing a map with set positions for all of the LA nations.

I want the locations of capitals to be somewhat accurate according to the lore, but I can't really be bothered going through every unit description to try and piece a map together.

Anyone have any thoughts on where nations should be located, relative to one another?

I get some of the more obvious ones like Pythium & C'tis being close, Abysia & Gath, etc
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>>153042937
Abysia, Gath, Ragha, Caelum are all close.

Xibalba, Mictlan, Atlantis, R'lyeh are close.

Marignon in LA has access to Mictlan by sail.

Lemuria, Marignon and Ulm should be close by.
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>>153042373
>>153042440
It's actually a short, sad story.
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>>153043201
Also:

Patala interacts with Arco in LA.
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>>153043223
MEMED
E
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E
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>>153043201
I keep remembering more stuff.

Pangaea and Lemuria border each other.
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>>153043201
Agartha probably is fairly close to Ulm as well, since it was Ulmite humans that settled there when the Pale Ones got fucked.
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>>153043267
That's because Not Alexander the Great lead his armies to the other side of the world. You probably should have Caelum/Abysia/Ragha at least in between.
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>>153042772
Seconding this.
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>>153043350
On second thought. It's non canon. The worthy heroes Lemurian hero "Scassius" mentions fighting Pangaea.

LA Pangaea has to border a crossbow nation though since they got their tech from there.
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>>153043620
Pangaea probably borders Arco since they come from Greek myth, but I don't recall any specific ingame mentions of other nearby nations.
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>>153043201
>Xibalba, Mictlan, Atlantis, R'lyeh are close.
The first three are close-ish in that they're all in the Americas (Atlantis way up north, the other two in the middle/south), but R'lyeh is more towards the middle of the Atlantic I think.
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>>153043671
EA Pangaea borders Ermor. It's mentioned in the description of the canon hero "Blessed Couple".

We could assume this means LA Pan borders some of the post-Ermor nations of Pythium, Marignon and Lemuria.
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>>153043942
Well Marignon is France/Spain so I don't think Pan is on that side because of the Arco connection, but Pythium is possible. Not sure what part of Ermor Lemuria is supposed to be though.
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>>153043671
They've been fighting Not Rome (Ermor). In addition, Pythium (Byzantium) has a spell to summon satyrs. If you used Earth map, presumably Pangaea would inhabit forests North of Greece and East and North of Black Sea, possibly extending as far as Germany in the West.
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>>153044067
That makes sense. It also puts them in range of Ulm, which gives them a good excuse for suddenly learning how to work iron and build crossbows.
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>>153044067
You are right. LA Pythium's Cult of Revelry means they had some connection to Pangaea.
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>>153043480

I am against, its only turn 32 and I do my turns perfectly fine despite having to blood hunt too and managing hordes of bred chaff.
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>>153044053

Ermor is the united Roman empire, Pythium/Lemuria are the Eastern Roman empire.

So basically the same place as Arco/Pan.
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>>153044067
So Pangaea would be in irl Pannonia.
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>>153025542
Llamaserver has issues running ME1.2 and Summod together at the moment though.
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>>153025542
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>>153044310
I think more Thrace and whatever they called the area where Albania is now and further north.
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>>153031638
its probably like 40 militia and 7 heavy infantry.
the HI wont even get to fight.
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>>153045319
Nah, they're listed in order of most to least.

It it's 70 troops it'll be like 40 Heavy Infantry, 20 Militia and 10 Archers.
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>>153045427
Possibly, but remember that the scout order variance is done for each unit type, so the order might not be correct
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>>153045427
There only one way to find out.
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>>153044209
I too am against the delay. Last turn was only 5 or 10 minutes long.

But then again you don't have many units to manage when you've been at war since turn 10.
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What does everyone think of a /v/anheim discord
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>>153047006
Who the fuck cares.
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>>153047126
your mum since she's being violated anally every night by people from vanheim
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>>153047267
Can't trust elves. Not even viking elves.
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>>153047308
They know how to plunder
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>>153047267
>blown the fuck out
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>>153047006
we already have one chat: the steam chat.

discord is as clunky as steam; its only advantage wuold be being able to host people who bought nothing on steam.
can people that bought dominions 4 on desura and got a steam code to paly it on steam access /v/anheim chat even without ever buying anything on steam?

would that even be more than one person?
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>>153047541
The issue is more that steam chat keeps breaking. A lot.
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>>153047541
>steam chat constantly breaks
>people like okofire whining
>todger's is memeing everyone
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>>153047718
>people like okofire whining
>todger's is memeing everyone

that would NOT change.
and actually we banned okofire.

about the steam chat breaking i think it happens like once every day and you can quickly rejoin. not that terrible and discord comes with its own problems.
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>>153047006
That's a neat idea. It's less intrusive than steam chat and you can keep it running in the background. And it's easier to send a private message to someone there, since you don't need to be on each other's friendlist and/or online + in chat.
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>>153047718
Is okofire actually winning games? I was under impression that other people just refuse to play with him.
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Discord also actually saves messages and has voice
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>>153047978
Whining, not winning.

>>153047834
Issue is that it usually isn't obvious it broke. You see the channel just go quiet with seemingly no issues, so chat is kill until someone gets suspicious and checks, then makes a group announcement just to say that it's broken.
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>>153048259
>Whining, not winning.
That's a... pretty funny mistake on my part.
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>>153048259
>whining, not winning
TOP LEL
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>>153044528
Even the one that says summod compatible next to it?
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>>153048080
>saving okofires autism
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And that's it for this game. Kinda anticlimatic end actually, due to requiring all thrones to win. I'll do a full write up when my PC is no longer banned from /vg/
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>>153048080
And it works on smartphones.
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>>153048080
>and has voice

That's a con for me.

Back in my day we spoke text only while playing MMOs. And it was great. Hearing someone's voice just ruins the game experience for me, especially if it's a nasal, average voice and not some trained voice actor.

I can understand skype with friends but I'd rather not hear strangers.
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>>153050329
it's optional though
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>>153031638
>>153045427
>>153045515
Reporting in, it was :
-3 Commander
-15 Militias
-8 Archers
-23 Heavy Infantries

On my side I lost all 10 Spearmen and 4 Archers.

Needless to say the archers targeted the heavy infantry first.
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>>153051817
Realized I worded it kinda in a bad way. I did win, with the last 6 remaining archers. I meant I lost all the frontline and 4 of the archers.
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How strong is curse of the frog prince? Can I use it reliably? What situations would it be useful?
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>>153052318
It's strong against single targets as a "have high MR or you die" spell
Against most things you'll likely be using it against (thugs and SC's) you will need a lot of casts to get it off with no +pen items. If you get it off, you're almost certainly going to kill whatever you hit it with.
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>>153052524
Neat. What's some cheap penetration items?
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>>153052318
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>Ragha doubling his sacreds on one side of Jomon
>200+ Jomon troops on the other side
>me in the middle sieging Jomon

If you're here Ragha we need to talk.
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>>153052864
DO NOT let Ragha or ghosts get a free second capital.
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>>153052772
Does it actually prefer choosing important targets over random fodder?

That changes everything.

What does being a frog even do to someone anyway?
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Also Midgård don't worry about our collision, I won't contest your province.

>>153053030
One of us two is getting it, the question is who, which mostly depends on how good his sacreds are with his bless.
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>>153052651
Eye of the void, spell focus and rune smasher
Everything else is either 55+ pearls or an artifact
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>>153053040
>Does it actually prefer choosing important targets over random fodder?
No idea. You can test it with evocatching fall bears.
>What does being a frog even do to someone anyway?
Having 1 hp, 0 str, 3 att, 0 prot is quite painful.
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>>153053320
Midgard, bro you know what to do.
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What do you know about dom 5?
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>>153053395
>someone should definitely remove Ragha and ghosts
>someone that isn't me, of course

If Midgård attacks me then Ragha gets Jomon. Like I said it's either me or him. Depends on if we think Jomon is worth a war between us or not.
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I'm totally new to multi-player
How long do I have to do turns, I only have like two hours of free time during work days
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>>153054154
Depends on how autistic you are, and how many times you've played with a particular nation before.

Generally for me early game turns take 5-10 minutes at most, mid-game(wars) takes 10-20 minutes and late game autism micromanaging of blood hunting and individual mage orders takes at least 30 minutes if not more. But I'm a slow player who looks over every order and unit TWICE to make sure he didn't omit something. I also generally end up giving the same order to a unit once when I start and once when I finish the turn.
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>>153053040
>Does it actually prefer choosing important targets over random fodder

somewhat. AI usualy target big HP units, closer units, sometimes it targets less units that are more resistant to the damage type ( elementa damage, armor damage, MR negate).

thugs usually have more hp so they get targeted more often unless the enemy brings some shitty fat animal to catch those spells.
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>>153021193
>Big Trouble in Little Ragha

>Just started
>slow turns

I can totally understand needing to take long for various reasons but I am crying on the inside over having to wait longer for the fastest part of the game.
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>>153036470
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>153053395
I don't want to be a remover, I am not Serbian.
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>>153047541
One advantage is that you still can't use steam group chat rooms when you're on mobile or through the browser interface.
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>>153053320
Are you in /vanheim/ chat?
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What I thought was *just* a heavy infantry/heavy cav province in my capring ended up having 4 mages and I lost my god to skelespam. Fucking. Awesome.

At least I have fire gems.
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>>153056293
I'll get in there now.
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>>153056503
Oh I am literally retarded and somehow had "Misc" turned off in the Map Filters even though I always keep that on and it was a throne province. Fuck fuck fuck.

>bad early game nation
>fuck up expansion
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>>153056576
Actually even with it turned on that's damn impossible to see. I'm going to pretend like that means it's not my fault.
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>>153056576

Well at least you didn't fucking start in the death plane like I did.
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>>153057005
I'll trade you.

Seriously. Whoever you are (Ragha) I'm going to have to fight past you to get anywhere anyway. Plus I'd rather have the death gems.
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>>153056739
Thanks for the info
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>>153054154
I'm autistic and the biggest turns i did in the worst games I was were 4~ hours over 2-3 days.
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>>152954425
I won my only MP game as LA man.
Come at me bro.
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>>153057132

Just go through your portal. My wasteland of death is mine.
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>>153057230
Not any time soon, that's for sure.

>>153057150
You're very welcome. In exchange can I ask that you give me the sweet release of death I deserve for my missteps?
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>>153056503
Please, please tell me you aren't Abysia.
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>>153057927
Don't worry, if I were Abysia I'm sure I'd stick around for a while at least.
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QUICK HOW 2 TURN GORGON PRETENDER INTO SC
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>>153058719
equip items and use buffs
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>>153058719
This >>153058789 is basically about as specific as we can get if you don't tell us what you're facing.

I'd add that you want to stay in friendly dominion as a Gorgon - their hp is a bit too low otherwise.
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What are some noob friendly tactics to start playing this game with?
I tried ulm with spamming magma eruption but I don't like playing ulm

Please help my small brain think of something to do that isn't just tri blessing something
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mfw I'm stupid enough to send a small group of tuff giants against a horde of barbarians

>mfw I have no face
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>>153059754
Play MA C'tis, make a million sauromancers and cast horde of skeletons/quagmire/foul vapors/darkness and watch everything slowly die to poison and skeletons
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>>153059754
Play C'tis and spam horde of skeletons.
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>>153059754
Tri bless Ermor?
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>>153059754
You could try an elf nation and thug everything for stealthy raiding shenanigans.

Basically you take every province they own in a single turn.
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>>153059754
>play Vanheim
>w9 e4 bless
>recruit dwarves
>sitesearch
>research alt3 for mistform
>research const4
>forge firebrands
>equip Vanjarlar
>research ench4 for cloud trapeze
>research evo5 for thunderstrike and storm
>research con2 for summon storm power
>research blood4 for storm demons
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So how did it end with Lambert's sub? Did he get it going or does he need an extension?
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>>153062001
Wouldn't you know about him getting a sub if he got one?
You are admin for gods sake.
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>>153062719
No shit, I changed his email and all but the guy who subbed couldn't see his nation when loading the turn file (and staled due to it). I'm wondering if he managed to fix that or if he needs an extension before he stales again.
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>>153063807

That's a common error with all modnation games. You just need to have opened a different turn first and it works fine.
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>>153063807
I'd extend 2-6 hours and hope he seeks help in the chat to solve his issue. Worst case, he just stales again. Best case, he sees >>153064132 and gets it in early.
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>>153064132
I figured that wasn't working or something, but yeah he should definitely do it if he hasn't done that.

>>153064330
I'll slap on 6 more hours for now, hopefully he gets it sorted before any of it matters.
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>>153064132
Maybe I'm talking about a different guy, but I think he said he did that and it still didn't work.
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what can i do with a ridicolous amount of E gems?
i don't have very high research per turn, but i got my high caster and many small casters.
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>>153065905

Earth Attack spam.
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>>153065905
Magic tower in every province.
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>>153065905
Gargoyles.
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>>153066825
>a1

actually this hurts more. how do i obtain A mages outisde of faerie queen, lucky sites, and empowering?
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I couldn't sleep last night so instead I made this. Basically how it works is if an S3 caster is on one of the white provinces (a fleet) then he can teleport to any province red or lower and he can teleport to the purple provinces closest to him. Similarly for blue and orange, then green and yellow.

You can also generalize it and use it to count province distances as long as the path goes through two fleet provinces. In that case add the value of your start and end provinces together and subtract 1 and that's the distance between the two provinces.

That's still a fairly narrow case though, this isn't really the most practical thing I've ever spent a few hours making. However it also serves as a visualization of distances between places. You can see, for example, that Magus and Aeris are closer to the rest of the world than Terra. A whole continent is entirely removed from the rest of the action. Though the map does lie a bit. I took into account sea provinces for calculating teleport distance which makes the southwest and a few provinces along the north coast of the main continent closer than they would be for units traveling on foot.

You can also use it for Cloud Trapeze rangefinding. The scales go white to orange, blue to yellow, and green to green. By which I mean that a unit can cloud trapeze from any green province to any other green province in a single cast.

Happy thugging.

I also just realized I made a mistake in the province where the Decessus asteroids connect with the main world. I colored that orange instead of yellow which means the further provinces are miscolored as well. I guess I'll do an edit later tonight fixing that and including the Cloud Trapeze ranges on the chart but for now this is otherwise correct as far as I can tell.
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>>153059754
Thanks for the tips fellas will try them out
There are some nations I just hate like kuhtiss but I guess I ought to give them a go eventually.
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>>153060198
Ermor horde micro isn't really noob friendly.
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>>153067912
If you don't have A1 and have good E caster, living statues spam is perfectly acceptable.
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>>153068646
You're a madman, but a cool madman like sum1won.
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>>153068646
>tfw cozy and snug underwater

I just want to live a quiet life, don't come bothering me underwater* and I won't bother you.

*and select coastal provinces.
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>>153071201
I am not that cool! I just find tracing province borders in a new layer and coloring them in various patterns to be very zen.

I blame EU4 for my mapmode fetish.
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Admin, how about changing my e-mail to the e-mail of a dude who originally played Lemuria? I mean, I'm doing my turns, but I never asked for this. And the original dude must be pretty pissed off.
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24H extension for BIRD to attend OCTOBERFEST.

FEEL FREE TO COMMENT ON THAT.
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>>153063807
Not sure why we're bothering desu, bats have essentially already won.
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>>153071772
That's a 100% okay reason to request an extension and I'd be happy to grant it as an admin.
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>>153063807
I got it working. I think what ended up happening is my router was taking a shit as I dl'd the turn. Now I just gotta kill the w9s9 awe birds so I can find the scary bats.
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>>153072379
>Now I just gotta kill the w9s9 awe birds
Good fucking luck, mate.
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Post your favorite dominions meme

do dominions memes exist
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>>153072951
yes
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>>153072951
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>>153073068
How
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>>153073415
You have to believe.
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>>153072951
The Best.
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>>153073415
You take FULL cancer scales and then use the fact that your dom only spreads with blood sac / your god to intentionally keep your dominion out of your provinces and sac only to remove enemy dominion when it starts creeping in
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>>153072951
The Toppest
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>Mage casts snow blast
>Snow blast has cold/chill and 10 damage
>Snow blast hits target
>Target has cold resistance of 10
Can someone explain what happens next?
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dom4 is a meme
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>>153073896
If the resistance is >= the damage of the spell, nor DRN roll is made at all and the damage is ignored.

Mages will never target units immune to the spell that they are casting, so if that's the only target they could hit, they'll go off script and cast something else.
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Having staled 6 times, Machaka will now be set AI. Considering they're mostly dead and dying at this point anyway,
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>>153073896
Resistance just acts as prot against elemental damage.

But mages won't target a cold evo at something that has 10 cold resist
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>>153072951
>>153073068
:^)
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>>153074014
>>153074134
So casting flame ward when my opponent tries flaming arrows will make my guys invulnerable?
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>>153074401
No, because 6 > 5
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>>153074401
>>153074489
That said, they are very unlikely to take any damage from them, since there's still a prot roll and the fire resistance isn't lowered by the AP, so it's essentially 1+/-DRN damage vs half your prot. Even light infantry should ignore it.
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>>153072951
Any excuse to dump some /domg/ pics
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>>153074401
If they have no other target, they'll still shoot the guys with resistance.

Also, DRN. This is the same as a 10 damage arrow on occasion killing a heavy infantry outright.
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>>153072571
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bird? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Dark Arts, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret rituals in Caelum, and I have over 300 confirmed summonings. I am trained in skeletor warfare and I’m the best nether darts thrower in the entire Sauromatian crossplaying forces. You are nothing to me but just another bird. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this realm, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the diplomancy screen? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of scouts across Sauromatia and your pretender is being traced right now so you better prepare for the darkness, maggot. The darkness that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, bird. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill and summon your carcass you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my first tome. Not only am I extensively trained in death touch, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the enchantment and alteration research trees and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the pantowars, you little bird. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” raid was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking birds. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit boners all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
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>>153072951
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That's it. I'm sick of all this "MA Ermor OP" bullshit that's going on in the /domg/ right now. Ermor deserves much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself won 24 games as Ermor (that's around 86% win rate) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even rush people with rainbow pretenders now.
/domg/ (and sum1won in particular) spent years shitting on MA Ermor balance to produce the weakest MA nation known to Dominions 4 fans.
Skeleton is thrice as strong as flesh and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a living man can do, a skeleton can do even better. I'm pretty sure a skeleton could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.
Ever wonder why medieval people buried their dead deep in the ground? That's right, they were too scared to fight fearsome skeletons and their shadowy masters. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted skeletons first because their killing power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Skeletons are simply the best type of unit that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the Dominions 4. Here is the stat block I propose for skeletons:
Hit points 48
Protection 16
Magic resistance 18
Strength 24
Attack skill 18
Defence skill 22
Precision 14
3 attacks (sword, skull, bones)
Fear 6
Invulnerability 15
Now that seems a lot more representative of the power of skeletons in real life, don't you think?
tl;dr = Skeletons need to do more damage in Dominions 4, see my new stat block.
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>>153074489
>>153074595
>>153074949
Does flaming arrows convert all the damage to fire or are there separate rolls?
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>>153075590
Separate, sorry bud.
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>>153075590
Literally in the dominspector, m8.

It just adds 8 AP fire damage to the basic damage of the weapon. Also works on javelins and boulders and shit.
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>>153075747
6*
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>>153075747
Does it add it to like mindblasts and shit?

I mean presumably it's just actual projectile-sprite weaponry but I can hope.

Okay I actually bothered to check the inspector (which doesn't actually list the damage by the way. Probably in the manual) and it doesn't effect magic weapons. Unfortunately the inspector doesn't let you search for NOT tags as far as I can tell but on a brief manual search there does not appear to be any immaterial ranged attack that isn't magical. Which makes sense, but is a bit disappointing.
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>>153076354
No mindblasts. Nothing with the 'ignores shields' tag
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>>153076354
It actually affects a handful of magic weapons, like LA TC's sacreds, just not most of them
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>>153076572
Actually, that might be the only exception
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It's called mage support, Man. Not monk support.
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>>153078231
>All monks survived
Are you feeling the heat Ermor?
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>>153078231
I was waiting for dozen turns with all my monks stacked right near your queen just to see what would happen in a clash, you sure took your sweet time.
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>>153078474
I needed to make some calibrations.
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>>153078231
Did they rout turn two? How did you only lose 8 soulles vs 44 monks?
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>>153078231

In light of this can we have Vanarus and Marignon stop fighting and focus on the skeletal threat?
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>>153078902
I was an idiot and used cast spells instead of stay behind troops.

Basically the whole fight the monks didn't move an inch while the elders started spamming endless hordes of skeleton. By the time the skeletons reached the monks they just said "nah fuck it" and routed.

In other news however, I've finally got my fort back so I can prepare a non-joke army to face Ermor.
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>>153078902
All troops except soulless were on guard order, so banishment didn't reach them. Everything else was on skelespam. Fun fact: power of the sepulcher gives skellies +4 attack, making them pretty deadly. And because monks couldn't reach anything, they just stood behind other troops.

>>153079085
Mari had absolutely no intention to fight me in the first place. Here, he even said it in his PM. As long as he stays away from my sweet deadlands, I'm going to do the same.
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>>153079291
Why are you recruiting knights? I've heard they're pretty shitty and cost a lot.
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>>153079291
Man, please show us his Lich Queen. She is the only thing I am concerned before crushing Ermor.
Also what is she doing?
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>>153079570
Summod does lower their price but personally I would still only get them as a handful of bodyguards for kitted out knight commanders.
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>>153079570
I love getting knights and seeing what sort of transformation they end up getting after countless battles. Like one of them getting the Fearless title after a tournament and another Knight of the Chalice after recovering from an affliction. It's fun
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>>153079696
I already posted my lich queen itt though. Evo 7 is one turn away. Come and embrace your demise.
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Also Im moving into 113 and 85 this turn, hope to avoid clashes, especially with you Ulm I saw your stack nearby.
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>>153079570
Knights generally are great, but pricey. They are the last to stand in the most battles. But against hordes of undead they are not so effective, though.
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>>153071551
Sorry guy, but OG Lemuria has not stood up.

Someone Email [email protected] and claim Lemuria.
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>>153079696
Oky doky.

His prophet is also horror marked and always accompanying the queen, use that knowledge as you will.
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>>153080184
I mean, I'm the real OG Lemuria, but I'm not playing for repeats here.
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>>153080184
Oh well. I guess I'll play it even with his shit pretender.
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>>153080258
Thank you. Knowledge is the power.
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>>153029591
Yes that is fine.
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>>153079930
Deus vult fellow crusader. I assure you our armies will not clash, by blood of Arnulf!
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>>153064629
Looks like Caesidh hasn't done their turn yet. You probably should delay until this whole thing is sorted out.
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>>153082165
I'm talking to Lambert right now. I still have 9 hours, yes?
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>>153082381
By the looks of it, yes.

Please try to reconcile with Tashna (they don't trust Lambert but they might trust a new player) and go after Chimori, in the current pace bats are poised to win.
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>>153082647
Tashna is attacking me. If they don't want their armies destroyed, it would be wise to withdraw them. I'm obviously going to need to clean up my territory before I can strike out at Chimori. It's hard to fight a war if you don't have gold.
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>>153083205

So you got your turn to work?
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>>153083520
Yes I did
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>>153083605

Well then, turn it in.
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Welp this went poorly. Need to bring my own elementals too next time
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Abysia 2h file received
Agartha 2h file received
Arcoscephale 2h file received
Asphodel 2h file received
C'tis 2h file received
Ermor 2h file received
Man 2h file received
>Marignon Waiting for 2h file
Nazca 2h file received
Pelagia 2h file received
Ulm 2h file received
Vanheim 2h file received

KYS Marignon you are shit and your dog hates you
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>>153086208
rrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>153068646

mfw I have spawned on one of the outer planes and just want to snuggle up with the other players
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>>153079432
Fuck off I said I wasn't going to play your shitgame of seige the 5 forts with nothing but bones in em while everyone else isnt even near your forts and to begin with
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>>153085256
You can't if you don't have air gems, Chimori.
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guys, what happened to the sub for arco?
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>>153086570
Yeah, I didn't bring any to that fight on account of, y'know, not thinking to summon them
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>>153083205
>I'm obviously going to need to clean up my territory before I can strike out at Chimori
If Tashna actually agrees to withdraw, that can be done with a dozen soldiers while immediately moving the bulk of your armies towards Chimori (and make up further income that way in addition to reclaiming an agreeable slice of land with mutually suitable borders with token forces against 1PD). They have the bulk of the map so there's no time to sit around shuffling your forces when their current opposition is faltering. For example, I just won a pretty big battle but ultimately, that's a drop in the ocean considering their 60 province economy and that came at a cost of luring their forces into a trap instead of counter-raiding so in terms of provinces, I lost ground this turn. On the other hand, this does mean Chimori is currently focusing me so if you (and Tashna) act immediately, there'd be less opposition now than, say, 5 turns later.

With you and/or Tashna entering the fray, I'm quite confident Chimori will be beaten. But without quick and decisive moves from your part, they are going to win guaranteed.
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>>153086656
But you are out of air gems, you only have those that you produce monthly. You thought you would have won by now.
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>>153086638
>part 2
Don't be surprised if AI Ermor eats Arco and wins.
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>>153086913
>You thought you would have won by now.
Pretty sure only other people have ever made that claim. The map is large and the throne settings are high. Regardless of my lead, I know that this game is going the distance.
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>>153086806
>But without quick and decisive moves from your part
Or anyone else that isn't currently fighting them in earnest (Celaene, Norrping etc) for that matter.
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>>153086806
Tashna is committing more to attacking me, and so while I won't be defeated, I will be delayed. C'est la vie.
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>>153087127
From seeing what you've done im pretty sure you don't have many air gems.
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>>153086913
They must have very sizeable gem income, though, with 60+ provinces of territory and recruit-everywhere A3 mages and all that. I've certainly seen Chimori site searching a lot.

>>153087445
Have you talked with them? Last time I checked, they wanted to go after Chimori as well but couldn't because of personal distrust of Lambert.
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>>153086561
Blood: get fucked
Terra: Agartha's pretty good I guess
Aqua: pls attack Blood
Natura: hope you like... leaves?
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>>153087707

What's wrong with blood?
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>>153087481
I mean, I'll buy them if you're selling, but I haven't needed to stop using them

>>153087627
>60+ provinces of territory
I don't think I'm at 60 yet, but I might be. I don't feel like trying to count them up, esp since a fair few are in the middle of enemy territory.
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>>153087771
Blood's fine, I'm all about the blood. The problem with the blood plane is that it's about 10 provinces with 20,000+ pop with literally no defenders and a random visible blood site. That's usually just Arena for more $100% free money but sometimes it's free blood slaves every turn as well.

Not only is it an insanely rich start, allowing whoever spawns closest a strong early to midgame snowball, it's also a very defensive location. If you want to attack overland then there's a one-province chokepoint you have to break through to even threaten them at all. That's insane.

Basically, bully bats.
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>>153087795
I did a rough countdown and it came out 60ish. It's certainly a lot of territory.
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>>153087627

Nope, hasn't tried talking to me.
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>>153088281

I'm not saying that I started blood...

but

I started blood.
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>>153088420
You lie.
I know this for a fact because I started in the blood plane.
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>tfw monkeys warned us be we didn't listen
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>>153088364
>>153087627

And for the record, I have tried to make peace with this new player, but he didn't respond to me. Right here 152871275, so I assume this one doesn't have any interest in peace as well. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Lambert, in all his asspained glory, made certain there would be no peace before leaving the game to the new guy.
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>>153088567

Then we are two in the blood plane mate.

We are talking about Latus 3, right?
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>>153088364
Why don't you stop attacking me then if you want to fight Chimori? I would be happy to retake 140 and 161 and then move my forces north to hit chimori. You are disrupting my gold and gems, which is degrading my ability to fight them. Until you cease to do so, there is not peace between us.

I'm honestly too honorable of a player, you have nothing to lose by trusting me.
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>>153088609
I mean, he's also going to come back in a few days. The sub is just doing a few turns for him.
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>>153088609

Link fucked up, right here >>152871275 I meant.
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>>153088650
Two in the blood plane one in the natura is probably the best for all other nations since it means the two of you actually have to fight for your expansion, or at least split your free money two ways.
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>>153088702

Oh look, he speaks. Now, how can I be sure I can trust you? Certainly not just because you say you're "too honorable". I think some sort of material assurance will be required before any sort of deal can be made.
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>>153086638
>>153087036
Sub here, what do you think happened?
>>152963661
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>>153089196
The fact that the two of you will be in prime position to win should Chimori be defeated (with most other nations badly battered or dead) while you're both going to lose guaranteed if you just waste your strength on each other should be assurance enough.
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>>153086638
>2 stales in an otherwise staleless game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUOM2xfAtw
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>>153089196
My, my. The tone you presume to take. The material assurance is your army, as well as your lands. I will destroy the former and take the latter if you refuse to leave.
I've asked friends about you. You're lucky I'm even offering a deal to the likes of you.
>>153089446 has the tail of it. Leave now, or be destroyed!
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any PBEM recruiting?
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>>153089446

Honestly, at this point, I'd rather the bats win than Ceasidh/Lambert. I mean, he's done nothing to me really, while this guy has been a pain to me two games in a row.

Also, I think I figured out why Lambert was so anally devastated in the last Latus game. It's because he really wanted to get the blood plain to himself as R'lyeh and when I cockblocked him by starting in it, it reaaallly struck a nerve. Proof is this time in Latus, he chose Ragha, one of the few nations that can start in the blood plane. Funny thing is, I think Xibalba got the blood plane this time as well, hah!

>>153090098

That won't do at all. I can't, no matter how honourable you say you are, trust you with you putting nothing on the line because you are playing, after all, an elf race. Because you know what they say, trust a snake before bat, a bat before a jewiant, but never trust an elf.
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>>153090998
You haven't defeated me, so I see no reason to pay you off. The only payment will be in bloodshed if you don't cease hostilities.
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>>153090126
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=GinnungagapREBIRTH
Be forewarned, its pretty Memey.
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>>153091419

I don't see why you're so concerned about bloodshed if you're so certain you'll beat me like you say here >>153087445.

Also, the assurance isn't meant to be a capitulation on your part, but rather collateral, which would be returned after a few turns once I see that you are indeed true to your word. It doesn't even need to be money, seeing as how you're probably running dry on that particular resource right about now. It could be gems for instance, you send me over say 50 air and water gems each, which you should have considering they're your cap gems, and after a period of time after I see your hostilities towards me have ended and hostilities towards the bats have begun, I will return those gems to you safe and sound. It would be like any other trade deal, and should I fail to honour it, everyone on Steam and here would know that I am that sort of scum, which is obviously something I don't want. Fairly reasonable. What do you say?
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>>153092536
You realise that's probably not even Ceasidh, yes?

Don't ever believe anybody in the thread is who they say they are. Get them in Steam chat.
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>>153093893

Why would anyone lie on the internet of all places?
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>>153092536
>>153093893
>>153094070
You 3 impostors need to calm down.
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>>153090126
New PBEM
http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=AntiquisTerra

Non meme Archaea! Be prepared to wait though, it will take a while to fill up.
Should be a long fun game though so be ready for the long haul.
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>>153094197
As the true Tashna, I would like to let it be known that I pledge my allegiance to the one true lord of our realm, Ninai. Having ceded sovereignty of our state, all further diplomacy should be conducted through them.
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>>153094815
>Non-Meme
>Archaea
Does not compute.
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>>153094815
>Old summod
>Old worthy heroes

uh . . . why exactly?
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>>153094815
Fuck it, I'm down. Hardly played any EA but I'll figure something out.

Are you using an outdated Summod and Worthy Heroes on purpose?
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>>153094815
Also
>score graphs on
Though, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and just assume you didn't change the default, and not that you actually wanted score graphs on.

You might want to at least wait until Der Gotter is decided though.
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>>153094815
i'll join but just wondering why those old mods?
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>>153094815
So, I went back and fixed some of the glaring connection issues in the original map file. I appear to have missed a few though <glares angrily at 240-153>
I will work on correcting these, and advice you to use the fixed map once I'm done with it sometime this week.
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>>153095501
>>153095386
>>153095554
>>153095685
>>153095723

I'll be using all up to date mods and when the new map is uploaded I'll change that too.
Didn't know the mods were outdated, I just copied from the der gotter admin page.
Also I overlooked the scoregraphs, they will be off
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>>153095723
All Tomorrows literally ever? I'd rather join that then a plain Achaea game, I just want something being set up as a backup plan when I inevitably get removed from Latus 3 in about 10 turns or so.
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>>153096303
It seems that 6 3-man teams is about the limit of just the Domg+Vanheim group. Maybe it would be doable to get 7-8, but 10 seems unrealistic, and with Community Clash starting soon I likely won't have enough time to organize it.
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>>153092536
>>153093893
>>153094070
>>153094197
>>153094846
No leave, no peace.
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>>153095723
><glares angrily at 240-153>

*raises paw* are anthros allowed to join too? :3
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>>153097194
this is bait
I hope you get tri bless rushed in every game you play
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>>153097194
t. Pan
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>>153094815
You can take the meme settings away but you can't take the memeing away. I'll submit my pretender tonight
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>>153094815
>tfw it's 1am

I'll join tomorrow morning if there are good nations left.
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>>153094815
In as Sauro. I should really stop playing nations in PBEMs that i've never played before.
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>malgrib shilling his terrible map
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>>153100829
I've yet to play the same nation twice in a PBEM. Variety is the spice of life.
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>>153100829
I'm in as Hinnom, and I've never played as them before.
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>>153101224
stop bragging, malakal
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>>153101348
I'm not Malakal tho
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>>153101490
that's what you always say
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>>153101348
Bro, there at like, what, 80ish something nations. Technically I've played 2 different ages of Agartha, Atlantis, and R'lyeh, but I have yet to play the same nation/same age yet.

Unless you count Blitz Abysia. I loved me some Blitz Abysia some months ago.
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>>153101862
>I have yet to play the same nation/same age yet.
same
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>>153101174
The map itself is pretty okay, it's extremely well balanced. It's a bit ugly though.
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>Saturday evening
>ded thread
w-where is everyone?
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>>153104689
Thred is always ded on weekends desu
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>>153094815
Where do I get the map?
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>>153101862
>>153101986
>malakal samefagging
l m a o
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>>153105615
>implying Malakal is the only player to do this

Not sure why you're sucking his dick desu
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>>153105587
yes, i would like to know also.
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>>153105587
>>153095723
The map file will be outdated before we start but for now...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1IGVeRBBP-8T1N2cnFTY2VnZ0k/view
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How useful (or useless) is Hurricane on an enemy's farmland province if I can stack a few? I don't have many other ritual options, but could save the gems, I suppose.
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>>153107952
Borderline useless. Hurricane is nice to shut down production on cap-dependent nations like TC or Vanheim, but not for the income loss. Air gems are too valuable to burn like that
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>>153107952
Don't bother. Hurricane is the weaker alternative to rain of toads. You use it to stop forts from producing shit when you siege other forts.
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>>153108075
How about Fires from Afar if I have a large income of fire gems, and expect a large group of infantry to stay on a province?
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>>153108075
This pretty much. Using it on a capital to shut off production is about the only use it has, but for that use it can be pretty good (any nation with strong cap only sacreds, or strong cap only mages, is a good target for this).
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>>153108231
Thanks for the advice. I'll keep that in mind in the future. It won't help in my current predicament, sadly.
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>>153108206
Fires from Afar hits a set number of units, so you want it for killing mages with relatively few units to soak up the hits. Flames from the Sky is the one that hits a whole army and can be used to clear out large numbers of trash like when Lemuria has 2000 ghosts in a fort
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>>153108206

Rituals (that do not cause events) resolve before movement, so aim your fires at places armies are, not places you think they are going to move.
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>>153108413
>>153108406
Wonderful information. Thank you. <3
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>>153108618
Read the fucking manual.
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>>153108950
Thanks for being a nice person. I have. I just don't have the whole turn resolution sequence memorized.
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http://z7.invisionfree.com/Dom3mods/index.php?showtopic=2737&st=135

Sombre showing his sprite creation process for chaos dwarfs
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>>153106450
I'm pretty sure you already won. There's no need for doing things like that.

I also like how Machaka went AI after casting EBDW, GoH and Riches from Beneath.
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>>153110956
All I wanted was people heroically killing me.
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>>153110956
I really wish there was an option to automatically set people AI after a certain number of turns
It's so easy to set yourself AI as well but so many people don't bother to do it for whatever reason
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>>153111876
Didn't you just destroy both Marignon and Man after obliterating Sceleria?
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>tfw they think it's a 1v1
>tfw you are just the anvil
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>>153112298
No. I killed 1 major army of each player I bordered, and that's it. Raided some shit too, but nothing major.
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>>153111876
>/domg/ can't form an alliance against Ermor even when Ermor isn't playing to win, in a game where the point is to form an alliance against Ermor.
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>>153112426
I guess we know the answer to the question of whether /domg/ are masters of machiavellian intrigue or incompetent backstabbers.
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>>153113481
The problem is a lack of strategic foresight. Coupled with the ridiculous snowball effect you get while winning us anonymous plebs can't countenance sacrificing our own gain to get a chance later on.
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>>153112426
This. The way to win domg games is to snowball. If you notice someone else snowballing - snowball *faster*. Get other people to help you eat some small dude, don't fight the big guy - unless you think you can 1v1 him, cause that's what you'll be doing.
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>>153015843
I love bane venom charms
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>>153116480
Could you explain how best to use them?
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>>153118823
Summon a black servant, give him a bane venom charm, send him charging through the empire of whoever you want to fuck with.

Bonus points if you pretend you're being fucked with as well, then finger a different nation as the culprit.
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>>152948656
That's hilariously good, and begging for a mage to buff it.
Fuck, it's even got great morale.
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>>153119473
Hahaha. Wonderful. Thanks for the advice!
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>>153119531
It also dies to a single scout.
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>>153119473
Oh, any specific reason why it should be a black servant instead of a generic scout or something?
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>>153120306
It's undead, so I assume it doesn't get cancer ?
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>>153120306
>>153120604
Isn't it just the stealth 60?
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>>153120604
>>153120668
BOTH
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>>153120604
I was wondering about that. Does anyone know for certain?
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>>153120693
<3
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>>153120723
It's mainly so it doesn't die from disease
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Also, can anyone tell me if this works (the double charm) >>153015843
It's for a science project
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>>153121458
They stack only when held by multiple different commanders
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>>153123621
Okay thanks. I'll just have to make more servants.
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>>153123621
How crazy can it get? Is it worthwhile to toss these down when's someone's sieging something?
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>>153125331
It's spending gems to annoy your enemy. I almost never do it because I hate fun. It can be good if you can slip a handful into a big stack of mages, but death gems are really fuckin' nice and I usually prefer having more other nice death things.
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Please hit the bump limit.
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I just can't stop getting dem pokemons (tm), man.

And yes, he has dwarven hammer on him. #JustAIThings
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>>153129442
>And yes, he has dwarven hammer on him. #JustAIThings
There exists at least one player that has done this
>>
Is there some what to disband/fire units that I am missing or am I stuck with these useless aquatic units sapping my income?
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>>153130239
You're stuck. I've tried using bane venom charms as pelagia and they were entirely ineffective. The absolute best case scenario is patrolling down unrest events. Yes, it's shit.
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My whole nation is going at war and no one told me anything about it?
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>>153130339
Shoot.

Is there some kind of item or spell that lets me bring them on land? Like an opposite of Water-Breathing?
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>>153073516
Seriously noob here, what was forester bob?
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>>153130556
A guy who got rushed by elves, and turned his pretender into a ghetto SC, and pushed them back so hard they went AI. It was one of the first game played by this general, so it felt impressive for scrubs (such as myself), and thus it stayed for a while as a meme.
>>
Vanheim, we don't want to be rude to a potential customer but the payment you sent is incomplete(And told us to keep the change, I guess this is some landwalker humor.)

The items are going to be ready by next turn anyway, I've detailed in-game on how much you have left to pay.(I could say it here if you want.)
>>
>>153130921
ty
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>>153057210
How exactly did that go down?
>>
Also I feel like I wouldn't be a true merchant if I didn't do any advertising.

Here's some killer cross-path items we have in our stock:
-Dancing Shield : 2 gems
-Stone Bird : 3 gems
-Scutata Volturnus : 3 gems
-Ivory Bow : 3 gems
-Golden Arbalet/Vision's Foe : 2 gems
-Implementor Axe : 2 gems
-Shadow Brand/Fire Brand : 2 gems
-Lantern Shield : 3 gems
-Skull of Fire : 3 gems
-Shield of Gleaming Gold : 3 gems
-Carmine Cleaver : 3 gems
-Elixir of Life : 3 gems
-The Copper Arm : 3 gems
-Crystal Heart : 3 gems
-Crystal Matrix : 2 gems
-Rainbow Armor : 3 gems
-Cauldron of the Elven Halls : 2 gems
-Gossamer Cloth : 3 gems
-Pocket Ship : 4 gems

And many more. If you have any doubts about an item from our stock, feel free to ask.
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Do archers not get their ammo back after a battle? They literally started charging straight into the enemy infantry and lost a battle that shouldve been an easy win.
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>>153134558
archers always have full ammo going into battle. You must have goofed your scripting or something.

Something to keep in mind though, if one unit of a ranged squad is engaged in melee then none of them will fire. Is that what happened?
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>>153134645
Well they weren't "engaged" in melee, but they were the only units besides their commander. They were farthest in the back and set to fire, I was hoping they'd fire until they got close and then went melee instead of rushing like that.

But maybe I put attack closest instead of fire closest or something.
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>>153135098
It could be that they were closing until they got into range but then before they could fire the other side started a melee. Does that seem like what you saw?
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>>153135162
Probably. Well I'm not gonna cry too hard about it, I'll just hire some mercenaries to make up for it.
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>>153133603
I also won an LA Man game. It was a very, very, strange game.
Golem spam and Tarts saw me through the day, with an army of around 40-50 SCs.
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>>153057210
I also won a game as LA Man, because everybody else went AI.
t. not the other two anons
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Im getting a turn error in the meme of ages game, Im mictlan, I re-dled the turn file.

What could be up?
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>cast haruspex
>this shit pops up
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>>153136556
>level 1 and 2 search is all you need, don't bother with anything above :^)
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>>153136556
Great site.
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>>153136556
k
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>>153080258
That's a shit bless.
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>>153137987
it's ok for evo mages. but too expensive overall.

also don't you need only D5 for tarts?
and with S6 rings E2 A2 would get you to the elemental staff. in fact you only need S5 for both rings and wish.
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>>153138150
>Let me just get these non-national gems in my nation that everyone hates that does not have access to these paths

It does not have enough paths to sitesearch with it.
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>>153137987
It's not a bless build
>>153138150
Higher E is for potential globals and earlier battlefield clear spells. I don't know why he has A4, though. Maybe the booster?
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>>153110956
>I also like how Machaka went AI after casting EBDW, GoH and Riches from Beneath.
Machaka was never playing to win. He started fucking with Nazca and Agartha out of boredom and went AI after Vanheim died and they both turned on him. I wouldn't be surprised if he supplied Ermor with gems or something like that as well.
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>>153135790
That's interesting. Did you have a pretender designed solely around SC production?
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>>153138501
Given that he used golems, I'm gonna guess N9 and that he got some edgeway into tarts
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Can you use assassins to kill commanders in indie controlled provinces ? If yes, can it be a valid tactic ?
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>>153138960
Yes, and it depends.

Expanding with assassins is slow as fuck since you first need all the commanders (which might be 3+ guys depending on the province, and then you still need to attack the province to scare away the troops assuming your assassins don't just get merked by a strong commander or indie wizard in the first place, and then you need to move to the next province before doing it all over again, so that's at least 3 turns per province, while a normal commander with troops will just attack-move and take it in 1 turn). But if you use it to supplement your normal expansion it can be worthwhile since it doesn't cost you any troops. If you're going to be recruiting your assassins anyway (which might very well be the case for nations like C'tis or Pangaea), you can get a couple "free" provinces that way.
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>>153139254
Thanks, I might try it for fun.
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>>153139254
Assassins are also a valid tactic for taking on hard thrones.

You can take out the commanders 1v1 without having to deal with the troops at the same time.

>which might very well be the case for nations like C'tis or Pangaea
Pangaea's assassins need research. Using assassins as C'tis can work, though.
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>>153138960
they have a high chance of failure unless you give them a skeleton amulet or another summoning item.

one of the few nations which profits from this strat is Ctis.
in my game as ctis i think i got 2 provinces with assasins + i was almost taking another one when my neighbour conquered it.

out of 18 province, and with a very slow crippled expansion due to weird connections, and i could have conquered one of them with troops but i was alread starting a war (because i am an asshole!).

if you can do assassins with skeleton trinkets you should always use them for expansion, but it's so slow that you will get only 1-2 provinces.it's the Ideal way to get that hard province with 40 heavy cavalries.

assasins with just one skeleton trinket can fail against most mages, therefore it's a wild roulette to try to get a throne with them.
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>>153139254
>>153139995

Don't indie commanders respawn even after they're assassinated? I think I remember seeing this happen.
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>>153140718
No.

PD regenerates, but indies don't.
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>>153140718
I've never seen that happen. If you kill an indie it stays dead.
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New thread when
>>
>try new nation
>make a pretender I think looks cool
>read about the units and commanders
>think of what research I should get
>ok let's play
>attack militia shits, only thing I think I can take
>they have two air makes
>they kill my troops
>turn three still only have one region, my capital
>alt+f4

Why not just play dice

I will never understand this game.
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>>153140891
When you make it.
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>>153141304
From the sounds of it you're still reaaaaalllllyy new to this, and getting mages in indies is very unlikely but not game-breaking. A few hundred more hours in single-player might make things clearer to you.
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Time to ascend >>153144297
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