Scary Ermor Halloween 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 pastebinhttps://rentry.co/vg-domg>Steamgrouphttps://steamcommunity.com/groups/vanheimageofvidya>Multiplayer/game hosting>Hinaserverhttps://hinaserver.nethttps://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/548312356/#548526452>Blitzserverhttps://beta.blitzserver.net/games>Illwinter's official serverIn game: Network > Enter Game Lobby>Documentationhttps://illwinter.com/dom6/docs.html>Tools>Mod inspectorhttps://larzm42.github.io/dom6inspector/>Wikihttps://illwiki.com/>Pretender calculatorhttps://zollqir.github.io/pretenders-dom6/>Debug modhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3083231618>Communion fatigue calculator (still dom5)https://instacalc.com/53495>How do I change the fonts?Replace guifont.ttf, guifont_fancy.ttf and guifont_texty.ttf in the game's data folder (...\steamapps\common\Dominions6\data)>Sloop's Comfy Balance Mod (SCBM v1.13)https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zeDyK8Zb_p4lIJ0yp3a3ikMprRkmBCWvy31_4jBen3Q/edit?usp=sharing>Fan arthttps://thronebooru.booru.org>Other asynchronous strategy gamesSolium InfernumPrevious Pantokrator:>>585267854
>>586359543https://hinaserver.net/game/142LATE AGE, SLOOPS, THYME WORLDI am afraid I removed the Ulm player as he has went stale in his other games it appears.THIS GAME WILL HAPPEN.
Longdead owe me sex
Conanomachy status? I see it's turn 16 and only 1/17 has been an AIfag. Only the strong joined.
>>586361398I think Cobalt is about to be killed, Uranium is fighting someone. That's all I can see
>>586361520Who's got the coolest/best/most deranged blesses?
>>586361892Me but I'm not telling.
/domg/, genki de ne!
>>586362098We're ... going AI...
>>586362467Worst come worst we can always go to /vst/. They allow generals there. But I don't want to give up now, bevause we still have divegrass team in VGL.
>>5863636201 dead thread during slow hours every now and then is a nothingburger.
we needn't give up, 2027 will be a big year for dominions
>>586364693LA Merrows, for example!
>>586361892>tfw only extra attack and damage bless
When will illwinter add the bnuuy nation? What's the eta in terms of gnu patches
What if we got LA Merrows but they were all slaves to a more powerful and beautiful race?
>>586366917What race would that be
>>586368504
>>586366909There really should be a snail riding bunny indie.
>>586368613
>>586366917it would be a shame, but merrow have servile instincts and a unassuming, humble natureExcept for the matter of their (in)competence or appearance they are the ideal servant-folk
>>586359691Incest
>>586375671Indeed
>>586359691What does Thyme World look like
>>586376534Like default map gen but you know balanced.
>>586376941Basically a big part unlike DreamAtlas is making Underground/Water nations easier to group together than most of them getting their own lakes from what I can seeMight be fun to have a EA underground brawl game sometime, but I think Abysia just wins those right?
>>586361520Me, uranium is fighting me. Spamming cavemen at ludicrous amounts
Did anyone ever make fanart of Sleepers? Or did one of you find art of a bronze warrior that fits sleepers?
Speaking of EA Underground. I get Sorginas cast wrathful skies and give your Jentilmen flying ointments and Basantsunderes cast foul vapours on stacks.But what else are you even supposed to do in an early war? I've been watching Mu's latest game https://youtu.be/G0ksOFBFbsg and he is acting retarded I think but what else can you even do.Hurlers with net and club Bekrydes seems strong? You shouldn't need regen on the bless since your Jentils can do that themselves?
>>586378993You paint your horde of stone hurling cavemen with strength + precision + envenomed arrows + wind guide
Unaging should negate Wind of Death.
>>586379468Why tho
>>586379662Because its a OP spell that needs a easy counter.
>>586376941Six is the number of evil, would join if allowed Seven nactions
>>586382986There is no limit.
>>586383091Alright then, brainstorming a tendie, if you're still open the next two days I'll probably submit one
>>586379468The real problem with wind of death is the ring of returning
>>586383389There's ways to counter that, the 'way' to counter wind of death is antimagic with fast casting/inate casting which is unreasonable.
>>586383797Wouldn't be a big problem if you couldn't just fling wind of death casters so safely at stacks. If they were more of a limited resource.Also demi/liches are big abusers of this shit too.If not for rings of returning, most wind of death casters wouldnt be able to risk all their penetration gear so freely and you'd be able to field higher magic resist troops to counter it in most cases
>>586384615Most death nations have astral too, its so boring.
>>586378993Mu is a weird case where he's actually good at some times, then utterly incompetent at other times. Likely because half the the players in his game look like absolute vegetables.I like his videos tho, one of the two watchable domtubers
>>586394679How do you even get into Rubycord I want to rape Mu.
Anzus
>>586401051But for real, how did Anzus fly under the radar for so long?They are actually nuts
>>586401265Uruk is always killed before they can mass them
>>586401319I dont see how really. Iron warriors are very good scales troops and their mage lineup is solid
>>586401554Plus earth+water does exist but you need boosters to get their mages to actually be able to summon Anzus. I'm not sure you can summon mages that can cover earth+water but it's an insane amount of gem investment to get an Anzu factory up.
What other national summons are as good as Anzu though probably some sort of Kaliasa or Yomi thing.
>>586409050ozelotls including a potential bless
Retreat bros...I don't feel so good...
>>586376941these rivers are sovlless
>>586412465Why do you hate rivers as an undead nation
>>586412465Is this sovlful?
>TURN 46 OF THE ARENANothing happened. Is everyone already gearing for the final battle?Point for Lemuria, +0,25 for killing a gore tide horror
>>586417850I can't believe Andromania is going to win.
>>586417850>Is everyone already gearing for the final battle?Yeah. I'm prepping some silly bullshit to bring. I have no idea how well it'll work out but I'm eager to give it a try. I can't wait for the turn 50 chaos.
>>586420946I can. The moment I realized they were the only one who picked the "if tag present, bless it" pretender and I saw the bless he crafted, I knew it was over.
>>586378993you have huge damage on your units, 22 blunt on the clubbers and 34 blunt on the mairu with shit attack skill means you want to be spamming earth meld and net bekrydes. you should also be getting ench7 for featherweight army asap. it casts faster than earthquake and every sorgina can cast it round 1 so you can dump as many earth gems into round 1 earthquakes as you need vs nations with no air and just wipe their armies instantly
>>586425628con3 is a good goal early too, you are great at forging and everything is sacred with thug paths
>>586423384Yeah.... my god sucks
>>586402874>it's an insane amount of gem investmenthow so? 1/4 ensi will be water/earth and from there boots and a bracelet are only 15 gems, and that mage only costs 300g 2cp
>>5864321521 out of 4 of cap only recruit bro
>>586432292dude, check againensi can be recruited in any fort, entu are the cap-onlies
>>586433241Don't have natural e2 for boots too...
>>586436972Well shit
>>586420946Why? They're by far the best straight up fighting nation in the game because their scales troops are insane, if there's no actual raiding or rituals to target andramania then they're hard to beat. Having no way to out chaff them because of global fireshield eliminates their main weakness.
Burden of Time
>>586448878Burden of gay ass mohglesters on my flank
>>586449295Stop hiding the tender young boys from them and they'll go away.
>>586449993Need that
>>586436972if you're not taking an awake/dormant fighter with E magic as Uruk you're gonna get raped early by any neighbor who doesn't want to get mindraped late
>>586451020The maneater guy is pretty fun
Gnight domg
Twist fate
fuck going to vst it's actually better for half the thread to be filled with bumps
half-dead
>>586468489What bumps? All I see is high quality discussion about our favorite spells we used in our current game
>>586468489Rage of the Cornered Rat
>>586472350For me it'sEARTHBLOODDEEPWELL
>>586472350I’m personally a fan of Forge of the Ancients myself.That 20 percent discount is pretty sweet
>>586469693Is there any nation that actually wants to take this fucking bless?I was thinking about it for Therodos, but they have so many nature mages that the need not eat tag is pointless and you can get disease resistance + poison res with strong blood without needing death scales.Sure therodos usually has death scales but 80 disease res for 2 points really isn't that necessary.Nations with old sacred mages might like disease res too but then why are they taking death scales in the first place?
>>586474985>why are they taking death scales in the first place?Maybe they're Abysia?
>>586474985abysia likes it, it stops you from needing to spend so many gems or slaves on pyre/blood feast. LA agartha also likes taking it
>>586474985because death scales are free points and mages weren't meant to live to draw pensions
>>586485489b-b-b-b-but if the game goes to turn 80 ill make more income!!!!! growth scales are required!!!! this hecking graph says so!!!!
>>586485489Don't death scales increase the chances your old folks will pick up crippling afflictions every winter?Not even necessarily diseases
I would like to bring to the attention of all conanons the great expanse of Cast Iron Question's provinces.
>>586491323Can you take Cobalt's cap so I can stop having my army on this border
I'm allowed to make a custom artifact in my notD&D game. Which Dominions item should I rip off? It's a sandbox so whatever lets me snowball or get up to goofy shit would be best. But not something so broken that it wouldn't get past GM's scrutiny either.
>>586495879
>>586496965Wouldn't that just be Morte?
>>586497416Morte is not really a spellcaster.Plus I'm sure you can trust a pocket lich
>>586497528Bitey
>>586491323Dude's an asshole too, will make a deal and jump you as soon as he gets the chance
>TURN 47 OF THE ARENAOnce again no one dared attack the arena!Point for Lemuria, +0,25 for killing another random horror
>>586359691Joined!! Looks fun!! Everyone join!!
>>586308103There is a sort of irony in the more I play the more I realize that chasing raider/elves/etc just guarantees your loss and you have to plow forward to win, ignoring the raids almost entirely outside of sending small forces to take it back>>586451020Had an Uruk win in Envoy recently, with pic rel carrying me to victory. With a ring of waterbreathing she scuba-dived and allowed enough W income to start pumping ~8 Anzu/turn somewhere in the early/mid turn 30s.She summoned the first Ugallu too which MA Uruk can't normally do. This let me have a commander that can easily fly the anzu around for a whopping 27mm with boots of messenger. They'd literally just appear anywhere, instantly siege down any throne fort and take that shit in two turns.
>>586506554Thanked
It's over domgI have the highground
>>586486181growth can actually win games, compounding growth can offset some of the penalty of building up armies if there's a period of stalemate after you get to ~30 provinces it can help a lot. I'm still taking death scales on abysia obviously but I've warmed up to growth it can help a lot. Luck is probably comparable to income though
>>586517198Where are your samurai! Goblins wont make you panko-sir......
>>586517198it's so stupid that nowhere in the documentation do they tell you random battle map gen elevation grants a +20% damage bonus (before prot), and unless you look at the literal combat log you'd never realize.
>>586521776Nice try nigga I actually cant tell if this is true or a joke
>>586517198Yes yes, very good Shinuyama.However...
>>586523674my god he's even got glamour
Sneedhomer is about to stale, idk what's going on there I dont have any scouts maybe he's dead but an extension might be good. Last I saw he was fighting sarensia with the other guy in a 2v1
I'm asking claude to make me a crannog merrow nation
>>586523674Damn erufu!!!
Got my arse handed to me in the battle for muspelhiem, corpse constructs successfully interrupted the draconians and enabled the muspel giants to clean them up in the back with minimal interference to the mages, which then got mulched by the tide of skinshifters and hoplites arriving in the front triggering a hp rout for me. In the siege the lack infantry support and retarded ai spellcasting for rus is what got me the win, only 10 or so skinshifters, 2 perkunus and rus's panko made it to my panko. Had the rest of infantry not been sleeping at the gate and the perkunus casted useful spells like lighting bolts instead of buffs, rus would had definitely raped me permanently from the game.
>>586534005
admin, any chance i could get +4 hours?
>>586516368Welcome!! When do you plan to start?
>>586534238Are you dead dead? Rus isn't long for the world.
>>586518097temp scales are much better at boosting your income and even pop loss in dom6. death scales are legit free points because there are so many different factors that reduce your effective growth level in provinceshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9aoEv2WoNI
>>586539931Pretty much. I only have my tendy and 2 muspel jarls left.
heres your dryad bro
>>586543721fake news
>>586547230cope growthcel y'all niggas deadass be like misfortune is free points!!!!! and then take growth :joy: smdh sybau nigga
Turmoil and temp scales are free pointsTurmoil and LuckTemp and GrowthIt's akin to ying yang o algo
for me it's turmoil sloth maxed temp death luck and magicsimple as
>>586545361No wonder seduction rolls for just Morale 9.
Most magical schools kinda don't exist until lvl 3 and are only really useful around 4-5, is this good game design.
>>586553405Thaum 1 gets you communionsDEBUNKED!
>>586547339*rapes you with my 30 province awake tendie growth rush*heh nothin personnel deather
>>586555254>Mostheh, nothing personnel
>>586553405There's some decent stuff in there. The early self-buffs are good to have if you can thug.
>>586417850Holy shit lemuria got a point?
>>586556990NEVER GIVE UP
>>586556990Lemuria is probably gonna get 2 more points, I don't think anyone's going to attack until turn 50.
>>586558343Holy fug
GOLEMS ARE THE STANDOUT UNITS OF THIS MOD BUY BUY BUY BUYVanilla domingos needs to add golems like this, the regular ones suck
>>586564880Golems are always good>>586561736
>>586564880Without them, your chances of winning this are NIHIL
Blitz doko?
>>586567576Yeah I just got bored. Tired of 2v1ing
>>586359543https://hinaserver.net/game/148Every player will be assigned a random nation. The age will also be randomly decided when it's time to spin. I'll upload a video of the wheel spinning when we get enough players
somebody fucking kill me already I'm in too many games just die quicker or win the war against me
>>586577113Pull all your mages and throw them into your most hated enemy then gift basket the others.
>>586531983the LLM has not been built that can match the merrow nation illwinter will release
>>586582685I tried to oneshot it with claude it did alright but boring nation for LA
>>586359691I'm going to start this when we get to 5-6 players ^_^
I take growth scales purely for thematic reasons.
>>586589424Illwinter sleeps soundly tonight
>>586589424I feel like adding another water nation to LA will break the Rl'yeh dynamic too much.Therefore Crannog Ys will never be released
>>586592214But they're coastal. Crannogs are on the coast.
>>586592746Merrows would not survive above the waves.They are too bullyable
>>586593008merrow will be on the coast and they will no longer be bullied
>>586558343How
Which nation needs a rework the most and why is it MA Mictlan?
>>586599639Must've been a global.
>>586602007they don't really need a rework, just some number tweaks. they also just have too many cap only mages. why is a w2 mage cap only? only illwinter knows
>>586605391Their biggest problem is that they need to hellbless to even have a shot at fighting another nation, but they can't control the spread of their scales like EA/LA Mictlan does.Also having no blood magic is cool thematically but ozelotls do insane lifting to make the other mictlans playable and MA doesn't get shit to replace it.The mages that lose blood from ea to ma also gain no other magic paths to compensate too
>>586605391I suppose they wanted to keep it consistent with the EA and LA where you have little options for off-cap mages. But those were blood mages, so it makes some sense that they wanted to keep your blood economy from growing too fast with how good your summons are.
>>586605584>The mages that lose blood from ea to ma also gain no other magic paths to compensate tooonly in ohio bruh
All the ma mictlan cap only mages should have additional extra random paths, favoured towards air. Then increase the cost of the mage to balance it out
Best EA nation for learning blood magic?
>>586607051xibalba has by far the best blood game in the early age, but their troops suck and can be hard to get off the ground. lanka is a blood powerhouse too
>>586607051Do you want to dabble or go all in on blood?All in Lanka or Xibalba. I think Lanka is a little easier to pilot.If you just want to dabble then try Abysia, Sauromatia or Vanheim
>>586607051Does anyone like playing blood nations
>>586615256I like playing Abysia since it's piss easy
>>586617672Is Abysia a blood nation really?
>>586617880They're going to rain on your parade otherwise.
>>586617880Soft blood nation.Hard blood nations have out of cap blood recruits.It's still fair to say abysia is a blood nation in general though. If they don't use their blood they will get hard countered by rain and have no answers for it
>>586618201Rain is annoying but not even a real issue desuAn opponent seeing 'abyssia' and going 'oh, aight, i'm going to take FR5 on my bless' proceeding to completely negate the entire nation, now that's a problem.
>>586619170Burning ones are really strong early even if you have fire res. Most nations can't deal with them in a first war when counting their bless too
>TURN 48 OF THE ARENAAnd again did nobody dare attack the arena!Point for Lemuria, +0,25 for killing some brave fishmen who popped up out of nowhere.Reminder: you need to start moving everything to the capital on turn 49 so that you can attack the arena with everything on turn 50. Every game there's someone who gets it wrong. Like me
>>586626445Angels can't melt bricks...
>>586626445That's a lot of nether bolt kills...
>>586637861Any heroic traits?
>>586637861Some wise guy is going to firestorm all my shit, but ask yourself, did I reach alteration 8 this turn for flameflesh army? Do you feel lucky punk
>>586646416You still have research left to do?
End of Culture
Summon Pygmy Succubus
>>586649339bro I am lemuria this nation is the SLOWEST researching nation in the game especially when not able to expand for more death gems and forts to spawn more of the d1 mages.
>>586651406Listen man, I don't know jack shit about any nation. I'm just coasting by on impulse.>for more death gemsLet's be fair, you could have more provinces and you'd get fucked over on gems anyway with how things are. I searched every province I have and I didn't see a single fire gem site.
>>586651406>slowest research in the gameMaybe but the one time I played against a Lemuria player they had Enchantment 6 by turn 22. I was playing a nation without native nature access. Shit was brutal.
>>586651890They probably had an awake pretender. With one of those they can hit ench 6 fast especially if they spend gems on the researchers early instead of saving for a grand lemur. I also think that hitting nether darts is more important than rigor mortis for competitive games cause otherwise you just get raided or gem baitedThe nation is rough to play in any case cause zero prot units die to any evocation.
>>586651890They can take the crones awake which would give them a huge running start getting to a key level early.
>>586589924I am excite. Only a bit more waiting...
Water.. The worst school..
I eventually sit on a fat pile of water gems in every game I play. They're effectively just half a pearl
>>586671891I usually spend them on a bunch of green lions, coral blades or water bottles if I don't have a great national use case
Who're the main characters on the poster for Dominions: the Movie?
>>586682163Bogus and his party
>>586682163A poster would be a plane with three thrones and each represent the three different ages, every throne is an arena of the various nations of the age in an all out brawl, underneath the thrones can be the indies, horrors and various neutral entities, underneath those is water which being least relevant is just rlyeh mindraping everyone.
>>586682163it would be a gigachadded out esoteric niche grecan philosophy aesthetic-filled hemlock-pilled coastal arco spending their time writing on shit that doesn't matter unaware of the coming danger wasting their RP on making more shitty philosophers instead of combat mages cause they think they live in the golden age while the bottom half of the poster is an underwater scene with EA r'lyeh influencing their minds and cackling knowing their time will soon come
>Rat in my kitchen eating my raw potatoesNations for this?
>>586689332Vermin Feast?
End of Weakness
>>586694339End of wokeness
