>>2406473
That and the fact that you need to restart some five or six times everytime you play untill you spawn in such a way you don't immediately die to random wildlife

>>2406474
>randomly sends out a weak force to take settlements while his capital is undefended
kek fucking zoomers, man

>>2406474
Just use the stronghold defender mod, man.

>>2406473
Ah, maybe I should give it another try than, I was pretty confused when I booted it because I had heard it was simpler than it's sister game yet I couldn't understand shit that was happening

>>2406474
theres a few popular mods you can download to prevent that.. and its pretty much essential because the ai will constantly die otherwise

>>2406473
There's an isekai harem faction mod for this that's pretty fun. Recommended for when you get bored and just wanna wreck shit with waifus.

>>2406473
CoE 6 can't come soon enough.
I would like a proper Beholder class this time.

>>2406473
I first learned about shillwinter games from CoE3 but after playing domingoes I could never go back to CoE

>>2410290
I find it a very different experience from Doms. It's more geared towards "pick up and play", rather than carefully crafting your empire via pretender/domain customization.

i've been playing with the Elysium Remastered mod and after 440 hours it feels like a new game again

>>2410285
is it even in development? I haven't heard any news about it.

>>2410305
If you see bug fixing patches out of nowhere it's usualy because they work on the next game and they are fixing them on both games (inb4 copium)

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I made a bunch of fanart I will post it on the steam community thinghy but here first

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>>2416509
Not bad , i would even say preaty good!... but why?

>>2416681
Procastination during online classes

I wish i could buy this game from a key site, have to wait for sale

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>>2416509
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! I love seeing fanart of this game. I'd let that witch charm me.
Here is a sketch I drew of the entire plane of Elysium in one of my games. You are a more talented artist, but I do enjoy how the simple graphics of this game are inspiring for drawing.

I want to play the game in co-op with a friend who doesn't own it.

Can he just use my key? Or maybe use a pirated version?

I don't want to make him buy a 30€ game, only for him to find out he doesn't like it and never play it again.

>>2418658
Family Share? You could use that if he uses Steam too.

>>2418675
Only 1 person can play a game at a time, if only 1 copy is owned, so can't play co-op with that.

How do I beat alien? I can't beat them offensively unless they come to my wall and get showered by ballista.

>>2406473
>You right click on units to select them
why in the absolute FUCK would you do this

>>2418751
what aliens? the horrors from the void dimension? magic is your best bet, because they are often ethereal. try to get some wizards with spells with 1-999 damage like Soul Slay.

>>2418804
how is this what you have a problem with and not
>move them by using right click
you move by using left click. right click just unselects your commander, totally pointless.

>>2418858
>you move by using left click. right click just unselects your commander, totally pointless.
I didn't even consider this to be a possibility because holy fuck what are you even doing

>>2418863
are you moving with the fucking hotkeys or some shit or what do you do
im doing truly terrible things. im making fire titans have sex for years straight to produce an army of fire giants to invade heaven and kill God. What about u man

>>2418751
On a strategic level , don't let the keep coastal villages.
On combat tactical level , I assume you are having issues because they've reached critical mass? What class are you?

>>2418864
I'm talking about the game design, it's fucking retarded

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>>2418870
Are you sure that the game design is retarded, not you? wtf are you talking about.
You must be one of the absolute brainlets that pick this game up and lose on the 2nd turn to a snake walking into their unguarded citadel

>>2418875
>>not losing to a deer turn 5

>>2418883
Mind the carnivorous deer and moose
for me its getting my citadel spawn in the fucking north pole of the tundra. it happens way too much. its much safer because there is nothing up there but its such a pain in the ass to have have this long march south just so i dont have to have constant half income

>>2418898
Hey anon, w-why do you play sl every other game?
>my citadel spawn in the fucking north pole of the tundra
Because of this shit. I will turn everything, including clouds into sand and there's not a goddamnthing that can stop me.

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>>2418902
i enjoy scourge lord. i like the lore, how he uses pillars of graffiti and hate symbols to suck the worlds lifeforce out from the area. What do imagine that looks like?
home of some of the funniest descriptions in the game

>>2418907
Like ants got attracted to my leftovers while I was preoccupied with competitive shitposting. Again.

>>imagine
You merely adopted the dark, I was born in it.

>>2406473
This game is much harder than Dominions. In Dominions, you can atleast set up a defensive front and know where the enemy will attack from.

In CoE, the enemy can just swoop right in which is a pain when coupled with the low LOS and the invisible abomination neutrals.

I like to play Free for all with many players. The only thing you can do early came is turtle and pray that multiple enemies don't migrate-invade you at the same time.

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>>2418978
this information is not on the wiki or anywhere else online, i just want you to know if you play High Cultist and you get an Elder Starspawn with all the rituals unlocked, you can send greater horrors anywhere for only 50 sacrifices (less if you can somehow find a floating blue cube)
this gives you ICBMs in multiplayer. the effect is even better with more elder starspawn. theres simply few factions that can survive a constant barrage of these freaks on their citadels. but we wary where you send them, because if they survive they will kill you too. you can see them only with commanders that have the trait "spirit sight"

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There are pretty, thank you.

>>2419192
I have like 400 hours in doms6, how the fuck do i kill elder horrors? I've seen posts from people saying they can kill eater of gods and whatnot with very specific builds, but nothing i tried has worked so far.

Also, what is the maximin level of empowerment? It used to be 10 but now it feels like you can just keep empowering magic paths way past 15

>>2416506
>Chudomancer
Billions must undie

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>>2419898
i have no idea how to kill eater of gods with 500 hours in coe5, kek
i have heard he can destroy thrones of ascension in doms6 so i would be very careful
maybe you can get lucky with a soul slay or a bunch of wizards. magic is always what i use when there is a problem armies cant defeat. ideally, you have an army with maybe half a dozen level 2 wizards at least, and at least 50 or so cannon fodder troops just to distract the thing a little bit.
The problem is the elder horrors just appear and disappear, they're difficult to track down. This guy is pretty scary, the god hunter, but there is another doom horror called "Scabiel, Maker of Ruins" that could be potentially cataclysmic. so far, Ive only seen that one in the other planes but any doom horror could just walk out of a set of pyramids at any time. Scabiel walks around turning settlements into plains tiles and ruins

>>2420170
Acid, magic weapons, massed projectiles... Massed tengu, ants or cloudfag archers with some buffs are probably your most cost effective way.

>>2420216
Ah, yes. they have been trying to nerf having dozens of archers and crossbowmen and cloud elementals but its still super good

>>2420264
Cloud elementals and crossbows won't do shit for you here anon. He's got no armor but has ethereal so you want volume of fire first and magic weapons and something to mitigate blood vengeance second if you can get it, so archers and potentially even slingers with buffs. And pretty sure he has 100% shock ward in addition to magic res 13. If you really want to get fancy I'd also expect a paladin 3 swarm to carve him up like a rotisserie chicken.

Basically you're overthinking it. This nigga can be bullied with hobburgs if you know what you're doing.

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>>2419920
I was thinking about how much the description bullies the necromancer and his apprentices, necromancy isnt forbidden or evil its just considered a cum-jar piss-drawer type of activity

>>2421640
Death magic is expediting the entrophy of the universe or making skeletons move. Its like water magic where the hedge wizard of necromancy aint a threat but 5 path Death mage can rape armies.

>>2421640
What's your reasoning for making guild master a demon?

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goddamn voice of el found the capitol before me and now im fighting riders of the apocalypse and armies of angels

>>2421838
Should have been playing the Holy Roman Empire instead of the Heathen Roman Empire.

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>>2417458
kino

Sex with water elementals

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>>2421909
what
I don't think they can consent

>>2422728
Now post the final tier

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>>2422746
ok brother im listening

>>2422759
Cumming until they turn white

Same with air elemental

>>2422787
just like my slime girl doujins

Too bad the optimal Warlock play is to just summon small dudes/hope for medium rolls. The big ones are doodoo

>>2422842
they aint demon lords, but they are monster factories. just like the swamp queen, they all spawn little elemental babies every turn. oh yes. armies of free earth gnomes and water elementals. armies of free fire and air elementals. it's a beautiful thing. I don't know if there is a bad way to play warlock

>>2422842
you summon them for the orb artifacts

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>>2421790
>When men came to Elysium there were individuals who realized that there was profit to be made in the growing markets and towns of the newfound continent. Guilds formed where trade was abundant and the leaders of the guilds accumulated fortune, influence and eventually military power to rival that of human warlords. Relying on human troops and mercenaries, various Guildmasters established themselves across Elysium.

>Relying on human troops

This to me implies he's not actually human despite leading humans. Plus the fact Elysium isn't connected by sea to any other landmass but instead the endless abyss, id imagine he sells rare Elysium minerals to elder gods and interstellar demons who are too amorphous and ignorant of the laws of physics to make it themselves

Like maybe he was even originally human but was mutated from traveling there instead of just going insane

>>2420170
If you get ambushed it's pretty much impossible unless you have a tanky pretender chassis that wished for strength several time with MR gear because you realistically cannot cast a spell before it flies on top of you. On the battlefield high strength supercombatants with magic weapons will kill anything eventually, the problem is having the proper spells to keep them alive.

>>2406483
>just cheat

>>2425122
these are great. I'm doing a high cultist playthrough right now.
the guildmaster could have demon legs, who knows, the merchants always wear those baggy pants. they are of another independent faction and go around to all your settlements, untagging them. killing their trade caravans gives you hundreds of gold, i love it. I'm not sure where they come from, i think they just come from world generation

>samefagging

>>2416506
kek, the chudomancer...

This game needs some genies. Not that wind spirit in a lamp.

>>2440655
Yes, it could be fun to have Genies and Efreet, like in Heroes of Might and Magic.

>>2440655
Hopefully when they release Oman for Dominions, they'll add not-Ubar for CoE

I buyed boughted this game today. What am i in for? I saw a guy in the reviews section having 5k hours, is it THAT replayable?

>>2444505
Everything is procgen, so every single game is unique.

>>2444513
good, thanks :)

>>2444505
haha yeah
i think it's one of the best. i have nearly 600 hours in in right now and im not even close to getting tired of it. it's like a strategy game, adventure, and a roguelike. and every class plays differently, its like there's quite a few games in this one game actually

>>2420170
I once killed the Maker of ruins as a druid.
He just attacked a forest and a mage casted animate forest. It was him againt an army and 100 ents. It was close though.

>>2444505
>is it THAT replayable?
Yes.
Also some factions plays very differently. So even when you think you know how to play the game, you can pick a new class and it will feel like learning a new game.

>>2420170
Isn't that the horror thing that literally eats gods for breakfast? I know he can be killed, but only by something beyond even it in strength.

>>2410285
I'd love to have more worlds to conquer. And hopefully some new faction that exists outside of Elysium, like say a technologically advanced civ oor ayylmaos so I can wreck them with magic.

>>2455578
void is an alien faction

Why are Demons and Void creatures so much more powerful than everything else?

>>2455594
Because they're basically deity level entities but aren't deities. Demons aren't that strong though, they just have good magic. Most of them can be drowned and poisoned. They're also from the classes that are balanced by having them likely to kill the ones summoning them.

>>2455594
Keep playing lil bro and soon you'll see there's more than one flavor of broken shit in this game.

Just won my first game bros. Feels good. Necro and major summons are OP.

>>2456747
Necro is magical when it works out. There is something special about massive vampire deathsquads.

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Good art. CoE and Dominions are probably my biggest inspirations but I’m too pussy to post my shit publicly.

Why don't bog beasts have poison resistance? The lack of it seems so absurdly arbitrary. Their description straight up says they live in poison swamps even.

>>2459147
You live in a city, right? Why don't you have car resistance? Don't judge anon, it's been teased to hell and back in bog school already.

>>2425122
draw the coolest class (baron)

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This guy messed me up big time. Abushed too.

my biggest complaint is i wish there were more things to build with baron/senator.

I wish there were other classes that could cuck the baron/senator out of their king castles and capitals.

>>2462593
I wish I could cuck you harder with my Big Baron Castle.

>>2459153
And they deserve it. I bet even the giant toads don't sit with them at lunch.

I wish other classes had more final forms like baron and senator
Maybe the planes could contain the sites so you actually go to them competitively

>>2464086
Plenty of classes do have final forms. The Necromancer has like 4 different things it can end up as, the Markgraf can be a vampire too, the Witch can turn to an immortal swamp hag, the Priestess effectively turns into Baal, the Warlock is built around multiple paths and the Maharaja's major gods have ultimate forms.

Why is playing human factions so fucking miserable in this game. I cleared few games with Emperor bots while playing Kobolds and Cultists, but with Guildmaster and Baron anything higher than Baron difficulty looks impossible. With Guildmaster tried goin maritime, tried rushing mercenaries for free units, tried stacking merchants guilds for better income, rushed mages guild, but to no avail. I simply can't keep up with growth of other armies let alone outpace them while also dealing with wildlife and other bs that seem to take particular liking in fucking with my territory and no one else's. By the time I'm capable of making anything worthwhile I already have at least 2 bots invading me with multiple armies which I can't even compete with.

>>2464966
I honestly don't get you. The main difference in playing baron or guildmaster compared to I dunno warlock or demonologist is instead of pivoting from basic human troops into summons you pivot into mages and in case of GM really good human troops. But GM and baron are a bit opposite in what they do. GM can take a mid spawn and turn it into gold one but that, same as his doom stacks or cancer roamer takes time to get online. Likewise he's one of the few leaders that can reliably and easily live off extraplanar economy. Meanwhile baron basically only needs a source of iron, some trade and an alchemist to get started on his snowball.
Senator and barbarians are... let's call them challenge runs.

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>>2466806
>not showing them who's the boss of this plane

>>2464086
>like baron
Still disappointed the king is just an ordinary old dude that can upgrade fortifications or something instead of a heroic King Arthur-esque gigachad (who you'd probably still not want to send to battle since he isn't a Troll King but that's beside the point).

>>2466840
You say that as if Arthur didn't spend a vast majority of his kingship sitting in Camelot and sending knights to find the grail for him.

I'm not sure you how you win high dificulty games with Barbarian. All the gimmicks are underpowered and take too long set up

>>2466849
Even then it took a monster cat/his bastard son to kill him and he went out fighting. And I don't think he ever got THAT old. And even if he did he still must have been a unit that would only lose to realer heroes like Beowulf.

>>2466859
>he went out fighting
After moping around for several decades over getting cucked by Lancelot.

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>>2466828
>usually spawns fairly far but also close enough to be meaningful inconvenience
>have to take my main stack to deal with it
>high chance of being intercepted by other armies or demons
>assuming I made it to the portal my force is maimed after battles and won't be able to deal with whatever bullshit awaits here
>assuming I had get lucky and made it to the portal without suffering any meaningful losses I still have to deal with whatever bullshit awaits here and whatever bullshit comes after
>even if somehow emerge victorious my main force is in shambles and I have no chance of carching up because every bot is roaming with quadrillion giganiggas worth of armies

nah, I only wish there was an option to give up but stay in game and watch everyone else get gaped by forces of hell even if they are bots

>>2466864
>I had get
sorry for brain fart

>>2466864
Sucks to suck

>>2466860
French fanfiction. I bet they were the cuckolds whose versions of some Knights' tales I've read that included unhealthy amount of knocking people and literal monsters out of their saddles to take their horses and armor (a trick that didn't work on the skeleton knight btw, before he would just get up back into the saddle instead of pathetically giving up his armor and his skeleton horsey like a cuckold).

But more to the point, you are comparing King Arthur ruling his kingdom to the Baron getting coronated and being hit with some curse turning him into a feeble old man the second he takes the throne and stealing his armor and magic sword.

>>2466868
Sure, but you remove that french romance fanfic and you remove him being a king with knights. Earlier works basically make him Cú Chulainn 2.0 and while a boss, that man was never called a king.
...and what do you have against frog fanfic? The stories are neat on their own and further helped inspire many a good eroge down the line.

>But more to the point, you are comparing King Arthur ruling his kingdom to the Baron getting coronated and being hit with some curse turning him into a feeble old man the second he takes the throne and stealing his armor and magic sword.
Yes. It's called getting old and having enough dosh to afford your underlings and presumably your heir to take over. You do get a second baron, eventually.

>>2466874
>Yes. It's called getting old
That's not what happens in the game. He is literally cursed into aging up until he is close to using his sword as a cane the moment he takes up the crown. Senator's promotion doesn't work like that. Noone's promotions work like that. The closest I can think of would be Deep One Oracles and Dvalas and both are magical creatures that GROW in power with their "age".

>>2466879
>Noone's promotions work like that
And that's cool. What, you want everyone and everything to play the same? Sounds boring. And it's not like his kingform is weak with all he's getting. ...unlike senator and dark form. Fuck whoever made that.

I get it, you have an idea what he is and should be but consider this, maybe our baron isn't a heroic warrior king. Maybe he's a perverted fat fuck like say Vladimir Harkonnen. It would explain not having a horse for start. Hell, maybe he doesn't want to be a warrior king. Maybe he just wants to sit in a castle and eat and fuck and write shitty french poetry while everyone else does his dirty work.
https://youtu.be/8z8SpgmF0sA

>>2466887
He's Morale 7 HP 17 Str 6 MR 6 uberman that runs around in plate armor and swings a magic greatsword passed through his bloodline (which is why he is horseless). He is decidedly way more superhuman than normal guy Senator and is a notch above the mounted lords in raw stats. Nothing like your headcanon.
>What, you want everyone and everything to play the same?
See >>2466840

>>2466907
>>uberman
Ha, sure. Ever seen superman die to ~5 crossbows? Guy's a liability on the field since you're losing your 25% income and he's front deployed while dying to a wet fart ie ordinary human. No, but seriously, why fixate on baron over warchief? El knows that fag could use some love.

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Nietzsche must be rolling in his grave lmao.

>sit in water at corner of map
>summon horrors on your shit every turn
How do you respond without sounding mad?

>>2466953
>sit in corner
Enjoy your doomstacks once your resources run thin

>>2466953
"I'm getting sexual gratification from this, thanks!"

>>2466935
That was almost his point. Humans are doomed to be herd animals, and as such. Yes

>every cavalry unit has weak trample
>every siege unit gets a slow to reload attack for field battles
Thoughts?

>>2467246
Nah. Riding units already get multiple attacks, they don't need trample too. Also most of them are small and wouldn't be able to trample anyway because most things can't trample things the same size as them. (while there's a command that lets minotaurs do this, it'd be weird for everyone to be able to do it.) If this is about baron, just give him a moose rider or an elephant rider freespawn if he conquerors a desert palace.
>every siege unit gets a slow to reload attack for field battles
Nah. There are already ballista, and who wants to drag around slow moving siege units for the sake of launching a boulder every 4 turns? Consider abilities to make locations fortified like how some classes can make mines, forests, or small towns into fortified locations, or even how warlock can make a fort of earth around himself wherever he is. Then you can have siege phases if something decides to attack next turn. A lot of classes already have siege units that can do things in battle as well.

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>>2467320
I'm aware. The idea was to make human factions: baron, barbarian, guildmaster and senator slightly less dependant and slightly more resistant to bad library rng. Catapult and low damage trample being the poor mans sniper or crowd control mage respectively. Assume guildmaster and senator would also gain some cavalry. First probably just related and the second maybe barbarian cav and an elite leo cataphract. No one would get additional artillery units just some more functionality on existing ones.

>>2467340
>human factions: baron, barbarian, guildmaster and senator
What does "human faction" mean to you? To me non human factions are cloud lords, pale ones, trolls, etc that have non humans as their main units. Priest kings, witch, and the other priest factions are human factions to me. I don't get the obsession with baron and senator, but then maybe I just am tired of generic castle and generic rome, but I imagine people clamoring for ww2 german/russian faction as well.

As for an actual response: Guildmaster is in no way dependent on library RNG and can make their own libraries or upgrade a city with a level 1 library to a level 2 one. They also have ridiculous siege weapons that can also be used in battle. They also have the pegasus and gryphon riders for cavalry and shitton assassins for snipers.
Senator having cavalry is probably a decent idea but giving them trample is silly. Just give them war elephant units, like the monkeys but with humans on them.
Barbarian, nah, they're shitty but giving them trample cavalry neither fits with them nor would make them any better. They already have access to mages and plane shifting ethereal units so I feel those aspects should be expanded on if anything. Maybe give the werebears trample. They'd be a lot stronger if Disease mattered any. Maybe someone could suggest to Illwinter having disease separated from wound infections and disease able to spread to other units in the army.
Baron, as I suggested before just give them war elephant recruits from capturing the desert palaces or monkey villages. They have absolutely no reason to have trample, however. They get a ton of monks/abbots who can turn human chars to their side and banish undead and demons, and have decent options with sweep, pikeneers, and better archers to kill faster and further.
Ballistas are already the usable-in-battle siege weapon and giving catapults that would take away the niche. Maybe barbarian could have some totem they carried into battle.

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>>2467552
Non-summoners. As in their core is almost certainly going to be and remain "human" troops. And it's not really any obsession for me, just in the mood for some homebrewing and throwing ideas out there for factions I feel could use a tuneup.

>gm
True. But I feel they have a hole in their early game roster and would like to shake things up from caravan guards and mariners or crossbows. Sages guild is amazing but on some societies, or a cursed spawn, even level 1 library city can be very rare. He's probably least affected by this, fair.

>Barb
I'm least convinced for these as well. Their cav already has bows so it might be too much. Mounted chief is getting a bow and mid-, that's not up to debate lol. But werbears or not-mumakils could be the way. Spitballing whether to give them an armored warrior line as well, they'd cost a lot of iron but could prove an interesting sidegrade to amazons. And it's not like barbs have much use for iron anyway.

>Senator
I think you're overestimating trample. Trample 6-8 deletes most regular units. Trample 1-2 deletes only goblins, hoburgs and skeleboys. What it does is can help push your cavalry past the lines so you envelop them with your infantry. Or ride thru chaff to the casters and archers pounding you. You know, instead of killing archer spam give it something that messes with it. I very much like that composition with cl and fliers/cloudfolk.

>Baron
He ain't getting elephants from me but moose knights might be on table. And sure, if you get everything rolling you're going to have abbots with mass conversion and banish and magi with meteors. But if you don't, because there's not a goddamn temple or library for 500 tiles around you, you have siege to fall back to. Which has its own downsides of slow for one and iron for two. Ballistas do pierce, cats or trebs do blunt. That's their niche. Plus I like what brettonians have going for them.

>>2467552
Oh and cavalry could lose the hoof attack to compensate for the trample. Would be a slight nerf damagewise but better utility and character to them.

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>>2466851
Mad dash landgrab that helps you harvest underworld for cash that helps you conquer elysium. So archers/warriors into some but not too many ancestrals that with underworld holdings help you get amazons and more archers/warriors with ideally later having a critical mass of mainly tattooed crystal amazons. Cavalry is something you use to make AI chase its own tail and to raid him to shit. Aggressive expansion (even if you can't hold the taken ground) and strangling someone in their crib while knowing when not to permawar bloodfeud (while draining resources) and waiting for a third party to wipe you both out is what will make or break your run in my experience.

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The nigger troll and its faggot forests had it coming

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>>2469116
Also the most inconsequential doomstack stuck on 2-tile island

>>2469118
the hell was on that island? The king in yellow is there in the water too.

>>2469138
Autistic fisherman build a Rubik's Cube
And Hastur was there even before the event with cube, thanks to the pyramids I presume

>>2467552
>if Disease mattered any. Maybe someone could suggest to Illwinter having disease separated from wound infections and disease able to spread to other units in the army.
Disease matters more in Dominions since battles aren't exclusively one-sided victories (and usually, most losses are the result of a retreat, although not all of the retreaters will escape alive), you have more commanders and units in general so that strategies which rely on the loss of a squad are feasible, and disease can be inflicted through noncombat spells. Currently, the only uses of disease in COE5 are as a weaker variant of weakness which stacks with it, and as a suicide bomb against units that you can easily hit but can't kill (but disease-inflicting units which are worth sacrificing are rare, it takes time to kill them if it ever does, and many units that you would target are either immune to disease, have enough health that it won't be significant except for reducing healing, or have high magic resistance). I think disease may have just been included to flesh out the setting and to make some independents more risky, rather than as a viable strategy by the player.

>>2469445
>disease-inflicting units which are worth sacrificing are rare
Bakemono and vampires come to mind

>>2469445
Feels like it was included just to annoy you when your squad of normie 6hp humans got assaulted by disease casting magic users

>>2406474
sucks to suck

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>random goes in every field
I asked for this, didn't I

>>2470058
Some times the game doesn't even try to be subtle when it wants you to go fuck yourself

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>spawn next to pyramids
>oh man, better start buying supplementary troops in case of phase spiders or some shit
>fucking Hastur attacks me in year 2

>>2471517
Well put

I think it would be kino if we can have little modding mondays where we show off whatever mods we're working on for the game. There's some already existing kino, but something to keep the spark alive until 6 comes out (if ever)

>>2473529
He says while not posting a mod

>>2473529
Alright, how do you feel about expanding the barbarians and the neutral tribes? The idea being each of the tribes gets a niche or their niche gets expanded and you get to recruit a chief of theirs which allows for their units to be recruited and or maybe freespawned on him every so often. But you only get to recruit one and the opposite is blocked. So, wolf tribe chief blocks the deer tribe one for example. Lion blocks hyena and so on.

>>2473861
>choosing between various options to expand your faction into different niches
This is just cool and I wish every faction had this

>>2473880
I agree. Got any more ideas along those lines?

>>2473861
Sounds like ripping off warlock and dryad but otherwise probably okay. If I modded it the Barb would probably just unite all the tribes and monkies and pygmies too and go full raiding horde. It would probably just be the northern tribes though, since the Baron gets the southern ones.

>>2473922
Why warlock and dryad?

>>2473889
I think the most obvious is necromancer, they can already go
>wight
>ghost
>lich
>vampire
for the necromancer himself,
Just give that implications for what troops you raise and commanders you're offered going forward, maybe a few more rituals to give each of them some unique capabilities the others don't get

>>2473930
>But you only get to recruit one and the opposite is blocked
Like choosing a warlock element path.
>you get to recruit a chief of theirs which allows for their units to be recruited and or maybe freespawned on him every so often
Dryad's playstyle.

>>2474065
Brother... Warlock paths are not exclusive. Having a waterlock doesn't stop you from promoting a different apprentice to a firelock.

>Dryad's playstyle.
So, you suggest upgradeable units too? Huh. I kinda like that idea. Tattoos, iron or something in between?

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>>2473781
This was but an elaborate trap to get anons interested in my DnD/Forgotten Realms mod. See pic related. Lost steam on this, I can churn out crappy image edits for troops and verbose writing but balancing and rituals always escapes me.

>>2474228
>DnD
Just play CoE 1 and 2.

>>2474228
>balancing escapes me.
Can see that