Vampire Waifus editionThe Wheel has turned once againDominions 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Our pastebin (extremely outdated)https://pastebin.com/wjbSA98Y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/game hosting services>Hinaserver https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/548312356/#548526452https://hinaserver.net>Blitzserverhttps://blitzserver.net(Dom 6)https://beta.blitzserver.net/games>Llamaserver:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1212948582>Documentationhttps://illwinter.com/dom6/docs.html>Tools>Mod inspectorhttps://larzm42.github.io/dom6inspector/>Wikihttps://illwiki.com/>Pretender calculatorhttps://zollqir.github.io/pretenders-dom6/https://caleb-distributive.github.io/pretenders-dom6/ (website down?)>Debug modhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3083231618>Communion fatigue calculator (still dom5)https://instacalc.com/53495>Automatically prevent starts in all provinces with less than X connections (still dom5)https://nixx.is-fantabulo.us/dom5ranmapnos/>How do I change the fonts?Replace guifont.ttf, guifont_fancy.ttf and guifont_texty.ttf in the game's 'data' folder (C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Dominions6\data)>Fan arthttps://thronebooru.booru.org>Sloop’s Comfy Balance Modhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1zeDyK8Zb_p4lIJ0yp3a3ikMprRkmBCWvy31_4jBen3Q/edit?usp=sharing>other asynchronous strategy gamesSolium Infernum.Previous Pantokrator>>570350292
if i'm gonna keep having to make the general, i deserve compensation
>>571445431what is stored in the tits
cute vamp
>>571446050Blood.
>>571446050Approximately 33 hit points.
>>571446050Bats
>>571445753Like what? Blood slaves?
>>571445753Sent
So basically, i want to temple every province i get and fort only important ones?
>>571449818temple however much you need
>>571449818It depends on your nation but generally no temples are destroyed if an enemy takes your province even with a light raid so the standard is to temple forts plus special cases such as lizard shaman provinces
>>571449818Depends but yes eventually if you can afford it
>>571449818Templing on borders is aggressive because if enemy dominion takes over your land you DONT gain the positive effects from it but DO take the negative ones so you lose out on a lot. Plus it puts you at risk of hostile global spells that work via dominion. And allows enemy gods to invade. Do not leave temples undefended or someone will raid them most likely
Solium Infernum question: If I attack an abyss strider with a legion that has the "melee last" ability, which ability takes precedence?>Just test it.It's only ever come up in situations where I'd rather not.
>>571452665Good question, that's one of my major annoyances with SI compared to Domingos. The lack of turn resolution all at once adds some major bullshit. If I had to guess I'd say both abilities cancel out and it reverts to ranged melee infernal
weird looking doggo
>>571452665Actually it probably depends on who attacks first. Check the description does it say anything out defending or attacking decides it?
Im doing my turn tomorrow i havent forgotten just tired today
DROP THE FUCKING METEOR
>>571452665Test ut
gath. we're waiting.
Muspelheim newbie here, i was expecting bullying, WHERE IS IT CHUDS? or are you yall too busy getting provinces? Should i act more bratty?
>>571456695Wheres our weird UR girls?
>>571468492Whoring around
>>571468492We do have Ur in the booru tho
>>571468435>that picI really have to go back and finish Void StrangerI burnt out hard on it a month ago but I think it'll live rent free in my head forever until it's finally done
>>571468435I went with an incarnate bless and my boy is sleeping. Your time will cum.
Always pulling me down
>>571445431booba
Becoming very very bored!
>>571480472And?
>>571445753>Page 10 in 8 hoursYour effort might have been wasted anon
>>571468905I hope you’re not making fun of their holy duty
>>571470589You're right, better wait 12 turns for the fully kitted awaken pretender to be online to take on 10 huskarls, that seems to be the safest bet.
Wait i just realized this host fucked up by not having the temporary gem mod on so that gems dont disappear in phases and last the whole time. Can we restart?https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3270479661
>>571483693Or you know, you could just deal with it and play like a normal human bean instead of relying on crutches.
>>571488458>the dealing with it solution: dont use gems at allgreat idea that's a lot more fun just not being able to use the spells you researched and being fucked over by regen bless giants all game thanks
>>571488624If you can't deal with people using game mechanics then maybe you deserve to get overrun.
>>571487479Poo
>>571488624This almost never comes up in domg games in an overtly problematic way anyway.The only time magic phase gem burning becomes a problem is when 2-3 discord fags all coordinate attacks at the same time to waste your gems.
>>571489652
>>571489697if it's the arena game it's pretty necessary I'd say
>>571489806>only -5 instead of -10Did sloops really have to nerf the bad events?
>>571469926I only watch lore videos and such, actually playing it seems not fun beside VERY FEW specific fights
>>571482118bet they are fucking men
>>571468492The one nation noone would consider drawingUr(uk) women are fat, smelly, and covered in hair canonically.
>>571494920>and covered in hair canonically.This is bad because. . .?
>>571494998i hate the french
>>571494920Agreed, lets turn them all into cute girls
Gnight domg
>>571494920Bathing was considered an important part of life even 6000 years ago anon
>>571500054
>>571500054SEXO
>>571500809They not as hairy as you think anonOtherwise, their sprite would be 100% covered in brown/white hairI genuinely try to keep things as faithful to the source and the sources source as possibleIt's why I give them lapis lazuli jewellery, as that was found in Ur/uk
notSombre Warhammer anon, is this really how Rain of Snakes is supposed to look like, when only one skink shaman is casting the spell? Also, lol at the four priests killing themselves with magic duel
>>571502956when it rains, a lot of water droplets fall down. A snake rain, conversely, would feature a lot of snakes falling down. "But isn't that like 10 Druids casting Swarm for 1 Skink casting RoS?" Well yes, but this is warhammer, the scale is way bigger and so are the spells
is it possible for an Admin to set someone to AI? In a Disciples game, having one of your allies give up, but start stalling instead of going AI is rather unfun
For me its Ulm maidens clad in black plate armor instead of wedding dresses
>>571503605>But isn't that like 10 Druids casting Swarm for 1 Skink casting RoS?" Well yes.Well no, because RoS doesn't cost any gems and the snakes all have death poison.
I have noticed i prefer daydreaming stories about this game than actually playing it
>>571500054cute and wholesome
>>571505284Interesting, this is the only game I really even play anymore.
I have made a fatal mistake
The last soldier of Ulm expedition force defiantly trying to kill harlots before going down
>>571501505>>571505482It's not a happy ending unfortunately>>571505598>>571505810Everyone has made that same mistake lol
Romance is empty without tragedy
>>571501968i'll meet you half way and say that at least the youth aren't as hairy
>>571506475cute, would headpat and befriend
>>571503795You need to log in as that nation using the game password and then go AI
>>571506475I will make her a mother of six
>>571449818>temple every provinceThat's a shitload of gold and a good way to have someone walk in with a few goblins and set them all on fire.5 temples increase your holy points (for recruiting sacreds, and for increasing candle chance) by 1, and each temple tries to produce a candle. If you really need either thing, then make more temples. Most nations are perfectly happy with one per fort, plus maybe one near some neighbor with particularly shitty and strong dominion like MA Ermor.>>571452581>you don't gain the positive effects from enemy dominion but do take the negative onesWait are you sure? I'm pretty sure dominion is dominion, period. There's some things like pretender HP and the dominion invulnerability trait that obviously only work with your own dominion, but it is a legit strategy to go with trash scales and rely on enjoying your neighbor's dominion. For example with Mictlan, who only generates candles by blood sacrificing so you can limit it to 2-3 provinces away from your capital and enjoy your neighbor's investment in scales while you put all your points into a hellbless>>571452665>>571453539>>571458278When two opponents have directly conflicting traits like these, only the legion (/titan/monster...) with the highest level applies theirs. In case of a tie, the defender's applies.
>>571518371>I'm pretty sure dominion is dominion, period.Illwiki has a table for this.https://illwiki.com/dom5/scalesNeutral scales are still better than hellscales for Mictlan either way
Is it unwise to build an entire strategy around a pretender? i like the mother of monsters pick (free stuff) can i use her to mass produce summons?
>Dipping my toes into awake monsters>Hmm, wasn't I fine despite those knights last turn?>Search>Find this shit, againI do not enjoy hitting the landmines
>>571519213Not an "entire strategy", but for some tendies you can plan lot.Mother of Monsters isn't really one of these though , she is one of the better titans if you can handle her poison aura. She isn't worth it for her freespawn specifically. You do not get a lot of it. If you really wanted to lean on the crossbreeding thing the freaklord is much cheaper, although using a pretender to just cast crossbreeding isnt a very good use of one.Mother of Monsters is more of a early midgame combat titan, and a natural holder of the blood/nature path which can unlock lots of stuff for certain nations.
>>571519696Interesting, i will keep eyeing out each one and see what catches my eyes
>>571519827Apparently i am ESL
Oh hey i can pretend those EA Wuxia guys are like warlocks from CoE5 by spaming elemental summons
Me thinks Mictlan guy fucked all night and cant play today kekw
>>571519213No, her spawn rate is not good enough to form a strategy around it even in sloops
>>571522663Shame really
TURN 2 OF THE ARENA>literally nothing happenedAnother point to Muspelheim for still holding the arena, so far unchallenged
>>571523153But if you did want to give it a go I’d pick a nation with flying commanders, give them some bodyguards and the random monsters and use them to raid. (The monsters would most likely die to 10pd)
TURN 3 OF THE ARENACaelum bet on a swift revenge and brought some muscle hoping to match the 9 giants that were holding the arena. Unfortunately, there's now almost 40 of them and the mammoths ended up as dinner.No one else dared step onto the arena.Three turns, three points for Muspelheim!
>>571524553Better gets those giant counter plans online pronto.
>Someone actually attacked meFINALLY SOME BLOOD
>>571524938While you held the arena, I was making extravagant economic gains. We are not the same
>>571525270While you were doing economic gains i was gaining points, either i win early or crash and burn
>>571525270Elephants just killed all of my monkeys.I literally have a redundant dormant bless I forgot my sacreds get a holy spell to give battle wide quickness.Its. Over.
>Multiple failspanders in a strength 1 indies meme gameDomg at its finest
>>571525917Well to be fair that one guy walked into a hood full of wizards and 150 troops.
>>571525917If card games have taught me anything is that you have to be overaggressive to beat ramping (Other anons who expand and have imprisoned pretenders)I literally only have my capital and the army on the arena, one wipe or two and i am fucked for sure unless i doomstack for 20 turns or such
>>571526393To add:I got so fucking lucky that somehow the other anon got crippled by the arena indies, not sure how the game decides who arrives first
>>571525917I threw my starting army at a random province and ran into an army of barbarians that was bigger than what I had turn 1.
You guys rather gamble a 50/50 than wait a single turn to reveal armies around?
>>571526541>got so fucking luckyYou got lucky because they got rid of the barbarians, who would have torn your giants a new one. Barbarians get defeated by militia (basically anything with spears and numbers), but they excel at wrecking big dangerous units in small numbers, including giants and even many monstrous awake expanders.I don't think that small flock of birds would have had much success against your giants unless they got lucky.Still be careful about overcommiting. Gold income and gems are set to 250% those of a vanilla game and all provinces are large. Each province is generating 300-500 gold per turn and fuck knows how many gems, so you might be better off pulling back and conquering your lot so you don't fall behind economically, since each province has such a strong impact.On the other hand you're winning and it might take a while until someone else amasses three points, so you do you, it seems to be working
I'm site searching 3 provs this turn. I'm winning everywhere but on the scoreboard
>>571527715I am all gas and no brakes, no illusions of surviving long once someone puts a real army on the arena
>>571527596I was told that the indies would be weak, so I believed. I was a fool.
>>571530767So heres the thingThat indie strength setting? It doesn't actually do anything, you just press it up or down for stress relief.
>>571530995I mean it seems to do something. The most dangerous stuff in my circle is like 30 bone tribe dudes in one province, or the one with a handful of cav and a few light infantries and archers in another. Even the typical horde like the African style indies, whatever they're called, is just 40 guys instead of 70+.I expected the difference between indies 4 and 1 to be bigger, though. Although the indies 999 game had like 500 deer tribe warriors, so the scale kinda fits after all
Anon, when do (you) like to start bloodhunting?
>>571532690Depends how bloodthirsty the nation isYou wanna get infrastructure and early research for surviving first war first usually. For a very blood hungry nation summon imps might be all you need to start hunting
>>571532978How does summon imps help hunting? Doesn't look like it gives you a commander
>>571533231It doesnt help you hunt, it gives you a reason to hunt.Spamming summon imps in a very early war can be very strong.
>turn 4 of the arena>still not a single monster or titan spotted>the arena is a slapfight between birds and giantsare you all playing it safe and expanding first or did you all go with late bloomers
>>571534261My nation literally cannot take an awake pretender.
I'm back from my trip, can I get a qrd on what happened in warhammer redux?
>>571534261I should had done that considering i am planning to get fucked past turn 10, but i just picked a random nation in a hurry (The fire giants) and went with it
>>571534261Won't somebody rid us of these turbulent giants!?Not me though. It's too comfy in my capital
>>571535241Literally nothing has happened and everything is exactly the same, you've been eaten by Elves.
>>571536435>letting elves get free foodFools!
>>571535241
>>571506475Cute
>>571526393Yeah, that was the right thing to do. I'm not mad you beat me twice to the arena because that's the what the game is supposed to be about, and I'm here to win too. As for the other players wanking in their corners : SHAMEFUR DISPRAY, ALL OF YOU.
>>571538942I can't contest the arena until I've forted my cap circle and hit a lvl 7 research point
>>571537139Those poor boyz must have been on 5 morale
>>571538942Sorry I took massive mental damage from my failspansion
>>571539073Just you wait until my Horror Harmonica Golem casts Master Enslave, I'm ready for that sweet turn 51.
>>571506475Uruk a cute
>>571538942>rushing to the arena for a couple points and missing out on 2-5000 gold from a quick cap circle captureI'm already pulling It can be enough gold to start forting the entire cap circle right away and it can mean a good few turns of pumping out extra mages..With the super fast research, it can easily turn into being multiple levels of research ahead and getting first to all the nice artifacts.I'm surprised no one threw an awake at the arena to compete for those easy early points, though
VANHEIMSEND ARENA TURN
>secure a NAP in SP against an Abysia that got an actually good bless>it decides to end the NAP and steamroll my cap with a giant sacred doomstack just as I start rolling up my other neighbourfuck you computer.
>>571494920I considered it a while ago but I just didn't really know what they should look like.
>>571541274The gold boost is not that critical since as soon as the army you'll build with it get smashed, which is likely to happen sooner or later, you'll be back to the exact same 5 provinces eco as anybody else. More important in my opinion is the research edge you may get if you have a tight plan.The thing is that the very first points were free (starting army) to get. It was to be decided on the toss of the RNG, but now each new point is going to get increasingly more costly to acquire, while everybody's eco will look increasingly alike.
>>571544083The AI doesn't give a shit about diplomacy, but it overvalues army presence, specially PD. Buff up any neighboring provinces to high PD and it'll rarely attack you
>>571544364FUUUUUCK
>>571544776My nations starting army could barely beat lion tribe shitters.They were better spent getting provinces (and mostly dying off) then suiciding into the giants
Marignon! Don't give up yet!I know you have a rather low opinion of me and my tactical decision making, but I'm taking over Ind. I'll run both nations! We can win, we can do it!
>>571542991>had no turn to do before work>getting poked for being last before even 2nd breakJeez this game's fast. I'll do it in an hour or so
Good thing i am unemployed, lets finish this game before i end on the streets
>>571449818>temple spamBuy what you need, build what you need. Sounds like you’re gonna need Good scales to get that much gold if you want temples EVERYWHERE
>>571468435Lol i havent joinedIf host does a re all noobs will be blood beneath my feet.
>>571505598Lol yea dont dismiss flying cav especially amazons
thats alot of dudes
>>571552019Spoke too soon
>Order commanders back to my capital from the arena to ferry new troops>They are STILL in the arenathe fuck>also recruit indies from the arena>they are nowhere to be found???
>>571554683Nevermind, it seemed like the game still had me on the last turn somehow?
Turn 1 this province had 50 barbariansNow it only has 3
gibs me dat
>Turmoil 3>Luck 3Jesus take the wheel
>>571535256Muspelheim are S tier you might do pretty well
>>571560957Why is Muspelheim considered S tier while Niefelheim is considered shit?
>>571560957Until everyone starts using magic and foul vapors and pretenders, but hey
>>571561286cause it's EA and the giants are just too good
