Illraep editionDominions 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Our pastebin (extremely outdated)https://pastebin.com/wjbSA98Y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:>>539005867
does /domg/ really have any right to a new thread when zemaitia still isn't here
>>540026331By statistical error, there are not enough Finns and Balts to say they exist or a mass hallucination
The age of the Reef Warrior is almost upon us fellow vets. Reefer is coming.
>>540027302Finally Atlantis will be s tier
>>540027761Atlantis already has one of the highest pick/win rates in all ages
>>540028297Where can one find these data?
>>540028297MA is the worst of them for sure though, or at least the one that needs the most finesse. Reef warriors wont really be changing that.
>>540028623Join every single game for a few years and it'll be revealed to you
>>540028623my assreach in
>>540028297Isn't ea horrible
>>540031494Basalt Kings are noob stompers
>>540031494No, they have recruitable Ship Wreckers.
welp I fucked up guysI wanted to play Patalathought I had submitted as Snexual Healing and forgot (sounds like a name I would have come up with)Evidently someone else sniped it out from under meand I already made the map with an exact number of starts...So I can start without being in the game and just badmin from the outsideOr I can use the built in random map generator that blitzserver hasalso I figure if I am not in the game then my resource balance preferences shouldn't be taken into account>https://strawpoll.com/1MnwkbwRAn7please fill out this strawpoll to determine next steps and yes I know to add the two badmin can suck it options when comparing to the third option
Am I gimping myself by investing lightly into trees with my titan pretender for the sake of crafting and blessing points? Things go OK for the most part, but there are still instances where my pretender dumpsters their entire fatigue bar casting Agony for 100 stamina or some shit when they could continue casting Flame Eruption for 9 without an additional multi-round nap.
>>540037527just make a new one who cares
>>540037527we will let you play in your own game, but only if you use the default, perfectly balanced resource settings John intended.
>>540038519>just make a new one who caresit took me like 2 hoursnot spending that much time on it again
>>540038162It depends, but once people start getting anti thug spells like soul slay you shouldn't be gimping your research just to make your god offscript better.
Can't wait to see whose square turns blue this turn. The dominos are falling.
who killed Marignon already?
>>540046324KindnessCuriousityBeautyAll deadly to a M*rigonian.
>>540046324Boredom
>>540048105>Kindness>Curiousity>Beautywhich nactions embody these ideals?
>>540050850Ys
>>540051462Ys embodies gender dysphoria in susceptible young spergs
>>540051754>spergsThey're called 'merrows'
>>540051998YWNBAM
>>540053431who would
Ghost Grips
Help! I need the meme image of a fish trying to evolve onto land, and several units pushing it back into the water. I have nothing to trade, and only my gratitude to give.Plus I won't play en elf nation for the next game if someone helps me out
>>540057731But I love killing elf nations...
>>540057731This post smells of elf tricks
Remember that quickness is still a viable bless
>>540018084>I'm going to put 20% regen on my fat 100hp Wight Mages>howYou make them and then you put them on the Hero.hint: check what blocks regen.For double the fun, do that 40% regen fomoria bless.
>>540063768>40% regen fomoria blessI'm curious, elaborate
>>540051754gender dysphoria enjoyers may not have Ys, it is well known that Ys's most fervent supporters are the sort of family men /domg/ is so famous for
>>540071376Technically just a total of 40% with the bless.Wight mages aren't inanimatethus wights can regenand they benefit from undead regen
>https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/674#schedulealright I joined as MA Mictlanused a random mapbeware that the caves and lakes will probably be too bigI am rushbait have at me
>>540073761Custom indies?
Gnight domg
Zemaitia....
>When the real storm is the anti-storm storm queen
I'm gonna do it!
>>540088994How does Therodos anon keep getting away with it
>>540108550Nothing to lose
The shit when your army and the enemy army move against each other and you win but remain in your original province instead of attacking the enemy province. How does that work?
>>540113062I think the chance to bump is based on army size, and which province you fight in on map move or combat speed.
>>540088994pottery
>>540109224you mean because therodos is a ruined kingdom that has already lost everything?
What's a decent assassin kit for planning to take out Bakemono Sorcerers in the midgame? Turns 20-30, will have Const5 in a turn or two.Fire res is easy to get, and them casting iron skin or something doesn't matter (AP weapons)But what do I do if the assassination AI decides to skelispam? Is my only option an expensive Charcoal Shield?
Got bored, thought I'd learn nation modding. Rough draft of a Trollheim thing. Not actually sure what direction I should be going in. >litter.catbox.moe/ht5u13.dm
>>540129407Feels like the only cost effective item would be spirit masks+pokemen since their low morale means you can frighten them off the room before they cast spells or beat you to death you because you tried to assassinate the army thug.Probably better off trying to kill his researchers.
>https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/674#statusManBandarpls turnno stales
>>540131218Actually sounds feasible, if the damn frighten effect can actually be accurate enough to land.Being Machaka they're even at a discount as well.
>>540131179Thanks anon
Utterdark
>>540143220>Harvester of Sorrows
the dominion...
Is Blitzserver down? I am already late on doing my turnI uh hadn't checked the thread as I was busy with essays and yearning
>>540155337YesShaheds are currently striking downtown Stinky
buritsu server... down...
I have fond memories of incorrect stuff I learned about arms and armor from very smart weapons nerds on the internet.>scale armor wasn't real>poisoned weapons weren't real>fire arrows weren't real>nipple armor wasn't real>dual wielding wasn't real>horses charging into spears wasn't realFortunately John knew better all along.
>>540156683Wars have never happened ever
>Nana-nana boo-boo. You can't touch me.I hate sea niggers so fucking much.
>>540161043>You can't touch me.you can doe
>>540161962Yeah bro let me just rush const 5 before Ys rapes my familyNot to mention the poor amphibian and water ele problems
>>540163020Most UW nations are worse on land than land nations underwater.
>>540163474True...
>>540163474Not true. All uw nations have amphibious mages. Most land nations have none
>>540163474Atlantis, Ys, Thero and Ma rlyeh are all good on land. Oceania has amphibious sacreds on par with white centaurs that can wreck. Even Pelagia can do the "you can't touch me" perpetual raiding thing.
>>540164487Yes, but those are more often than not basic mages and it's a hell of a lot easier to turn them amphibious than it is to get an aquatic mage onto land.>Atlantis, Ys, Thero and Ma rlyeh are all good on land. Oceania has amphibious sacreds on par with white centaurs that can wreck.All of those are basically entirely amphibious nations.
Server is upDo your turn Caelum. Or don't.
>>540165728The only land nations that could dream of taking a water nations capital are Ermor, Asphodel, Lemuria and maybe Agartha. But since every water nation gets water income they will all struggle with mass water elementals. Not even the toad xibalbas or Fomoria could do it without a massive advantage. Maybe a Nazca or Scelaria if they were snowballing.
>>540167817I forgot la atlantis and ery, but they are only competing with la rlyeh so it barely counts. I also wont count lemuria for the same reason.
>>540165728>Ring of Water Breathing is easier to make than Shambler Skin
>>540168552Fair point, I forgot not everyone has to use an Amulet of the Fish
Can I get an extension for onefortheages? I didn't realize it was beginning earlier and now that blitzserver is up i won't be able to get to my pc in time
>>540169785no
There must be more ways to destroy the pond
How many games are you guys playing at once? Do you play the same nation in multiple games at once, or do you deliberately pick something else to not get the games confused?
>>540174059I only play one game at a time because I am a tryhard and also because it takes me 3-4 hours to do my turns by midgame.
>>540169785yeah 3 hoursyou need more than that?also are you bandar or Man?
>>540174059I can't play more than one game. One war can easily eat the day's time by itself.
>>540174059I only do one at a time because I don't know which ones will end up as late game slugfests and scripting communions and shit on turn 70 is very time consuming
>>540174341>>540174493>>540174601Damn, now I feel like a shitter with my 3 games in progress
>>540174059I only join a new game when I've lost my forward momentum in my current one and it's looking like I'll either die or never contend for the win. I'll never suffer doing 3 back to back turns with my entire evening after work for weeks on end again.>do you play the same nationI've never played the same nation in multiple games at once, but that's because I usually pick a new nation I'm interested in or one of my favorites I haven't ran in a while.
>>540172381The problem with squids is that nobody can get into the water to properly deal with them soon enough.
>>540174059I generally aim to keep 3 games running. One in the early game, one in the middle game, and one in the late game.Multiple late games at once takes too long to handle daily, but no late game leaves me wanting, so it kinda works. Sometimes I'll join a couple different games at once, but I'll be trying different stuff or going for hyper aggressive strategies so I can see early whether the game will probably last long or I'll get wrecked before the midgame.>factionsDepends. I've been playing the same faction in there games, and I've been playing all different factions. Both are cool, but I think I prefer different factions. I definitely don't like playing the same faction but in different eras. It just doesn't feel right.
Horse of skeletons
>>540187345>>540187345Spoopy
>conservative gem use doesn't stop mages from using extra gems to lower fatigue costs if it's over 100then what is the point
>>540192389If you wanna keep blastin
>>540192389it's so they don't use gems to cast spells that require them after their scriptif they need to use a gem to complete their script without pausing they will
Well the server is down
>>540196697GOTT STRAFF AUSTRALIA
It's back upWill the oneage game restart for Man and Bandar? They got screwed by outages today
>>540204879I added 12 hoursbut after that I am restarting without them
Black Servants: what do we think?As scouts, they seem overpriced even in ideal circumstances.
>>540208305If they ain't high yella servants then they just won't understand complex orders, anon
>>540208305Sometimes you just need an amphibious scout with spirit sight
>>540208305its a black harpy with ring of water breathing, what do you think?
As a newer player, whats a baby mode EA nation I can play that isnt so OP that it gets picked everytime so I actually get a chance to play it if im later to sign up for a game.
>>540226120Mekone
>>540226120Ermor unironicallyyou won't win but you should have okay expansion and get to play around with your mages and formations before one of the big bad giant nations comes and squishes you
>>540226120Vanheim
>>540226120Ermor
>>540226120Unironically Machaka.>Give your Big Men larger plus some stat bless.>bonk sacreds>Cast spells>learn how to do diplomacy because you get hard countered by magic weapons
>>540226120I like to recommend MA C'tis to noobs.They have a pretty straight forward game plan, spam poison and skeletons. They have a cancer dominion which makes people not want to attack you. They have some astral magic but aren't completely reliant on it, so its a good practice nation to dabble in communions. And lizards are cool
thats a good one
>>540239506Sobeks are a trap
>>540244006Why?
>>540244037Poor attack density and stats
>>540244580Yeah but big lizard
restarted without bandarmy apologies gents
>>540250151my start was godly though
>>540250151can't wait for my 3 province start this time around
>>540250151badmin did you forget to reset the map or something
>>540251926yeah I forgot to hit save settings
>>540252214ok I forgive you my starting commander rolled a better path and I have at least one throne that's close
>half the map is water>1 water nation and 2 amphibious nations
>>540253521The perfidious fish
>>540250151Surely for once this will give me as good or better start than the first time round
>>540244006They are a build trap, not a recruitment trap. It's good to recruit them just not to try and power them up with your bless.They are pretty good for hacking through big armor when you need em and they are limited recruit anyway so you can't really overdose on them.
Astral nations are zero fucking fun to fight against.I love having to account for any party I move out of a fort potentially being teleported on, and using thugs against them is completely pointless, even more so if they can mindhunt you.You also can't even set small mage traps because fucking soul slay has 100 range. Oh and they are the most dominant on the global spells game too. Astriggers are worse than elves. They deserve to be treated like blood nations are.
>>540260864skill issue detected
Air nations are zero fucking fun to fight against.I love having to account for any party I move out of a fort potentially being trapezed on, and using thugs against them is completely pointless, even more so if they can thunderstrike you.You also can't even set small mage traps because fucking air elementals can fly. Oh and they are the most dominant on the conjuration spells game too.Airniggers are worse than elves. They deserve to be treated like blood nations are.
>>540261456a telkhine flew over my house
Oh bother. I guess it's time to eat Vanarus now...
>>540262850I've look at this nation a couple of times and I just can't figure out wtf you are supposed to do with them
>>540262995revert time back to dom 5 when they could be mediocre instead of trash
>>540262995vanabog thugs
>>540262995thunder strike spamwailing winds + blood rain + draugrsstorm demonscorpse constructschvd berserkers
I think a neat idea would be to have the option to break your imprisoned god free by calling for it en masse. So nations with powerful priests can tank their early and part of their midgame in exchange for getting their imprisoned god within 15-20 turns. Titans could have an inherent bonus to being freed this way.
>>540266912I want to buff Ur as much as the next guy, but this seems like it would have some not so obvious consequences,
>>540266912As a Scelerian, I 100% agree
mod idea: age of heroes. an age that takes place before the early age.however, unlike how early age has more magic than middle age and middle age has more magic than late age, this age of heroes has even less magic than the late age.it has the least amount of magic and the least amount of "technology".pretender chassis would be completely revamped. they would be mostly strong humanoids, no beasts or titans or statues, and magic paths would be extremely expensive in pretender creation so you would have to choose carefully.the nations in this age would be older versions of the existing nations, with weaker units and weaker mages, mages mostly having 1, sometimes 2 points in magic paths, rarely 3.however, magic site frequency would be maxed out and empowering magic would be cheaper and the idea is to sap the power from magic sites around the world to empower your mages and pretender and you would need to find and control a lot of magic sites to generate enough gems to have access to the more powerful spells.
>>540272602>an age that takes place before the early age.actually, you could make it a mix of "older" versions of early age nations and "ruined" versions of late age nations, implying the ages are a cycle.if i can ever be arsed to get into dominions modding i think ill make this mod.
>>540272602>mostly humans>weak magic>no techSorry humie, pre-EA is taken by Titan, Aesir and Elf thundercock.Wouldn't be anachronistic to the lore. You can have the post-LA apocalypse where magic, knowledge and technology all collapse. Maybe a few humie heroes running around in ulm blacksteel and beating up naked mictlan cavemen.
>>540273506The wheel... has turned again?!>Nemedians keep invading but degenerate into TNN with soft skulls and get bashed in by NORF FC every cycle
>>540275529Trve
>>540272602>unga bunga age>Ulm is half troglodites>C'tis is still EA C'tis without any changes>everything else is just assorted cavemen with sticks and rocks>discover grain slop global. Gives all your troops a huge strength and HP penalty but you get a lot more gold, resources and recruit points per turn>Mictlan finally gets to be ahead of the curve technologically
>>540256594Actually was a better start for once. I never thought it would happen
>>540274717post-LA era needs to have pike and shot
>>540288313we have seen guildmaster and the hoburgs in CoE and we have all agreed its horrible
>>540288313No, that's just LA. The world simply dies after LA. No technology, no magic, some scattered humans who survived mass blood rituals and undead. Probably burden of time activated as well. Perfect setting for anon's age of heroes.
>>540289015>LA tendies all use the worst globals and pankoman never dispels them
Congrats to Therodos for winning ONEfortheAGEst. Xibalba
>>540297034Holy shit, we've had a string of unexpected winners
UNRULY PEASANTS GET THE FANGS
>>540299172Truly some of the lamest events
>>540298656hmmm
>>540300729I was lucky that Guts wasn't there, in retrospect
>>540298656AtlantisPatalaand Asphodel will handle him for us
>>540301136No oceans
>>540302696FUG :DDD
>>540300729tfw you have to use all your blood slaves on low level blood summon bodyguards to protect your blood hunters while they blood hunt from these lame events.
gnight domg
Is there a way to select all units of a specific kind regardless of their squad placement?
Is Vitrol Weapons any good? wtf even is acid damage in this game, does it share resistances with anything or is basically nothing resistant to it?
Help I'm getting raped by Oceania aaaaa
>>540335058Acid has its own very rare resistance and damages armor and weapons ontop of doing damage.
Do you guys want any more nation scribbles or whatever?>>540335058It's its own thing that can rust equipment. Green lions and jelly cubes are resistant because they're made of it. Trolls are weak to it because ???. That's about it.
>>540335396>>540335810Doesnt this make Vitrol weapons way, way better than something like flaming weapons because it doesnt really get resisted + armour damage? doesnt need incarnate either
>>540336571>Doesnt this make Vitrol weapons way, way better than something like flaming weaponsYes. It is an incarnate bless though, idk where you read otherwise.
>>540335810trolls are weak to acid in D and D so i assume that's why
>>540026149
>>540335810piconye would be nice
>>540335810Piconye pls
Game?
>want to make a new LA game>zemaitia isnt out yet
>>540354473wtf is zemaitia
>>540354685heavy armor elves
>>540354685teutonic order with moose riders and glamour magic
>>540354473I was hoping it would be today. Sad.
>>540354685lithuania with fairies that make it rain
wtf why did vanarus go AI
>>540363274Elves crumble under pressure
>>540026862Lithuanian here. I don't play much Dominions tho, and I am not sure Zemaitia is that much Baltic anyway, besides some things.
>>540363274Probably failspanded and then asked himself how the fuck is he supposed to play Vanarus
corpse construct
>>540365737There will be a few more unique summons
>Scout undefended temple through AI lands>Stealth an army over to destroy it>A conga line of armies follow in its wake>A bunch of PD is suddenly slapped on the target province the moment I stealth onto it
If I cast multiple rituals like fires from afar or miasma, do they happen all at once, or do the enemies get to heal in between?
>>540385480units don't heal between battles on the same turn
>>540356503no gaylamour = not elves
>>540395441>Vanarus>ruled by the Vanir>w-we're not elves
>>540396289not talking about Vanarus, inept researcher anon
BLITZMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME
>>540399927Fires from Afar
>>540396289Vanarus sucks as an elf nation, your only elf thug chassis is slow to recruit, expensive as fuck, and depending on the paths they rolled they will be needed far more for casting rituals or crafting rather than fighting
>>540407579How should I play vanarus then
>>540412038
>>540413583Peace out with everyone and try to start a storm demon economy. Ez.
>>540414705Storm demons suck!!
are we back up?
>>540422316Nein
Any new games recruiting?
>>540430125Nein, wait for zemaitia
Has anyone ever made a dominions mod nation that represents atheism? I thought the concept of that was funny
>>540449551Mekone.
>>540449693Not really? Mekone is based on greek myths involving zeus and prometheus and stuff
What are all of the units in Dominions that relate to Buddhism? I could only think of the following:>Bodhisattva of Mercy>Nyorai>Dharmapala of the Underworld>Asura (also relates to Hinduism)>Monk of the Fivefold Path>Sohei>Yamabushi (also relates to Shintoism)
>>540344365Choices were made
>>540456437
>>540456437Thanks for this shorty
>>540456437conquering Piconye should provide +1 morale to all males of your nation (personal cocksleeves for all)
>>540456437Thanks anon!!
>friend finally beat his first game of Dom6>turns out he played on a giant map with 4-5 enemies>and he actually won
>>540476290What nation did he play?
>>540482449Vanaheim. On my advice, he domkilled Jotunheim, and then crushed Agartha fair and square.Took him three weeks. I'm proud of him. My first game had me roflstomped.
>>540456437profligately pornographic piconye pope
>>540456437Uuuuuoooohhh shortstacks sexooooo...
Would you call this a dishonest tactic /domg/?
>>540488986less so than if it was wind of death
>>540488986rust doesn't do anything
>>540489367Depends on how many resources are needed to repair rust.If it's the entire resource cost of a unit, then they'll likely stay rusty for a long time outside of a fort, allowing for a good one-two lay-up against heavily armoured units without magic armour.
Will there be another Divinitus blitz this weekend?
>>540490261it takes a few hits before weapons/armor breaks and even then, it's only like a -2 prot debuff.
>>540456437>those DSLAlfie truly corrupted a whole fantasy race to the point all hobbits are whores. Truly the Shire has fallen.
>>540496772its the nature of the (talented) artist, their own proclivities make them way more comfortable with big muscles or exagerrated eroticismWe will surely have more shire-appropriate artwork someday
>>540496568Definitely has an 'it depends'* attached to it.Are you facing units with 14prot and a shield (doesn't affect shields)? Then it may not be so great.Are you facing 18prot units without natural armour or shields with a horde of your own shit-baby archers behind the cast? Well now their prot is only 13 after getting hammered by a storm of serpent arrows that would normally never damage them.
>>540491690I would be down for it. Try out my Assassin build or give some other nation a try
>>540456437Top Heavy...
BLITZUMIN!!!!!
Bozo down
>>540508271Why would you do this
>>540508271what did the eagke kings cast?I assume the idol was skelespamming?
>>540508271recording plz
rEAd has so many immobiles its not even fun
>>540508697it was immolation and terror spam, the mammoths could not kill it fast enough and got blocked by the blizzard warrior surround. When the mammoths routed they crushed one of the eagle kings.it was a masterful attack by Caelum, but they used too much infantry and the idol simply routed them through aoe morale checks
>>540508762i only have gamebar. I used to have capcut but new pc so...yeah
>>540509867heyhey buddyfuck you
If you script a mage to cast returning but your capital is under siege, does your mage get placed inside the fort or does he have to fight?
>>540511127inside
>>540511216Thanks. I will trust this domg vet
>Been playing 20-to-30-man games on enormous maps in singleplayer since I picked the game up>Try a medium map game with 12 nations for once>Turn processing time is quite literally 1/10 as long>No longer have to mass PD and forts to avoid having to fight wars on 4 different fronts at onceI feel retarded.
>>540512558anoncmon
>>540512558Do you even finish those games?Even in 12 player games I struggle to finish vs AI.
>>540060881Don't tell me...Lanka???Prove it by playing it
>>540164812>Oceania has amphibious sacreds on par with white centaurs that can wreck.looking at details, white centaurs seem better. berserk +3 helps damage a lot, they have helmets, they have better mapmove, stealth
>>540172341remnants in the depths if you really want destruction
>>540244006Just take magic weapons on them with a dormant titan.
>>540517963Oceania can dump turmoil and temperature at almost no cost and the Aphroi are only 15 resources a piece so you might be able to get away with some sloth as well, meaning you can have a hefty awake bless. They're not on par with white centaurs but you can build them to be pretty damn strong
>>540418535have you tried casting blood lust, enlargement, precision and relief on them?
>>540514360Not a single one.Finished said 12-man game right before making that post however.
>>540519362why relief?
>>540525096natural ranged attacks cost fatigue and once they hit a certain cap they will stop firing and go into melee
>>540525096What does Relief even do specifically? The tooltip is confusing. Is it just the equivalent of reinvigoration 1 for entire army?
>>540491690>>540500435yes.https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/678#statushttps://beta.blitzserver.net/game/678#statushttps://beta.blitzserver.net/game/678#status!!!BLITZ TOURNAMENT ROUND TWO!!!starting sunday 4pm UTC.mods: divinitus and one ageone level 2 throne per player, 50% +1 to win, randomly generated map, fast research, cataclysm at turn 55, 5 minute turns.!!!JOIN IT!!!
>>540527421It says it adds a fatigue reduction ROLL and I don't see any documentation about how that would work so I'm guessing it gives your units a roll to determine extra fatigue reduction. It doesn't say DRN so maybe it's just a 1d6
>>540528558So useless :(
>>540530069Rigor Mortis is MR negates so high mres + relief could make it manageable if not completely counteract it. I remember a battle where I put up relief to counter rigor mortis and neither my mages or my troops stayed asleep like they would normally when hit with that spell
>>540531509Wait it's now just an MR check?Lame
>>540532661Sorry, it's a difficult MR check
Am I stupid, or do pikes not have any actual or genuine advantage over cavalry?>Canceling the charge bonus?>Getting a charge bonus themselves specifically against mounted units?>Always attacking first ala Swiftness?>Extra mount damage or causing mount morale damage?>Getting to attack both the mount and rider at once?Any hidden mechanics like that?
>>540533046nope
What's the point of pikemen
>>540534562I would assume just to fuck over SCs that rely on repelling.
>>540533046Not sure exactly how it works, but they might have a higher chance of hitting and headshotting the rider rather than the mount thanks to the weapon length.
>>540534562to bait you into wasting money on bad units
>getting bumped in my own cap circle on turn 5Meanwhile UW has a huge ocean to himselfGonna be a shitshow bros
>>540534562stopping repel-based thugsfighting low stat trashmcfucking dying like all lineholders
>>540528558it adds a roll
>>540538254yeah but what kind of roll
>>540535916it's a knifefight out here
>>540538456dueling drnso 1+drn vs drndifference is fatigue reduction
>>540546931Lame
>In game that's been lightning fast for the first 30 turns, 2-3 turns a day>One player loses a fight, badly>an hour left before the turn rolls overGuys there's no way my awesome game that's been so smooth is about to have someone instantly give up and chain stall multiple turns in a row after losing a single fight right?
>>540556121my dear sweet /domg/ childof course you are
>>540556121Duh
>>540534562they can repel other 2handers and some giants mostly useful if the unit you are facing also has shit morale
Any map ideas?
>>540497014Gimme some ideas and I'll do a better version
>>540564059Draw the piconye council of popes going "it's over" and general flustered behavior over the lewd image.
>>540564059I don't think its a matter of the scene or costume details as the idea and atmosphere of the hobbit herself, if that makes sensethe expressions of the asphodel, LA TC or LA phlegra all work really well for their characters Piconye is a race of fairly cowardly, gluttonous hobbits that have given up their rural comforts after being inspired by the prester king, and while they are basically benevolent and well-meaning, they have elements of ridiculousness with their multiple kings, councils of popes, and self-scrutiny and censorship. I am no artist, and lack your talent, so I dont know how you would best convey itDrawing a pope is great and the most emblematic thing for piconye! Big hat and shepherd's staff definitely, but less lewd aura and more kindness and self-importance? (actually, the present pope already looks self-important. It is just undermined by her GIANT HONKERS, obscene lips and gauzy see through clothes) For other piconye ideas...A bird knight nervously approaching her angry-looking mount?a piconye defender that is sweating in a mixture of panic and exhaustion as she tries to get anything done with all their armor?
>>540562797Elemental planes?
>>540567583Sure
>>540519362storm for storm power and extra strength?
>>540560231so they work best if casting blood rain and wailing winds? la marignon?
Hey, while I suck at this game I really enjoy it. But out of curiosity is there a sci fi version of dominions that people in this general is aware of?Also related to Dominos is it possible to beat the game without using mages by not zerg rushing the npc? For all eras as I think Ulm is the best shot you have at it.
>>540576617>Also related to Dominos is it possible to beat the game without using mages by not zerg rushing the npc? For all eras as I think Ulm is the best shot you have at it.hellbless?also depends on ai difficulty level
>>540566065Eh.
>>540576617Gratuitous Space Battles
>>540581582Is that a modern fantasy dwarf with horns? Good otherwise.How robustly built are hoburgs and piconye people? They have size-3 supply consumption, but bad HP and strength. Compare them to bakemono, who have greater strength and more HP, and also normal size-2 supply consumption.Do hoburgs and piconye people consume more supplies because they are fat or because they are hyperactive with a high metabolic rate?
>>540582632They're miniature Brits and South Africans respectively
>>540583578But there are already African Pygmies in the game, and those are based on real life peoples, not fantasy, mythical or religious stuff.
>>540581582I like this way more! I agree with the other anon that this is a very robust-looking piconye, but since its a defender, who cares? The original prester john letter says they are "men as small as seven year old children"She looks like she's doing her best in a bad world, its great! You should be proud of your artistic abilities and the joy you bring to /domg/, anon
Nactions for this feel?
>>540592675la ulm freespawns canines if that's what you're into
When weekend blitZ?
>>540593150tomorrowhttps://beta.blitzserver.net/game/678#statushttps://beta.blitzserver.net/game/678#statushttps://beta.blitzserver.net/game/678#statussee>>540527685
>>540593845Thanks anon
Is Ubar still super OP?
are cavalry sacred the name of the game in dom6?
>>540600271no i play nations without sacred cavalry and im doing just fine
>>540600271No, rn the meta is praying for badmin to create a shit map
When is patch
>>540601396in two weeks
>>540601604irresponsible to just say things anon
>>540601396Thursday
>>540601396Moose
>>540605902finally, an answer that makes some sense
>>540593845I am back and this time I am all fun, no viability.
is the charge body bless infinite or once per unit/bless?
>>540607363it goes off once per battle
somehow I feel more sexual feelings for the sweaty defender
>>540612183you can trust her in battle. what more does a man need?
>>540612316Andromania Mommies
There should be more bronze age middle east (+ aegean sea neighboruhood) based nations.That is all.
>>540617001Ubar?
>>540617552he said more you stupid faggot
>>540617618Ubarer?
For the guys here who care about divegrass, the VGL friendlies are going on right now and /civ4xg/ challenged us to a match. It'll be the second match of the day, streamed on https://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleague
>>540619540I live to here our goal sound
Blitzmin!!!
>>540619540Thank you Boksi
Touch of death
eat shit /domg/
>>540624254WW3 or something?
>>540624254No mage support, can't beat players.
>>540600271that and hellbless giantsit's like we never left dom5
>>540632729Are there different player groups with different skill levels? Like, rank in larger multiplayer communities? I wonder if differences between playstyles and leagues can be indicated.
>>540624254What happened?
>>540624254Did we win?
>>540637060No, the /domg/ veteran struck once more and the mages weren't scripted.
>>540638734FUG:DDD
>>540601396sometime
Summon Wights
any suggestions for divinitus matchups?
Anyone know what pretender chasis on thrones cast? This thing is on a throne but I don't want to get bamboozled by some army wipe, or the fucker casts rigor mortis or something and wipes me.
Chassis for this feel?
>>540654268https://illwiki.com/dom5/user/loggy/indies-thrones
>>540654505That doesn't answer him because that page doesn't tell the indie's research level.>>540654268The inspector has this info for most of the chassis as the research level if independent value, but the Linnormr is new to dom6 iirc and the value is probably undocumented.I assume level 6 because other monsters tend to have 6 while titans have 7. It could be pretty nasty but I doubt it would gemboost bone grind you.
>>540655630Based
>>540655365>but the Linnormr is new to dom6 iircIt was in 5
>>540655630Not the goatussy!!
>>540655630She forgot to bring bugs...
>>540655630hehe
What is the most useless cheap unit? I want a challenge to use as many as possible.
>>540678296a lot of militia units are really bad even for their low gold cost
>>540678672>Entire army gets routed by one spooky knight
>>540612183because she's clearly got the same body type but probably isn't on her fifteenth "confession" of the day
Infernal Breeding
internal bleeding
>>540678672What's the best? Fir Bolgs?
>>540695824>Fir Bolgs?Yeah, or the dogs
>>540654268no balls no thrones
>>540593845in as vanheim, i might not make it and be an hour late
Is there a place where one can find games other than this thread or some gay d*scord?
>>540698359Hit up random people on steam whose profile picture looks like this to organize a game
>>540698359There sure is. It's with your group of friends, the friends you play games with! Thanks to them, you don't need to play with anons or discord trannies.Right, anon?
>>540698359Glownode is the best place rn
>>540593845Thanks
>>540653879MA Ulm has the Iron Angel which is a magicless thug (at turn start it purges all its magic paths) that has anti-sacred abilities and massively buffs your scales at the cost of big Drain scales. Agartha in all its forms get massively buffed pretenders: Earth Made Flesh gives you the First Olm, Ageless Olm give you great olm recruitment in *all* forts, Leader of the Council gives you Ancient Ones and Ancient Lords in all forts and Ancient Lords become priests with Earth 1 Water 1. This all servers to make MA and LA Agartha very dangerous because you do not need to change your strategy too much from EA. Unseelie Empress (can be taken by English Nations, Ulm and Marigdom) can recruit on the first turn some heavy armor unseelie fae to buff your starting army. Living Reef gives you a Coral Queen as your starting Commander and lets you recruit Atlanteans and Mother Guards in all underwater forts AND gives +100 resources on all UW forts, very good for any UW nation. The Great Crystal chassis massively buffs your underground capital and lets you recruit crystal mages and give you free immobile communion slaves, any underground nation will love it. Idol of the Sun gives free Awe bless when Awake, use it with any nation that has a lot of strong sacreds. Demonic Macaw lets you recruit Sun Guards and Guides and gives free shock and fire resist. Any American nation could use sacred fliers. Anointed of Anthrax makes all your temples spawn a D1 F1 site letting any fire/death nation snowball (it also lets you recruit a Death-Fire Mage) The Zmey Pretender is a stealthy seducer. Machaka gets a Dom 1 pretender that lets them recruit Bane Spiders in all forts. Earth Snake casts earthquake at the start of battle. All Dragons are good magic casters now and get cheap paths.
>>540702479Ty anon
>>540695824For me, it's the Logrian Slinger>recruit anywhere>shitty ranged attack that can be buffed with fire and poison>19 damage axe when he runs out of ammo
had a dream where there was a Neko Arc nation. It was a high turmoil and unrest nation with cheap size 2 units that were somewhat similar to fay folk. They could summon large chaos power cat girls and their unique pretender casted a mapwide Strength of Gaia on all Nekos. I will do my best to honor my muse
>>540707298>large chaos power...I need to play Sonic Adventure 2.
>>540707298There are cats in the new update
air shield doesn't block elf shot, right?
>>540708010puss in boots already existed, the snail knight is the new one
>>540708154No it's a magic projec
BLITZ WHEN!?!?!?!?
>>540711256in 4 hours bro, see>>540527685
>>540711759Alright, are popkill nations allowed?
>>540712805yes
If I cast Crumble on a fort in a province I'm about to attack, as long as I win the initial province battle and actually start sieging it then the damage will remain right?
>>540716086Yes
how2ermor? Dump every scale to nothing because you want bodies to resurrect, or try to have an actual economy for as long as possible? I never played them so I'm not even sure if you can even recruit anything with gold.
>>540716381Hellbless Knights
Why is this red? Will it get cast?
>>540718463It won't you are missing the gem you need to cast it.
>>540718463He has 2 temp gems from the item, so he should be able to boost up to 5 and cast it, no?
>>540718463Need gemmies
>>540718463It'll cast, this is a common UI bug with just about any spell where you use 1 gem to cast and 1 to boost.Shows red, but will work no problem
>>540718463>>540720809That said, I don't know if having your Relief caster set to 'Advance and spells' is a good idea.
Soon
!!!BLITZ TIME!!!blitzers assemble!!ITS TIME TO BLITZ
blitz_tournament_2 is starting!setting timer to 5 minutes on turn 2
>>540731469hopefully I nothing urgent happens, but it might
if xibalba/ermor dont show up in 20 minutes im restarting without them
>>540731469ok im good. sorry
>>540732204i hope they do, got a banger god title
>>540732204Batfag reporting in
>>540732204I think he's (un)dead, Jim
ok restarting
i think you have to restart your client before rejoining or the map will be bugged for you
timer set to 5 minutes
>>540734215I am glad you brought this up, because it definitely was bugged for me on rejoin.
>>540735297cap in water, right?
>>540736878cap in cave on overworld level, actually
it might be over
welcome to PD hell, Xilb
>>540732939CUTE
this is gonna suck
i was hopping it was gonna be anything but your god wearing equipment I was too lazy to make myself
>>540741573i fucked up the scipt but in the end it did not mater
playing a thug heavy build and I was too lazy to build equipment. I guess my heart just wasn't into it this timeI did have fun
>>540741847oh yeah, if I wasn't literally naked I would've smoked you
Xibalba has the most broken starting point I have ever seen
>>540742483They deserve it
>>540742483I got a throne, a province, and then an overworld moat lel
>>540741132yeahhhh thats my feel as well
yep this is fuckin boring as shit GG
gg, AI Ind and exploding batmen are too much for poor Kailasa
>>540746678thanks i am busy killing 100+ INDians every turn but there are always more.I would have done a throne rush if this fucking throne was not siting in my cap ring
>>540746678was there any doubt?it would be funny if my AI somehow wins this because my position is just that good
>>540747230>elves are such backstabbing bastards that they're literally afraid of shadows
>>540747246I hate this chassis so much
>>540747246Ind was using the Hashmals at least, so if it was smart enough to throne rush, it probably could.
>>540747683the ai is not that smart
>>540747553
>>540747683GOD did I want to! This is THE Throne rush build, especially with the pretender going heavy on item making, but I just let the whimsy control my actions also the thrones were a bit too far away from my army and just hashmals isn't likely to be done.This game was so easily mine and I just let my bloodlust cloud my judgement like back during my Sauromatia game
>>540747956those vanheres are crazy with the quickness bless, why did I fight you? What was I thinking?
>>540748032When you attacked me, you knocked out a fort I had building, ensuring that I would keep attacking you. If you had left me alone you could have taken over a SHITLOAD of territory uncontested instead of having to deal with bats from turn 12 or whatever it was
>>540748543I do not regret staling your expansion one bit Xilbaba. I do not regret building a 80 PD Fort 3 provinces away from your cave entrance. I do not regret sacrificing my Hashmal to try and build a fort on your cave entrance. I would do it again, because I know it panicked you for a turn or two, until you realized your sun guards hard countered me.
>>540748271i dont know, but i dont think you knew my bless und your troops would not have been not all that bad against a not quickness + ressit Bless.btw i am ultra lucky this game, i got a fort in misfoutune 2 and now found 2 forts
if you think An Awesome God was bad, wait till you see my Assassin build
>>540748938It was not so much a panic as "Well now I am fighting this guy" and I had you rolled up to controlling your capitol and maybe 2-3 other provinces max within a few turns, your plan backfired completely. In fact, if Ind had not attacked my army I probably would have taken over your capitol.
>>540748938You really did throw a loop in my plans and without the timely arrival of my Dormant God and those expansion parties it could have been a lot worse. I was on a total of 2 provinces counting my capitol when you attacked jej my cave had 2 provinces next to it and one was a throne
On a side note, did EVERYONE run heavy misfortune this blitz? I was at Misfortune 2 myself and was constantly seeing provinces getting Barb'd. Was fun to run this goofy shit in any case
>>540750443I had to pick misfortune 1, otherwise I couldn't have gotten quickness and ethereal.
>>540750443nope, I was fortune 2, because I went hellbless with heavy dominion and didn't want no barbs or heretics
>>540751262Heretics aren't no big deal
Fear is soooo nice on EA Xibalba, might be better than the normal Undying +5 along with Enchanted Blood meme. I like to combine it with Stygian skin as well, sucks not having Righteous Wrath or Blood Surge in play but Fear makes up for it
>>540754660Should i use the recruitables?
>>540759778No, just go hard into summon
Will dom 7 have ships?
>>540771976it will have guilds and actual planes
Mod ideas?
>>540782329Actraiser.But I get to spank the angel.
>>540783713Got something to emulate then :)
>>540784472Emulate? Play the remake, it makes the angel actually hot.
>>540784780I will check it out. Been playing some Pendor and Eador, so I have more fun fantasy sandboxes in between turns
>>540785402I HOPE YOU MEAN EADOR GENESISAlso, Pendor? You mean Prophecy of Pendor, the Dark Souls of M&B mods?That Angel got me acting up, if I was his pantokrator, I'd order that whoever wishes my blessing must catch him and whip him until his rear is all red.
>>540785603I play New Horizons, yes
>>540785771What is New Horizons?
>>540786178Stand-alone mod for the original gamehttps://eador.com/B2/viewtopic.php?t=4736You can play it without even needing the game, making it essentially freeware
Waiting for Lyonesse...
>>540786378Oh, I see.Now I feel retarded for buying all the Eador games. Guess I'll vent my frustration on a little angel. Time to make him even more miserable than the poor bloke in Tartarus.
>>540782329Make it about a popular anime girl franchise. Touhou mod isn't enough.
>>540716381keep magic and fortune as high as possible. gold goes into forts, temples and laboratories, and indie mages
>>540787515>indie magesAre there any worth recruiting besides a few to search for nature sites and the throne ones?
>>540788689maybe whatever broadens path access, and that can research without dying as much in your dominion. ma ermor often have trouble with research
>>540788689Ermor could use any of the ones that have decent research because they can't amass mages.
Is Crumble worth it now if the fort has a lot of mages in it?
>>540791619It's still worth it regardless if you don't have enough dudes with gate cleavers
Gnight /domg/
/domg/ is reclining...
What's the difference between the worlds of Dominions and Conquest?
>>540803202Dominions is bigger and safer. In Conquest, you can sail off the world.
What's a good bless for Hinnom's sacreds? I find their lineup to be so fucking cool and them being so incredibly and unrepentantly evil is really appealing to mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d622BxV_DDE&list=RDP5guB0fM-n0&index=3
>>540809427Good scales, fortitude + enchanted blood + blood surge will stomp any living army. If you're playing against dishonest undead spammers though, drop blood surge and get fireshield and some reinvig.
Zemaitia
>>540811893Hard to get a good direction from just a leaked nation overview.
>>540814382Thanks anon for this :)
is death free scales for ma ctis? since those fuckers are going to leave either way
wow master enslave is really something
>>540823208Discovering communion, huh?
>>540823403No, I've just never used it in a huge multiplayer battle before
>>540823208>Quote by Leopold the Second.
>>540823471Screenshot plx
>>540823594here's a shitty webmalso for anyone still in MAximum Pain, gg
>>540824640What are these pentagrams?
>>540824765Relief, Light of the northern star, Heat of Buer, and Divine channeling I think
>>540824880...heck are all these?Please be patient, I am Republican.
>>540824640nidder...I'm sorry I couldn't avenge youI should've spammed earthquakes
>>540825010they're satanist rituals
>>540825010https://larzm42.github.io/dom6inspector/https://illwiki.com/dom5/dom6/magichttps://www.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf
anyone got the download linkand i've watched some tutorials but any beginner tips or just really easy blatant things not to do?
>>540814382very nice anon
>>540814382she probably shouldn't have black hair but this gives me the impression she has black hair with bangs and so its very lovely
>>540809427Regen Awe
>>540823474Leopold didn't enslave anyone, and even fought a campaign against Arab slaver traders. He was unfairly blood libeled in a shady plot by the Angloids.
>>540828867Russian CS forum.
>>540832865nta thanks anyway
I hate that 25 pd is enough to gem bait my 300 unit army
>>540840870just give them more gems?
>>540841323Yes, I will continue to burn 20+ more every fight in exchange for 300 gold every province I walk through and I will continue to dislike the fact that it happens
>>540841591skill issue
Stealth is overpowered.
>>540841591why does everyone hate and not use the vanilla items that give temporary gems? too large an investment in items and gems that could be spent differently and are at risk of being lost?
>>540846024Don't have time to forge them. A scout carrying extra gems is less risky.
>>540846024You have to use a mage turn to make themThey're not available for every pathConstruction is not important so might not always have access to themYou typically have to use them like 5 times for them to be worth it and as soon as you lose one battle they could be gonePlenty spells cost more to cast than what the temporary gem items can provideHere's some reasons.
>>540846024I like them if I have hammers.Jars of fire at 3f pay for themselves after 3 battles. Spamming a dozen fire elementals will burn through normal gems fast, and making sure you give every mage a gem every turn is tediousCornucopia are expensive as fuck but if you're an N nation you'll be slamming N gems HARD so making a couple for your relief, howl, army regen, giant army etc casters will save you in the long run.
>>540846024I love them and always use them but you have to make hard decisions in MP
regarding temporary gems, good arguments, i can see it not generally being an easy decisiona subjective ranking from best to worst regarding temporary gem items
>>540848291does not include artifacts
>>540848291I'd say fire in a jar is the least useful. Their main use is boosting F1 mages to cast Phoenix Power. Big deal. So you will need a lot of them to have an impact, and give them to mages hardly worth bodyguarding or giving survival gear.Clam of Pearls is great because it lets you cast LoTNS every battle and you only need one nerd doing that.Also, blood stone is a booster.
>>540849943>fire in a jarfair, but it's very cheap, and requires little research. fire eles can be useful>Clam of Pearlsagreed, but it's also expensive, and requires a crosspath>blood stonetrue, but it's very expensive, and its crosspath might be one of the rarest crosspaths
>>540848291Never realized that dream spools give 2 dudes on battle startCould be quite useful if you're facing a nation with assassins, guaranteed bodyguards
>>540852181or if you are the assassin.
>>540852181actually true, maybe i should have put them higherthey do require construction 5one drawback they have is that they compete with dreamstones, which are available at the same research level, and which give a hefty research bonus
>>540831286based and historical de-revisionist pilled
>>540850632>agreed, but it's also expensive, and requires a crosspathastral nations that do have access to it probably won't mind spending water and nature gems on it, though
>>540850632what nations can get bloodstone easily besides xib?
>>540862957I used them a lot as MA Pyrene
>>540862957Any nation with earth. Just get a few regular commanders blood hunting.
Anyone have any recommendations for mod factions, particularly nonLA ones? I really liked LA_Grobaashka (felt a bit weak) and LA_Aria (felt a bit overpowered.)
>>540866573Paionia if you want to experience Ys but its on land and your cav radiates heat
i think the only way I can pass a mutating check now... is to go to Golgatha, catch all the diseases there and cut myself with axes and daggers to stack cleaved and bleeding while huffing poison from grenades why didn't I re-read the regeneration page on the wiki, why
>>540862957don't be silly, you can't get blood out of a stone, famously.
Netherbolt
Burden of Time
I'm starting to believe that the best use for fire gems in early game is alchemizing into gold. I didn't want to believe it, but 25 gold/gem isn't a bad deal.
>>540882652How much better is it if you have an actual alchemist do it?
>>54088279325%-50% more gold on recruitable mage alchemists, 100% more on pretenders or hero alchemists.
>>540883030thanks
>Build temple>Earthquake>Build temple>Earthquake>Build templeI'm never playing misfortune 2 again.
>>540890227Skill issue
Is Enchanter and Warlock still fun in CoE?
>>540862957mod inspector can give approximate results. addmpathe[1-9]tohttps://larzm42.github.io/dom6inspector/?page=unit&nation=0&showids=1&propkeyunit=Mpath&propvalunit=B%5B1-9%5D
>>540900071Thanks anon
>>540890227Misf 1 is free points misf 2 is bankruptcy. Ancient wisdom.
>>540882652I've been doing that shit for months. It's an earlier fort/lab/temple which means more mages and site searching. The momentum you gain is well worth it.
>>540890227order or turmoil scales?
>>540911289Turmoil 3.
>>540911376sorry, but then refer to >>540896556
>>540908135Taking any misfortune means you dont get luck 2 for your 1000+ free gold, free gems, and surefire heroes year 1Your not a lucklet IRL, right?
>>540925839sketchanon added detail!!! r a r eWhat color is her hair? Its very long. Would you mind if this was used as a reference for other zemaitia art, and if so, is this the final draft?
>>540925839The armor looks great!!
>>540931319>what color is a chud's hair
>>540923952If you're not a lucklet you still get those with misf
>>540931319>hair?Blonde or silver probably. >referenceGo nuts. >final draft?I can mess with it if asked, but otherwise yeah it's as much as I can be bothered with.
>>540925839Nice butt.
They're blonde if based on the other chudes
Why is Illwinter so slow...
Hey /domg/ it's police training fag here. I'm getting delirious from having only 8 hours a week to use my phone so i'm trying to cope by writing an isekai novel based mostly on dominions magic system and for worldbuilding if i have any free time at all during weekdays. I already have a pretty concrete idea for the theme and ending of the story, so i would like to gauge opinions and what details or ideas you think would incorporate well.P/s the main story is about (you) becoming a new prophet and can become the Asura avatar but under the control of an absolute /domg/ veteran at intervals so you get mad and turn to fight the game system itself to gain your free will.
>>540940631quality over quantity
>>540890227>order 2/3>misfortune 2>fortune tellerkino combo in my humble opinion
dominions-pill me
aside from the birdfuckers which nation benefits from perpetual storm?
>>540948497anyone who doesn't like missilesanyone who doesn't like fire
>>540948497sacred-heavy fliers with storm flight bless and high earth paths, possibly ea xibalba, spam earthquake and enjoy mobilityea pyrene, they have national storm flight item and fliers, and have beefy high earth path mages, spam earthquake and enjoy mobilitycave and underwater provinces are not affected by perpetual storm, so any cave and underwater nation can bother others with it a bitmaybe nations with chaos power, a bit of increased unrest from hurricanes probably helps, though not really reliable
>>540946392Johan and Kristoffer are unique in the aspect they have zero online presence amongst devs
>>540949580ok so utgard is the one to look out for in my casehowever lightning do be scary>>540950418i was looking at sheddim, but afaik the only ones who cast it are berytos and hinnom linethough rain do be scaryhow about storm drake spam? is it efficient?
>>540948497>newfags don't know
>>540953147storm power units, that's true. ma pyrene can probably spam storm demons, and can also buff them in other ways>how about storm drake spam? is it efficient?even if you have dragon crown and dragon sceptre and cast glamour dragon master with a dragonlord pretender, for +5 and thus 6 per cast, i'm not really sure about it. and dragon sceptre is construction 7 and dragon master is enchantment 8. storm drakes are squishy for their cost with 25 hp and 10 protection and their ranged attacks are relatively short, so avoiding attrition may be difficult
>hit opponent in location to create strategic chokepoint>RNGesus decides to spawn them a free mage + 125 'good' longdead (armour+spear+shield ones) from an event directly on your side that's otherwise inaccessible for them>They're now using this to raid you since 11pd can't stop shit Sometimes the RNG of this game is just too much
>>540951478huh?
>>540943187Delightfully autistic. It'll be an honor to be shot dead by you in the future.
All I think about all day at work is my turn and how I should have transfered units from one commander to another for a +1 morale bonus.
>>540959721They don't have any social media
>>540961005kinda based but I don't understand
>>540943187Still a better fate than being a blood virgin.
>>540954364sorry i dont mod my games unless its nsfw content >>540955075i see, thanks for the quick rundownmost likely will run LA utgard to keep homies safe from missiles and stack some swiftness/blood rush berserkers since that shit is funny as fuck....or just giving them flight/storm flying would also be extremely funny, ill try to calculate a dormant chassis for itthe crux with the storm drakes is that they are undisciplined and the wyverns cant fly in storms, but i suppose its balance....
>>540925839The vines in her horns are super cute!
>>540943187Next future anime? Maybe bad idea, just spitballing.
>>540963328you can't really mass sacred units easily with la utgard. you have cap-only sacreds, and you have nature and death gem sacred summons, and some sacred commanders, and maybe some recruitable niefel giants if illwinter is put up, but otherwise, that's that. and all of those sacreds are fairly easily shut down or blocked by stuff as basic as dispossessed spirits or illusions, unless you have something in your bless to counter that or mages to deal with itregeneration is tempting, since the summons all have lots of hp, and the wolves have fear, but they all have poor or mediocre protection, even after berserk has activated. at least seithkona can spam body etherealif you get enough earth path to forge hammers on the pretender, maybe you can equip nornas, seithkonas and indie mages with cold resist equipment when in armies, such that they don't die in your own dominion to the first cast of murdering winter. and also plan to get domes up before opponents get murdering winter and within range to cast it on your magesmaybe regeneration and fortitude, and then spam body ethereal?a more modest strategy would be magic weapons on a dormant pretender with earththis build does not have any real plans regarding globals or rituals, and no reliable expansion, but should be able to defend against certain types of early curveballs. it requires construction 5 for hammers#newtemplate 117#form "Skratti" (500)#prison 1#magic 1 3#magic 2 1#magic 3 2#magic 4 5#magic 5 1#magic 8 5#domstr 3#scale 0 2#scale 1 -2#scale 2 1#scale 3 -1#scale 4 -3#bless "Magic Weapons"#bless "Spirit Sight"#bless "Shock Resistance"#end
>>540968642Hammers are con 3
>>540969079but the build only has e2, thus earth boots at construction 5 are needed
>>540963328>sorry i dont mod my games unless its nsfw contentthe vast majority of games have mods in MP
>>540970215a minority of the good ones however
>>540963328>sorry i dont mod my games unless its nsfw contentDegenerate.
Why is the strict NAP system so dumb?>Sending whores to give enemy commanders blowjobs? Clear act of hostility.>Assassinating commanders? No way. Of course not.>Nonanonymously assassinating enemy commanders with magic? Totally fine. Aggression isn't aggression if it's indiscriminate (And the fact that you're the only nation the conditions apply to is a complete coincidence).
>>540970793file a bug report
>>540963328>sorry i dont mod my games unless its nsfw content
>>540943187A Dominions Isekai should start with the fact that all the Pretenders are players and then spirals out of control as they try to apply standard strategies and observe the consequences. Imagine blood magic in real time. For maximum funsies, they all have human chassis and have to deal to be the supreme God of Abysia or Pyrene.
>>540971531How fast would MA Ermor's tendie go nuts?
Man's gonna stale...
>>540970247zero of the good games are on /domg/
What do you do when you aren't really having fun with the game anymore? It's turn 30 and I'm doing pretty well, but it's just kind of not fun.
>>540970793Never take an in-game NAP. It's a system made for AI games and if you ever take one offered by a player you deserve every horror assassination that you'll get.
>>540978229Should I bother with diplomacy at all then? Getting the feeling that any message of any kind I get will be an attempt to trick me.
>>540978725Of course. Nobody can fight at all fronts at once and make reasonable progress, including your enemies. Sure, he may eventually turn on you, but if you're doing diplomacy, it usually at least means that you're not each others first targets for now.
>>540978725talking to people in game is normal but beware players that send a lot of diplo related messages
>>540980265True, lots of Walmart Machiavellis out there. But they're usually pretty easy to spot.
>>540977882play a different nation? play a different game?i have a few favorite nations that i play exclusively and ive never had a game get boring playing as those.
I think I'm the threatHope nobody notices
>>540987230Yeah, but do you just go AI? Feels kinda shitty abandoning a game just because
>>540990420just go ai nobody cares about u bro
>>540977882I find it I am most invested in a game when I have a clear plan of what I want to do and get to progressive toward it every turn making me actually excited to see them. If I'm just sitting there not doing anything is when I lose interest in games. Make things happen and worst case scenario is you get shit on and get to fuck off from the game anyway.
>>540990420Just take all your mages and troops, put them in one giant army and walk towards your enemy until you can't anymore...then go ai.
>>540988021Can't be in a MAns world, cause the threat just went ai for no reason.
>>540991026but asphodel didn't go ai?
>>540991694I can't see Asphodel yet, so clearly they can't be the threat.
>>540990647It honestly increases my blood pressure getting home
EXCUSE ME?
>>540995992classic worthless monke PD
>>540995992Holy lel
>>540995992Show the battle
>>540999094
>>540999274How much misfortune?
>>540999409>1 Misfortune>+Misfortune event
>>540999274That sucks, but just move your awake expander onto it and clear it off
>>540999274>>540996642Damn, are the monkeys truly this shit?
>>541000286To be fair that is much better than what you would have with vanilla pdStill, there aren't too many caps that can repel this many knights
>>541000524Yeah, but no causalities at all? Not even dismount?
>>541000742The only guys in that PD capable of reliably doing good damage through 18 prot mail are the bandar warriors, and there's 4 of them. Knights mess up anyone without giants or big twohanders in their PD.
>>540999274>monkey pd
Dominions 6 is on saleGo bug Amuys on Discord and he might get it for you
Is there any way to get Misfortune 3?
>>541005990Would rather try to get him to bankroll more MA Xib-chan art.>>541014326Break a mirror, walk under a ladder.
Any opinions on Swarm/Creeping Doom?Has it ever worked out for you in an actual battle?Opponent isn't bringing a lot of mages, but a ton of things with poor attack density and minimal AoE. I'm thinking of just casting Creeping Doom two dozen times for like 1.5k bugs, enemy shouldn't have poison res.Good idea?
>>541019098It's great for shitting up the battlefield
>>541019098Yeah in Dom6 with the inclusion of poison damage debuffing stats, it is a perfectly good way to bog down dudes that don't have poison res
>>541000742heavy cavalry is scary, and knights are elite heavy cavalry (ignoring national heavy cavalry), with high defense. and 27 is kind of a lot, probably a high roll on the misfortune event. and the army might rout before the bandar warriors could really do muchunless something like bumping the pd, and a yaksha with earth boots and summon earth power spamming conjuration 5 earth elementals, and some body ethereal spam, probably not worth the investment to patrol the cap
>>541014326on scales or on a specific province?on scales, try https://zollqir.github.io/pretenders-dom6/on provinces, there are rituals, events, and also the global blood moon
Gnight/domg/
>>540923952I always take maximum luck and corm
Before construction 5 and beyond.. What the fuck do you use astral pearls for..
Hows the single player in these games? Thinking of getting 5 since its so cheap
>>541034023Just pirate 6 and if you like it buy it.I had fun with it for a hundred hours before switching to mp. Though most people would likely only really enjoy SP the first 10 hours probs.
>>541034023You've got plenty of nations to play around with, but you'll notice the limitations of the AI after a while.
I'm not going to do a detailed AAR or post a bunch of graphs for this one since it wasn't that interesting of a game. This was the first MP game I'd joined in about a year so I went with a straightforward build. I had a good start (for a scales build) with only bless rush Machaka expanding faster than me. I got basically all the provinces I wanted in expansion except for a few on the coast which R'lyeh took. None of my neighbors bothered me so I was free to proceed how I wanted.I targeted Nid for my first war because we had a large border (including a throne that we bumped on and I lost) and I thought that I could use Enslave Mind to counter his luck/ethereal Nidbathed. This mostly worked out, I was able to beat him in raiding by spamming draconians and in battles with my communions (although the first large battle was pretty close).I took Nid's territory pretty quickly, but since he was large it took a while to consolidate. In this time, R'lyeh had beaten(?) Machaka in battle and caused him to go AI despite still having a ton of provinces. Around turn 40 Eriu started to attack me with his thugs and a few armies. I lost the first army I sent against him to a few casts of Beckoning and an army casting Foul Vapors, but he couldn't make much ground against me either due to my Mind Hunters (I had 5 or 6 at that point with full pen gear). Eriu eventually gave up the war of attrition and started staling, leaving me to take the throne he had and set up my throne rush. I had enough territory at the end to target 8 thrones, and ended up getting 7 of them, one more than I needed. R'lyeh totally wrecked one of my armies with his elemental royalty and earthquake, but Master Enslave carried the other battles I had with him and Agartha.
>>541033860Scrying. I've spent over 100 pearls on scrys in rEAd.
>>541035484What troops did you use? Did you have hydras or sacred cav? Or was it the roman infantry guys?
>>541047705It's MA Pythium so I mostly used Hastati, Emerald Guard, and (summoned) DraconiansIn Sloops, Hastati can promote to Principes when they get a bit of experience, so there's no need to recruit Principes directly
>>541035484Sell me on Pythium. Why should I ever pick it when Sceleria exists?
>>541049675Pythium has native access to A3, W2 and S4 and their communions are more powerful because of communicantsA3 Arch Theurgs can cast featherweight army before a round 1 earthquake. In MAximum Pain I fucked this up and scripted it off of communions the first few battles, and took huge losses from Agartha and R'lyeh casting EQ, although I fixed it for the last two battlesThey also have access to lares and the angel summons
>>541051570I guess my issue is that when I look at the nation, I see a Sceleria that has traded Death for a bit better access to W and A (and Sceleria has access to both of those in its communions). Plus hydras and the communion troops, but even that doesn't feel like a worthwhile trade. The angel summons might be good though, I'll give you that.
>>541035484>R'lyeh totally wrecked one of my armies with his elemental royalty and earthquakeAnd Agartha didn't?
>>541052603Death magic is good, but so are giant communions spamming save or die spells. Neither nation will struggle to win battles when their mages are allowed to operate. Sceleria and Pythium have the same weakness (most of their combat strength is in squishy human mages) but Pythium can play around that weakness better with its wider and higher path access
>>541052816He mangled one of my armies using a suicide squad of oracles casting EQ, but the remnants were still able to capture the fortress since it was almost undefendedWhen I prepared for him properly, this happened >>540824640
>>541052603pythium has a cheaper astral and research mage, and stronger available mages outside the cap, better path diversity, and their mages don't have to spend mage-turns on reanimation, they can just research. only having two paths outside the cap is not greatsceleria does have better sacreds, despite their sacreds not being great. they also have apostasy. and the whole undead stuff
>>541052603>>541052927is ma pythium better at research than ma sceleria in practice? cheaper mages, owl quills, no turns spent on reanimation?
>>541053980Sure, but it needs to spend money on troops unlike scleria
How do I counter leprosy? It feels like a total bullshit spell for only 10 gems and lvl 6 research. Playing ma ulm
>>541059245Use your army instead of squatting in a fort like a bitch.
And so ends my tale, it was marked by misfortune and blind expansions
>>541060004who killed you in the end?
Newb here, whats a good missile troop heavy/skaven-like nation with good access to strong evocation magic? horse archers are fine too. Pretty overwhelmed with the sheer amount of nations available and might aswell ask here while crunching through the guide vids ngnl.
>>541054728i haven't played sceleria much, can they really get away with just skeletons? doesn't pure skeletons render them vulnerable to stuff like solar brilliance and purgatory?
>>541060330MA Naba
>>541060004You shouldn't have taken blitzserver down with you, that's very unsporting of you
>>541061921>desert nationUnfortunate, but access to fire and air is what I want, and even the basic warrior has bows, not to mention hinnom? giants, so eh... it is enough ty
>>541060330LA tien chi is mongols and they have strong horse archers
>>541059245Disease does literally nothing that matters
>>541063256Never actually checked LA since it says magic has fewer resources. (less gem sites if I'm interpreting this right?)I don't really like the paths they have. Water and Earth evo spells seems kinda... eh. Well, Earthquake is cool but I'm guessing flying units will laugh at it? Although chinks are like Skaven, I'm not seeing the expendable trait kek. The remaining mages are death related and I've tried a death nation already. I do like the cav selection and commanders, though. Shame this will probably need investment for magic. Still, good to know there is a steppe horde faction.
>>541065170LA has proportionally more humans and less magical races, less gem sites but more gold, weaker mages usually reliant on communions or blood to cast big spells instead of high paths, and troops are more numerous and better equipped
what happens if only one person goes to the arena death match? do they just win automatically?
>>541064753It kills people.
>>541060330Mictlan has slings/javelins on most of its troops, they have good mages and a slaver commander for the true skaven experience.
>>541066242Does NOT matter.
>>541064753>t. US healthcare system
>>541065938Yeah, that tracks. The age is probably not my thing then. >>541066275Ooh the grand communion trait seems interesting. Mage-priests are cool too. I'll definitely try them next. Not sure between EA and MA on them though?
>>541067185The difference between the two is in the mage lineup. If you want to hunt virgins and fool around with blood magic, pick EA and if you want communions for big battle spells, pick MA.
>>541066275but do they have good evocation mages?>>541060330this might be a bad suggestion, but perhaps la c'tis. they are not heavy on missiles, but they do have crossbows, and also a cap-only banefire crossbow sacred. they do not have strong evocation mages, except their main mages at evocation 6 gets access to bane fire spell, 45 range, high damage, aoe, multiple effects. bane fire is probably also very skaven-like. and they have death mages for spam, and also tomb wyrms that can be spawned
>>541067567Ma it is then, ty
>>541067863>but do they have good evocation mages?Yes
>>541067993in ea and la, their good evocation mages are cap-only, right? unless w is counted as good for evo, for la mictlan. and ma only has a1 mage or 1 random pick mage outside their cap
>>541068245W is good for evo, but yeah, most of their mages are cap only.
>>541066239yes
>>541068748it's a bit of a theme for ea and ma mictlan that they don't have good evo mages outside their cap, while they do have astral and nature access outside their cap. ea blood outside cap, useful for blood hunting and sabbaths. ma only one level of paths, not great for evo. ma sky priests can get to a2 reliably if storm is put up, but still not amazing. la blood and water, but water mages are underwater or cap-only i think
>>541067863>empoisoner literally globadierOk... that was interesting, The spells don't show up when I hit S during creation, but they show up on the relevant mages ingame. and I thought them hiding a summon\s stats from the spell encyclopedia was annoying enough. Good to know, but It seems like the holy points from dominion? impede spamming the crossbows and sacreds? in general. Big Sad.
>>541069681i think ma ind and la piconye has better scaling, like they get one extra holy point per temple instead of the usual one extra holy point per 5 temples. but i don't think there are any sacred archers that are recruitable outside capitals. except maybe ea agartha, and they have some limitations, like short range for the ancient stone hurler
>>541071239Oh it's fine; I just wanted those on the tome flame wielders. I'm not big on blessed units, but I'm more interested on scales and well, strategizing with troops and magic. Already had my fun with Jotunheim ice giants+thugged out skrattis supplemented with draugr+other soulless. I don't necessarily want sacred archers, just any good missile slingers with "artillery (evo magic)" and either chaff frontline or heavy infantry for the vanguard.
>>541072520that's fairthe four paths for archer buffs are fire, air, earth, and nature. fire for flaming arrows. air for precision and a variety of stuff. nature for envenomed arrows and precision. and earth for extra strength for damage, crossbows and regular bows deal a bit more damage with extra strengthenvenomed and flaming arrows are best on regular bows, since those buffs deal flat extra damage. crossbows generally shoot more slowly than regular bowsla c'tis only has crossbows, and poison slingers, so they don't benefit as much from those buffsa lot of people used to play la c'tis as a hellbless nation, before tomb wyrms were nerfed. not sure what they do with la c'tis these daysanother nation that might be interesting is ma shinuyama. they are better equipped to buff their archers, and they don't have recruitable sacred units, just sacred summons and commanders. they have good archers, dai bakemono archers in particular are powerful, and if you have a2e1 on your pretender, you can get mages to cast all archer buffs, since a2e1 gives summon access to the dai tengu, and air is the only path they don't have easy access to. larger is a popular bless for shinuyama, since it makes their bakemono sorcerers more beefy and gives them greater mapmovei considered mentioning la man, but their mages die to magic duel
Has anyone actually used archers to good affect in recent gamesMost of the 'good' archers are stuff like dai bakemono and defenders, which have armor and can melee
>>541066407It's an MR check, dummy
>>541077627An MR check for an effect that doesn't matter.Disease has been nerfed so hard in Dom 6 it takes ages before units actually start dying from it.
>>541077987hasn't it been changed in a patch after dom6 release, such that it decreases maximum hp temporarily as long as the disease is there, and that regeneration is weakened by it?
>>541079224It decreases max HP permanently even if the disease is cured.
>>541077515I get the feeling that archers are completely irrelevant until you've got an obscene number of them, and then they obliterate everything. The ability to attack all at once is big once you have enough of them to really capitalize on it.
>>541079693needs fact-checking
