Leaked nation, Zemaitia edition. >>535776785Dominions is a fantasy turn-based war game created by two dudes. One of them is a teacher.The game combines a simple presentation with an extremely wide array of strategic options, including over 3400 units, 1100 spells and 400 magic items. Turns are resolved simultaneously, with players planning battles rather than directly controlling them. It has simplistic graphics but is easily moddable and extremely deep.Basically, it's an autist’s wet dream of a war game.>Our pastebin (extremely outdated)https://pastebin.com/wjbSA98Y>Steamgrouphttps://steamcommunity.com/groups/vanheimageofvidya>Multiplayer guide>Blitzserver (game hosting service)https://blitzserver.net(Dom 6)https://beta.blitzserver.net/games>Llamaserver:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1212948582>Documentationhttps://illwinter.com/dom6/docs.html>Tools>Mod inspectorhttps://larzm42.github.io/dom6inspector/>Wikihttps://illwiki.com/>Pretender calculatorhttps://zollqir.github.io/pretenders-dom6/https://caleb-distributive.github.io/pretenders-dom6/ (website down?)>Debug modhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3083231618>Communion fatigue calculator (still dom5)https://instacalc.com/53495>Automatically prevent starts in all provinces with less than X connections (still dom5)https://nixx.is-fantabulo.us/dom5ranmapnos/>How do I change the fonts?Replace guifont.ttf, guifont_fancy.ttf and guifont_texty.ttf in the game's 'data' folder (C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Dominions6\data)>Fan arthttps://thronebooru.booru.org>Sloop’s Comfy Balance Modhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1zeDyK8Zb_p4lIJ0yp3a3ikMprRkmBCWvy31_4jBen3Q/edit?usp=sharingPrevious Turn of the Wheel:>>535573914
>>536526318>3ematiatf kind of name is this
>>536526857It's Lithuanianhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDemaitija_National_Park
Dust to dust already....
Transmute fire
>>536532470Because the recruit everywhere communicants are good
>>536533443Is regen worth taking on them then?
>>536532470the list i made was and is bad, and i didn't know where to put the communicants, they are special as far as units go. they do die easily, such as to murdering winter, and in communions that blow up from fatigue
>>536534932regen isn't that great on human comm slavesreinvig and magic pen are the most important blesses for pythium
>>536487665How the fuck are MA Pythiums sacreds c tiered?
>>536537809>>536535601
>>536535601At the same time their potential is so god damn high its insaneYou can slap a self buff on a line of them and have a brick wall that cant die easily
>>536538861I have done this with normal comm slaves before, I can only imagine how silly it is with 60+ little pink fckers with every single personal buff cast on them
>>536535601Larger is the best bless for Pyth bar none
WHERE GEIMU
>>536545571Soon
>>536526318sorry bros but when zemaitia comes out i will perma refresh blitzserver to snipe every game.green ulm teutonic order is just too epic.
>>536548239Let us know how many tries it actually takes you to win a game with a nature/glamour nation lacking any elves or giants or even heavy infantry.
>>536548239Here's a trick the jews don't want you to know about: you can just make your own games and pick the nation before announcing them
>>536549090Supposedly chud infantry can punch above their weight in the LA
>>536549229with high strength they will kill regular humie heavy infantry pretty wellthe issue, as usual, is crossbows
>>536549817Ah shit, like half of everyone has xbows in the la and you can recruit them as indies, right
Crossbows shouldn't be AP and that is a hill I will die on.
which MA nation has the best xbows?
>>536555890Agreed, they should just hit a few points harder than longbows but shorter range
Blitzserver dark mode when?
>>536549817You get medium armored berserker, light armored berserker, 2 handed axe bears, and knightsWhat the fuck are the chuds thinking?
>>536556957hell have to replace the lizzers with machakan queens then
>>536558874I think draw anon's depiction of the mare cute
Gnight domg
>>536556187Marignon>Ulm has arbalests that punch through Ulmish armor>TC's crossbows are too expensive>Orionde crossbowmen require specific fort placement>Pyrene crossbowmen cost 12 gold because caveman ancestry
>>536564247>imperial crossbowmen cost 13 goldWhat is Illfraud smoking?
>>536564754Don't forget the resource cost, making it difficult to spam them.
>>536564247For me Ulmish ones are worrysome if you're a mage heavy nationWith range 50, the odds they even accidentally nail and one shot your mages is quite high.Sure, only having 1 attack every 3 turns is nice, but not if it insta-kills a mage you had all the way in the back.
>>536564754That's a lot of gold for +2 morale, +1 def and +1 prec.The whole Tien line needs a rework and that includes EA which just got one.
>>536565103It's (compared to mari) +1 morale, +1 prec for +30M gold cost
>inb4 resources dont matter anon saying resources now matter
New Gaem?
>>536567871Why can't Tien-Chi's mid tier units use haubreks instead of cuirasses? Also why do their crossbows need full scale?
>>536568114why are there no length 2 one handed weapons? I'd love a bastard sword or something, even if it had a defense penalty.
>>536569027spears?
>>536569153sorry, i meant besides spears.
>>536568114It'd also be useful if their glaives could hit the broad side of a barn.
>>536569027>sword of bastards>5 fire gems 10 glamour gems>1 hand length 2 attack 2 defense 0 damage 7>grants seduction, deals X2 damage against the opposite sex of the wielder
>>536575078heh, neat. i just meant like, standard equipment, tho.
>>536526318filthy moose fuckers
>>536585475I hope they trample
>>536548239its important you realize you are playing as the pagan balts that mogged the order and not the order itself
New nat looks cool, might get me back into the game.
Dear domg.Today I learned that you can't break a NAP with formal diplomacy disabled and attack in the same turn.I feel like a fool.
>>536572958Glaives are still useful into giants. They will accumulate harassment pretty fast so low attack is not a problem.
>>536599042Ha! Backstabber shenanigans foiled Was that you Man?
Here's everyone's favorite cute and funny immobile!
>>536600095
>>536599626Ah wait it was FemineEven better lol
>>536600095>>536600113cute!
>>536600095>>536600113Is she supposed to be based on the girl from F&H? If so, rather good pick
are blood gems in Arcoscephale wild and silly instead of cute and funny?
>>536603692they're basically sufficiently creepy in dom6 that they turn off some people from even using blood magic and gathering blood slaves, even if they find blood magic mechanically interesting and don't mind the micromanagement incurred by blood hunting
>>536603692Only in EA and LA
>>536596449its literally the teutonic order
>>536609973Anon, you have to read the description more carefullyIts Zemaitia, a realm of harsh winters and short summers inhabited by humans (slavs) and chudes (balts), formerly ruled by the vanir (scandinavians)The black knights (thats the teutons!!) invade, and they do well for awhile, but the iron kingdom (still the teutons) withdraws. The last human hochmeister (last of the human teutons!) swears allegiance to the chudes (its still the balts) The humans of zemaitia have copied teutonic tech because it was superior so they larp with the shields and arbalests, but the only "teutons" remaining got pozzed into fairies
Well, it sure is refreshing seeing LA nation that got seduced not by demons/blood or skellington boners, but fae fairies instead.
Redpill me on repelling
>>536613665
>>536614218I feel like repel is a much bigger deal than it pretends to be.Like with two equal size units, an L0 weapon will almost never actually strike someone holding an L4 one.
>>536614725To be real with you, I've played Arco a lot and, infuriatingly, I've never noticed any advantage repel would bestow upon army relying on that en masse. Probably because iirc it's tied to attack skill rather than def.
Repel good because it mean only attack buff good. If Attack buff good, then strength buff good, if attack buff bad, then Defense buff good and if Defense buff good then Strength buff bad. Fuck Defense, only Attack. I Attack to block your Attack and still deal damage with my Strength, you die.
>>536614870The problem is that spears have no attack bonus, but the things they're usually repelling, swords, have defense bonus. Also there's the morale check, and human players usually prefer to build elites who will easily pass the morale check.
But repel is supposed to deal only 1 damage, something is wrong...
>>536618324That tracks, I guess. Though I did at certain point build +5 att fire bless for sacred hoplites, and even with that and furious warriors they never amounted to anything.
Welp that does it for me. I will be completely cut off from electronics outside the weekends (maybe) the moment i join physical training course. The call for replacement is official since i have no more desire to see this to the end. I'll leave an email here soon with overview, instructions and guidance inside. That's EA Mictlan, MA Agartha, MA Machaka and LA Tien Chi needed. If a few days pass with no replacements i'll set ai.
what are the most magic dependent nations?
>>536629186ma ermor
>>536629232fuck you
>>536629186All of the human nations except Ulm
>>536629186MA Asphodel pretty much can't even build forts without magic right?
>>536629186more in-depth definition needed. are summons magic? is item forging magic? is reanimation magic?
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>>536629186Nations with trash troops maybe? Bogarus perhaps.
Never secondguess and switch out your tendie, bros...
>>536630205Easy, event blood dungeon jailer
>>536630205please don't bother us with your past, personal traumas
>>536630307What does that even mean
>>536630205Holy shit, it's Krauser's legendary 128 rapes per post posting! He's the real thing!
>>536643791he changed his god when rEAd unstarted and now he is regretting it
Leech
GEIMU!?!?!?!
Ritual of Rebirth
>>536614725I think harass modifier gets applied to both defense and repel. And dudes with spears/len4s usually have somewhere in the order of 10att and 12def.Its just a defense check that uses attack instead of defense (and has some extra steps).This is gnarly useful of berserkers but there aren't many berserk len3/4 units in vanilla.
>>536674096Any forgeable weapons?
>>536678441True, I was excluding thugs out of hand because the idea that repelling has turned from allowing levied troops to stop a cav charge, into allowing thugs to murder levied troops is so mind numbing I repressed it.
6 provinces in 8 turns yet already completely surrounded.
>>536687123anon, 6 provinces in 8 turns isn't good...
>>536687123>>536688036he's supposed to have 20 by 8 kektake an awake next time
>>536688219this is a meme exagerration that makes it sound like only taking one province a turn starting from turn 3 is okay and the alternative is some crazy tryhard thing, don't lie to the boyas any nation you need to have a plan for how you will get out expansion parties
>>536687123You're probably still making more gold than meWhere are my pops? Did Hinnom sneak in and eat everyone during mapgen?
>>536687123This map is a disaster.I wonder how the caveniggers and fish are feeling.>>536688036It's not, which is his point. You can't go two provinces in a row on this crowded map without bumping.
You know what?Blood sucks.Its a trash path that doesn't get a single good spell till level 7. Its spells are overcosted, its summons are garbage, and it doesn't do a damn thing for you except give you a couple of cool items to craft.Blood is trash.
>>536689862generic blood is bad and best used for craftingnational only blood spells/summons are great
>>536689862I agree and that is why I always fucking hated play LA Mari even though it was thematically my favorite nation. Trap path that ruins your income, wastes mage turns hunting, wastes more mage turns researching dead tiers, wastes yet more gold buying patrollers. All the other paths ask of you is one mage sitesearching or casting search rituals, if even that. Yet sweats will still go nuts recruiting mages with a 10% b1 random. Oh, blood is strong in late game? How about instead of gimping yourself setting up a "blood economy", just research a real school and close out in midgame instead?
>>536690152>>536690828I feel like I entered bizzaro world.Is this /domg/?What happened to all the blood fanboys?
>>536691397I like blood, battle summons, succubus, horde from hell/crossbreeding for siege chaff, imps for research.It's a path that requires a bit of setup that's true, but it has better scale than any other school so. I also wish the summons from blood 1-3 weren't so useless most of the time, but alas.
>>536691706hah! nerd.you suck bloodboy.
>>536691397blood has been nerfed over and over from its dom4 and early dom5 power level
>>536691706research imps seem not worth the trouble. Maybe if you took double drain.
>>536691397I was not a blood fan until I tried playing a big blood nation and surviving long enough to set up a serious blood economy
I have 20 hours in this game, how wrong am I?
>>536689862Blood seems a little too dependent on crosspaths to get anything good. You can get a lot of good spells with monopaths with other schools. You can get some useful spells with pure death/air/nature etc but a lot of pure blood seems so-so.
>>536693342Not that wrong. Put earth in S. Move death up 1 and glamour down 2. Maybe move blood down 1. Now I agree.
>>536693342swap death and glamorput earth in Aand understand that water is S tier when you're actually underwater
>>536693342Astral is bad and fire is good in the early game.
>>536695246As soon as you get to alteration 3 astral is now great.Earth is always useful throughout the gameGlamour needs a bit more research but has some super strong spells. Communions.Blood is a bit dependent on crosspaths but has scalabilityNature has some good spells but they don't punch as hard as others, but n1s can at least poison arrows or be utilized some way.Death has good spells and summons but low level death mages are near uselessAir has magic phase movements and good buffs, but doesn't compete the same way with other schoolsFire is evoc, nearly no good summons, very easy to counter. Lategame fire is pretty underwhelming, even midgame.Water.
>>536690174NEW GAEM NAOW!!
It's another 'I've got four forest provinces and not one had a nature site' episode
>>536695697Fire could use some new spells or buffs to the non Evocs. Adding some Attack and Morale to your guys is always good, Solar Eclipse can be plugged into a Communion so that's nice, but Bonds/Prison of Fire seems weak. It's not like Fire suffers from ways to stop chaff, and the high defense units you want to use it on (thugs) usually have other layers to protection you have to punch through.
I was all excited to play a new game and then MA game opened on discord and I can't think of anything.Everything feels too samey, you know? Maybe i should just play a nation that is objectively crap and play a meme build..
>>536700976be a try hard. run your best faction and tendie and go for the gold.
>>536526318I had a dream where somehow we had an event held two times a year called "bring a friend to cataclysm" in which *somehow* the thread had managed to coordinate setting up a disciples game where (You) got to play with one friend of yours to introduce them to the series and play in a team.It was fun in my dream, because due to dream logic most people simply abided by the rules (bring a new player) and blitzmin ended up getting so many new people he had to upgrade the server and setup donations which led to no more downtimes. Too bad I don't think it's feasible in reality.
>>536708956My friends are all too stupid to play Dominions.
>>536695697My tier listIt doesn't all fit on one screen :(
Hey! I found Danger Chicken!
>>536710247how do you make these?
>>536710920https://tiermaker.com/create/dominions-6-paths-and-crosspaths-18230151
>>536700976You can always play Ermor or an UW nation if you're unsure
Fight me faggit
You can't really compare blood since it's the only magic path that has an income entirely unrelated to that off sitesarching
>>536713540yeah but the cost of all its spells are jacked up because of that.
>>536713540That makes it automatically S tier.
>>536714004Yes
Darkbolt
>>536721791Darkbolt Duck?
>>536689638I got a full cap circle but by my estimation the cave map is not One Cave, meaning anyone else I am sharing my chunk of the underground with may find that there is not a lot ot expand Northwards
>>536729228Is Agartha/Xib promised the entirety of the caves by default or something
>>536729672No but they operate better in darkness than most surface dwellers
>>536710247nature has good utility items, and army regeneration and relief can decide the outcome of battles. but it is typically more of a good supplementary path than a good primary path. evos and summons are typically not that good for nature, outside of crosspaths with nature like glamour-nature. nature is also more helpful for living nations, since it provides supply items, nature mages have innate supply bonus, and it has some access to disease healing. and poison resistance can be very helpful against enemies with foul vapors>>536710247>>536695697>>536693342i suspect the tier-lists would be easier to judge, understand and analyze if you split them according to purpose. and also had two variant tier-lists based on including/excluding crosspaths for each purpose. ignoring the crosspath variants, a tier-list for best evocations, a tier-list for best summons, a tier-list for best utility, etc. not including national spells and items, since they can change the situation dramatically
>>536732162>>536729672we actually need the Caves, because its the only place where we have an advantage, Pyrene and Abysia do well above ground, we need Darkness
>player stales and then takes a very quick turnI smell an AI coming
>>536733923Thank you mr wikipedia, nice to know you can't see a joke staring you in the face
I like Air. It's my favorite path. Air nations feel comfy
>>536736378yes, but jokes can be used to convey genuine opinions or bear some truths, among other possible purposes and effects
>>536738352You're an idiot
Damn, Machaka is full of N
>>536739995i thought it was primarly a Glamour/Death nation though?
>>536740319Looks pretty N to me
>>536740319MA Machaka is schizoWarlocks can have 2F, 2D, 3N, or 2GBlack Sorcs 3F, 3E, or 2Dthen you got the Anansi who can hit G3, or N2, or D2. But you aren't recruiting them because the black sorcs are just so much better.
>>536739215that's you you're writing about
>>536739995iggers
>>536743016What's an igger, is it like a pogger?
>>536739995>>536740319>>536741310The only mage in machaka that matters is FED.
>>536747402But their mere presence causes unrest
>>536748091That's a bonus since he'll be sneaking around in enemy provinces for the most part. The ones on forge duty can hang out in a shitty 10 income wasteland or something
>>536749178I can't believe you're defending the FED's
What's the biggest counter to MA Man?
>>536748091Fiery but mostly peaceful rituals
>>536749734Elephants (size 10)
>>536749734Agartha-sama you're a bad bad boy with 6 globals up while the rest of us can barely mobilize 1
>>536749734man's bless?
>>536749734Rain
>>536749734spam evos/put up enchantments targeting whatever resistance they didn't cover in their blessthe knights are difficult to replace since they're cap only and prohibitively expensive
Shortage of viable monster pretendersSurplus of titans that never see play
>>536765856Sloops deboonked this
>>536765856You never pick titans because you cannot fit them in an optimised build. You either go Scales or Incarnate Bless + a single increment stat bless with Titans and then there’s the problem of magic paths and how difficult it is for giants to learn non-native paths (this is because all the “Casting for Dummies” books are made for humans, not 5+ meter tall godlings). They do tend to have ok Dominion, at least
>>536769118To be fair you try making a giant sized book, gonna consume an entire forest just for writing itty bitty baby
Has anyone ever taken Reanimators as a bless?
>>536769827Not in a real game. It's kinda bad.
>>536749734>>536753278i don't know if evos would hit them. maybe while they're engaged with chaff. but otherwise, vile water might be really good, at least if it is possible to both increase the protection of the cubes and also buff them with flight
>>536771161Another thing you can do is spam earthquake to delete their mage core
>>536769118it can work for some nations. the rare nations that can expand reliably without an awake pretender or bless may be good candidates. ma ctis with a magic weapons bless titan did well in one game
>>536771374their mages might cast luck, right? glamour in dom6. and they may have more durable commanders, meaning the knights still clear the field
>>536769827It can be a good diplo-bless. People are less likely to consider them a threat. in one game, if I remember correctly, someone won it and had included reanimators in his bless.
>>536771560They still only have 9 health, no armor, and low defense. Since they're spellsingers they get to cast luck and nothing else before they roll for anal circumference against 10 EQs
>>536771870those are very good points. the only real issues i see is that killing the mages might be insufficient, and that the bless might mitigate earthquake slightly, for instance if the bless has undying and enchanted blood
Banning popkill nations is a sign of homosexual behavior.Change my mind.
>>536776548Only faggots play popkill nations.
>>536776776Stop being a homophobe, elves are welcome in /domg/
Playing against Therodos, Ermor or Lemuria puts me to sleep. Just anti-fun nations. Asphodel isn't so bad, at least their units have some variety.
>>536773839>the only real issues i see is that killing the mages might be insufficientTrue, but without mage support the knights aren't as strong as they could be. If you snipe the relief caster they will certainly have you can try out a fatigue play like skelespam + rigor mortis + grip of winter (assuming they didn't take cold resistance), for instance.>and that the bless might mitigate earthquake slightly, for instance if the bless has undying and enchanted bloodThat is a pretty popular bless combo so it makes sense to account for it. In the Man mage core vs EQ spam example you'd either have to greatly scale up your spam or try another strategy. Another anon mentioned using rituals to defeat them and that is an excellent idea. Since knights are so expensive you could try spamming unrest/popkill rituals on their forts to tank their economy. If they're running around with a doomstack you could try remote assassination spells like mind hunt or maybe spamming baleful star/leprosy to pozz everything (although the knights wouldn't be too affected because of recuperation).
>>536777957very good points. lategame, for human nations without high-hp mages, i sometimes try to theorize how to make the human mages more durable, both inside and outside combat (ie. murdering winter)ea ermor has cheap shrouds and can make dwarven hammers with a national summonea/ma/la t'ien ch'i has national slightly cheap 4 gem armor (and also some earth access across ages for hammers, and la t'ien ch'i ancestor smith has 25% chance of air pick and has forge bonus 1) that apart from encumbrance can make mages more durablema ulm of course can make mages more durable somewhat cheaply, etc.not all human nations have such options from what i can tell, though can sometimes get e2, foot slot, earth boots and thereby dwarven hammers for a discount if nothing else
>>536781438>and can make dwarven hammers with a national summonsorry, i misremembered, it only has e1
Would a pure hp bless be useful for a human mage nation Was thinking of taking a rainbow and just spamming the blood and nature hp bonus
>>536786662Try Undying with Enchanted Blood instead.
>>536786662No
The year is 2027:Every human bess has undying enchanted blood.Every giant has regen blood,bond fortitude.Trade and Taint is 1% developed, Dom 6 100% neglected, Merrows have been removed from MA for a rework that will never arrive. Blitzmin is arrested for accusing Jews of being flesh eating monsters. Domgee have all migrated to public discords due to gacha floodspam. White man hill has become Rainbow man hill. Bloodhunting virgins has become bloodhunt vessels. NWO has shut down thronebooru for 2D sex exploitation.
>>536788735
>>536788735NyoooooooHopefully 2hu mod will be done by then
Picoynes with Larger bless.
Anyone else getting the feeling the RNG is kinda fucked in this particular game?I'm expanding with sacreds and I've already seen several "can't possibly lose" battles where my small but decent expansion party got fucking wrecked, and several others that were quite risky and I was expecting significant attrition or even defeat, but I had to rush to capture a bottleneck, and they just fucking wipe the battlefield without a single loss. How the fuck do 10 sacred guys lose to 60 heavy cavalry and then 4 wipe out 50+ heavy cavalry without breaking a sweat.Talking about head on battles, not snipping the commanders
>>536795703After your tenth time seeing 40+10 (dead) you do get a bit suspicious.
>>536795703Custom indies?
>>536795703My starting expansion party is still going as of last turn, although I slammed them into bone tribe this turn so maybe I'll eat my words when I open it up
>>536795703Misfortune scales affect more than just events.
>>536800109lel
HOLY FUCK RLYEH JUST PUT UP NEXUS ON CRACKED
>>536806525Isn't that just like, a gem generator?
>>536808148Yes
>>536808148It is THE gem generatorHe gets a quarter of all gems spent in pearls except for pearl spells
>>536800109>filenameRoflmao, thanks for the art. Wish I had recorded the battle myself. Although I gotta say what actually won it was my prophet constantly casting word of stone while your sacreds couldn't even pop my glamour, I remember the majority of my troops dropped to attack skill 0
>>536806525Doesn't like Agartha have like 5 globals up
>>536809868Jokes on them, I don't use gems
>>536813371>obsessively site search>spend 0 gems>death basket random player on the other side of the mapYep, it's joining as many games as possible time
Rlyeh, atlantis, do your turn in vanilla
>>536806525Rlyeh and Agartha bordering on THE THREAT status with the quality and quantity of those globals.
rate my pretender, i am beginner noob
>>536831814Mekone only has sacred mages so those blesses are completely useless. Reinvig is always decent, maybe larger, maybe inspirational, maybe far caster, etc. Depends on what you're trying to do. You might want growth since your forts get lynched every year, but growth is kind of a meme honestly. Primarily you'd want big paths on your god to break you into good magic later in the game.
>>536832701>break you into good paths later in the gameHow do I do that? I know nothing about the late game or optimal gem use or whatever
>>536832849Take paths that are hard to get natively with your best mages
>>536832849Have a goal to take down thrones fast
>>536831814cold needlessly kneecaps your giants movement, one of their advantages, and worsens their encumberance, once of their weaknesses
>>536795703post videos of the different battles and show us the in-combat logs, such that we can compare and investigatealso, there are different variants of heavy cavalry. and some indies may have been diseased before combat, for instance from a site
>Cant sleep cus sick. Playing vs AI to pass time>Got T'ien C'hi down to only his capital, early game, siege it and wait for a dominions kill>Not a single candle of his dominions left, yet dominions kill never trigger Am I missing some obscure mechanic or the game just borked?
>>536831814get nature path and poison resistance, or blood path for strong/enchanted blood. or full throttle with regennever played this build#newtemplate 6#form "Mother of Monsters" (157)#prison 1#magic 5 5#magic 6 7#magic 8 2#domstr 5#scale 0 -1#scale 1 -2#scale 4 2#scale 5 -1#bless "Regeneration"#bless "Unaging"#endunaging here does not make all your mages young, since some types of them have extra internal starting age, but it should actually make them less old, like going from very old to merely old, and some of them not old. starting age is randomizedthe pretender is bad for a new player, since the poison cloud will kill your own units. unless they are sacred and get blessed, and thus get regeneration to counteract the poison. but probably won't become relevant due to the pretender not really being meant to be sent into combat. of course, you should give items to it in the midgame to help protect it against assassinshigh nature enables gift of health, high death enables tartarians. a fun bless effect could be mending bones, but the diplomatic effect of that bless effect might be bad, and it would also only pay off much later, and would require an unremovable shroud on the tartarians
Should Warcraft 3-style Naga be Coldblooded with some innate mechanic of gaining cold resistance or should they just be warm blooded? They do have Frost Armour after all
>>536846886>Warcraft 3
>>536832849Your pretender could potentially search provinces (in person or via searching spells) for sources of gems that are associated with magic paths your recruitable mages don't normally know. Once you have a decent income of gems for a path, you can eventually empower mages so they can search further and faster, and/or cast a global spell that generates a much larger income in those gems. You may also be able to use the pretender or these empowered mages to forge items that will boost skill in that path, reducing the need for expensive future empowerments. Items that boost magic skill are numerous and the paths you need to forge them, as well as the paths in which they boost skill, are arbitrarily chosen by the developer, so as a beginner you can't count on those very much unless you want to look them up online somewhere. It's better to just play and learn about the items gradually. For now, maybe just plan on either having your god rampage around with specific spells protecting its own body, or having it search for sites of magical power in particular paths that your nation isn't good at, or having it eventually cast a gem-generating global spell like Eternal Pyre or Maelstrom.
>>536846982I wanna make them a Nation, bite me!
>>536832849you can read or watch let's plays by others as well
>>536846886They're more like fish people than snake people so I'd say nah
>>536846345It's possible a random event gave them candles in a far off province somewhere
Is there a rule of thumb for patrol strength per blood hunter?
>>536847019>so as a beginner you can't count on those very much unless you want to look them up online somewhere.just use the shortcut to display all items
>>536866510quite dumb if true
Any good FAG mages?
am newbpls critique
>>536884268which era ulm?fateweaving is bad
>>536612240>but the only "teutons" remaining got pozzed into fairiesWhich way Ulmish man?
>>536629375>dude just ignore magic as ulm.>Someone walks into you on turn 20~ and casts some fatigue spell>die
>>536883071Malikat are the biggest FAGs in the game.>>536884268Some people don't think Ulm's sacreds are worth blessing. I don't agree with them. You are leaning very hard on your sacreds with this build though. I'd switch out fateweaving for strength or fire/shock resistance. 2 sloth is crippling even with your resource bonus. Ulm doesn't have fortune tellers so mis2 isn't free points and a bad event in your cap will fuck you up.
>>536884268I wouldn't take awake with an immobile pretender unless I really needed the early research.
>>536884268Assuming EA Ulm since you took sloth, it's bad. Every Ulm likes scales. IMO if you don't take a mage bless then you should make a bless that allows steel warriors to cover your weaknesses, ex: magic weapons, spirit sight, resistances, etc.
>>536884268>newb>stygian fleshevery single time
>>536888152Immobiles are cheaper than wizards if you want an expensive awake incarnate bless.>>536889195Are you implying that stygian flesh is a noob trap, or that stygian flesh is a hidden gem that a "real" noob wouldn't take?
>>536889458noob trap
>>536889630Prot stacking is good for making 20+ prot Knights into 25+ prot tanks. turning 14~ prot into 20~ prot kinda sucks when you still get owned by heavy cav lances.
>>536832701>but growth is kind of a meme honestly.Wish I found those spreadsheets that guy on that discord talked about.
>>536832701Nigga you want growth to afford those troops
>>536898116noob trap
>>536898116Just blast Turmoil Death Luck and swim in the lotto winnings. Also from memory Mekone gets less benefit from Order, since the fort unrest triggers before income and the Order unrest reduction triggers after or something wretched like that, so you'll never be getting the full gold bonus anyway. Might as well get lucky.
>>536884356>fateweaving is badit is?>>536887865>I'd switch out fateweaving for strength or fire/shock resistancedoesn't fateweaving increase damage?so why is strength better?>>536888585>magic weapons, spirit sight, resistancesI made this with SCBMthe Steel Warrior's weapons are magic, they have spirit sight, and cold resistance 5>>536889630>noob traphow else will my guys not die to archers?>>536891805>prot kinda sucks when you still get owned by heavy cav lances.I thought the displacement would help with that
>>536904060You can just prod instead of order then because your cyclops make resources
>>536909125Yeah bro this cap only 465g mage that provides one third of a hoplite is really going to cover all my resource problems with Sloth on one of the most resource intensive nations in the era
>>536909773You can't get more recruitment points and that's honestly more a bottleneck than prod
>>536905062>doesn't fateweaving increase damage?>so why is strength better?fateweaving = chance to do something to whoever attacks you in melee, maybe more damage maybe absolutely nothingstrength = guaranteed increase to damage, less hassle with entanglement and other bullshit str-checksalso fateweaving needs -1 luck scale and that has strategical consequences for your economy>how else will my guys not die to archers?shields, armor, and other kinds of protections that Ulm already has access to. Some of your mages in all eras can get Air magic (at least in vanilla, idk about SCBM), add some boosters to them if you really need Protective Winds/Arrow Ward/Arrow Fend in battle, do not waste pretender/bless points on Air Shield blessingbut ultimately, just do whatever you want, if you're new you'll probably not win your first game even with a top of the line meta-following pretender design. might as well have fun with whatever you want and enjoy the consequences of your decisions
>>536912943>but ultimately, just do whatever you want, if you're new you'll probably not win your first game even with a top of the line meta-following pretender design. might as well have fun with whatever you want and enjoy the consequences of your decisionsReally just make sure you can beat at least Master level Ai so you don't spend half a month doing your little turns only to get rolled by your neighbors when they notice you're easy pickings.
>>536905062>I made this with SCBM>the Steel Warrior's weapons are magic, they have spirit sight, and cold resistance 5Sounds like you can slap fire, shock, and poison resistance on them and call it a done deal. Reinvig would also be a good bless since it would help out your shamans
I'm looking forward to seeing some remote spells in action
>>536919237>Sounds like you can slap fire, shock, and poison resistance on them and call it a done deal.but then they are just normal guys basically>>536912943>shields, armor, and other kinds of protections that Ulm already has access to.they don't have shields thoughand they are troops, how do I equip them with better armor?>fateweaving = chance to do something to whoever attacks you in melee, maybe more damage maybe absolutely nothing>strength = guaranteed increase to damagearen't they both random rolls?well I guess I see what you mean, but fateweaving rolls 1 at minimum right?and it can also increase the damage from other units too right?so it's like a buff to my whole army instead of just the sacreds
>>536920659>but then they are just normal guys basicallythey already are normal guys, just normal guys with a candelabra that allows you to protect them from shit that easily kills normal guys. If you want to meme then go full retard like quickness and slowing weapons or something.
>>536922005>Slowing weaponsIs this actually every going to matter
>>536922005>If you want to meme then go full retard like quickness and slowing weapons or something.what are those going to do?
>>536924643Quickness is good but slowing is retarded
>>536922719>>536924643slow weapons gives -2 attack/defense, quickness doubles attacks (good for weapon blesses) and gives +2 attack/defensein an ideal world this would level the playing field between a high skill unit and a low skill one but it means nothing when you have to hit them for half of the combo to activate and there's elves with 30 defense and awareness statmogging most of your units into oblivion
>cast sleep>enemy goes to sleep>gets lightly tapped once>instantly wakes back up and is back in the fightwow, what a great spell
>>536937208Do any spells give Sleep Aura? It would be good for thugs.
>>536939110There's that hat that gives you a sleep aura.
Improved cross breeding
>>536937208That's what sleep is like in most games
>>536937208They should get a grogginess debuff that wears off gradually over the next few rounds
>>536954059Eh it's adrenaline
>>536956182It's magic forcing you to sleep adrenaline doesn't matter
>>536954059Every time they wake up they have to pass a MR check or they decide they need 5 more minutes
gnight domg
Ghost Grip!
are slowing weapons bless good on la pythium hydras? or are the decreasing number of attacks as hp decreases, too much of a liability?
>>536983127Why in Panko's name would you take slowing weapons
>>536983196regen + slowing weapons + poison cloud and poison attacks could in theory work well, with slowing weapons dragging combat out, favoring regenerating units and letting poison deal damageotherwise, slowing weapons might work with sacred units with ranged weaponstrying to figure out how it could be used
>>536983401Don't they check MR?
Dominions Enhanced v2.10 or Sloops's? Those new spells in enhanced seem tempting...
Is it worth it to give a mage that buffs a mundane thug a dragon helmet so the mage retreats more reliably?
>>536983748they do, but they don't need to deal damage afaik, just hit, so the more attacks, the merrierbad build for ea atlantis#newtemplate 43#form "Arch Mage" (248)#prison 1#magic 2 5#magic 6 7#magic 7 3#domstr 6#scale 0 -2#scale 1 -2#scale 3 -1#scale 4 2#scale 5 2#bless "Slowing Weapons"#bless "Regeneration"#endassumes that ea atlantis can expand without a bless or awake expanderthe living pillars have 4 attacks per square, but no helmetif nothing else, the regeneration should help alleviate the lack of nature mages, and be good for both troops, thugs and mages
>>536983127Hydras are a huge trap on LA Pythium. I can't find any bless that works for them.I played against a guy who took slowing weapons on LA Pythium and it didn't see to do much. He used a lot of serpent cataphracts and animal summons.
>>536989748>size 4 with no helmetJust take Larger
>>537000091i spent like 5 minutes on this build, so it might be very bad#newtemplate 98#form "Divine Emperor" (874)#prison 1#magic 0 8#magic 2 4#magic 3 4#magic 4 4#domstr 3#scale 0 -1#scale 1 -1#scale 3 1#scale 4 2#scale 5 -1#bless "Unbearable Splendour"#bless "Fire Resistance"#bless "Defence Skill"#end
>>537000306but that would make the bless even more expensive
>>537007319not bad, eye vengeance can be nasty, especially on a sacred-heavy nation, but would Magical Penetration or positive Magic scales improve the chances for it to activate?
>>537007690Haven't tried Living Pillars before, but the lack of height and head armor looks pretty awful and 4 is just the size to take larger and still keep your attacks per square.
LA Pythium is usually Larger + Stat blesses no? Since so many units are a good base and only need survivability to stay longer and longer in the fight and force the enemy to take more and more poison damage.
>>537007841>Magical Penetrationnot sure>positive Magic scalesi believe so, i did take magic scales 1, but that was more or less due to the small foreign-recruit mages. the scales in the build i posted are awkwardi assume there are builds that go magic 3 for pythium and go for research, since the cheapest mage they have is very cheap but has inept researcher attribute, and would benefit immensely percentage-wise from magic 3, 60% more research points per turn ignoring research boosters
>>537008345might well be the way to go, i focused a bit myopically on the hydras and trying to make them work
>>536989484Wdym
>>537000091>Hydras are a huge trap on LA Pythium. I can't find any bless that works for them.Larger + fire resistance
some threads back someone was able to get 15 by 12 with scales MA Machaka, and man, my testing is painful on this. Sometimes I manage to get as much as 18, other times I barely scratch 11.Dormant w/ Scales MA Machaka feels turbo RNG based, to the point I'm just gonna be paranoid and always go awake white bull with them or something. That or giving a colossal fetish fire shield or something, because the retard keeps fatiguing themselves out casting earth meld instead of just killing the enemies.
>>537016042what about the +5 Protection Bless? or even Regen or Berserker?Nothing is tankier than not running away, after all
>>537019114berserker would also apply to your mages so a stray arrow or a battlefield wide cast could send them careening into the moshpit
>>537019748you'd rather the old and the bookish perish with their back to the enemy? If you value your mages so much keep them in their towers, I have Earth Alteration buff spells to cast!
>>537012982Now suppose you have a good non-mage combatant (or a square of elite troops and some nature) and a squishy mage in robes. I want to buff the commander (or a square of elites, this also needs touch of madness) and then retreat with my squishy mage so then the buffed guys proceed to destroy pd.Now here is the problem - the retreat is a risky business, but making a amart retreat is a morale check - that's why I want to increase the morale of the squishy mage (which is usually not good enough)
>>537017620You just need to get a hang of spider knights. Also consider making a second sparse line of naked spearmen to step in the same square as the spider to deal with webbed targets faster.
>>537017620>That or giving a colossal fetish fire shield or something, because the retard keeps fatiguing themselves out casting earth meld instead of just killing the enemies.how does it behave if you command it to attack closest? might not make a difference, i'm not sure
>>536920659>they don't have shields thoughright, MA and LA Ulm have shields, in EA only non-sacreds have shields and mixing those into your sacred formations won't guarantee your sacreds not getting snipedalso forgot you were using SCBM, i was looking at vanilla stats, so the whole calculation is differentalso yes, Fateweaving does help you with the cleanup but the cost for it is your sacreds getting attack roll'd on. For the bless point cost, in theory 2 stacks of str are a more guaranteed buff that doesn't need you to risk your dudes as hard, but what do I know maybe the only battle you'll be in the sacreds will be the first line of defence and then the non-sacred swarm will come to clean up, and it doesnt matter that you lost your elite troops since you won the one battle you needed to win. Though usually winning takes more than one battle.
>>537023528they'll approach and attack closest, but cast spells as long as enemies are in rangeso no guarantee they actually close the gap fully since they'll likely fatigue out before reaching the enemy. they'll take three steps forward, cast, fatigue out, repeat. if the enemy approaches, it's fine, but if they're primarily ranged you're solit's why i'll never send them into any territory with xbows, just a guaranteed death sentence
>>537024232>but the cost for it is your sacreds getting attack roll'd on.displacement helps with this no?
>>537024547experimental idea: avoid any research level and school combinations that could result in the colossal fetish casting undesired spells, until you are done expanding with the colossal fetish
>>537027207As someone that likes rushing Mother Oak (especially on a nation that wants much N like MAchaka), avoiding Alt5 being my first research goal would fill me with too much sadness
>>537022474How the hell do I use them?
>>537030742Just put an unscripted line of two turns of recruitment towards the front.
>>537030742put them on fire closest so they trap enemies up and break the enemy formation before engaging in melee
>>537037212Fire command doesnt work on mounts.
>>537037634It worked in 5, didn't know they changed that
>>537038391Mounts werent separate units in 5
>>537039527Yeah but they still act as one unit in many ways so you'd think that you'd be able to give the mount orders through the rider
>forgot that peoples arena replace misc. item with a slave collar>didnt even get the replaced item back, since the guy diedNoooooooo
bumpu
Actually, fuck the Colossal FetishGolden Lion with F6N7 (albeit with poor scales of D2Mis1) and Fireshield + Recoup bless may be the most powerful awake expander at MAchaka's disposal.Blind threw it turn 1 into a 90 barb province with a single candle and it managed to clear it and it wasn't even close.
>>537050842F/N is such a stinky doodoo crosspath tho
>>537050842>fuck the colossal fetish
>>537057608LA Machaka will redeem F/N>pygmy ant clan takes over>sacred fire ant summons>ant riders>ant queen that freespawns fire ants>that one global from DomEnh
>>537057608Oh yeah? What's a good crosspath then, poindexter.
Does soul slay interacts with blood bond?It doesnt sound like very fun thing to happen
>>537060745instant kill spells like soul does notbut gifts from the heavens is not an instant kill spell
>>537060739Air Death
That is unlucky
>>537027917maybe let it solo expand up until the turn before you reach alteration 3, then only let it assist other expansion parties and calculate according to it only ever casting worthless spells or for instance earth meld, and if it doesn't have any expansion assist options, then use it for site searching or research
>>537040325Holy lle
The Ulmites fear the Jew
>>537067879Noice art
>>537067879wut is the 'jak behind the anakite supposed to be? scapegoat?
>>537073028das rite
I never played neither the pale one class nor the markata ones but I'm still right and you are wrong.
>>537082413Oh and the guildmaster would be B tier btw.
>>537082413Is this a reversed list of wankability?
>>537084017why would you wank to a niggermonkey and a barbarian???
>>537084125Why wouldn't you?
>>537084017>>537084125>>537085081You asked for this.
>>537061979why?flesh golems???don't make me laugh
>>537087941NTA but Wind of Death.
>>537087941back in my day A/D was the crosspath for wailing winds
>Grabs all globals>Goes AIoke
>>537082413I don't remember half of these but none of the rng summon classes are fun.
>>537082413dwarf queen sexo
>>537095428Tien warned multiple times that he won't have time to play soon.
Lands of Achra ETA?
Note to self: never use trolls when my mages are capable of falling fires.
By far my biggest weakness is not knowing how many troops I need to clear indies, with or without bless, there are sacreds that can expand on their own. Its usually cavalry, but the exact number of cavalry units still matters
>>537103532if yr cav is gud, two rec turns will kill anything and one rec turn is pure greed so use 2
>>537100516Next year
>>537082413>warlock >when he's absolutely cucked by mine gen
>>537109913In singleplayer:Fair, but if one starts with the air elementalist, basic air elementals are amazing at the beginning (just need to make sure there are units in front to tank enemies). At least they were in CoE4. If you get water or fire, less good, but getting the elemental archers isn't bad. I don't remember much about earth starts.The gem generation rituals are also great in the lategame, especially since the AI may not always be good at sniping them. Only drawback is probably the environmental consequences for Elysium.Only weakness in the lategame is that there is little non-elemental damage, and that damage is typically available on units that are not the strongest available, which can be a problem. For instance if launching an invasion into Hell and the demons buff each other with all elemental resistances.
most aryan nation in the game?ill start.therodos.>is actually atlantis>atlantis is hyperborea and the original homeland of the hwhite man
>>537115528Uruk
>>537115965why
>>537115528Isn't Caelum literally Airyans
>>537116382Aryan (/ˈɛəriən/), or Arya (borrowed from Sanskrit ārya),[1] is a term originating from the ethno-cultural self-designation of the Indo-Iranians.>The first city>Indo iranian>Ur/uk
>>537118216>Disappears by the late ages
>>537115528LA Machaka.
>>537115528Vanarus, land of the chuds
>>537115528Rus
>>537115528MA Caelum, they finally drove out the R*ptors and airyans rule everything
>>537118410One chills out in LA Atlantis
>>537125328Who? There are only 2 heroes in vanilla.
>>537125923Ah it was worthy heroes, damn
>>537122791The raptors did nothing wrong tho-
>>537119931>>537121147Chuds are Finns though
>>537130815they're balts as a whole technically
>>537115528Lanka saar
>>537132167The nation is based on latvian and lithuanian mythology, the chudes are estonians/finns and they have slavic summons for some reason.
>>537132505Chudes are Finns/EstoniansThe humans are Russians in EA and MA and supposedly they'll just be Latvian/Lithunian and LA
>>537133307>The humans are Russians in EA and MAMA definitely, they're balts in EA though.
>>537133772I mean they're literally called Rusians in EA but yeah your point is true
>>537134034Not much point in debating this considering the chudes are named after Estonians, but have the lore of balts.
>>537118527fyi there's a modded yakub nation and they are all about crossbreeding
If I managed to scrounge up 50 bloodslaves as a no blood nation, what is the best crosspath to empower a mage in blood for?
>>537132301>Six government space agencies, Interkosmos, NASA, CNSA, DOS, JAXA and ESA, have reached the Moon with uncrewed missions. Three private/commercial missions, Beresheet (hard landing), Hakuto-R (hard landing), and Odysseus (soft landing) have also reached the lunar surface (see #Commercial landings). The Soviet Union (Interkosmos), the United States (NASA), China (CNSA), India (ISRO),[6] and Japan (JAXA)[7] are the only five nations to have successfully achieved soft landings.Europoors cannot into space or soft landings on the moon. Build your own rockets and landers instead of trying to hitch a ride from the USA or Russia.
>>537135083probably earth, but you do need more than just blood 1 to forge bloodstones and summon father illearth
>>537135083Earth, nature, or whatever gets you summoned blood mages.
If you have Gift of Health up, would you say casting Burden of Time could be a worth while gamble?
>>537137558It depends.What nation are you, what nations are your enemies, what turn is it, whats your research level, whats your gem income, what game are you in!?
>>537137558do it cast it you know you want to regardless
>>537137558That combo would immediately mark you as The Threat™ but unfortunately domgee is very bad at determining who needs to die
So who's the threat in Cracked? Mict and Agartha both went AI and Mari is slowly killing Xib while R'lyeh sits in the pond and casts every single global
Cruiser Thug -- This is your classic thug. Designed to get into an enemies strategic depth and cause chaos there. Can be either snuck into the enemies backlines or used to exploit a breach.(Infantry/Army) Support Thug -- A thug designed to fight alongside an army. They don't usually need the strategic speed or ability to slip past enemy lines that cruiser thug benefits from, however you need to consider what fighting beside an army entails.Assault Thug -- This is a thug designed specifically for storming fortifications. It's nice if they can have some siege abilities as well.Thug Destroyer -- This is a unit designed to fight thugs. Often cheaper than actually kitting out a thug but isn't always capable of fighting enemy armies by itself.Main Battle Thug -- These are the old supercombatants. Expensive endgame summons with fancy expensive equipment. While it turns out they're not as invincible as people once thought they were, they can still be very useful on the endgame battlefield.
>>537143636What's the throne situation like?
>>537145170Mari has 3 thrones, Ermor has 2, Rlyeh has 1. 5 are needed to win.
>>537144806I think you missed a typeFlex thug -- A meme thug with a bad chassis and too many items meant to style on enemies during your victory lap
>>537146204Alright I'm going to be making a lot of assumptions so adjust for whatever is actually happening in game. Marignon seems like the immediate threat depending on how close the last 2 thrones they need are. Are there enough thrones by the coast for Ryleh to snag the win quick? If not, probably not the threat yet depends on the globals. Is Ermor listed here because they also have potential threat status? If so, as long as they don't have to contend with Marignon to win maybe they can take it.
sex with maenads when
>there's no thorns ability/mechanicwhat, would it be too overpowered or something?
>>537148443Did it get fixed finally?
>>537148443Poison barbs?
I am off for 2-3 days in the mountains. The bear mountains. I will not be taking a laptop with me. If anyone wants a spot in that game, reply and I’ll give you the password. In the event that you take over for me (permanently or not) and are wondering why things are the way they are: My first MP game, only have 150 hours, i do not yet know the bare minimum needed to expand with Agartha. Also I didn’t want to attack Xilbalba because I like bats. I will not be emailing the password, rather I will directly post it here. This is to increase the chances of something schizophrenic happening to my nation.
>>537153560I don't want the spot but I want the password to be known.
>>537154901Yes I would also like to giftbasket myself all of Agartha's gems.
Nether Darts
>>537119931Vanarus, land where nothing happens
>>537165947Vanarus unironically has more stuff happening in it than half the nations considering it's canonically at war with ulm and what not.
>>537115528Literally Caelum
>Mari and C'tis are at war>both suddenly stale>about to stale againnani?
>>537169617Impossible.Nothing ever happens.
>>537153560it has been done.
>>537174609gut
>>537153560Xibalba here, I don't know if you read my message but I am willing to let you take over The Nether and the cave provinces beyond from there. Have fun in the mountains, I hope your replacement is as cool
>>537050842>tfw I a noob made this exact tendie build beforeHuh? Am I finally a /domg/ pro? I’ve never won a game though. This could be a sign for me to play EA machaka.
On the Troll Kings lore description, it describes a Dwarf nation called Nidavellir. Dorf Nation when?
Fire magic was a mistake.It seems like ai completely disregards the secondary effect of the fireball when firing near friendly squads.
>>537189452Troll Nation when?
IchtyId nation when?
>>537189652Thats why you never tech evo if your mages have F2+Go down Alteration/Thaumaturgy for things like Burn/Incinerate/RageGo death scales to reduce rain chance even further. If your nation has heat preference even better.Sometimes just setting a dude on fire is better than landing a fireball. Ignores armour
the pans should get a new nation in la where their roster is just pans and human women
>just pans and womenKitchen nation when
How do I make my mage use a gem for one of those 300 fatigue spells, to cut the fatigue in half?
>>537198425Just put the extra gem in his inventory and he will use it automatically
>>537198536He doesn't, he ends the combat with the gem still in his bag
>>537198690Does the amount of gems he's attempted to use exceed his level in that magic path?
>>537198536should also be noted, they can only use as many gems as levels they haveso if you're trying to have an E3 cast Burden of Stones for example, you're out of luck.otherwise, yea, they'll always use the extra gem anytime they'd have over 100 fatigue from casting (which is annoying, there are plenty of times I'd prefer they just HOLD the gem, cast the first spell, fatigue out, wake up and then cast the second gem spell, like two fire elementals.)
>>537198802The mage's union has pretty strong guidelines for this kind of thing. If you can't provide a safe casting environment for your wizards with a minimum level of fatigue management, that's on you.
>>537198802>I'd prefer they just HOLD the gem, cast the first spell, fatigue out, wake up and then cast the second gem spell, like two fire elementals.)Don't they do this if you turn on conservative gem usage?
>>537199067Does conservative gem use actually do this? Admittedly I'd only done it without so Phoenix Powering an F2 to then cast F3 Fire Elemental they'd always go 'lmao fuck you I'm using both gems' even though they'd only be at 120 fatiguei'll have to try that setting.
>>537198779No. I used a Grand Thaumaturge with 4 death gems casting rigor mortis. He only had 2 slaves available so I gave him that 4th gem to not rape them with fatigue. He didn't use it and ended up killing them.
>>537199517It's possible that since all of the fatigue is being transferred to the slaves he won't use the extra gem because the decision to use it is based off of the caster's own fatigue
>>537199517Oh, this is the inverse of >otherwise, yea, they'll always use the extra gem anytime they'd have over 100 fatigue from castingBecause he has 2 slaves, that 1/3rds the fatigue of 300 goes down to 100. If he's even a path higher as well, it's even lower. No gem use needed in his mind because his fatigue is fine.
>>537199517interesting
I still have plenty of demons, Femine! I will sacrifice all my people if I have to!!
>mfw some silly little girl sitting by a fountain tries to tell me I can't kill my communion slaves
>>537212985Wouldn't she be all for it tho?
Playing Guildmaster in CoE5 makes me pine for more 'infrastructure' for Dominions but I feel like it would be anemic at best
>>537218953Just play Shadow Empire then
What makes a good hellbless? I can't tell which of the incarnate blesses are actually any good
>>537222316It depends
>>537222316Joke aside, it is about maximizing the power of your sacreds at the expense of production, income, luck, whatever it is you are throwing that away to make your Sacreds so strong that it doesn't matter. For nations with big giants, hellblesses like Regeneration and Fortitude would be the obvious route. For others, maybe just giving up because they are going to lose to giants would be the best bless, considering that giant nations with regeneration keep on winning over and over haha
>>537210220Don't worry, it seems I'm killing myself faster with friendly fire ("friendly fire", heh) than you kill me.
>>537215109Not evil blood fountain-chan, I'm talking about good oracle-chan
>>537245840Ah
>>537246224(she still gets sacrificed)
>>537246404She is a cutie nonetheless
>>537246404the "sacrifice" is just for show and in reality she gets adopted by the priestesses who also heal her blindness
>>537249324And she makes really good waffles
New game?
Naction for this feel?
>>537266801Whoops, might as well just post the video then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu3JqLMImY&list=RDuWu3JqLMImY
>>537266801Therodos
>>537229073>For others, maybe just giving up because they are going to lose to giants would be the best bless, considering that giant nations with regeneration keep on winning over and over hahaquickness and unholy weapons and then rush the giants
>>537268150people are always memeing responses like this right?>see giants in game>tailor entire strategy to killing them>game starts, a dozen turns pass and you realize you're nowhere near them>go AI
>>537268346It's funny because no one takes magic weapons anymore
>>537268346>tailor entire strategy to killing themQuickness Unholy Weps would mess up most nations in a rush if your sacreds aren't garbage, your game's not over if the giant boogeymen aren't nearby
Just counter giants with battle summons and fatigue spells. ezpzIllusions in particular but also swarm and skellies and shit
>>537270514Don't they usually take some sort of aura or blood vengeance
>>537271557Only for muspel giants. Most of the other kind are unlikely to take fire shield in the bless either, though it is pretty good on them.Regen + fort/hard skin is just far more common.
>>537268346only half-joking, you're right that a counter like unholy weapons does not help expansion or against non-sacreds, probably would need a nation that can expand without any help>>537270514illusions aren't that good against some of them, muspel giants in particular can do decent against illusions as long as there are enough of the muspel giants relative to the illusions
>>537272121Muspels are the exception, since they have innate fire shield.Jotuns, Fomorians and Jew giants hate battle summon spam unless they specifically took fire shield in the bless. Heat/cold isn't super relevant. It doesn't matter if the summons are damaging the giants, you just need enough to tire the giants out and then they die to crits.
>>537272596>innate fire shieldThe hell? No they don't.They have an innate heat AURA that would slowly set chaff on fire if there's enough giants to layer auras to level 3, but they're not cooking a dozen chaff a turn like fire eles do.
>>537273258Yeah but what you didn't know is that I'm retarded
>>537272596>Muspels are the exception, since they have innate fire shield.that is burning ones of ea abysia, not muspel giants>Jew giantsthey actually all have one magical weapon as well, and ea hinnom and ma ashdod giants have two attacks total (extra horn attack)
>>537273258>They have an innate heat AURA that would slowly set chaff on fire if there's enough giants to layer auras to level 3, but they're not cooking a dozen chaff a turn like fire eles do.afaik, in dom6, unit heat auras cannot make clouds that go above level 2, meaning they cannot have their fire clouds deal damage, only cause fatigue. though presumably, heat clouds at level two being spread around would presumably make it easier for heat clouds from certain fire evocations to go above level 2 and begin dealing damage
>>537272596your strategy with fatiguing out giants through chaff spam is valid and can be very effective, though it depends on the specifics how effective it will be. for regeneration and fortitude, if the giants have enough protection, and maybe other attributes, even 100 fatigue crits might not be sufficient in some cases
>>537274509Ah, this is true, you're right.
>>537275481i do wonder if a single fire mage or two, casting the occassional fire evocation near the giants, will be able to get to level 3+ heat clouds more easily than if there were no giants to spread level 1-2 heat clouds in advanceone could probably make a test20 muspel giants against 200 illusions2 muspeldottir and 20 muspel hirdmen against 200 illusions2 muspeldottir and 20 muspel giants against 200 illusionsand then try to determine if the heat clouds from the muspel giants make a significant difference for the heat clouds from fire evocationsis there any way to easily and quickly determine which fire evocations create the highest level heat clouds and the most of them?
>>537277559Fire Cloud is gonna be your go-to, practically. Although, I have not tested this specific interaction..
>>537280085sulphur haze is actually better in terms of cloud levelin Sloop's at least
>>537280829Oh yeah, I forgot about that spell, good point
>>537275481huh
>>537280829Why tho
Today, domg, I give you my sacred knowledge:1 witch doctor and 3 spider warriors is a viable raiding party.
>>537294625anything is a viable raiding party depending on what it is you're raiding
>>537274509But i’ve seen units catch fire from Heat aura. Maybe it was because i was playing Panonia
Hahaha fuck you Femine!!
>>537297380>All type of clouds range from level 1 to 7. Sometimes the effects of the different levels are the same and higher level clouds will only last longer. All damage from clouds is armor negating.>Monsters that spread clouds, e.g. Hydra and Ghost, spread level 1 clouds. As they are spread at level 1 they can accumulate to at most a level 2 cloud. Spells and magic items can create clouds at higher levels.were any items or spells involved? could also be game is bugged, or manual is wrong, or something else
>>537297380Fatigue damage from heat can still cause burning iirc, while cold can cause frozen.This makes heat auras just a bit less shitty than cold auras.
>>537305812you are correctfound this somewhere>Fire Attacks cause burning. The burn is applied before the Protection roll; there's a 4% chance per point, divided by 3 if it's a Fatigue attack. Fellows with 10 Fire Resistance or more, Spiritforms, and beings with a Chill Aura cannot be burned.if spiritform cannot burn, can they still take damage from heat clouds level 3+?
>>537301789Of, fuck you, vampire man.
>>537309551
I love this game
>>537315508That looks like some nice firestorm bait
>>537315508same
>>537320831what was he geared with?
>>537322760shock trident, horror helmet, brightmail hauberk, boots of the messenger, girdle of might, amulet of resilience
>>537320831i'm confused i thought therodos was shit and could never win any fights?
>>537329319No nation is really that shit except ea rlyeh/pelagia
What is the closest IRL deity to pic related? I thought it was Hekate but then I remembered she is represented by the trinity now
>>537338709Minoan snake deity
>>537338709https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygieia
Burden of Time
Dust to Dust
>>537329319i studied therodos for 400 hours
While we were studying the hellblesses, anon was studying the 0 protection ethereal unbuffable hoplites.
its not about the hoplites
Therodos should have glamour magic
>>537372448Y tho
>>537373497Because glamour buffs work on spiritforms.Luck won't work because undead still though
its not about buffing the ghosts, at least not anymore in dominions 6. its about using offensive spells that your ghosts are immune to.
looking at the nation, ea therodos looks like they have access to a few, powerful evocation users. but outside expensive summons and their capital, they only have kabeiros e1?1 and melias n1?1 for evocations. meaning that they have lots of fodder, but only a few mages for evocations behind it, and any losses of those mages will be difficult and slow to recover from. the few, big mages they do have are good, howeverfoul vaporsbone melterearthquake (floating outside caves)liquifyare examples of spells that usually do not really affect their spectral freespawntheir freespawn are also significantly resistant to cold damage and poison damage spellsin >>537320831, bone melter, breath of the dragon and cold blast appears to have been used a lotapart from that, they have good options for gearing thugs and scs lategame, they have good magic diversity with 6 magic paths, and they have discounted-forging kabeiros, as well as master smith telkhines and daktyls
>>537338709The sprite is based on the "reconstructed" Minoan goddess which an archeologist made by gluing a bunch of ancient pieces together, vaguely inspired by some old writings and the little we know about things back then. Something between an artist's rendition and an educated guess of what the Minoan god mother *could* have looked like.Since you didn't know that, here's a mini quick and dirty History lesson:Minoans were (together with the Micenians) sort of the "proto-Greeks". We're talking about 3.000 years ago and farther behind, in the bronze age. Back then, the area around the Mediterranean was full of ancient, mighty, and highly developed civilizations. People fucking loved trade back then. Roads and trade routes reached thousands of miles beyond the horizon. It was also a time of strife, with mighty fortified cities being constantly built and razed to the ground. Anyways, then the end of the world came, aka the Bronze Age Collapse. We don't really know *what* happened, but it looks like *everything* happened. Volcanoes shutting the sun, massive earthquakes that wrecked one city after another, hunger, plague. The stress led to huge waves of refugees, and even more wars. On top of that, the "sea peoples", so called because we still don't know who they fucking were, showed up out of nowhere on boats and started wrecking everything on the coast. One of the theories is that it was Northern Europeans, fleeing their own end of the world because massive volcano + ash = no crops for too long, plus other Mediterranean peoples who didn't really see a better solution than to join the party. Of course, all that death was followed my massive plagues.Only Egypt survived as a civilization. They managed to defeat the sea peoples and held through the everything, although they were heavily weakened and that's why they got conquered by the Hitites shortly after (for a while).Cont.
>>537375607I think they are better than people think, but only because nobody wants to pay for magic weapons anymore.Though if you see you are in a lobby with a therodos, it's going to look very appealing to do so.
>>537375607>they have lots of fodderThat's not even true, their freespawn only spawn in underwater forts and their dominion kills off pop which makes building tons of forts difficult.
>>537376282mek1 has magic weapons in that webm and still lost
>>537376404They were stabbing a bronze colossus which is very much tangible
>>537376404To me it looks like Mek lost due to lack of mage support. Having magic weapons absolutely makes a difference though.
>>537376383>only spawn in underwater forts and their dominion kills off pop which makes building tons of forts difficultthe ghosts spawn in all forts that have your dominion, the higher the dominion the more ghosts.and you build your forts as early as possible, and you dont need that many and you dont need to upgrade them, and you dont recruit any units, you only recruit mages to be gold efficient, just filling your cap circle with palisades is enough, and then when you beat people up you have income again and you can build more forts.
>>537376113Cont.All other civilizations around the Mediterranean broke down and disappeared. The survivors fled to the mountains, away from the coasts, and hid in valleys and whatever hard to reach hideout they could find. People survived there for a couple centuries. Writing, coinage, and many other technologies and knowledge were lost.Towards VII a.C., people started coming out of hiding again. They found an empty world retaken by the wilderness, full of ancients ruins. They built new cities, like Athens, and started expanding once again. Here we get to what we call the ancient era, which EA in Dominions is generally inspired by. Minoans and Micenians had gone into hiding. Centuries later, Greeks came out of hiding.You might have heard of ancient Greek explorers. This is why they were exploring. Shit was completely forgotten. The Phoenicians, who you might have also heard about. were one of the first who came out of hiding and got to sailing and trading, so they were instrumental in spreading again knowledge of other civilizations, and technologies like writing and coinage.My point is that we don't really know much about the ancients before the collapse.Minoan armor was fucking dope, though
>>537376404but ea mekone is also somewhat vulnerable to anything that defeats protection, like armornegating poison. i suspect that buffing the gigante hoplites with cold, fire and shock resistance is a great idea, and then figure out how to get poison resistance and regeneration on them. and maybe have evocation spam as supporti don't think it was the ghosts that killed the gigantes, more the evocation spam, and the pretender of course
>>537329319>Bronze Colossus deletes everything>Hmm this nation appears to be strongkys
Sea Peoples EA nation when?
>>537376691Cont.Another fun thing is that many cliches of Medieval fantasy (and even of the popular perception of Medieval times) are actually inspired by Bronze Age History, rather than Medieval History. The average Middle Ages RPG setting is pretty much pure Bronze Age with Medieval aesthetics tackled on. Some things we consider tacky low quality slop fantasy, like overbulky armor with horns and shit, is really just Minoan armor. Look at Sarevok in Baldur's Gate. People wore that shit back then.Academic sources are a bit dry, but here's a great video that gives a quick walkthrough of how things were in the Mediterranean Bronze Age.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0KWc3ovOo8This little series is also, despite the cringey style, great material about the Collapse:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMP328eU5Q&list=PLjLK2cYtt-VDj9aondQLBpCv5sPsN0C6K
>>537377094though, bone melter and similar spells require mr to resist, and ea mekone also does not have astral mages to cast antimagic. the lack of buffing magic resistance is a problem for mekone as well, despite the decent mr of their gigantethe gigante hoplites are neither amazing at offense despite their magic weapons and fairly high damage, since it is two attacks per square, nor at defence, since their hoplites' protection is 20, they have no sacreds, and their hoplites aren't that easy to mass
>>537377369>Some things we consider tacky low quality slop fantasy, like overbulky armor with horns and shit, is really just Minoan armor.too many inaccuracies in your posts, there definitely were helmets with horns in approximately the middle ages
>>537376658ea therodos cannot get fortune 3 scales, but fortune 2 still seems like it could bring in a decent chunk of gold, at least if upkeep is limiteddo the forts require temples to spawn the sacred spectral undead? what about the philosophers?
>>537377982>so here's a quick and dirty 15 minutes summary of one of the most complex times in human History>hurr durr too many inaccuraciesI know there's not a single one of us in this thread who isn't massively autistic, but for fucks sake anon get it together
>>537378316>do the forts require temples to spawn the sacred spectral undead?no just dominion. you can build temples to help spread dominion.>what about the philosophers?they spawn randomly like the ghosts, not very frequently but you get a lot over time.
>>537377982Most of those are jousting helmets where you have to look good in front of the king, I wager they were very rarely used in battle
>>537378692>I wager (vague statement that couldn't be used against me)Thought so
>>537378461it's you who should get it together and stop spreading misinformation. and getting offended over simple corrections makes you the autistic one here, not me
I've literally maxed out all my research in CrackedThis game is fucked
>>537380637My question is, what do I have my mages do once I literally researched everything?
>>537384784Use them for their intended purpose.Casting.
>>537384784Search every single province maybe.
>>536526318I like the Dominions setting/interpretation of ancient mythology, and am curious if any anons feel interested in exploring different parts of that setting. Like playing a ttrpg or a dungeon crawler. CoE is a nice game, but I personally want to see different takes.
>>537385409I love this cat butt
Wither bones
>>537385409>>537385648Oh yea->>537389187FUCK
Is there an anime/monster girl sprite replacer for Dominions 5/6?Or is it too much of pain in the ass to make?
>>537391206Too low res imho
>>537391206Obvious it would be way too much work to replace every sprite, but there's a few nation mods like that goblin girl nation and the touhou mod.
Do your turn in Vanilla pls
Hand of Death
Any ideas for new gals?
>>53739229432px is more than enough space anon
>>537391206there is a goblina porn nation on the workshop
>>537400321I want to someday gaze at cute representatives for each and every nation... Even for the unpopular ones.
>>537400321Annunaki of Love and War (but Bigger)
>>537400321Female Telkhines both forms
Anyone got any unofficial dom 6 updates to old dom 5 mods? I imagine some people wouldn't want their stuff uploaded to the workshop by someone else, so I'm hoping there's bootleg versions some of ya'll have.
>>537400321We don't get enough Abysian (or humanbred) women. Phlegran girl would also fuck.
>>537392294>>537394029>>537400797Thanks, anons. A few nations standing out like that are kind of... not right. Plus balance. It's not like I hate default sprites - I was just curious.
>>537405413Isn't there one for Mememod?
Legion of wights
Imma fucking do it.Imma fucking do it.Don't tease with me faggots.
>>537430229I fucking did it.
>>537430229>>537431415RIP Thai kids
>>537400321chudette-chan
>>537430229Drill to hell
>>537400321>>537434958This, chudette arguing with van while ulm burns down the forest around them
How to win in CoE5 as the pale ones:>Step 1: play normally until you get a sustainable emerald income>Step 2: summon grubs to cave the undergoround to get even more emerald income. Do not cove holes in the surface.>Step 3: Fill up yopur cavern entrance with statures.>Step 4: Open a gate to hell in the opposite side of the map from where your cave entrance is>Step 5: Keep summoning statues in your cavern entrance while you try to survive to the .
>>537438887(he couldn't finish writing the post because a demon killed him)
>>537400321Patalan nagini could be cute. Hoburg crossbow girl, Ulmish wolfherd, Nazcan mummy mummy, Jomon dragon girl. >>537401013I was trying to do some stuff for the untouched nations a while ago but I lost my list and I can't be fucked trawling through the booru for each individual nation. If someone drops some names I'll try to fill some of them out, eventually.
>>537430229Cock n' balls cave
>>537439335Nazkan yuri mummy bundle... Uuuuooooohhhh....
>>537400321Equite of the sacred shroud
>>537439045I didn't realize candlejack was in h
>>537438887I conquered hell as dorfs before so it's not impossible
Do stealth priests detect enemy dominion or do I need holy spies for that?
>>537400321zemaitian chud gal
>>537439335MA is pretty well done, LA has lots off gapsGath, Feminie, Andramania, Bogarus, Man, Midgard, Phlegra, Utgard all lack art, I am pretty sure
>>537453324What about Early
>>537453943That's the best age
>>537453943hairy basandere and enkidu waifus are yet to be made, ea is the only unsupported caelum, lanka doesn't have anything even though its lewd bibi monkeys
>>537457014Asraper will be next then
>>537454015hello? based department?
What is the status on MAgartha statues bless wise?
>>537438887Bold of you to assume that the underground has any sustainable gem income. My experience has always been something between Jack and shit. But yeah grub dig down is a great middle finger.
>>537474648Play with the quickstart mod
>>537474648It has, but only if you dig and explore enough of the underground.Though, of course that alone is not enough to keep against the hordes of demons (pretty much nothing is at this stages of the game), you will need to fill up with statues some surface mines too, preferably close to your hole.
>>537474648I just tried this strategy today and from a this random playthrough I got:>5 emeralds>3 rubies>1 diamond>1 templeYeah it's not much. Luckily palesones are amphibians so they can get oceanic gem tiles that demons don't seem to reach.Honestly this strategy is good, I went from the worst nation in game to have a decent chance to win, all because demons destroyed all city tiles including the capital, and they won't attack me if I have 50 giant statues defending. Sadly, it's also not as good as I thought, since it demanded more effort than I thought, all my strategy was that and had to focus mainly of having a digging operation in the opposite side of elysium.
Awaken SleeperGhost GripBone GrindingStream of LifeFinal Rest
>>537491737Relief
>>537491737*self buffs*
>>537491737Drain LifeBone MelterShrink
>>537483206Invade hell already!
Zematia soon
>>537493584ShrinkAttack closest (I have Swallow)
>>537274509Several things with this postHeat aura 3+ deals damageHeat aura 1 and 2 doesn't deal damageHeat aura 1 and 2 can set things on fire thoughSetting units on fire isn't dealing damage, its setting them on fireUnits on fire take damage from being on fireBut the auras never did damage
>>537508119I trust anon who misspells zemaitia, its coming tonight
>>537513078Isn't the heat aura # just the number of clouds that appear around them?The cloud created is always level 1 iirc
>>537515878YesOP said that level 1 heat clouds dont set things on fire
>>537516234Where did OP say that?
>>537517552>They have an innate heat AURA that would slowly set chaff on fire if there's enough giants to layer auras to level 3, but they're not cooking a dozen chaff a turn like fire eles do.I (You)'d the wrong dude and mixed some wires in my head, lol whoops
>>537439335Please more dryads
>>537519736PLEASE MORE GOATS>>537439335
I am getting turn anxiety. Each new turn could be a complete disaster. That's the thing about dominions, on any turn every one of your fights may fail and an SC cloud trapezes onto your cap at the same time trogs attack your fort. I guess that's what makes it exciting too. A rollercoaster of a turn-based game.
>>537527095Isn't that the fun of it? like opening up an envelope or present?
>>537528370It's like opening a box but sometimes it's one of those glitter fart bomb traps. Or a package from Ted
>>537528370It's more like a gacha roll for me
I'm back. though not for long... I'm surrounded
>>537533235That just means you can attack in any direction!
>>537537452If only I had 2 more Drip Caves I would agree
Piconya-chan~ Do your turn~
MANLETS!!!!
Is this the end of /domg/??
>>537545868/domg/ will just descend to the lower plane of /vst/ like all the other dead generals.
Zemaitia will save /domg/
>>537545868People have been asking that for like 12 years. At this point we should be close to figuring out how to cast twiceborn on the thread
Is Scabiel the only doom horror who can eat thrones through a fort?
>>537551967it's already castwe have to figure out how to kill the threadso it can turn into a wight thread
Please stop the exploitation of virgins, Ulm!
>>537546010by the year 2035 /vg/ will be entirely comprised of gacha game generals
Is your game fun
>>537556547Only if you're autistic enough for it.
>>537556547Cracked is turning to shit very slowly
>>537556547No, I expand and then give up in frustration the moment I face any kind of resistance
>>537556547>bought Dominions 3 when it went on sale right before the release of Dominions 4>Dom 4 release date 2013>been stuck here for 12 years playing with these nerds>no regretsIt's great
>>537563432Hopefully with the end of swedish summer the devs go back to actually doing work
>>537567907Please forgive the newfag question. but what do people mean by Swedish Summer? I know people blame it for the lack of updates, but is it related to their other jobs or some Swedish thing?
>>537569609Nord devs only have a very small span of time to go enjoy the outdoors so they stop all work around that time
>>537569609The company policy is only to work during cold snowy days, hence "illwinter"
>>537567907>>537569609>>537571825>>537573667:DDDDD
>>537575658what did he mean by this
>>537575658Hr. Johan.. Løslad versionen.. Venligst..
>>537548285but can /domg/ save Zemaitia??
>>537577809Blitzmin screwed it up for all of us
>>537582453what happened?
>>537579546I will play them because they look like MA Man but with some forge bonus thrown in. Anyone that says they look weak will shit themselves when the knightblob bears down on them. Too bad they don't have astral for body etheral.
it's cool that they're releasing a new nation (singular) but here is a friendly reminder that between them the nations added in 6 have maybe 3 or 4 unique flavourful spells
>>537584697Zemaitia is confirmed to get a new unique summon at least. Maybe the chuddies will come with some more spells for the rus line as well (and hopefully some tendies)
>>537569609Everyone in Sweden basically takes all their vacation time in July/August. I've worked with Swedes and I've been warned about this. Didn't pay much attention to the warning, because well duh - people everywhere take vacations in the summer. It was only at the end of June when the team lead casually mentioned that he'd be gone for 5 weeks that I realized what it meant. The rest of the team did the same, with staggered vacations so that absolutely nothing got done in about 2.5 months.
>>537584240>probably no chorus communion>sacreds only 1/square so they won't blend like MA Man knights and are twice as hard to buff>no magic attack and probably low MR and lower prot on the moose mountI bet they'll have a few extra things they can do compared to MA Man but they'll still be a whole tier below
>>537585179Think that's just an european thing, not a swedish thing specifically. 5 weeks is a lot but nothing shocking
>>537584697this is all building up to them releasing an underpowered nation of coastal merrow in bronze armor in LA, trust the plan
>>537585402>>probably no chorus communionand no spell singer, bad for longer battles but good if you just need to get buffs off in the scripted time window>>sacreds only 1/square so they won't blend like MA Man knights and are twice as hard to bufftrue but at the very least they can take larger with no penalties>>no magic attack and probably low MR and lower prot on the moose mountIt says they were transformed by weird forest slav magic so I'm guessing they have better MR than the Ulmish standard. The moose is visibly barded in full black armor whereas the nation's standard armor color is green, leading me to guess they might have blacksteel barding. And since the riders are elf-adjacent beings now I wouldn't count out a default magic weapon in their hands.
favourite unit? debug senpai for me
>>537571825>>537573667>>537585179Gotcha. Thanks.
>>537586360Oh, he's canon now?
>>537586115I meant the meese will probably have 5 MR instead of the 13 or whatever of unicorns, which means with their high HP pools spells like soul slay will delete them
>>537591301They have 8I don't know why illwinter wants to make them cost 2 holy points
>>537592204>8 MR mounts>2 holy points>size 6>probably a billion gold toonevermind I take it all back, illfraud is NOT cooking with this
>>537592204>No access to astral for MR buffs8 MR 2 holy point sacreds in the S1 sissy ageits over...
>>537592916flavour :)
>>537575658>>537592204rough thread for zemaitia
it'z z(emaitia)over
Let's hope my next global will go off without a cinch
glamour was a mistake
>>537453324I don't really have a mind for details so they're gonna be shit by the way
>>537556547no, there's a water nation that's ruining it for everyone
>>537602671Good stuff.
>>537599826>Death is selfishness and is the opposition to nature which is charity>Astral is of the spirit and is in opposition to blood which is of the material>Fire is anger which is in opposition to water which is placidity>Air is whimsy which is in opposition to earth which is commitment>Glamour is.. idk.. faeries.. lolIts awful
>>537592916You can buff animal MR with nature magic. Still 8 base is not fixable with that in the lategame.captcha: PYGMR
>>537602671(un)holy molyanakite mommies look like THAT??
who are the /threats/ that are eating yomi, mictlan and mek1 for free?
>>537612840Me, but don't worry. I'm going AI
Does it ever say what kind of coral is used by Atlantis and all the other underwater nations to make weapons and armor? Its not just sturdy but even processed still retains its poisonous qualities.
>archangels are H3 and can be remote summoned for only 50 pearlsthis is kinda silly for throne rushing
>>537617363I stick with the humble Bishop Fish thankyou very much.
>>537614936Treasure
>>537590461the domg fun button
I hate unicorns
burden of time
What's the non-meme dominion nation everyone hates?
>>537635978Man
>>537635978Pan
>>537635978Whatever is loosely perceived as the best or meta.Right now its Ma Man. In dom 5 it was Nazca and elves.
>>537635978R'lyeh, my hatred overflows making it the most hated naction (all ages)
>>537638943Whats the point of hating EA Rl'yeh?They can't hurt you, they cant do anything but blow bubbles in a pond.La is kinda hateable, but you at least know they are suffering just as much as you are.Ma squiggers can have the rope though
>>537639325Every single dom game featuring the squid I've played without exception rlyeh has been a terrorist.The purpose of a naction is what it does.
>>537638943LA R'lyeh is THE meme dominion nation
Is Ubar a meme nation?
>>537639514In all my games the squid does nothing for 40 turns then goes ai
>>537637931>Right now its Ma ManWhy is Man being singled out as the OP nation now? They were powerful in 5 too. Did everyone just start realizing how good they are?
>>537642418Knights of Avalon werent sacred in 5.Also they glamour now and domg vets hate glamour
>>537642705>Knights of Avalon werent sacred in 5.That completely slipped my mind
>>537642835That and the overall cav boost in 6
>>537648372Cav is significantly weaker in 6.
>>537648668Armored cav is better, light cav is worse
>>537648850Armored cav is also worse, unarmoed cav is just much worser. Low MR and the stupid walking home to get a new horse mechanic are a problem. Unicorns are fine because high MR.
>>537649174Wuh? Heavy cav steamrolls everything in expansion with minimal investment nowadays
>>537651098Always has
>>537651098Game usually keeps going a bit after expansion phase, at least outside domg
>>537649174>the stupid walking home to get a new horse mechanicThe alternative in V was the unit simply dying. Nowadays>either the horse or the rider fight on for the duration of the battle>they have a good chance of making it back>you get a discount on recruiting that unit when they make it backThe only downside of horse-rider separation has been MR.
>>537652120Light cav that used to rely on the riders high defense skill to survive are generally worse now too. Namely elves. Defense 17 on a 2 per square unit with 4 protection is not good even with glamour. Thats for a hellheim fay horse. Not to mention how hard they get raped by indy tier archers
>>537652120They actually have a pretty low chance of making it back from what I've seen, even high morale sacred riders.Armored and shielded riders get annhilated by archers now, especially in EA where most horses don't wear hats.
>>537652824>>537653202I was very surprised when I watched someone obliterate a bunch of elves with bog standard archers. Didn't realize the counter to hell blessed elves was a few pointy arrows. Because even if the rider DOES survive, he's gotta make it back home after his horse got pin cushioned.
What causes a man to go AI on turn 11? Is it autism?
>>537654014Lust for power
>>537654014There is a subset of people that don't want to play at all if they don't see the way to victory.
>>537654014He has foreseen his inevitable victory, so there is no longer a point in playing. Instead, he gives the others a chance to win. How generous.
>>537660625trueas soon as i hit my 15 provinces either at or before turn 12 i immediately ai so those that only got 10 have a chance.
As soon as I achieve this, I go ai because I am a benevolent god.
>>537668796feels good man
>>537669221Why misfortune instead of drain
>play CoE>press E to end my turn>after a few hours, quit to do my Dom turns>press Y to end my turn
>>537675897Real events that happened in rEAd.
>>537673107this post was typed by ulmish fingers
>>537673738Huh?
>>537689331Conquest of Elysium has different hitkeys for no reason.
>mages keep getting assassinated while site searching via random eventshow much of this is because of the death scale? sometimes a bear just wanders up to them i guess.
>>537696647idk but I bodyguard every mage who leaves the cap now
>>537696647What event?
>>537696647I had like a dozen frog assassination attempts in my last game as MA Ermor. Half of them were just frogs, but it's still creepy.Always add some bodyguards, even just a couple militia can make a huge difference in a serious attack by giving the mage enough time to get a spell out
>>537696647Rus got a remote assassination didn't you see that in the patch notes
>>537696647I just lost a mage to a ghost this turn, the bodyguards only served to feed it life drain HP. Fucker facetanked a dust to dust and then succ'ed my mage dry.
Okay, Cracked might finally heat up now that all the globals exploded
>>537711817Will it? Nothing was happening before the globals. Nothing was happening during the globals. Why would the globals being down change anything?
>>537712887Idk, maybe R'lyeh might do something now?
>>537713094Arcane Nexus is still up. Can't wait for another thrilling set of turns watching them cast every global again now with more space to do so.
>>537713323I mean he can't really project any force onto land so eh
Does anyone have a tier list for LA nactions? I need to see if my gut feeling matches reality of another veteran.
>>537722365what kind of hellbless are you running?
>>537675897I'd show her my short sword, if you know what I mean.
>>537722803what hellbless? this is merely the power of sacred heavy cavalry in dom 6
>>537722365What did the centurion get 12 kills with?
>>537722803Unbearable Splendor and some incredibly bad shooting by Ulm's archers.>>537725452Smite Ulmite.
>>537724910pbbt right
>>537144806What? Thug is a stamina neutral kit that can kill PD. None of the things you mentioned qualify as thug.
>>537376113>mikenans>proto greeksthey were greeks. you are speaking of an earlier people, the pelasgians..
>>537338709>I thought it was Hekate but then I remembered she is represented by the trinity now>2700 years later>Hesiod still runing deities
>>537438887Senpai in the time it takes to get a "decent gem income" by digging the beholder will have mind controlled every god in the primal plane and the necro will ruin the game with the meme portal to the ghost realm>statues>usefulOnly golem statues are anywhere decent
>>537525416>finally get ancient spain>it's literally that not!wicca larp passing as ancient basque loreffuuuuuuuuck you
I don't remember the last time Ermor won a game and I've been reading this general since dom 4
>>537727620we're starting to sound like rlg when people argue about what is and isn't a roguelike.
>>537728869It's probably a word Sombre made up too.
>>537728840They got a bad rep.They need better PR so people don't gangbang them.
>>537728840We need somebody to play friendly NAP Ermor who makes peace with all his neighbors and tries to win through diplomacy.
>>537728840MA ermor won a game a couple weeks ago or something.
>>537728840Ermor is the NPC nation. They're there for everyone to band together against the greater evil and feel good about defeating the nefarious wight man.
>>537728869Unless there's been some serious demographic change i missed out on, thug has always meant "can beat almost any chaff with 0 risk"
>>537720687I've played like 3 games of LA but this is my draft. Wholesome constructive feedback encouraged.
>>537729369the thugscape is more nuanced now.The proper term for thug is now "Super-Combatant" or SCI love being language police. >Comrade, are those WORDS I hear you using?>You do know that "I" am the one who gets to define what a word means, do you not?>Surely, comrade, you would not want an inferior, uncultured, ignorant definition such as YOURS to take precedence over a superior intellectual and refined definition such as mine?>I would hate to have to report you to the authorities for that spellink mistake!
>>537729681link?
>>537729681I have won games with both of your D-ranked nations.I still don't get how Man can be playable in any game with real astral nations.
>>537729694Such vulgar, improper grammar!You must be punished!
>>537729930Yeah I keep overlooking the risk of mduel, good point. D-tier doesn't mean can't win just that it's (generally) harder than the other tiers.
>>537730281Thugs haven't been viable since dom 3. Anything that can beat 15-20 pd is a thug now.
>>537729694Either you filled in gaps in your knowledge with your own meanings or this is a signal that the original communities /domg/ overlapped with have finally completely disbanded.
>>537730412???? Bane sniping PD in dom5 was my fav passtime
>>537730413NTA but at least reading through the wiki the distinction between thug and SC has been a thing since dom 5.https://illwiki.com/dom5/thugs-and-supercombatantsThough the concept of an "army thug" and the other variants came around dom6 I think. But the things anon was theory crafting was his own flavor of that.
Oh wow another bunch of faggots jumping into the thread because whatever other game they fucked up finally collapsed
>>537729681is LA Pythium really B tier? Their communions are absolutely cancer to manage and while hydras are viable now they aren't incredible
>>537733812u w0t
>>537733836They don't have the strongest astral nor any real blood but there is a very good amount of diversity, solid troops, and Hydras are a respectable sacred for the age. Poison is also good for la with all the humans. Sacred assassins and generally having a very big toolkit is nice.
>>537728840They got attacked in 5 by everyone because no one liked dealing with 0 pop lands.Now in 6 they're just kinda shit since they got no real buffs but population numbers improved for everyone else.
>>537722365No, not this. Not the public humiliation, nooooo!!!
>>537722589These are great, good work anon!
>>537453324I should've asked for design ideas beforehand. I have no clue what these nations should look like beyond upscaling one of their sprites.
>>537742292I think Feminie is on point. Strict mommy-sages.
>>537742292it looks good! For bogarus you could go with a cowled sage type, or a fivefold angel, or a druzhina horse ladyMan is identified by... magisters arcane and crossbow/shield troops?
>>537742292Megane Ind chan a cute!
>>537742292>>537745753Bog definitely needs to be a fivefold angel gorefu
>>537729214Yeah, that was me.I had to admit that everyone in that game took awful decisions, and somehow everyone expanded away from me so I could grab a shitload of provinces right away. I was still taking indie provinces well into the third year
>>537759194how tf can there still be indie provs into year 3?some people must have really really fucked up their expansion
What are some good nations to play if I like being rich? I want to throw money around.
>>537761007Phaecia with Island start
>>537761007MA Ulm, they take scales and have good expansion
>>537760959Everyone did I guess. It isn't even that I circled them to capture them later. Somehow everyone decided to leave a good bunch of provinces alone. Everyone had wars on their other borders, maybe no one thought it'd be safe to move troops there. I also didn't rush it because I also was at war at my opposite border, but then I threw in some spies and noticed there was like an entire nation's worth of untaken provinces.I won that game through sheer force of numbers thanks to being able to build a shitload of forts and temples all over the place. And it came just in time, because my research was heavily lacking... I won like 3 turns after the late game undead purging spells showed up. One or two more turns and I'd have probably gotten crushed, after capturing like 3/4s of the world.tldr everyone fucked up horribly in every possible way, gifted me like 40% of the map without real opposition, and also chose to fight each other more than they wanted to fight me.Also, some players apparently don't understand that there's more strategies than doomstacking. I defeated three opponents with the exam same trick
>>536691397>blood hunt frugally>now your communions are sick because of reinvig
Does having a twist fate amulet protect from Domes and other weird phase attacks like MA Marignon's cap site?
>>537742292Very nice, you might have done so already but have you drawn a Maenad before? At least I didn't see them in the booru
Warhammermodfag hereany interest in another test game?I haven't been working on it as much latelyBut there are enough changes since the last test game to merit another goI have yet to go over Cathay, so they will be as Sombre intended if someone wants to play themI gotta make a note to do that, rebalance all demons (I don't like how I did them,) and give Nagashizzar a once over as well.
>>537772769What did sombre do for the demons
blitzmin server down
>>537788118please be understanding, China just launched many missiles at Ukraine during the military parade yesterday
>>537774950he did invulnerabilityI switched it to just straight up natprot (I thought there was already too much invuln and it was like 2 points over and above the natprot he did anyway.) I am going to have to think about how I want to do it
BLITZMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN
>>537808283Literally who?
>>537809009blood gem
>>537796014>mfw blitzmin fixes the server just in time to do my turns before it's time for bedThanks blitzmin
>Call the thread that walks
Unfortunately gift of reason doesn't reset the home province...
>>537819706
>>537755904>>537745753I doodled a notFivefold Angel for something different a while ago.>>537768070Have I drawn a naked human woman before? Maybe alongside a pan or satyr or whatever, not specifically I don't think. Is there some defining feature you'd be looking for?
