No.11340[Last50 Posts]
Let's give this a try. The game's known for being hard and takes a while to learn but essentially it's a turn-based strategy game and something of an autobattler, you watch cool armies from all sorts of ancient lore fighting.
Game's playable in multiplayer on a pirated copy as well, more info here
https://pastebin.com/pzKYyX5P (legit copy works just as well).
I'll be posting some tips and general info about the game, next post will be about making a pretender (your to-be god if you win) and joining the game.
No.11343
I'd be down to play
No.11344
Actually to start off the best tip I can give is pressing ? in every new screen you get as it gives you relevant shortcuts.
And this is where you can find docs/video tutorials
https://illwinter.com/dom6/docs.html No.11345
To start off the best tip I can give is pressing ? in every new screen you get as it gives you relevant shortcuts.
In the main menu you click tools & manuals or press g and then create a pretender, select early age. One nation per player. Different nations get different forms to choose from.
Once you choose a nation you can click on your god's icon to choose a different one (rmb shows info), press tab while on that screen for some more info like their magic paths and built-in scales (more on that later).
The screen is broken in 4 parts, from top to bottom:
Inanimates, these gods can't move (unless you unlock teleport and they can cast it), generally don't cost a lot and have some decent magic paths. I don't have a lot of experience with those but I think they basically sit in your capital researching/crafting/casting spells.
Titans, these need items if you want to fight with them, otherwise most of them will die pretty quick. Most of them become relevant mid to late game.
Beasts, early game expanders. These range from strong to very strong in combat (some are shit though), at least early versus independents. You're looking for high hp, high protection and maybe fear/regen/trample.
Mages, these are very cheap making it possible to turn them into rainbow mages (mages with a lot of paths). Easy to lose in combat but very useful for casting spells and site searching.
Next is magic, you need a certain amount in a path to cast spells. You can press s to see spells just to get a rough idea of what that looks like.
Bless is a buff that can be activated on any unit with a sacred tag by casting priest spells (I think your god always has the bless buff but I might be mistaken), you can make your whole strategy around those.
Next is dominion scales. Gonna take forever to go over all of them and I don't remember what all of them do exactly but you want no less than 4 dominion and preferably no misfortune.
Imprisonment is pretty self-explanatory, you can delay your gods entrance (if he's not very useful early on for example) to get some more points.
Important!
Remember to set a password, otherwise anyone can pick and play your nation.
This is the game
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/679#statusOnce you have your god you connect to address on that page, select nation and your god.
Game's unlisted so we shouldn't be getting any randoms, you can take your time. I'll pick a map and settings depending on how many people we get.
No.11347
How moddable is the game?
No.11348
Haven't played in a while so I might be missing on some fronts but here's how the turns go:
First your recruit. Select a province and press r, you'll need a fort(palisades) to recruit your nation units.
Cycle through commanders with n, give orders (space while having one selected for some more options other than move).
In any province you can hit t to config/script your armies, remember to hit the ? key there as well, game plays a lot better with hotkeys.
If you have mages (any commander with a magic path) you can move them to a province and hit space>site search to look for sites (or S), success depends on mage's paths. Once you have more mages you set of them to research by hitting R in any province with a lab.
E to end turn, that's the rough gist of it. In mp you can always load back and change your turn, unless you're the last one to submit.
I'd recommend to test your nations early expansion, you want it to go as smoothly as possible. You want to see what unit(s) you can spam to expand once a turn or so, more if you have an expander god.
Also important is building palisades asap and in proper locations. iirc you're looking for provinces with high pop. Forts soak up resources from connected provinces (which are used to recruit) so you want as little overlap as possible.
Win condition is capturing all thrones. If you have any questions feel free to ask, I'm far from a good player and haven't played in a while but I know the game to an extent.
>>11347Very moddable from what I can tell. You can click on games on blitzserver, stuff under Downloads is either a map or a mod. From what I remember it's mostly (re)balancing and more nations. There's an all-mods-pack on csrinru and it's 5.5 gigs.
No.11350
Forgot to mention that the game has simultaneous turns. You do your turn at your own time and submit it, once everyone submits host puts out the next turn. Generally it's 1 turn a day or so, we'll have no time limit to begin with though.
Another way to play is blitz, when you can get everyone available for a few hours to play a game start to finish in one sitting.
No.11354
if you're saying one turn a day, then is this a year long game?
No.11355
>>11354I don't know what the average turn count is but it might be around 70. The longer the game goes the less players it has as well so the turns might happen faster. Most people are in multiple games at once, although turns can take quite a bit of time to do later on.
Don't know if we'll be having multiple games at once, let's see if we can get one at least to start with.
It's gonna be a slow burn most likely though since not everyone has the same hours.
No.11357
I've dabbled a bit in this previously but never played it online, so I'm tempted to join. Are we definitely doing EA? Not against it, but I've only ever tried MA so I'm not sure what to expect to be different.
No.11358
>>11357I'm fine with any age myself.
EA has weak troops/strong mages, LA is strong troops/weak mages, MA is in the middle I suppose. Some other minor differences too I bet.
No.11367
SET UP THE GAME ALREADY LETS GO
No.11368
http://dominionsmods.com/index.php?showtopic=38
60
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3246816090should we play with this mod?
No.11369
>>11367I'll pick a map (unless you have any suggestions) and throne settings once I can see how many people join.
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/679#status No.11370
>>11355so what happens if someone never submits a turn?
No.11371
>>11368I suppose we might as well. Trying to figure out where the mods go so I can take a look.
>>11370If there's no timer idk, if there is a timer they skip their turn. I'll set a 24h timer then unless there's any objections.
No.11372
>>11371probably fine, but I'd hope there's also a kick method
No.11373
>>11369no mods for the first game please come on now.
early age sounds good to me.
No.11374
i'd vote no mods, but if a touhou mod adds people then I would be fine.
No.11375
We'll do a mod game in future games if people stick around then.
Or you can set up one yourself and see if anyone joins (you can join however many games you want), I'll probably join myself as I don't mind doing two games at once.
To clarify then we're doing EA vanilla, make a god and connect to blitzserver address above (click on the link and you'll see address there). It'll ask you to choose your nation and god once you connect.
No.11379
Actually, what I justed posted was too long..
The most important looking text is on page 30 of the manual
The Pretenderhttps://www.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf No.11380
will this game affect the hamster thread in any way
No.11381
your hamster will transform into an eldritch abomination and consume humanity
No.11382
>>11381that sounds good it will make him more powerful so i support this game
No.11385
Are the deep-one mind controllers banned for being too much of a grief for land people to deal with?
No.11387
>>11340I might be interested but this sounds like the kind of thing I should try in singleplayer first to try and get it
No.11388
>>11340i played dom5 a few years ago and it was pretty fun
does 6 have a big touhou overhaul mod too?
No.11390
>>11372if it works like in 5 than the admin has a password he can use to set other players AI
No.11392
I don't really know how to submit my god to the server... But I think I know what I want to do.
No.11395
>>11392connect to a game server option in network and put games.beta.blitzserver
.net for the IP then the 10105 for the port number
make sure you put a password on your god so no one takes your turns for you
No.11396
>>11373>>11374For a serious game I'd recommend no mods, at least not the 2hu mod since it is completely nutty. Take Mayohiga for example, Yukari as a pretender by herself and half assed scripting can solo independent armies and most early game player armies. Being what she is, she can also teleport anywhere, and once you get income for gap commanders, they can also do the same and teleport anywhere and bring pain by themselves. Only getting stronger as you progress your magic research and they get more spells to spam, and gaps to shit infinite bakenekos onto the field. Of course this is singleplayer, multiplayer I imagine would be much harder, but I can only imagine how close to heroes 3 bullshitium levels a competent player(s) can get with 2hu pretender gods and armies.
>>11386For EA Caelum you'll want something a little more active, what you have is okay for MA Caelum with some adjustments which I'll sperg here since I assumed that was the case earlier. As he is imprisoned it is going to be a long time before he'll come out and provide air shield or do anything with his high air magic. Since it's Caelum, you dont have much in the way of sacreds to put those blesses on since they're cap only plus a commander and whatever summons you might research later, so I'd drop air shield and much of your pretender's magic and focus on dominion scales. You can take or leave blesses for your cap units and summons, depends on if you want to focus on those or not. Dump your production a little and put that all into cold scales, you REALLY want 3 cold scales since a lot of your commanders have traits that scale with more cold, such as ice crafters. A little order can help too to counteract loss of income and you have the right idea of having high dominion since you depend so much on having a frozen hellscape to work with and fight over.
That's for MA Caelum and I dont want to waste what I wrote...
For EA Caelum you have a bit more in terms of sacreds so it's worth considering getting a nice bless. You can dip into turmoil or sloth since your troops are not as resource intensive as other nations and it give more points for a stronger bless. Bump up magic scales a bit so your casters become much stronger inside your dominion. As for their magic and blesses, you can get some pretty good ones if you go with glamour. Obfuscate is super nasty since you can make your sacreds stealthy, and since they can all fly it is a horrific experience to your enemies since you can raid with impunity. Displacement would also make them far harder to hit. Chill aura would also be incredible for your defensive temple guard as they are already pretty tough, and then become very tough in cold while also wearing down the enemies they fight.
Either way, you have a ton of flyers, make use of that mobility as they will get stomped by meeting a traditional army fair and square or on their terms. Be a disgusting little shit and run circles around them and take their lesser defended provinces.
>>11388It does, it's what
>>11368 posted, and since 6 is basically just 5 under the hood, I think you could even merge the dom 5 2hu mod with the dom 6 one for the factions it had.
No.11397
>>11396>it is completely nutty>half assed scripting can solo independent armies and most early game player armiesThis applies to base game Dominions too however, you tell me how most early game armies are supposed to beat Dai-Oni
That's part of the fun though is how broken this game gets since it can be counteracted with diplomacy
No.11406
>>11396I adjusted it a bit before this message to a better character, dormant instead of imprissioned.
Blesses a bit better for commanders and pillagers
No.11407
>>11397This is also true, pretenders built right can expand by themselves and level out armies. The difference, is how high the ceiling goes. Earth serpents, krakens, and dragons are all well and good, but once your opponents start outfitting their commanders and mages with magic and artifacts, suddenly they cant compete like titans or rainbows can with their own menagerie of spells and gear gained later.
Dai-Oni are busted, but yomi will struggle to mass them early because of the huge costs and they cant be everywhere. As demons you have ways to counteract them too. Really no worse than niefelheim rolling in with a army of giants.
Yukari is just free with stupid bullshit and actually can be everywhere.
No.11409
notice if you make a god then want to try it in singleplayer press ctrl+L on the god creation screen it takes you too after making a game
No.11417
>>11410>dominion controlVery important, it's the name of the game after all.
So imagine you have two borders. You have your physical territory borders and then you have your dominion borders. Your dominion is your deity's influence and how many people worship them. Losing all your territory should be obvious, but if your dominion is extinguished then you also lose despite having a physical empire because your deity has no faith and fizzles out.
What those stats mean is how each province is influenced by your pretender god's dominion. A high dominion (the candle) is one that spreads hard and is incredibly difficult to remove, the scales are the effects it has on those provinces in your dominion, so for your case it is 1 order, 1 productivity, 3 cold, 1 growth and neutral luck and magic. Your dominion will then press the provinces under it to conform to those scales.
You'll also pick things up as you go, this game is VERY in the weeds on autism.
No.11422
>>11385Nothing is banned.
No.11423
Forgot to mention, game will be starting in 12 to 24h. If anyone can't submit by then make sure you tell me, we can wait.
No.11430
The map will be either random (picrelated, it generates on game start I assume), or we can try one that's intended for 7-8 players.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3146452765 this one for example
If no one objects I'll go with random.
8 level 2 thrones each giving 2 points, you need 10 points to win so 5 thrones claimed.
No.11431
>>11430I dunno really how to play the game well enough to know how to feel about the throne count. Are there any other good ways to generate element gems besides capturing them?
No.11433
>>11431You mostly get gems from sites, which you find by doing site searching. Air 3 mage will find most air related sites, air 4 mage will find all that are present.
If you ctrl+f magic sites in the docs there's more info.
No.11438
>>11430i vote the steam map so no one gets banished to an rng cutie island or kuso tiny cap circle
No.11447
>>11430I feel like I'd want quite a large map after playing a few games on my own, definitely think I'd feel a bit squished without enough land to expand to and I don't want to bully any new people that are unlucky enough to spawn next to me. If you still think that map's going to be good enough for all of us (assuming we get a few more people who sign up) then I guess it's fine.
No.11448
>>11447Although personally I might like a bit more thrones.
No.11450
Looking for a map.
Dunno if you're around or not xib but do you want a cave layer or are you fine without one?
No.11451
>>11450It'd be nice to have but if you can't find a good map with it I can take one for the team
Just don't rush me pretty please
No.11452
give the bat lover his caves
No.11453
The map will be random vanilla after all. Can't find a fitting premade one and there's way too few good ones anyway, might as well play random.
We'll try a game and if it's really so unplayable we can try mapnuke
https://nuke-haus.itch.io/mapnuke-2Maps look like shit and player/throne spawns are a bit too symmetrical for me but that's balance for you I guess.
Starting in 30min or so unless someone really hates it.
No.11454
Turn order is :
Mekone
Yomi
Caelum
Mictlan
Xibalba
Helheim
Muspelheim
Atlantis
?
Guess that give me time
No.11455
>>11454turn order? thought it was all simultaneous
No.11457
Started the game
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/679#statusYou can check the timer and turn state there.
24 hours per turn, once everyone submits the server puts out the next turn.
If you can't submit it in 24h let me know and I'll extend the timer. Failing to submit twice in a row either makes you autoskip or turns you into ai, not sure.
>>11454Each turn is played by everyone at the same time. You submit your turn anytime within 24h.
No.11458
>>11457Put email notifications on so I know when to next take my turn, I finished my first one already.
No.11459
If you haven't played before 1st turn might be a good time to set your reasearch so you don't forget (F5). Maybe make your 1st commander into a prophet (spacebar), he'll spread dominion and he's also stronger in your own dominion, same as your god.
Some keys you'll be pressing every turn:
n to cycle commanders
r to recruit
t to set up armies
b to check for mercs
e to end turn
? in any given screen for relevant shortcuts
In long-term games like these you can always come back and adjust your turn if you're not the last person to submit. You can also mark your turn as unfinished in menu, it'll go through when the timer runs out but you can adjust it anytime before that.
Feel free to ask any questions as well.
>>11458There isn't really any point in sumbitting your turn as fast as possible since the chances of everyone being present at that moment are very low. I usually just pin the tab and check it there.
No.11462
ok, nevermind, my deity can cast magic
No.11464
Damn it, the site seems to always be down when I'm trying to do my turn. I'll check in later...
No.11465
>>11464Seems to be a bit unstable lately. Hopefully he sorts it out.
No.11467
i would imagine the site owners are asleep and it's down
No.11470
It's up
No.11471
Turn 2 has started!
No.11472
amazing!
No.11474
>>11473wait thats the map
oh its so fucking over
No.11475
>>11474The map is on the page, I could see where I was by looking at it and the river systems.
But that's not the map.
No.11476
maybe that's the cave systems... guess I'll find out soon enough
No.11477
>>11475oh i see the actual map now
the amount of water still frightens me No.11478
>>11477atlantis has undisputed control over the kelp forests
No.11480
>>11473It's supposed to be the cave layer. Red number is amount provinces, both land and water. Xib will have somewhere between 25 to 15 potential provs depending on where he started, before having to leave the caves.
>>11479The one steam map with caves had like 8 water provs divided into 4's with a couple land provinces inbetween... There was no winning either way.
No.11487
>>11482I sleep in those hours
New turn!
No.11491
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Also I'm going to sabotage myself a little because this is just fucked up
>2 tile capring
>cave I'm in is 5 tiles total
>Struggling with low resources
>This turn just got an event dropping me to Sloth 4 in my capital
>I have luck 2
No.11492
>>11491sounds like pretty bat luck
No.11494
if there will be a next game it should be on mapnuke or some custom map instead of this very subpar vanilla map gen, i think.
No.11496
>>11491greening shall only incur further losses
No.11497
>>11491If i see you as I start scouting my local cave I will create an aliance and protect you with my angels
No.11499
>>11491Also like. It's not that bad because I'm costal without being a costal civ so my start is slow too.
Sucks with the sloth event. But my first commander got crushed by retreating mammoths
No.11500
Coastal
No.11502
>>11501He has a super unit. His advantage will degrade when people get strong magic
No.11505
>>11504Well. He could get rings of magic resist or boosters but his proficiency wouldn't be great. There's also the option of mages casting area support buffs.
But I'm not sure what school the magic of that nation follows.
I'd think construction research is best
No.11506
I think the archetype is called a thug in the meta. And you deck them out with resist gear
No.11507
>>11504Very eroi image but also fucked up anatomy at the same time.
No.11541
>>11491Looks like default mapgen isn't cutting it for several people then.
If we do another one we'll try something else.
No.11545
looks like their server died again
No.11548
the person who hasn't submitted yet may or may not resign, but in any case his turn is going to roll over in an hour
No.11594
>>11548He has to drop yeah. I can either make him auto-stale (he'll skip his turns) or make him ai.
Fighting ai sucks but I suppose this is the way to go to not upset the balance too much. If you have any strong opinions on either option let me know.
No.11597
>>11594i say make him AI so he's not just free land for his neighbors
No.11598
>>11597We have some substitute players on the steamchat but need his password.
I feel like it makes sense for the admin to have the powers to revoke passwords and such but i dunno how the server works.
No.11599
>>11598oh a substitute would be much better
i dont think admins can view players passwords but i believe they can change a players password
i havent played this in years so ive forgotten exactly how it works but if you cant figure out how to do it on the server you might need to do it in game by using youre admin password to play as him
No.11600
>>11599Thanks for this, was able to change his password ingame with master password.
No.11604
>>11506Yeah. Thug is when you take your god or some other very strong commander and invest a shitload into them with magic items. Basically take them and steamroll where they can. Ideally you want to find something that can do that cheaply and spam the hell out of them, but making something incredibly expensive for tackling player armies works too.
Also, the astral players dont want you to know this,
but you'll want to have astral 5 or 6 on the people you really care about like pretender gods so some dipshit cheap astral mage doesn't instakill them in a magic duel. Either high astral or none at all. No.11607
>>11604How do I get that kind of Astral on a thug...
No.11608
>>11604please spec into one point of astral on all your pretenders
No.11611
>>11604So if I have no astral at all, it's not a problem?
No.11612
>>11611yeah. But I don't think it's something people are going to cast without scouting it out first
No.11613
>>11611Yeah, all or nothing. If you have no astral then the opposing astral mages cant mindrape you with THAT spell,
and horrors wont prioritize you, unless horrormarked. There is still some other bullshit to fuck you but those are more expensive and requires actually good mages and investment.
No.11616
Turn 6 has star☆ted
No.11617
Two turns in a day, it's a miracle!
>>11613Astral magic seems really hard to understand
No.11658
>>11617To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Astral magic
No.11659
I'd love to play too, but RTS games aren't my dominion.
No.11660
>>11659this is a turn based game
No.11662
>>11661Waiting for Muspelheim.
No.11667
>>11666Will do it shortly, I didn't expect it come around so soon. I guess we're all eager today!
No.11669
>>11667Nice! Would be crazy if we were able to to another turn now...
No.11694
>>11693And when I say an advancing army, I mean 30 units capable of basically stealing a 25 def point.
No.11695
>>11694Giants I presume?
Yeah theyre assholes, you cant expect province defense to do anything against them unless its a barbarian or other high damage unit province
No.11697
>>11696Wtf feathered warriors arent all that good, what type of province was the 25 one? Monkies?
No.11698
>>11697I'm pretty sure it was the same as the one I just posted...
No.11700
>>11696Those units are so strong, their only downside is that they are in few numbers.
No.11701
>>11698Oh wow the regular infantry guys must be even worse than I thought than
No.11707
>>11706What does this means?
No.11708
>>11706game got updated so we have to wait for blitzserver to also update
No.11709
>>11708im using the pirated version from OP will i need to get that updated too?
No.11710
>>11709Most likely yeah. Either have to wait for csrinru or have someone else who has a legit copy upload it and hope the crack works.
No.11713
There's some sort of research modifier and I dunno what it is.. maybe it's paths and path levels? My pretender is only supposed to give 11 research but gives 32
No.11715
>>11713High magic paths add to research, as do the adept researcher trait and magic scales in a province
No.11717
>>11714Is the update thing affecting other games on the server? If not admin might need to ask blitzmin to fix it, he used to browse /domg/ on the chan and I assume still does
No.11726
Finaly, it is up again
No.11730
Throne of tards has been claimed
No.11738
>>11727pastebin link is updated in case you don't have an account on rinru
No.11744
Thank God there is no DRM, I was able to launch the game even with Steam being down and made my turn.
>>11742Those times are nice for me on the weekend. Bit more difficult during the week but Friday would probably also be fine.
No.11745
fuck elves
No.11748
>>11742>>11743>>11744awesome, I'll set up a thread for Friday then
No.11749
>>11742I'd love to blitz too
>>11745This, and giants, and ocean-dwellers, and flyers, and every non-human
No.11752
>>11751you'll understand how retarded of a demand that is once you play some more
No.11754
knowledge checks everywhere
No.11756
>>11755Erase your fears
Embrace death
No.11760
>>11758JESUS that's a big trade and he lost so much too wtf
No.11762
>>11758what can i do if fishes hate wearing armor
No.11763
>>11762You could have given OJOU-SAMAAA!!!! the singular water tile she deserves
No.11764
>>11763im not gonna give you water you dumb bat, ill get you just you wait
No.11766
I'm gonna place some bets this water tile had a bat throne on it.
No.11767
>>11765Dude, they are vampires, not indians.
They hate sun, not water.
No.11784
>>11761not sure why they didn't move
i even double checked by downloading the turn
No.11785
>>11767>>11768not impressed by either of these feet
No.11786
>>11785Apparently bumping is a thing:
"Likewise, if you give an army the order to move into an adjacent enemy province, and on the same turn an army in that province gets the order to move into yours, then one of three things can happen:
* There is a battle in the enemy province between the two
armies;
* There is a battle in your province between the two armies;
* The armies miss one another and exchange places.
Which event occurs depends on the size of the armies in
question and the terrain involved."
I thought you always passed each other.
No.11787
misquoted, whatever
No.11788
>>11786im assuming smaller armies have move priority size wise but does it say more how terrain affects it? i would guess plains are faster than forests and mountains and whatnot but would it have higher priority to be moving from a plain to a mountain or from a mountain to a plain?
No.11791
>>11788No further explanation from what I can see. It's in the docs if you want to ctrl+f it.
No.11797
>>11784I had units on every side of them moving in to attack, there was nowhere you could have run.
ALSO, looks like Helheim wants a taste of pain once I'm done with you.
No.11803
NEW TURN!!!!!
Seems like people are up and awake, how many of these can we get in today?
No.11808
who here can stop 5 army backed dai oni? i sure cant
No.11809
>>11808The worst part about this is that I wanted desperately to be friendly with Mictlan, but I couldn't show both compassion and win the game so it had to be done. I'm sure he'll kill a Dai Oni or two sooner or later though.
No.11811
>>11808I lost one...................
.
No.11812
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Well I managed to kill one guys, that's my contribution done.
No.11814
>>11813means I saved my turn without committing
No.11823
>>11820Keep smelly animals (and oni) away from elf lands thank you very much
No.11832
>>11831surely you beat an oni
No.11833
>>11832I beat
no one the kappa I sent hoping to just break a giants leg was the only unit that attended No.11834
>>11828Then I'll prefer to be the rapist, not the raped.
No.11835
>>11834but are you a lacanian or a jungian rapist
No.11837
>>11835Depends of the week. But I usually tend more to behaviorism.
No.11845
Yomi is out at the moment and will be back before 7pm EST probably
No.11847
New turn by the way.
No.11848
Nice.
No.11852
>>11850Yeah, luckily most of my mages survived though so I may be able to kill a few more fish before its over
No.11854
>>11849Dang, those commander units of his got some good kills in.
No.11858
>>11849If you dumped everything into Ozelotls you would have won I think.
No.11859
oh wow, Ozelots hit three times per turn. So they kill anything that can't defence roll
No.11860
>>11858I have been, I only got blood 4 a couple turns ago
You could say I had a bit of a slow start
No.11861
>>11860nice corner. I think the caves are good resources, but probably starved for gold.
The exit there was probably next to a 100 unit militia as well.
No.11864
>>11863i saw that with a scout and was VERY disheartened at the 0 dead dai oni
No.11866
>>11865That's the point. You should use recon.
No.11867
>>11865Kinda hard to do without giving people the idea of what you've got.
No.11871
Helheim?
No.11872
>>11871I'm alive, I've just been stuck at work. I'll make my turn when the site is back up.
>>11863Not a single dai-oni killed, can't even be smug about this so-called win.
No.11874
>>11873Done, turn 28 is now live!
No.11881
Do not be in swande or uliathurn next turn
No.11883
>>11882Even for that many units? Usually it'd cost me a few hundred to get that much, and that's a few hundred I could spent on a lot else.
No.11884
>>11880you better not let him win
No.11885
do the losers get a spectator view or are you booted
No.11886
>>11885The nation is no longer selectable so you don't get to do anything.
No.11889
>>11888Atlantis sure is taking his time.... Hope OJOU-SAMAAA!!!! is alright
No.11890
NEW TURN
No.11892
>>11891You love to see it
No.11893
turns are getting a lot more stressful now that there's so much to be concerned about
No.11894
keep stressing this guy out
>>11893 until he cries on camera
No.11897
is mekone dead too...
or do i just not see him
No.11898
can't wait until helheim is gone
FUCK glamour units
No.11900
I assume Yomi is basically unstoppable at this point
No.11901
>>11900from the start of the game i figured either yomi would kill everyone or atlantis would steal the win out from under him while he did so, i still dont see any other future
No.11902
ok so caelum is next
No.11905
>>11902you're in no position to say who's next. You've already lost
No.11907
>>11905you killed my palisade maker
you're dead
No.11909
angels are graceful creechers who reject the filth
No.11912
>>11910Owatta...
I killed as many fish as I could
No.11913
>>11912OJOU-SAMAAA!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
!!!!
No.11917
>>11916the first one is so funny
No.11918
>>11916the first one didnt even die and the second one had 0 gear
im still afraid
No.11919
>>11916What happened at the 1 minute mark in the 2nd vid? It seems to be holding up fine and then all of a sudden it takes damage from everything. Did the buffs run out?
No.11920
>>11919I think it was my conjuration3 storm elementals. They have no fear and for some reason there was no fire/buffs cast on that one
No.11921
not having research pumping from the beginning killed me, oni probably aren't going to survive the raid from caelum
No.11922
if I stopped and researched I think I would be at 200, but my pretender is a mage with decent base research. I think that's a bit of an exception though and Yomi can't get that far.
No.11924
>>11923quite a lot for a slow research
No.11925
well, I guess you also have a few forts which helps..
No.11926
>>11924in my cpu game i was at 600
No.11929
>>11928Gonna do it sunday because I was busy today
No.11930
At 6PM CEST
No.11932
Deduced that if you select "conservative gem use" it won't ever use gems to path boost into higher tier spells so the unit will pick a random one
No.11938
brothers, time has come to sound the trumpet of jihad agains the literal demons
No.11943
>>11942how did what happen
No.11944
>>11943was that taken or built
No.11945
>>11944that was always muspel's
No.11946
>>11945don't think he even knows what's in the highlands next to it..
No.11951
YOU'RE THE PRETENDER WHAT IF I SAY I WILL NEVER SURRENDER
No.11952
>>11948
in 10 min, tomorrow
No.11956
>>11947What will the turn timer be for the blitz game?
No.11957
>>11947can you make the game today just to have it ready? so we can submit our tenders and make sure no one picks the same nation on accident
No.11958
>>11947>>11957Seems like a good idea
No.11959
>>11958I already have my pretender, notify when we can submit them.
No.11961
>>11960>>11947oh ive never seen a game on anything other than games.beta.blitzserver
.net, does this still work?
No.11963
>>11961yeah, basically we're going to keep the game running on one of our servers.
For a single day game this shouldn't be an issue. All blitz does for us is keep track of who's made a move.
No.11965
>>11947Whats with the Yomi Enhanced mod that downloaded when I joined this??
No.11967
whats the bless of yomi
No.11969
This dumb goblin demon guy does not want to fight my mage deathball
No.11970
>>11947Will the new map have as much water as the previous one?
No.11971
>>11970I'll make it small lakes
No.11972
>>11969You can bring the fight to me
No.11973
>>11971Can we use a mapnuke or player made map this time? The basegame map generation kinda sucks
No.11976
>>11975This has Dark Souls vibes
No.11979
I don't know why people are ganging up on me when giants are way worse fuckers to deal with than dai oni
No.11988
>>11979he has a point you know
No.11989
Made a mapnuke map, game will be starting in ~50 minutes.
No.11992
Are we starting this blitz on time. I only have 4 hours about
No.11995
STARTING NOW
No.11996
Has anyone been able to load in yet? I'm still just stuck on the loading screen
No.11998
>>11996I had to disconnect and then reconnect. It took a long time to retrieve the map after that as well
No.12001
ok 5 minute turn timer is on
get in or get skipped
No.12002
3 people need to join
No.12003
Ulm, Pyrene, Ind
No.12004
>>12003If any of them are having issues connecting just tell me
No.12006
>>12005same
are you on a pirated copy?
No.12007
>>12005did you download the map from
>>12000you may need to download it manually and extract
No.12008
>>12006Yeah
>>12007I did, it goes in Roaming/Dominions6/maps right?
No.12009
>>12008going to test if it's pirated vs non-pirated
hopefully it's not, but we'll see
No.12010
>>12009It'd be weird if it was, I joined the other game fine
Maybe it's the different server
No.12011
>>12010this one is hosted through the ingame host manager
No.12012
unless you mean one of the test servers...
No.12013
>>12011which
shouldn't have an issue since it's direct connect, but who knows
No.12014
>>12011It bugs out or crashes when pirated copies try to enter game lobbies through the ingame server so that's probably it
No.12015
it's the pirated copy doing it, I don't normally do this, but if you're here message me on steam
https://steamcommunity.com/id/vraaa/ No.12016
>>12011The game has a separate lobby system, we're using direct connect which is different.
Not sure how blitzserver bypasses that but maybe there's a setting somewhere.
No.12017
hows the turn timer going to work? is it gonna turn up later in the game because 5 minutes sounds pretty tight later on
No.12020
>>12018SURELY thats a throne right??
No.12021
>>12020yeah, throne, but right next to me
No.12027
i have found 3 of my neighbors!!!!
No.12028
>>12027hehehe i found FOUR!
No.12029
Skeletons just have more rights than you, sorry Ind.
No.12032
good job taking that throne this turn marignon
No.12036
>>12034I'm pretty sure theres an antimagic spell to make them more resistant, but also choosing a nation of holy priests to fight first probably wasnt the best idea as skeletons
No.12037
>>12036Yeahhhhh, I should probably figure out which nations are which.
No.12038
the rat king will claim the throne of the lizzards
No.12039
>>12038Oh yeah I forgot we're supposed to be claiming thrones not just killing eachother
No.12040
>>12039oh, I just meant I'm attacking lizzards
No.12043
Looks like rats are on the menu
No.12047
not sure how i feel about wide but low paths, great for site searching and forging, is it good for actual combat though?
No.12048
Back to the game where i'm not dead... I'm still dying...
No.12049
>>12047If its got astral or blood it can cast the 'communion master' or 'sabbath master' spells mid combat to increase all of its paths for that fight depending on how many other mages you have casting the communion/sabbath slave spell, then it gets really good
No.12051
2/3 is where most of the normal spells lie
No.12052
I've just realised it's 20 points to win and the map is huge...
No.12053
>>12052Yeah I assume everyone is just going to get tired and we'll decide on a winner (me) before it actually ends
No.12054
I'm already a little tired, whose got the biggest baddest army? I'm pretty confident in mine (Ind)
Anyone want to mash death stacks together on an agreed province?
No.12055
Pyrene here. Have to call it soon so I'll just go all out on c'tis and ind.
No.12056
>>12055I (C'tis) haven't seen you all game!
If everyone else is getting tired I don't mind calling it soon. The micromanaging is starting to become a bit tiresome for myself.
I've got a big(ish) army so I don't mind meeting someone somewhere for a big fancy battle to see some fireworks.
No.12057
Marignon here. I don't think anyone is going to win via ascension any time soon, so I'd be fine with throwing all my units into a giant thunderdome and seeing who comes out on top.
No.12058
Ind here I'm moving my army all towards 61/55, is around there a good place to mash stacks? I see a couple decent groups of troops from both of you up there
No.12059
>>12058Do I have to click all over to find that or is there a better way?
No.12060
>>12059Press G and you can search for a province number
No.12061
>>1205861 might okay, if Marignon can get up there
No.12062
>>12060Going near 61 then. Are we all sending it there on the same turn?
No.12063
>>12061Mari can take my province in 41 or Scelerias old cap to reach it I think, since that ones my prov I'll just park all my troops there and let you guys jump on when you want, should be about 7 turns until they all arrive
No.12064
>>12063Scelerias cap seems like a nice place to do it (and it's not in the cold, which is good for me)
No.12065
>>12063It'll take me a few turns to get my entire army up to Sclerias cap, but I can do it there.
No.12066
>>12064>>12065Alright I'll leave everything patrolling there, tell you when its all formed
No.12067
>>12066I'll have to take 61 in the following turn so make sure nothing is on there
No.12068
>>12067It's empty, all my troops are coming from the southeast now
No.12069
I learned that units using bronze in MA are going to have problems and relly on spam strats(therefor have supply and population requirements)
No.12070
Lost multiple times to Indies thinking my numbers were enough...
No.12071
Lost a turn cause of the NAP...
I'll be in 61 next turn and then cap the turn after. Unless mari needs to wait longer?
No.12072
>>12071I have most of my main forces under the capital, I'm ready to go whenever.
No.12074
>>12073I'm pyrene, it'll take me forever so no hurry.
No.12075
>>12072I've realised that I need to wait 3 turn for the NAP to expire before I can move in, will be a while longer unfortunately
No.12076
3 more turns
While your waiting be careful you arent resting any large groups on a prov with low supplies
No.12077
>>12075For any further games make sure formal diplomacy is either weak or off. You can still send messages if you want so it's fine. And if you get betrayed that just tells everyone who to go on.
No.12078
Next turn I should be ready
No.12080
>>12079does the game not let you move into provinces owned by a napped nation?
No.12081
I'll park at 41, mari can go to 48.
Also my mages wasted all the gems while going there...
No.12082
>>12080I thought you could, but when I try it in this game they remain in place after the turn so I presume it's being blocked. Might be to do with the diplo settings
No.12083
I'm ready
No.12084
one of you better record the battle and post it here
No.12085
Marignon is ready when everyone else is.
No.12087
Unless IND can snipe 61 with a few units I'll be another 4 turns
No.12088
Are we good to go once Pyrene gets into position?
No.12089
>>12087Pyrene here, I'll take it. Once I pass it i'm ready to go next turn so it should be fine.
No.12090
>>12089Cheers, appreciated.
No.12091
Are we fighting on sceleria?
No.12092
I'm ready (Ind)
No.12094
If I move into 61 now, my troops arrive after Pyrene's forces move through right? I don't want to start a fight early
No.12095
Also I need someone to send gold to Pyrene. Losing units here.
No.12096
>>12095I'll send you all mine, only 860 this turn though
>>12094Are you Ctis? If you need 61 Pyrene can take 48 from me to get off it
No.12097
>>12094Yeah friendly>friendly province movement happens before enemy>friendly.
No.12098
>>12097Alright. I'll send them in now and be ready next turn
No.12099
Alright, I get this is it? C'tis is sending in now, may the best man win.
No.12100
Marignon sending in everyone now.
No.12101
Pyrene sending to sceleria.
No.12102
bets?
im on pyrene just for sheer mass
No.12103
Admin can you turn up the turn timer so we have time to watch all the fights
No.12106
Did someone save the scorecards? I only got the C'tis vs Ind one. I did record the fights though in-case nobody else did.
No.12108
>>12106I have all the individual scorecards if you want them
No.12109
>>12107>>12108Oh excellent, thank you. I came close to beating Ind at the end but the fact that was only after they fought the other Pyrene/Mari shows just how far ahead they really were.
No.12111
>>12104I should've scripted blood communions, might've gone better then. Still wouldn't have won though.
As it is the only killing force I had were the archers. Pretty damn good game from Ind.
No.12112
>>12106can you post the fights? also is there a quick replay save function in game or did you just record them normally with some software
No.12113
>>12112Not him but steam has some sort of recording built in now. You can probably use that and then reencode it into webm to make it smaller.
No.12114
>>12113oh cool i didnt know about that
No.12119
>>12115>>12116>>12117radical thanks anon, i wonder if it would have gone any differently had pyrenes god not instantly died to friendly fire in that first fight
No.12136
>>12135more like Sekiro / Elden Ring
No.12139
>>12119I only chose that guy for his bonuses to scales. He had nothing useful to provide in battle.
Thanks for the recordings, imo it's a lot easier to see with team squares on (c key).
No.12153
your dominion expansion is such a cancer on the lands
No.12164
it's fine... it's fine...
No.12170
elfs...
No.12172
Until you take my last fort I will continue to nibble away at your provinces!
No.12181
>>12177I'm not sure Muspel has the evocation levels to handle this and I'm busy chasing down ELVES to even bother thinking about it
No.12200
Just you wait until next turn...
No.12208
Stealthed units are such a cancer and when you combine them with an aura you don't even need a mage to cast...
>>12206yeah, of course. Every turn you've already won the game.
Can you shut up already.
No.12209
>>12208I haven't even come close to winning the game, I'm getting wrecked by giants and am only just now throwing a huge deathball at them to see if any of this works.
No.12210
>>12174I became Atlantis' dinner instead...
I probably should have just waited for them to siege the fort and fight them in the chokepoint.
No.12211
>>12207gg
If you guys end up playing another one I'd be up for joining again.
No.12212
>>12211i'm going to steal your annoying as hell strategy since caelum has units for it...
No.12215
do huskarl take holy points to recruit?
No.12216
>>12215Not for Helheim. They are essentially your standard line infantry
No.12217
need to build lots of temples to increase my sacred build rate then...
No.12218
>>12214i want to plap that elf and her daughter so much its unreal
No.12219
Oh boy guys, just what I wanted. +1 turmoil across the map so I get less money and oni get an inherent dominion buff across the map
No.12220
fuck atlantis
No.12223
How about evocation 7 and 60 gems
No.12226
>>12224dispell fire affinity global effect
No.12227
>>12226uh, you need more than 60 gems for that one buddy
No.12230
>>12229
You have to match the amount of gems he used or go over it. 60 is the minimum but he could've chosen to use more.
No.12231
>>12230weird... i'd never excess on my natural paths...
No.12246
>>12245I guess it was a sneak. I thought the dark red banner guy had a better position. 8 scouts aren't really enough for this map
No.12247
Are we going to have another game?
No.12248
I'd like another one, this is fun
No.12249
The guy who we'll entrust running the blitzservers to will be on in probably like 12 hours from now.
Until then you can discuss which age you want.
We've kinda already decided that water will be maximally a few lakes and nothing large.
I think the cave systems should be something large and a single one.
Mapnuke/whatever we did last time isn't very well liked, so we'll want vanilla generation, but with minimal lakes and a large cave it should be more fair to anyone but water civs.
No.12250
Total hate for water civs.
No.12253
Personally do not mind EA again. Will pick the same civ but do it better.
MA doesn't interest me
LA could be fine.
No.12254
I think MA is the better age.
No.12255
all the best civs in MA are necromancy
No.12256
I'm definitely going elves again if we do EA
No.12257
I'd be fine with EA or MA, with a slight preference to MA.
No.12258
i say ma
No.12259
Another vote for MA from me
No.12260
LA is the way
No.12261
guess that's like 2 LA, 3 EA and the majority MA
No.12262
MA and LA. (I hate magic).
No.12264
LA (I love (blood) magic)
No.12266
every age is a blood magic age
No.12268
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/694#status next game.
Vanilla MA, map will be random (small lakes + one cave) and it'll have to be generated ingame and uploaded to blitzserver since blitz only has full random generation. Throne settings I'm thinking will be similar to last time.
Both map and thrones will be set once the lobby fills up. Also to make it clear the small lakes layout doesn't look viable for water nations.
And as a reminder blitzserver does work with pirated copies if there's anyone else looking to give the game a try.
If you want to try generating a map yourself go for it. You can try using dreamatlas and whatever else is there other than vanilla as well.
No.12269
>>12268Actually now that I'm looking at it you can specify number of water provs. If we get any water nations submitted I'll see what that looks like.
No.12270
>>12268Oh, there's a new game? I might try joining then.
No.12274
>>12268I do actually wonder what blitz gen will do if no one pics water or cave civs
No.12275
>>12274It has to be the default mapgen so you can probably emulate it by generating a few maps with these nations yourself.
No.12277
The FYI is that the default map gen for the current civs would be something like this:
Fair bit like last game.
The unbalanced part here is that a single player basically got all the cave entrances.
https://puu.sh/KCvyz/3c681d1cb4.jpgSo even without water we probably don't want that.
No.12278
The proposed map generation of small lakes with large cavern would be something like this.
Even though the caves are supposed to be one big, there are still a few isolated ones. Placement is somewhat unbalanced still, but better since it's mostly connected(by North South wrapping).
https://puu.sh/KCvBE/74a5e7a383.jpg No.12287
Is it possible to re-submit our pretender for the game? I'd like to adjust the scales a bit if so.
I'm C'tis
No.12288
That's 8 players.
The slow version of this game is pretty laid back if you want to join.
>>12287yeah, you can adjust it multiple times.
No.12291
Seems like I figured out how to do the map creation stuff so I'll tell the host
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/695#status No.12303
>>12268I
somewhat want a larger map with more Thrones to conquer, of varying levels. But maybe that wouldn't be fun for others, not sure. I've been playing a lot of AI games like this and enjoy it well enough.
No.12306
>>12291i think thats a pretty small map too for a non blitz, im pretty sure regular is considered something like 15 provs per player and we've already got 8 with maybe more to come
a couple high level thrones sounds funny too
No.12312
>>12306You're just scared because it looks like a scary face
No.12313
>>12306Just a test map. I was curious how to set it up. Refer to the lobby named qa2 for the actual game.
I dunno how many thrones would be balanced since I don't play the game enough. I think 5 is too few though.
No.12331
>>12330not really, they cancel out of a chorus at 100 fatigue so you can’t abuse the slaves too hard
No.12332
>>12331ok, my opinion is false
No.12333
also you probably didn't read the text and are probably assuming it works like other ones. The fatigue is mutual across all and everyone receives buffs. Along with path boosts for master
No.12334
and about the fatigue, path boosts lower fatigue... so overall you're wrong... spell choirs are strong
No.12335
are we gonna do another blitz sometime too? that was pretty fun, though a lot more stressful than the slow match
No.12336
prob. not this week because we're setting up the next slow game
No.12343
Turn one of my test game my pretender and all initial units got cursed...
No.12344
OK, I've made a map
It's on
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/695#scheduleEveryone gets a cave layer start, no idea about resources. Cave paths might be kinda jank
https://puu.sh/KCz8O/18bc31dbe2.jpg No.12345
overall there might be some jank, because creating these maps was harder than usual. Treat the bugs as features
No.12346
I don't really care that much about the map. I just want to play the game, but that's a nice map I think.
No.12347
150 provinces for 8 players. I think it will be fine.
Start is probably soon. When the host wakes and maybe tweaks some stuff. Since that was the last thing we were trying to get right
No.12348
>>12268https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/694#statusReminder that this is the signup for next game if you want to join
No.12349
I'm just looking forward to having FUN with YOU!
And not being stuck in a cave I can fully scout out in 2 turns
No.12350
Ye. I had to place out all the start locations. And everyone will get a cave and the map is probably pretty big. So resources probably won't be a huge issue. But people will have to defend from both surface and under so it should work out well for everyone
No.12352
always blame vermin
No.12361
>>12351There arent even any fish... Maybe the skeletons? Theres two of them, two!
No.12367
yeah, the map is really big. Last game was 120 tiles including the ocean/caves most people didn't use(so effectively 100 tiles).
This one I'd say is about 200. So I think we have to have 10 thrones.
Resources also won't be scarce so I'd say set them to lvl3 thrones.
Unless others feel differently
No.12368
thone placement is also random, so perhaps even go up to 12 to try and spread them out more... I'll let you decide on the quantity, but make them lvl3
No.12369
also we 'could' use another player to fill out the map a bit.
I think we're going to start soon.
No.12370
>>12369Could put a funny lunatic AI to pad it
No.12372
i dunno how you even make AI on blitzserver anyways
No.12373
Ai Haibara
No.12374
>>12344Thank you for the map.
Game will have 10 lvl3 thrones, 7 thrones to win. Adding some level 2 ones is possible but the math becomes annoying then. If someone wants it though I'll add some.
Starting in about 6 hours in case anyone has any last wishes or adjustments.
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/694#status No.12377
>>12374Started.
The game just updated and blitzserver probably hasn't, second turn might take some time to get hosted.
Also if you think you got a shit spawn post it in the thread, we'll figure it out.
No.12379
Are you sure you don't want me to fix that and restart?
No.12380
>>12379In my view this only benefits me as it allows me to move forces 3 tiles worth in a single move. So it's probably an unfair advantage in terms of expanding early.
I don't know if these borders are determined upon map start or done beforehand, but if it's the latter I'd suggest double-checking (and fixing) the map for any more of these and then restarting, unless people feel strongly otherwise.
No.12381
>>12378>>12379Unstarted. Can you upload the map somewhere so I can take a look as well? Blitz has broken dls again.
No.12385
Started again. Should be mostly fine.
No.12386
think we're good now. I balanced the starts a bit and restricted thrones outside of cap-circle
No.12391
guess no one else has a problem start.
Just an Ulm we're waiting for
No.12395
>>12391I have awoken. Will take my turn soon.
No.12396
>Next Turn Hosting (Attempt #40)
Yep, it's blitzserver time
Hopefully the admin doesn't die before he releases the software for blitz so we can get the pretty webui stuff which I don't know how to replicate
No.12402
Beaky...Beaky...Beaky...
No.12404
Wake up folks, it's time for a
NEW TURN
No.12409
I want another one
I am going to murder Man in real life if it does not come soon
No.12410
Maybe other turn??
No.12412
I'm going to sleep now so don't get your hopes up for any more after this!
No.12416
did Beaky get a swamp start again?
No.12424
>>12416MA C'tis always starts on a swamp I believe
No.12425
>>12424Yes, they always start in a stupid swamp full of diseases and you will get AIDS just by lurking there. I hate C'tis and their entire lineage.
No.12430
where'd the fanclub go
No.12431
>>12430its nearly halloween, im sure theyre very busy propping skeletons in peoples yards
No.12432
>>12430Sorry, I was a bit preoccupied at the time. New turn now.
No.12433
next turn
No.12434
>>11340Would you let a Xibalban priestess get her hands on you if she looked like this?
No.12435
trick question, that's a Mictlan
No.12436
>>12434Xibalber? I hardly know her!
No.12440
I hate the CCP I hate the CCP I hate the CCP I hate the CCP I hate the CCP I hate the CCP I hate the CCP I hate the CCP I hate the CCP
No.12441
>>12440At least you have a reason to hate someone. Meanwhile, I'm still just over here playing singleplayer.
No.12444
>>12443How do you kill the nonliving?
No.12447
>>12446this is my favorite remi pic in the entire interwebs
No.12455
I finally woke up
NEW TURN!
No.12463
>>12462A post that would appear to be made by Sceleria yet Scelerias turn has still not been submitted
CURIOUS!
No.12465
Should I postpone the turn... It's two people so I'm not sure I will.
No.12466
I'm going to rape China's face!!!!
No.12468
If ctis says to postpone I will otherwise it's just going to expire
No.12469
>>12468There's still 10 hours left, isn't there?
No.12470
>>12469I have a general idea of everyone's timezones
No.12471
>>12470Can't speak for anyone else, but my sleep schedule is irregular enough that I doubt you'd be able to get much of a read on when I'm able to be online.
No.12472
same my sleep schedule is constantly fluctuating between being awake in the day or the night
No.12474
if he's hasn't checked the front of kissu in the next 8 hours it's on him.
No.12475
The Lizards have finally awoken, and so it is time for a
NEW TURN
No.12476
Why hello there lizards, I see we are now neighbours
No.12477
>>12476You are the first person I have seen!
No.12478
>>12477Likewise. I suppose we must just be in a sparsely populated part of the map.
No.12481
>>12480Oh... I'm fucked...
No.12483
nidder nidder do your turn nidder nidder drink my sperm!
No.12484
>>12483he's around like 4AM EST
No.12492
>>12489That's why you always have to wear your helmet!.
No.12494
I'm making my turn now
No.12496
I have china fatigue..........>
No.12521
> Fiery Justice
more like Fiery Absence
No.12524
Fiery Justice? More like
Fiery New Turn!>>12521That's what happens when I have to work a 16-hour shift.
No.12525
>>12524A 16 hour shift on a Saturday? Well let's just say I'm glad I'm not you.
No.12526
>>1252416 hours? That can't be legal can it?
No.12528
>>12526my bro's a plumber and has those a lot more often than you'd think
No.12529
>>12528Does he have plumber's crack?
No.12530
>>12526The coworker who comes after me didn't show up, so my boss asked me to cover his shift in addition to my own. I don't particularly mind since my job is easy and I get to make overtime, I'm just a bit annoyed it happened when a seasonal stream was going on.
No.12542
TURN
No.12544
>>12542or as one of the few superheavy syllables found in japanese, TAAN
No.12545
What hour did Ermor make their turn? So i know when to roughly wake up
No.12546
>>12545I think I made it around 10 hours ago, Ill probably sleep 6~ hours from now and wake up 12~ hours after that today
No.12547
new turn
No.12548
Make your last pathetic move so I can end this, Anonymous.
No.12550
Huh, my northern neighbour is now also my southern neighbour. Where the hell is everyone else at then?
No.12552
>>12550if you're the fireman, than ctis is right beside you
No.12553
>>12550Same, Im surrounded by 1 neighbor and only see a couple provs of another, its weird
No.12554
>>12552I'm ulm but you're still right about ctis being my neighbour. There's another dude just chilling in the lake but that's all I've encountered so far.
No.12555
Probably the map shouldn't have been rectangular
No.12556
I also assume that Ctis and Ulm managed to get the empty starts around them as well
No.12563
>>12561that's some wild cassulties..
No.12565
>>12561um... wait... did CCP kill all it's own troops...
No.12566
wow, he literally killed his entire army with his archers
No.12567
tardchery
No.12574
>>12571>attacked by Manlike, one individual guy? how's he doing that?
No.12577
>>12575this chinamans gettin real cocky...
No.12578
Oops, sorry about slaughtering your army ctis. It really wasn't intentional.
(Maybe next time though try sending some stronger dudes so I have the opportunity to stress-test my units for real)
No.12579
Winter is fast approaching in the land, but for now enjoy the last days of Autumn in the
NEW TURN
No.12580
>>12578My slaves... gone...
No.12586
CCP REPORTS:This is the so called Ermor's "Army of the Undead" that losed half his forces trying to advance into the weakest, most remote province of the PRC. So frightening...
https://files.catbox.moe/d6bf6e.mp4From now on, the People's Liberation Army will fight hard for the liberation of the proletarian located in the Ermor tiranny. The necromancers and their undeads opress the working-living class because they can't compete with their long generational wealth.
DOWN WITH THE SCELERIAN BURGEOISE AND THEIR SKELETAL LACALS!! No.12587
>>12586>not 1 lictorI hope you understand how small a portion of my army that is you stinky chin*se
I wonder how much that PD dumped province cost when I took it for 0g
No.12588
>>12585I can't go anywhere...
No.12590
>>12586Jeeze, what the hell is going on in your part of the world? I sure am glad I haven't had to face off against anything like that yet.
No.12591
I'm glad Ermor lives on in my stead. I just can't figure out how to get the undead train running as fast as Ermor can. Think it's more in the late game when Sceleria can start to easily outproduce it.
No.12593
>>12591Dont give up skeleton
As Ermor I get a bunch of free skeletons everywhere my dominion is, so the only troops that cost me anything are my elites (
0 of which died in that china battle btw) and Im pretty sure Sceleria has to summon all their skeletons manually, I think your supposed to rely more on your regular human troops and spammable gladiator guys until you have enough priests and mages to actually spam out skeletons
No.12599
>>12595They're being awfully quiet about posting this one...
No.12600
>>12593I don't
WANT to give up... but it feels pretty over. I might go and retreat for now while I build up an army to rise back up in the future.
No.12619
I think that whole "swamps give you disease" thing is an undiscovered relic
https://illwiki.com/dom5/magic-sites?redirect=1 No.12620
ive been searching all my provinces and havent found a single relic of any type
searching at all feels like a scam and a waste of time
No.12622
>>12620In progressing ages the frequency goes down.
But what are your paths? You need around 6 to have a garuntee of finding any hypothetical site in the province.
No.12623
>>12619Death sites tend to give you diseases, discovered or not. They spawn regardless of terrain type but some have higher weights iirc.
No.12625
>>126224 is the highest you need when it comes to site searching.
No.12626
The chinese tea is SPILT and my social credit is plunging at an astronomic rate
>>12622I searched with a death 2 at first but have used a death 3, astral 1, water 1, fire 1 on about half my provs now and still nothing! Thank Mima I get death gems for spamming temples
No.12628
>>12626the k/d on those knights and lictors is flippin insane
No.12631
>>12626I'm not sure i could be able to beat that...
No.12660
>>12653Well it's been quite entertaining seeing how quickly the CCP has turned around. Not at all looking forward to having to face those undead hordes myself though (assuming I don't fuck up my current war first, that is).
No.12661
>>12659Those are sacreds that are buffed with whatever bless Ermor is using.
No.12662
>>12659They're blessed with the power of a dominion suitable for no life
And a hate for the ch*nese
No.12663
Hope it's ok to take that one province, my skelebro, I've got to connect to my other province somehow though.
No.12665
>>12663Yeah you can take any of the three provs I have next to your cap (assuming you mean those ones)
No.12668
>>12667That's a lot of skeletons...
No.12669
>>12668Hey now, they're just some wacky ol' bone dudes. How strong can they be?
No.12670
>>12668Not enough
Could use a few more really
No.12675
>>12674I give my thanks to the CCP for ensuring I don't have to be the first to die.
In all honesty though, things have been going surprisingly well for me so far, considering this is my first proper game (although I did have a quick practice match with the AI beforehand) and I really don't have much clue what I'm doing.
No.12676
If lizards are awake, make a turn
No.12686
Thats one sleepy lizard
No.12687
I'm only available EU evenings on weekdays so if the turn rolls over early hours UTC time then the wait may be a while. Sorry about that.
But in any case, it is now time for a...
NEW TURN
No.12711
How is fort resource drain on neighbors represented?
Do their resource numbers go down to zero if they get too many neighbors on them? Meaning that you can put forts next to the same province a few times until it's fully depleated?
No.12713
>>12712THE ACTUAL NUMBERS AND RULES:
Key details regarding this resource collection mechanism are:
• Mechanism of Collection: A fort uses its Admin value to draw resources from adjacent provinces
For example, a Palisades fort with an Admin value of 15 draws 15% of the resources from each adjacent province
• Source of Resources: The fort draws from the total potential resources of the adjacent province
This is notable because a province without a fort only utilizes half of its potential resources for its own use
• Restrictions on Collection (Drain limitations): Forts cannot draw resources from adjacent provinces if:
1. The provinces are of incompatible types (a land fort cannot draw from an adjacent sea province, and vice versa)
2. The adjacent province also contains a fort
3. The adjacent province belongs to an enemy
Therefore, the representation of the resource drain is intrinsically tied to the Admin stat and the application of its associated percentage to the potential resources of qualifying adjacent provinces
THE PROVINCE RESOURCES:
The overall potential for resources in a province is heavily influenced by the Terrain type
• High Potential: Mountain Ranges and Deep Sea terrains offer "excellent" or "high" resources, respectively
Highlands, Forest, Waste, Gorge, and Crystal Cave also offer high or abundant resources
• Low Potential: Plains, Swamp, River, and Sea terrains typically offer low or no specific resource bonuses listed in the table, while Farmland provides low resources
• Nation-Specific Bonuses: Some nations may have special bonuses that increase resource potential, such as Ulm, which benefits from forts producing 25% more resources, or nations in cave forts (Agartha, Abysia, Pyrène, Shinuyama, Yomi) which gain extra resources.
No.12715
>>12714doesn't demilich respawn almost immediately or is that a different god?
No.12716
>>12715Oh yeah your right he's immortal (1), does that turn off permanent injuries too? If so then I guess that is pretty much risk free
No.12718
fire is an element that I see people complaining about balance on forums
No.12720
Ermor is looking a little scary...
No.12721
>>12720Thats natural for a skeleton, yet all of my wars have been in self defense or defense of another
No.12722
>>12720He'll have 3 thrones underground and has borders to 2 on the surface if left unopposed. Make sure you keep track of those.
No.12723
Nid here, I'll submit last. If I get another corrupted turn I'll roll back the turn, can't afford any more stales.
Your turn will be saved so you won't have to give all the orders again.
Not going to look past 1st line so you don't have to worry about cheating.
No.12724
>>12723What do you mean by a corrupted turn?
No.12725
>>12724My internet has been shit lately and I assume I've been getting partial turn uploads which lead to corrupted turn messages.
If that happens your turn doesn't go through essentially, same as stale turn.
No.12727
But I think if it corrupts on finishing you have to rollback, but at least if you can save the turn you made you don't have to redo moves. Presuming you figure out how it actually uploads your local versions in the first place
No.12728
Also maybe if you manually time out the turn it would force the unfinished to become finished so you don't have to deal with that potential issue of "mark as finished" uploading a final state and that gets corrupted
No.12729
FYI, letting you know that timing out your turn while mark-unfinished causes it to become a real one
No.12730
New turn, no incidents.
>>12728I don't think it matters whether the turn is marked as finished or not. It's uploaded to the server all the same even if it might be corrupted.
The only way to deal with it I can think of is to submit last and rollback if it's borked. Everyone's turns are submitted anyway but set to unfinished, all I have to to is resubmit mine and forcehost, nobody will even notice that something went wrong then.
Won't be able to always do my turn last though due to timezones but when I can I will, until my internet gets better. Don't know what else is there to do.
No.12733
Nevermind, this is siege defense strength so the fort holds out longer
No.12734
Ermor & Ulm
No.12736
Erm & Uhm
No.12737
Erm and Ulmer
No.12739
I just woke up gimme a second
No.12740
Ok just you now Nid
No.12741
he has a max time of like 4PM EST
No.12746
Thinking the retreat mechanics are what made you win a few of those
No.12747
>>12746Yes brave skeletons fight to the last while cowardly humans run in terror at the slightest inconvenience, that definitely helped
No.12759
>>12653china sorry to bother your probably skeletized corpse but whats the name of the song in this
No.12760
>>12759Dadao song or dadao march "大刀歌", the subtitles are from this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJD-3BnmadQA dadao (I think is also called dao) is the traditional chinese sword, and in ww2 nips and chinks fought epic melee fights with katana vs dadao. I think the song references that.
No.12761
>>12760thanks very much, a shame china fell so soon
No.12762
>>12761Particularly considering that this game feels like it still has a lot of juice left in it, so they'll be stuck waiting on the benches for quite some time.
No.12764
>>12762Considering the massive lead Ermor has over everyone else, the game might be over sooner than we think.
No.12765
new turn!
No.12766
>>12764It only looks like I have a lead because no one else is posting their wars
No.12769
>>12768i was expecting THE WALL to begin playing
No.12770
>>12769too lazy to put in audio today Im on nose drugs
No.12771
>>12768who would win? 1000 skeletons or 100 dudes behind a wall?
No.12772
>>12771the 100 dudes, because among them is a disguised mustache'd demilich with 600 confirmed kills
No.12773
what was it casting anyhow
No.12774
oh, wither bones... that's pretty strong
No.12775
I figured wither bones might be worth getting just in case, but I didn't expect it to be that effective
No.12776
>>12775as far as I can tell its just a guaranteed AoE 'delet skeleton' spell, no MR negates or way to resist at all
seems like a way better counter to ermor than regular priests
No.12782
>>12768You didn't have enough sacreds. Blood vengeance deletes priests and at least once it got my demilich too.
Also the funny part about wither bones as well is that it can hit the demilich himself.
No.12784
banish and wither are chaff killers and the amount of kills a priest can get against undead hardly makes them useless if you have the possibility to produce a lot of them.
No.12786
Are multi attack units single targeting or multi?
No.12787
Multiple weapons can target different targets each round. For example, a Dragon has bite, claw and tail attacks that each can target and kill different enemy unit. However, single weapons with multiple attacks can target only a single target each round. This can be seen with flails or Gloves of the Gladiator where on the occasion that first or second hit kills the enemy, the rest of the attacks still target the already dead enemy.
Hehehe man is strong
No.12792
>>12788Wtf why did I have dusk elders there
I also apparently suicided 2 against Marignon this turn despite hiding all my other troops over there in forts
No.12793
>>12792you can dl your turn by selecting a square under schedule on blitz
No.12795
>>12794never tried. Just know that it's on blitz
No.12809
>>12794Tools & manuals in the menu > open user folder > savedgames.
.2h and .trn are the files you want to replace and then hit continue old game in menu.
No.12819
>>12817And on the bright side a decently mage backed Nid army got taken out by a shockingly small amount of skellies, plus they got a free skull staff to boot!
No.12821
have to change strategy when dealing with 1500 skeletons... thought I could do something cheesy probably causing deaths of my h.cav but they stretch off the map
No.12833
>>12832WHY didn't you kill ermor and WHY are they killing mima
No.12834
>>12833>WHY are they killing mima?Isn't the mima poster, Ermor or Sceleria? Mima represent the necromancer/undead I guess... That's why they're killing her, and the three soldiers are supposed to be Marignon, Nidavangr and Man. China doesn't appear because died.
No.12835
Wait... they should be killing Seiga, not Mima... I guess drawing too much skellies lobotomized my Mind....
No.12840
>>12832Quality post BUT you will be joining the ranks of the dead soon
On that note I'm pleased to announce the first defeated wall since China, all it took was having 0 opposition whatsoever!
No.12844
>>12832Fucking awesome, godspeed humies
No.12845
>>12832Is that Yukari and Miho!?
I have no idea what's going in this thread but that's some quality artwork.
No.12846
File:2.jpg (Spoiler Image,561.67 KB,1279x1231)
>>12845Yes! You probably recognized them from this scene, Miho basically remains the same, but I changed Yukari's hair to a completely different thing. Then I said, fuck it, and drew the entire skeleton army.
>I have no idea what's going in this threadTotal hatred for the skeletons.
No.12848
The wars of the land will continue in the
NEW TURN
No.12850
So from what I can gather everybody is fighting Ermor, except for C'tis and Ulm who are slapfighting each other in the corner of the map
No.12852
ulm and c'tis will wake up one day and realize the game is over because ermor controls the entire map through sheer force of spam
No.12855
>>12849You've made the right choice my bone brother
Also that fort I jumped on when Mari was there is autospawning my skeletons since my dominions there, theres like 40 now but no commanders so I think they'll just crumble the moment you break siege/send something to reclaim it but I'm not sure
No.12860
>>12850I'm sorry my human brethren, but the war against the lizards is not proceeding favourably.
No.12867
>>12865Was the place you moved the troops already being sieged or was it still fully under your control when they moved?
If you want guys to protect a castle theyre moving to you need them set to 'move and patrol'
No.12868
I'll load my turn and show you how bad this game handles move orders
No.12869
>>12866Oh it was my guys yeah, you need to set units to move and patrol or they go inside the castle
I also learned that the hard way No.12870
>>12869Even if that bullshit excuse were true, that doesn't explain why my pretender wasn't there either.
No.12872
>>12870I havent been teleporting stuff but presumably it works the same way that he always warps inside the castle by default, not sure if theres a way to 'teleport and patrol' though
No.12873
ok, the game is literally over because there's some tiny condition which invalidates the definition of previously set commands... which I can't even test because for whatever reason you can't load old turns due to not gick felt crash
No.12874
that's called bad game design BTW
No.12876
oh, and I guess you better not have forts if you have an immobile pretender because they didn't bother figuring out how to teleport a pretender into a fight when you need it
No.12878
Just waste my gems?
No.12881
you have zero way to kill me.
No.12882
had* zero ways. Now there is one path for me to lose militarily
No.12884
Now I have to read on the fucking move orders to account for stupid situations but I have to no doubt just discard half of my nation over this.
No.12885
MA is made of ass
No.12887
fuck all of you for picking MA instead of EA or LA
No.12889
Whose winning?
Is it the undead Roman Empire?
No.12892
ok. I can still win. Ermor made yet another mistake...
No.12895
>>12893>>12894Kind COCKatrice helping humans join the dead painlessly
No.12896
>>12894This is why you put those forces way in front of the army...
No.12900
Oh my Mima just standing on Marignons capital kills like 200 skeletons a turn
This is going to be a hard wall to crack
No.12901
>>12899can't you assign commanders under other commanders in dominions? you can do it in conquest of elysium with unit management, and it makes them disappear from the list
No.12902
>>12899You can make it smaller. But that's all.
No.12924
(THIS JUST IN)
"GREAT" ARMIES OF MAN COMPLETELY OBLITERATED BY (((just a pile of bones)))
>>12923Yes! As long as they remember to twiceborn.
No.12927
all the priests attacks got wasted trying to deal with flanks, sad.
No.12928
for the less autistic footage...
https://puu.sh/KDBPi/38e577f145.mp4I have one last trump card, but it's nothing more than stalling and it might not even work
No.12929
maybe it would have been better to give each priest a bodygaurd so the mass of units was more focused, but I'd rather just give my units more complex orders like hold ground...
No.12931
I guess the other thing would be to just stay inside the castle and fight them inside, but then I wouldn't have any territory to defend. Not really an option, just stalling.
The only answer was if I could get all my units to box formation around the monks and not attack. But the game doesn't allow units to stand-ground
No.12932
>>12931Very sad you can't create a pike and shot formation...
No.12935
No gooks allowed
No.12938
For reference at this point Marignon has like 11~ provs (I'm sieging 1, he's got maybe 5~ more underground), Man has around 12 (Im sieging 2), Nid has 7 (Sieging 1)
And I have around 107
No.12939
Game sure isn't very interesting when all my forts are under siege and I have no ability to do anything...
No.12940
>>12938>And I have around 107Yeah okay should we just call it here? I (C'tis) don't think I can last any longer than the others did if you are that strong. I guess you have enough thrones within your grasp at this point anyway to easily win at any time.
No.12942
Swamps are useless against skellies... who will our beloved mozzies feast upon?
No.12943
we'll see this turn if I have the ability to harrass the skeletons to the grave.
No.12950
>>12946>>12947>>12948>>12949￥demonic void fountain singlehandedly destroys horde of skeletonsbut HOW
No.12952
the truly evil thing about ermor is that they have more than enough skeletons to take the throne provinces and end the game but they choose to drag it out by sieging forts instead
No.12956
>>12952they're doing it right by securing the win
No.12957
Skeletons are cool
No.12965
>>12953>>12956This is true
>>12952But the funny thing is despite controlling a little over half the above ground map and almost all of the under ground map, I dont actually border the SEVEN thrones required to win
>>12946￥No lictorsYou humans sure are easily excitable!
On that note I'd like to report skeletons easily conquering Man's cap this turn, the fortress of Marignon is all that remains!
No.12983
Thought it was just 5 to win
No.12984
Nevermind. 21/3 is indeed 7
No.12994
The living continue their struggle against the undead in the
NEW TURN
No.12999
I'm going to summon a doom horror eventually. I don't play gaccha games for no reason
No.13034
>>13029Yeah lizards concede. I don't think there is much value in dragging this out any further.
My plan would've been to mass-spam wither bones in fights but there is no way I'd be able to deal with all the inevitable stacks of skellies swarming over the border.
No.13035
I am still waiting for the Artorias vs Mima final battle.
No.13036
if I were playing Caelum this would never have happened...
No.13037
anyways, you haven't beaten man. My last fortress won't fall. It's literally unkillable
No.13038
The fact that the last nation of mankind is literally called Man is literally poetic.
No.13040
>>13037Ok I'll kill you first then
We'll see how unbeatable it is with a lictor factory in your capital
No.13041
>>13040that would be rather advantageous in my position
No.13042
>>13041I'm CURIOUS what your planning, but every other time humanity was confident in its victory they soon tasted crushing defeat, so Im preparing to be disappointed again
No.13045
>>13043That's a lot of skellies...
No.13046
The only way for someone other than skeletons to win is to stall out the game for another 40 turns because the cataclysm will make things worse for the person with more territory and requires using gems to summon high tier units.
So there's still a chance of winning as long as he can't actually kill you.
No.13047
>>13043I JUST WANT IT TO END ALREADY IM TIRED OF BEING ALL POWERFUL YOU GUYS HAVE LIKE 14 PROVINCES TO LOOK AT A FEW MINUTES AND I HAVE TO MANAGE 10s OF THOUSANDS OF SKELETONS IN 130 PROVINCES FOR 2 HOURS EVERY TURN CONSTANTLY MARCHING TO BATTLES I KNOW I'LL WIN BUT STILL NEEDING TO TAKE THE TIME TO SCRIPT THEM TO WIN EVERY TIME
I humbly believe that 7 level 3 thrones was too much>>13046Pretty sure Cataclysm just destroys thrones it takes and lowers win points with it, meaning I'd still win as long as I held and defended more thrones than any other player
No.13049
>>13047it means that a person with one throne has a few percentage chance to cheese the game
No.13051
>>13047serves you right for picking ermor
No.13052
oh shoot. I thought my pretender would spawn over where I called to respawn him, but it put him right over my old capital.
I think this game is over for me afterall
No.13053
>>13052Couldnt even beat a PD dump...
What were you planning? Just to spam demons and horrors?
No.13054
luck on summonning a good horror with Hell Power.
No.13055
oh well, at least I still have my castle
No.13056
>>13054I dont see how that would help much against an army 100+ lictors
No.13058
>>13057￥73 hitpointsLooks like it would kill itself after eating a few sacreds, doesnt look undead either so my mages shadow blasting it should do the trick too
No.13060
>>13058protection and magic resistance. Then defence skill and damage reveresal.
Has 6 attacks. Can teleport wherever it wants
No.13061
>>13060Assuming I understand how Unsurroundable works from the wiki it seems he would still hit 0 def pretty fast surrounded by 8 squares of 3 lictors each
25 prot wont do much against 32 dmg Lictors, but the ethereal would negate 75% of their attacks
More attacks means more reflected damage at once from killed Lictors (making it definitely fast enough to counteract his self healing from the one Life drain attack)
But all that aside I dont think the 22 magic defense would do much against massed shadow blasts given how many I can spam now and how theyve performed against other units with 18~, even if it did I'll have Evo6 soon for banefire and he wouldnt be able to do anything against 55+ AN damage with no MR check
Not sure how the teleport works though, maybe it would be more annoying than I'm imagining
No.13062
>>13061Oh sorry Banefire is AP not AN, still massive damage
No.13063
>>13062from doing things with lightning, protection isn't armor
No.13064
>>13063Ok so 30 damage, still massive damage
No.13065
All the more why it would be interesting to summon one by chance
No.13066
>>13065It is a shame your god only got the crappy little horrors to pop out
I wonder what the chance is for the big guys
No.13067
>>13066There's a few formula adjusted by how much drain you have. But idk. It's a gamble anyways. Sumonning medium horror is blood 8 or something anyways.
No.13068
I think the winner should be decided on a 1vs1 arena match. Like on my japanese battle shonens.
No.13070
lore accurate undead apocalypse
No.13071
>>13070We humans still at least have Ulm as a safe place to take exile in...
No.13072
>>13071Isnt Ulm getting killed by lizard necromancers?
No.13074
>>13069I'm just going to kill Man and then AI myself
I'm completely convinced theres nothing anyone can do to stop the absurd amount of skeletons I've snowballed to and I can't stand managing them all for much longer
No.13075
Nah. Killing me isn't going to happen
No.13076
>>13075There are 4000 skeletons, 100 lictors, and 10-20 mages heading your way RIGHT NOW and it doesnt even look like you have much more than a hundred monks
It'll all end soon
No.13077
Nah. I'll just build a moat
No.13078
Speaking of which the monks should be hidden from scouting since they have stealth...
No.13079
>>13078Theyre probably on wait/patrol instead of sneak/hide
No.13080
But if they're sneaking then how do i get them to defend when needed... This game has the dumbest limitations...
No.13082
>>13080Hide is the sneak without moving command, just have them not hiding when its time to fight
Not that it matters much since I'm assuming your going to HIDE and COWER behind your wall like humans do best so you can just have them stop hiding/sneaking after I'm sieging you
No.13083
I met you out on the battlefield of Man when I could have stayed hidden and won.
If you weren't a coward you would send all your lictors in a 100 vs 1 against my prophet.
No.13084
>>13083If you want to organize a 100v1 between Artorius and Mima's hundred greatest champions we can do it to prove once and for all skeletons rule and humans drool
No.13087
saw
No.13088
saw that too
No.13089
Send you champions here.
I'll have a few units for buffs who will retreat after.
>>13088spammer
No.13091
>>13089Alright then, I dont have all the lictors down there now since a few are marching from your cap so give me 2 turns (I'll just meander my army away from that province in the meantime)
And since your at the disadvantage do you want nothing but Lictors/Censors and an H3 to bless them or do you want Ermors actual top 100 skellies
Presumably the hundred lictors because if I'm allowed to bring a mage I can just drain life a couple times and end your hero instantly like that scene in Overlord No.13092
should I wait and not attack that province then? I don't really care about what you do other than no mages.
No.13093
>>13092You can take it now if you want, it only has 6 PD
And if thats the case give me an extra turn to march my prophet whose survived from turn 1 down from Marignons lands so we can have a prophet-off
No.13094
alright. I'll wait but I'll have monks there and take it.
I have a research level which will help which takes a bit more research
No.13095
>>13071I've been slowly dying to the lizards for a while now. Unless you want to join the starving troops hiding in the Ulm fort, there's not much I have left to offer.
No.13108
how did you get lictors under lictors?
No.13109
>>13108Do you mean the commanders? Censors are just slightly reskinned Lictors as leaders
No.13110
lame
No.13111
>>13110I like them because I have to pay for lictors but they spawn for free like everything else!
No.13115
lets see how many my prophet killed...
No.13116
>>13115Maybe 100 were too much....
No.13124
Full fight.
https://puu.sh/KDRkW/b6a6bd76b3.mp4So I probably overdid cold resistance because I wasn't sure how much was needed for chill aura.
He got surrounded and had issues with defense rolls.
Because he knew magic he started casting thundertouch sometimes which wasn't good strategy
But he didn't get any fatigue penalties, his HP was fine and the regen was very strong given his base HP that let him kill an extra one
No.13129
nah, I'm AI. I don't have enough monks+units to hold back over 9000 skeletons
No.13131
actually, I'll just make empty turns because I don't want the AI to do something stupid
No.13132
>>13131Everyones dead or surrendered now so I'm probably done playing too, is there any way for the host to force end it so we can see the end graphs?
No.13133
not that I see, but most should resign making the game fast enough to finish.
No.13134
Will be another dominions game after this?
No.13139
>>13137>Blood Vengeance Ah, of course.
No.13140
If you're not ermor and you think the game's over you can go ai. If you don't want ai let me know and I'll force host a couple turns after ermor submits so everyone stales, need consent from sceleria, ulm and c'tis though.
No.13141
And shoutout to the first throne I claimed giving all my sacreds Awe for free
>>13140I'd prefer you just make them start staling if they agree than AIing because then I can just rush the thrones without dealing with fighting the AI
No.13143
>>13140Ulm here. My last fort just fell and I have no options left other than hiding out until the last of my provinces get cleaned up, so I'm fine with ending it here.
No.13144
>>13141blessed troops getting awe is hella op..
No.13145
Lizards WON vs ulm
So what now? I don't know what staling is but if it's force skipping my turns or whatever I'm fine with that from this point out.
No.13146
Yeah. Just submit turns
No.13147
New turn available. Wish I wasn't crippled early so I could test something but the game's probably over now.
No.13148
>>13147You're sceleria I assume. Need an explicit yes/no from you as to whether you want to continue playing or not.
No.13152
>>13148I mean I'll submit quick turns and see if I can send a force after you that can kill, but I highly doubt I'll be able to get the research in time to stop you.
No.13153
Even if I had 10 turns of undisturbed reasearch, not sure if I'd be able to get enough points in to turn the tides of war.
No.13154
>>13153But, if you want to test to see if my theoretical endgame army could counter yours, we can go at it.
No.13156
>>13154Sure if you want me to kill you real quick I can do that before we quit, my army in Man is pretty close by
I'm pretty sure theres nothing that could possibly beat me now that I've amassed so many lictors and skeletons
Aside from maybe master enslave No.13158
>>13157You can probably kill me easy right now and I can't make up the difference if we're playing to win, I just want to kinda experiment with how strong one specific spell is.
No.13159
>>13158Alright I can just hang my skeletons around until your ready for a big fight then, do you have the spell already or how many turns until youve got it researched?
No.13160
>>13159I just got to the point where I have all my forts (7, may be 9) producing researchers each turn and I have 413+ research per turn to get to thaut 8 from 6. 1550 left on thaut 6 but I don't know what the jump will be to thaut 8, hopefully the research increase per turn will help things.
No.13161
>>13160I'll just hold my skeletons on that province they're all lumped up on then, and I'll send you over all my research boost items to speed it up a little too
No.13196
Ermor Gaming
>>13191Can you march your deathball up to one of those 2 provinces my massive army is waiting near instead? I dont want to have to change anything if somehow an important mage gets killed by a PD archer or something
And I'm pretty sure I know which spell your going after
It might just work
No.13197
>>13196Yeah, I'll march it up starting next turn. Research will be done by then.
No.13211
Ctis can you just tell me if this is how you reach this throne before I march all my troops the wrong way again
>>13208Big skeleton battle SOON
No.13213
Sceleria you ready for me to move all my skellies onto Illidar or do you need more turns for marching?
No.13214
>>13213I still need a few more turns. A lot of my guys were stationed underground.
No.13215
>>13214Got it I'll keep them waiting
No.13216
>>13214Well there go my last few guys, who had been hiding in the tunnels.
No.13225
I'm going to move my troops to Belen and then maybe next turn you should siege the Castle. I don't know if I'll survive many more turns even with my priests preaching their hearts out.
No.13226
>>13225Alright so wait 1 more turn then jump on Belegor?
And oh yeah I kinda forgot my massive dominion is kinda enveloping the entire left side of the map hehe
No.13227
>>13226Yeah I'm having Vern host it now so we can do this soon.
No.13228
>>13227Actually we may just doe it now, move to Illidar and we can fight.
No.13229
Yeah actually I don't think I survive many more turns if any. So may as well fight now.
No.13233
your base pen was 8, his base MR on longdead was 13 or 14. He probably did a bless related buff or something of that sort to take it up 3 points
No.13234
from the looks of things, you had to get a good exploding dice roll to break through the MR
No.13235
>>13232Since it was pretty obvious what spell you were going for I researched antimagic while we were waiting and cast that + set all my priests to cast unholy protection (MR buff) instead of unholy power like theyve been doing the rest of the game
I also made sure to give all my important mages MR buff items so they wouldnt get taken
No.13236
unbeatable strategy was defeated by the proper counter
No.13238
undead mastery was still pretty effective to kill 60% of his army... if I were playing Caelum instead of man though he'd still be finished...
No.13240
if skeletons win then humanity has lost...
No.13242
>>13239We won so hard its unreal
Humanity died like 10 turns ago now I'm just showing off my skeletal superiority before finally ending the game
>>13238WHAT would a bunch of puny pigeons do against 80000-100000 skeletons (rough estimate of current total Ermorean forces)
No.13244
>>13242That army I saw(before I was helplessly murdered despite being no harm to anyone) is easily killable by battlefield wide lightning evocation and lightning evocation rituals.
Not even trolling this time
No.13246
>>13244Any evo mage strat would still be countered by the mages killing themselves on my sacreds blood vengeance if I just massed enough of them (not sure 100% how battlefield wide spells interact with it but I would assume casting any battlefield damage spell would lead to a very quick death with 100+ vengeance units around)
No.13247
>>13246Blood vengance I think remembers the caster and killing the caster ends battlefield effects, but evocation rituals allow you to attack that from provinces away. And the higher density the army the more effective they become.
But lightning mages are nukes
No.13248
like, the power of lightning mage battlefield effects is that you will ultimately end up killing your own army if you don't bring resistance buffs. And blood vengance is also MR negates and you just delt with MR negates on longdead... how about against elite mages..
No.13249
Can Host pass another turn or 2 to make Sceleria stale like everyone else so I can just blitz to the thrones?
I assume theres nothing else he wants to try since he has no troops and will be domkilled very soon
No.13251
>>13250Thanks, I was marching towards them while waiting for Sceleria so it should be over soon
No.13257
>>13256he telegraphed his ultimate move and got parried
No.13262
>>13261Maybe I could have attacked more, but you had too many units underground and I didn't have enough units to defend everywhere. Even still, if I attacked out then to what end. I needed to get units who could take on the subterranean, but best I had was some lesser buffs for 50% dark vision.
My ideal was someone else was going to be able to prevent you from massing lots of units then I attack underground when I have some demons and blood summons to form a main attack.
So my reasoning was that I had no option other than give up my capital or defend it and hope there were enough people to give you trouble.
Though not as restrictive as the sea, fighting in the dark is still limiting.
No.13263
Also I thought that sceleria would attack me over a river and I would have nothing to deal with that. If they weren't around I would have had more troops to use
No.13266
>>13259>>13260>>13261Thanks for sharing. I never really had full visibility of what was going on in the great skellie wars so this was interesting to see.
Also I'm wondering what people's thoughts were on having just tier 3 thrones everywhere. From my point of view they were too strong for most of the game and it was difficult to justify gathering up a strong enough force to take them, particularly when you are already in the middle of fighting someone.
No.13268
>>13266Compared to T1 thrones being pretty free I did like the idea of it being a little risky to divert enough forces to take them, but on most of the thrones the risk did seem too great most of the game, maybe T2 would be best as a main throne type with a couple T3s scattered in
I also thought 7/10 thrones felt like too many required to win, 6 or even 5 would have been plenty I feel
No.13269
The t3 bonuses seem good. But not enough to offset the losses
No.13273
so... whens the la game?
No.13274
>>13273I might play but I don't feel like being the one setting this one up. If someone else does maybe.
No.13281
If the previous host(s) don't want to pick the next game up then I'll look into it within the next few days.
No.13344
Alright I've thrown up another game on blitz to gauge interest:
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/713#statusI'll leave it up a couple of days and see how many are interested. I think we'll need 4-5 players at the bare minimum, I don't see how it would work with any less.
Map and throne settings will be figured out later based on numbers.
No.13392
>>13344There does not appear to be much interest right now so I'm going to cancel the game tomorrow unless there are a bunch of last-minute joiners.
I'm thinking that maybe it would be worth trying again some time in the new year. The christmas break would probably be quite disruptive to a long-term game like this anyway.
No.13397
>>13392Can’t speak for the others but end of November andlead up to New Years is always the most busiest time of the year for me because of family. I have no time at all to get consistent turns in.