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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.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.