Dominions is a fantasy turn-based war game created by two dudes. One of them is a teacher.The game combines a simple presentation with an extremely wide array of strategic options, including over 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Our pastebin (extremely outdated)https://pastebin.com/wjbSA98Y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.orgPrevious Turn of the Wheel:>>536526318
>>537819706While that's rather extreme I'd like illfraud to at least buff up the starting armies like slop's did
Caves forgive me, I did Agartha's turn in go_rEAd_a_book because he was 3 minutes from staling
Ermor, please humbly await the next turn before making another drawing. You will like it, I promise.
>>537821072Holy shit!
Oh my god, nothing is happening still AAAAAAAAAAA
>>537821072Is that this current turn or tomorrow's turn? Cuz I like this current turn. desu I thought Dicks-nuts had it.
>>537819706What happened?
>>537835760Discorders are mad that it's been 10 years and UW nations are still OP. (yes)
>>537836361Has anyone ever tried a map with big UW provs, but less of them? So they can raid everyone and aren't DoA since they'll have a ton of choice to leech and raid. Less oceans means less of a pain to invade if you choose to fight them as a land nation with enough research. But I could see it making them suck to play if they don't have many cap ring provs and that forces them to build a certain way. Oceans probably need set spawn points and custom tagged terrain so they spawn on a kelp forest or something
>>537836978Wdym mean by big?
>>537840890A lot of connections?
>>537836978all that does is make everyone annoyed by the UW players raiding them
>>537854331sage sorceress sexo
>>537820372Could’ve sworn I did it already though. Did I not press E? Was there a second turn in my sleep?
doing my turn while extremely drunk?Y/n
>>537854331>on crossbreedingHeh
>>537854331BIIGGG
>>537862380Some of my best turns were those that I don't even remember playing
>>537867984With every new iteration, merrow chan becomes more malnourished
>>537870581Glamour supplies, please understand.
>>537867984Cute!
>>537870581the release of zemaitia will surely rejuvenate the merrow to a healthier figure
>>537870705I desire a drawing of merrow-chan gorging at the illusory banquet
rEAd Admin, let's release Mekone and make him AI
>>537854331Big fan of that sage. Back on the topic of Maenads, yeah I mean they are just naked women, guess the defining factor would be they'd be kinda covered in blood, wine and maybe cum, and a crazed and sexual grin is I guess all that'd would define them, giving them claws to emphasize the madness idk. Not the most extravagant creature of dom by any stretch, I just like the idea of them in greek myth.
>>537874569This item always reminds me of the banquet scene in Hook
>>537874569slowly starving merrow trying to subsist on dreams hits too close to home
Dust to dust
zemaitia when. i want to be the best zemaitia player in all of /domg/
>>537907330When summer ends in Sweden
>>537907330what a lame goalthe current real objective is to win a game as pelagia
>>537908157EA rlyeh is forgotten...
>want to play cool LA nation>remember all the unfun things about LA>don't play LA
Wither bones
When we doing a Randomized Nations game?
>>537909692>unfun thingsname 5 unfun things
>>537927962CrossbowsHeavy cav indiesLow magic sitesLemuriaRlyeh
>>537926471those are boring
>>537928084play rlyeh or lemuia and there are only 3 unfun things! (those nations don't care about heavy cav)
We should call our next game a "tournament" and pretend it is somehow more prestigious than non-tournament games.
>>537928486the /domg/ tournament for the title of /domg/ veteran
>>537928486we should call all games from now on "tournament round x" and just add to the number every new game but it just goes up forever and its not a tournament at all
>>537929047>>537928675Yesssssss
Jesus fuck I'm gonna have to hail mary this
>>537937838explain
>>537940091it's over for pangeachuds
>>537941775Fucking Femine
Darkbolt
>>537950347black darts
New map when?
Holy fug we are getting domkilled by horses
BLITZMIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNN
Agartha in go_rEAd_a_book come back we are turning the horse tide
>>537957941>>537958791duality of Man
Is anyone going to start a new game?Cracked and VAnilla are winding down
>>537963550old vanilla dies, new MA vanilla rises?
rip ulm
>>537965815Noice
>>537965815Lovely work, anon
Meanwhile...
Gnight domg>>537969923Very asterix pilled
>>537928084playing against rlyeh right now and it's tedious alright.
It's up.
>>537979213>>537969923What is? The Ermorian's shortsword?
>>537969923>ermorian centurion gets corrupted by ubarian shaytan, early 3rd spring of the ascension wars
Friday geimu?
>>537957941My jarl, the horse is here
I am on a trip in switzerland, and unable to connect to a game, be it Blitzserver or illwinter server. Internet is working, I tried with hotel internet and mobile - anyone else ever had this problem? Is Switzerland rangebanned?
>>537998813Do you own the game?
>>537998886what a preposterous accustion, of course
>>537998725cute
>>537996170buritsu dato?
>537829512Anon, fivefold angels dont have hands...
>>538002627But they do have an unflinching devotion to you!
>>537998725Drunk horse
>>538002627I know. Thoughts on visual details? Seems dull at the moment.
>>537998813zemaitia soon??
>>538012034Maybe add prayers (in cyrillic) freshly carved into skin.Also I would propose a different pose - stumps locked in prayer with eyeless fqce towards the heaven.
>>538012034Give her a rapturous smile! Think flagellant from DD
>>538012034Noice
buritsu server... down...
>>538027556WHAT!?!?!?!
and we're back
>>537908273>This retard cant win with the best astral mages in the game
>finally finished testing new build>can't wait to try it in actual MP game>no new games with the right ageDoes it normally take over a week to find an open game?
>>538031728We haven't even had a new game in two weeks.
>>538031728which age?
Illfraud kidnaps you and commands you to make all of the weapon archetypes equally viable while they're on Swedish summer vacation. What changes, if any, do you make to>swords>greatswords>axes>greataxes>maces>greatmaces>spears>pikes>flails>halberds
>>538038441>spears>spikes>halberdsBonus on repel against attacks with a charge bonus, and bonus attack against cavalryRest is fine.
>>538038441I made a spreadsheet with all the weapons a few days ago, trying to work out the internal logic of the weapon stats. I've concluded there isn't any. Not even trying for realistic. I would at least make the weapons follow a consistent internal logic. Bronze? It *always* costs more res. Weapon has multiple damage types? Attack bonus. Weapon is very short? Defense malus. Players should be able to intuit the weapon's stats just by remembering what the logic is.
Here's some examples of the retardation in the statsAn iron cudgel has +2 def. A maul has -1 defense. A pitchfork has -1 def. A trident has +1 def.Jotuns have their own version of every kind of axe. Some are identical to regular axe stats, while others are different.Yaris are the only kind of spear with an attack bonus.Quarterstaffs have +3 def, higher than anything else. But several kids of other polearms have defense maluses.Why don't similar weapons have similar stats?
>>538031531Still gotta pay the amulet of the fish tax to do anything with them
>>538042353Quarterstaves kinda make sense. Lots of Dominions is based on myth and legend rather than facts, and there's old stories about great swordmen who only ever lost a duel against a peasant with a stick.Don't know what they were smoking with the rest, but I love that adding an additional tine to your fork makes it significantly better at defending.
>>538044272There might be some implicit worldbuilding or assumptions in there, too. Like, only specific units use yari instead of normal spears. Maybe they wanted to represent that these units are particularly fanatical and aggressive, but without giving *the unit* a better attack stat. Maybe they feared it'd have some unintended consequences.With the pitchfork and trident, for example, you could say that the kind of guy who's using a pitchfork is simply not well trained for battle. It's also a working tool, so more unbalanced, and more brittle, etc. All of that flows into a worse defense value. The trident is a weapon, and an exotic one, probably wielded by creatures who know what they're doing, AND it's a proper weapon made for war, with better materials and proper balance for fighting purposes, so it warrants a bonus instead of the penalty.Same with axes. An axe to fell trees, an axe to clear shrubbery, a throwing axe like the francisca, a huscarl axe, and a "normal" battle axe are all different weapons. It makes sense that they have different stats.The same thing applies to the iron cudgel and maul. The cudgel is relatively light. A maul is much more unbalanced and heavier.Essentially, Dominions is an incredibly autistic game. The reason there's 50 different variations of the same weapon is the same reason that there's 50 different variations of "spearman" instead of a single spearman unit with a single spear weapon. The variety, and representing many historical and mythological things so they can bonk each other in little battles, is the whole point. Watching a small army of low quality Ermorian infantry fighting a small army of low quality C'tissian infantry for control over a bottleneck in the early game is a lot more satisfying than watching 50 generic infantry fighting 50 identical generic infantry.
>>538045754I feel it's more like Napoleonic minded armies trying to struggle with WW1-esque technologies
>>538045754I mean it is based on D&D after all
I'm not gonna join a new game when Zemaitia is JUST around the corner. Surely.Also Cracked is absolutely fucked with these settings and Rlyeh just being uncontested UW lol.
https://files.catbox.moe/kpc971.mp4So this is the power of vanilla casting..
>>538057803why the grapes
>>538061336Clearly you are not using the superior "advance and cast spells"
So did I miss that blood rain actually uses fear damage instead of frigthen damage?
>>538064442How would I know
rEAd agartha again
>>538067234Rumor is that he got trapped on Bear Mountain, either by a bear, or by Wights...I expect his return ere long
The Juggernaut crushing hordes of chattering Markatas rapturous Vanaras under its mighty and holy wheels all the while noble Bandars and White Ones watch on in serene calm...
>>538079957Nah
'member when iron dragons used to be good?we 'member
>>538081747Speak for yourself, I don't even remember when I last reached Construction 8
>>538081906I have never reached level 8 research and I've been playing since dom 3.
>>538082336i never research anything but evocation so that when my mages start off-casting they at least always cast something that can deal damage.
/domg/ is blessed with artists(its because its a general of intelligent creative types)
Holy lel, I actually survived against Femine's assault againI fucking hate their cloak ability
>>538082336>I have never reached level 8 research and I've been playing since dom 3.
>>538082336This is the first game I've played on easy research and it's kinda nuts. This was my stuff by turn 40
AHHHHHHHH I HATE LATE AGE INDIES AHFJAHAHJAJAJAJABH
>>538099424>he didn't take an awake expanderSAD!
Good night domg>>538099424
>>538065119>>538067234Come on guys, I did my turn. Many people died on Bear Mountain trying to feed the Bears, you know? Even my sister was once chased by a Bear, but she was faster
Hand of Dust
>>538100491I did and a crossbow shot him in the head and Muted him on the first round of the first expansion turn.
How do I not get warred by all my neighbors? What's the trick?
>>538126117Take an awake expander, that usually scares away people without expanders.Be proactive in writing to them and acknowledge you're cool with borders. I tend to gravitate towards killing the guy not answering messages because I assume he's gearing to kill me (because that is what I do when I wanna kill someone).But sometimes you're just unlucky or playing a naction people hate to fight lategame and rather off asap.
>>538126328>I tend to gravitate towards killing the guy not answering messages because I assume he's gearing to kill meSo that's why I'm always attacked! I knew that autism would be my downfall...
>>538126328Doesn't taking awake expander mean you'll have more neighbors? Plus, won't getting too big too early make people want to team up against you even more?
>>538130686I guess, if you're too weak you will get targeted, if you're too strong you will get targeted, but writing around to people rarely hurts.If you feel you've expanded to hard you can offer to sell the land to people that will often get them off your back, or bait out a bump and just kill the first person you see. It all depends, point is just to be proactive and not reactive. Once people have set their minds to kill you they usually will go through with it, so better meet them before that happens.
Any draw requests?
>>538126117>>538126328>Take an awake expanderno, a dormant guardian is better for this purpose.>Be proactive in writing to them no, reactive "diplomancy" is always the best. you just react to what the players around you do. if they send you peace offers, you accept, if they attack you, you fight back. if nobody attacks you, thats perfect because you have time to research and build up your infrastructure and armies which will make you stronger later especially relative to players who have been or are fighting wars because they have weaker armies, weaker research, weaker infrastructure.
>>538135537Every underwater representative being mind-raped by R'lyeh consensually.
>>538135561Anybody you think you'll want peace with early should be contacted. Don't over do it, just try to agree on borders or something.It's much easier for people to declare war on somebody they've never spoken to.
>>537998725>marks on neckpeak>>538130686only if someone decides to be a diplomancer and calls you out
>>538135537More dryads and goats
>>538135537therodos sacred going berserk because somebody said "bless you"
I now have a strong suspicion that frighten damage CAN trigger a morale check if the squad size is too small.
>>538122573What are you doing blind expanding on turn one?Stupid thing to do.
>>538135537pious and perseverant piconye
I long for a domg game that uses all types of thrones. I can't remember when was the last time I've seen a 1st lvl throne in the game. I just want some small effects that are not protected as thorougly! Not to mention that some throne clusters are spread between lvls (thrones of the stars, sun and moon all have different lvls).
>>538135960you diplomancers are so retarded
>>538139354how about a new EA game with all throne types AND all story events.or would you guys prefer MA/LA?
>>538139386How is it not true though? You just have to say hello and your odds of being attacked first drop a bit.Maybe if you are an autistic domg vet who can't handle a hello then you should play the game as if you were an npc to everybody else.
>>538139510Vanilla EA game is still young, so MA will be much appreciated.
>>538139745If you need to resort to words instead of crushing your enemies then you are WEAK.
>>538139510I just need a game, I haven't been able to play in months
>>538140003I support your right to play the game like a retarded dictator, but it's not the playstyle that gives you the best results.If it's fun for you though by all means go ahead. Makes the games spicy
>>538139510Everybody knows MA is the best age
>>538141467I personally have to agree. It has the most interesting nations, and a nice balance of magic and troops. Admittedly it does have some of the most annoying nations in the entire game - Asphodel, Ermor, Rl'yeh, Nazca, Nidavangr.But I don't hate them as much as some.
>>538141719Ermor is the only one I really hate, because fighting them is so boring. Oh let me guess, a box of 500 longdead with some sacreds inside? Puts me to sleep.
>>538142332It's fun fighting them as a fire nation though, apart from the getting ruined lands as your reward part.Lighting up 1k skellies with elementals and flaming arrows is dope
>>538141467MA has the highest 'tech' of all the nationsLA has most everyone regress in tech aside from getting more crossbows
>>538142804also better forts and more resorces
>>538143915Eh, 3 points to hire more old men is lame
What's the next nation after zemataia
>>538142804I just don't like LA because of how weak the mages are."Oh wow, my ultra expensive 500g mage tops out at F2, nice..."I like playing with magic, but not as much as EA gives
>>538150149LA MerrowmatiaNot happening
>>538150154Take the communion-pill
>>538152520Communion? More like, get earthquaked!
>>538126117You done an elfingYou done an ubaringYou done a popkillingYou done a water nation on landingNow you get bonked by the heckin wholesome coalitioning
>>538150149Oman
>>538154350>takes weightless blessHeh, outskilled.
>>538150149Something south slavic would be nice. Vilas are Bulgarian, you know? And Zmey that walk around in armor and ride metal horses with steel wings would be cool. Really, we could, unironically, use some more mythological representation. We are starting to double up on nations. Getting a Troll or Dwarf Nation would be nice, even if overpowered.
>>538154493This is all lies!I got ganged up on by all my neighbors when I was just an honest Eastern Roman and didn't do any of these!
>>538155536Astral magic?Dishonest and threatening.
why isn't ma pythium allowed real sacreds?
>>538156205Communicants are one of the best sacred troops in the game. Actually unique
I wnat to die holy fug
WHENIS NEWGAME???
Server down
>>538164878really now?
What if someone hosted a game with that tournament mod as part of that tournament meme someone suggested. Would anons be interested in that.
>>538166627its more games and more chances for me to get good, so sure. but what's tournament mode? 1v1s?
What's the easiest way of testing out battles between 2 specific armies?
>>538169021debug mod
My conspiracy theory is the real reason we don't get any nations from unrepresented parts of the world (Oceania, North America, etc) is that Illwinter doesn't want to add in a bunch of new Pretenders for them.
>>538171712that are just jealous of NA chads
>>538166627Which mod? You mean like the one from lucid's tournaments where one player is essentially a caster and just spawns with scouts all over the map??Sure but, who's casting us.Would be more interesting if the rules for the '/domg/ veteran' tournament were something along the lines of 'if you manage to take hold of at least throne till the game ends you get rights to brag'. Which would mean a lot of thrones and little points required to win.
>>537819706>>538040413some axes do have defense malus>>538042353>An iron cudgel has +2 def.are you sure? running a mod?>pitchforka farming implement for moving hay, only used in war as an improvised weapon, possibly made with curved tines making it more awkward as a weapon>tridentprobably not used a lot in war either, but at least was a spear meant to strike and pierce fish with>Quarterstaffsmaybequarterstaffs are two-handed. better physically balanced typically than poles with heavy metal head in one end, and can grip anywhere, sliding staff easily in hands, as needed. and low damage and sometimes length in-game relative to other polearms. machaka spear, despite being one-handed, has higher length and damagenot necessarily great, and there are inconsistencies here and there, and bugs, etc. but not completely bonkers either>>538045754tl;dr generated from ai?
>>538161041i was about to make a new one but buritsu server down
>>538122573recuperation?
>>538161041fine i read the thread daily so be my guestill host one once blitzserver is upanons please define now settings, age and whether or not you want scbm or another mod (enhanced, spark of divinity or whatever)only adding the black servant mod unless enough people cry for sloops or any other mod (i kinda want to play vanilla because most games use scbm)you all can suggest a lobby name too because im fine with playing any age so as long as we hit a big player count
>>538171712>North Americadid the historical civilizations of more northern america compare at all relative to meso-american civilizations in terms of military might, population numbers, culture, technology, infrastructure, organization, government, etc.?
>>538177368MA vanilla sounds good to memapnuke or normal gen with some cap tweaking to ensure noone gets some 2 connections cap
>>538177368All story events and level 3 thrones because I hate you all
>>538177368if we are doing MA I am ok with just Pretender Recuperation Mod, but I can play vanilla as well
>>538177368MA vanilla with all throne lvls and all events, please.
>>538178453Why don't people like level 3 thrones?
>>538178453some other anon had said he wanted to see level 1 thrones and another piggybacked on the idea of the tournament and mentioned lots of thronesso how about a bunch of level 1 thrones scattered around the map and 2-3 level 3 thrones so a good player that would subject himself to it, would try to speedup his ascension???no lvl 2 thrones
>>538179186create a game yourself and try to take themthey make the game draw on for longer than it should most of the time
>>538179224No, all thrones should be present.I propose a lvl1 throne for each player, a lvl2 per 2 players and lvl3 per 3 players.
>>538179186They are just really hard to kill. They often stay independent long into the game because people get sucked into wars before they are strong enough to take them.But they often have cool monsters and titans with sick items guarding them. It's hard to do but you can charm them potentially.
>>538177613Stone age vs bronze age. That said, we have literal cavemen in Pyrene and naked woodland creatures in Pangaea
!!!NEW MA GAME!!!https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/669#statushttps://beta.blitzserver.net/game/669#statushttps://beta.blitzserver.net/game/669#statusall throne types (50% +1 points to win) and all story events.vanilla, as all things should be.!!!JOIN IT NOW!!!
>>538181248great you beat me to itlarge map pleaseoh and you didnt add black servant
>>538181608naah 15/player is perfectno idea wtf story events are though, sounds cancer but whatever
Starting playing the game last week, and I'm struggling to understand what Titans are for. Why would I pick them over a monster or inanimate pretender? They get merked by monsters when awake and give less bonuses than objects when imprisoned. Raising them as dormant doesn't seem great either since they're so limited by what gear they have and how much spell research you've done. And by turn 12 you'll have what, maybe construction 3?Please explain why I'm a retard who doesn't know what he's talking about so I can feel justified in picking big pixel tits over big pixel snek.
>>538181992If you want an chassis to hit things with a mace of eruption I guess
>>538181923they're the same as events but more bullshit.I have one now, "a demon has possessed the leader of the land," if not dealt with causes unrest/turmoil or demon attacks every turn.
>>538181992Everything you said is correct. Sometimes the titans have the right paths and scale bonus you want so the math works out, or a national discount.>>538181248Should have named it domg TournaMAnt Round 1.
>>538181992They sort of do a bit of everything or have unique traits. Most of them are just really inefficient though.The most common use for them is a dormant defender titan, which wakes up right as the first wars tend to start, and with some gear or early research can be a very good defense.The main benefit over other chassis is they have full slots for boosters or fat lategame gear, while still being able to get a decently high dom score/scales.
>>538181992Titans are sadly the weakest of the 4 pretender types. There are definitely ones that are viable, but even after the buffs they've gotten from illwinter and most pretender mods, a lot of them are completely pointless
>>538183018So you're saying I should go Luck 3 this game
>>538181992Titans are practically always taken dormant for the reasons you described. Their niche is being much stronger combatants than monsters once they're kitted out with gear because many crafted weapons mog monster natural weapons and personal ironskin + high prot armor mogs monster natprot.Problem is, being dormant means you need to either accept a worse non-incarnate bless compared to imprisoned stat stick, or use the titan on nations who can expand fine unblessed and need a rush defense that scales up with construction level and/or dormant anti-player incarnates like Magic/Unholy weapons.This is a pretty niche use case, and it doesn't help that most of the titans, like monsters. are overshadowed or just plain bad. Sloops helps them out a lot by making new paths cost less as well as reducing their chassis costs overall.
Why does John Illwinter hate this guy?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Stroumsa
>>538185364why do you think he does?
