The Wheel has turned once again

Carrion Woods edition

Dominions is a fantasy turn-based war game created by two dudes. One of them is a teacher.
The game combines a simple presentation with an extremely wide array of strategic options, including over 3400 units, 1100 spells and 400 magic items. Turns are resolved simultaneously, with players planning battles rather than directly controlling them. It has simplistic graphics but is easily moddable and extremely deep.
Basically, it's an autist’s wet dream of a war game.

>Our pastebin (extremely outdated)
https://pastebin.com/wjbSA98Y

>Steamgroup
https://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

>Documentation
https://illwinter.com/dom6/docs.html

>Tools
>Mod inspector
https://larzm42.github.io/dom6inspector/
>Wiki
https://illwiki.com/
>Pretender calculator
https://zollqir.github.io/pretenders-dom6/
https://caleb-distributive.github.io/pretenders-dom6/ (website down?)
>Debug mod
https://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 art
https://thronebooru.booru.org

>Sloop’s Comfy Balance Mod
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zeDyK8Zb_p4lIJ0yp3a3ikMprRkmBCWvy31_4jBen3Q/edit?usp=sharing

Previous Turn of the Wheel
>>526290462

So if there is an underwater nation and all the others cannot go in water, the match is fucked?

>>527817931
UW nations generally won't have access to the thrones to win underwater. So they can't actually win the game, even if others struggle to kill them.

>>527817931
There's usually nothing useful underwater so no

how come all the coolest tendies are at minimum 50 points overcosted?

>>527823702
johan loves sloops so much he keeps half the game shit to justify its existence

Is this normal diplo behavior?

>>527830231
5% tip?

blitznigger didn't even extend turns

>>527830231
a player sending this message is the threat

>>527830231
Generally I get interactions like this one.

>>527830231
sounds more like an alliance than a nap3 to me
would ask to change first term to 'true' length, (attacks can land on 54, not 55) and to remove every other term.

>>527830231
Anything longer than 5 lines of words is to be discarded and thrown into the trash, except for roleplaying, or like >>527834981, for comedy purposes.
Also lmaoing at the ally part and tip part. Remember to leave a 5% tip off the top for your doctor, no one's gonna miss it.

>>527830231
>Is this normal diplo behavior?
Careful now, that is OATHBREAKER talk..And as for the tip, it would be an expected 10% from his party and they should also expect an additional 5% on top, given the 1:1 gem trading ratio. GEEZE do (You) even play the game

Scabiel is here!

Ohn-

>>527855736
My wife!

>>527857965
Give her a pink bow and she will find suitors

>>527858657
Giant bug from outer space that feeds on human suffering? Not that different from most girlfriends.

Any new recruiting games?

Alright /domg/ don't die during work

>>527867229
No

>>527857965
scabiel is so iconic

>>527880657
Kawaii.

>>527880657
Cross breeding
ara

>>527880657
Crannog Ys when

Does upgrading forts bring more or better chaff for R'lyeh, Ermor, Asphodel and the rest?

You might call Blitzserver Paul Giamatti today..Because the server is Sideways!!!

>Kyaa~!!! A-am I really kawaii, anon-kun??

>>527899446
Usually you just want more forts I think. I'd only upgrade for the commander point bonus for mages

>>527900665

>>527900665
merrow are beautiful on the inside

>>527900996
Just remembering that time I saw a steam discussion post about how much some guy loved merrows but he thought their stats were terrible so he was crying for a buff

Move over merrows.
The real sex of the sea is here

>>527904260
He's right. However sloops does fix this.

>>527904260
>Have ridiculously beautiful and powerful movarch knights
>Cry that the bitch ass fish servant race arent good enough
Some people I swear to panko.

>>527817651 (OP)
So, I wanted to ask, is Dominions 6 good?
And also, what new things did they add? Or do they just keep releasing the same game over and over?

>>527910743
Yes.
Too many to reasonably list, each iteration makes numerous mechanical changes and additions and this has been going on since 3 fully solidified the formula.
No.

>>527910743
Highlights include an entire world layer for caves similar to Agartha in CoE, and a new path of magic called Glamor which focuses on illusions, riders and their mounts can take damage seperately, and of course new nations, my favorite being Pyrene, the caveman to demon pipeline.

>>527911961
>the caveman to demon pipeline.
tell me more

>>527913092
>Cavemen be just chilling in caves herding cave cows when lavamen come to fuck shit up. Caveman nation watches their mommy and daddy giant race get slaughtered by lavamen while trying to protect them.
>Cavemen leave the caves and makes friends with demonic black goats that teach them blood magic and how to party hard
>Cavemen then multiply and selectively breed these goats into the perfect mounts. Meanwhile every caveman gets a succubus and gooning and blood sacrifice go off the charts. Ruling class become demonbred.

Bretty cool nations

>>527914031
cat lady hands typed this post
the cavemen lost their daddy and married couple figures to the lavamen, only their mommy figures remained
it was their mommy figures who then learned blood magic from black goatmen and led the cavemen to being the demon blood orgy degenerates they are in LA

>>527911961
>an entire world layer for caves
Again, can someone tell me the actual mechanical distinction between 'planes' and regular caves?

>>527915679
I couldn't be assed putting sorgina into context next to the basujinak or whatever

>>527915978
The cave plane is full of cave provinces, each cave province has its own population, income, magic sites, and indies guarding it, just like surface provinces.

>>527915978
A plane is a map, a 'regular' cave is a modifier that applies to a province. So the cave plane is a map composed of cave provinces.

>>527916927
>>527918026
Okay so what's the difference between this and just having a bunch of cave provinces together on a regular map like I've played in hundreds of times in 4 and 5? How is this a new innovation worthy of a full price update?

>>527918492
Its way less ugly. Also nobody ever said the game was worth it just for cave planes.
Planes could in theory lead to a lot of cool shit in the future. Maybe in 6 years?

>>527918492
Here’s an example of something you can do now that you couldn’t before. Let’s say your enemy has a bunch of strong armies on the surface blocking your way. You can enter the cave plane, travel through the cave provinces, then go through a cave exit behind your enemy, and surprise him from there.

>>527918492
Looks pretty, you now have to spend a turn entering or exiting caves from one of the entrances scattered around the map.

>>527910743
They keep releasing the same game but make it impactfully better.

Final_ReveLAtion badmin or blitzmin if the badmin is one of the shitters, can you set Shitgard and Shartco AI?

>>527921307
I will set midgard AI after this turn, I'll leave arco for one more turn since he seemed active until recently, no idea why he is stalling.

>>527921665
>no idea why he is stalling
because 75% of domiggers are faggots and he's one of them

>>527919648
You could do that before.

>>527916130
>>527915679
>>527914031
so devs barely disguised fetishes
Sounds good for Dominions desu

>>527922009
No you couldn’t, if caves were on the main map you could only move in 2 dimensions, adding another plane lets you move in 3 dimensions. What you just said is like saying that the game wouldn’t be any different if all provinces were lined up back to back in 1 dimension.

>>527830231
Is this nigger serious?

>>527922476
Its not really portrayed as hot, the cambions are evil and keep betraying each other.

>>527919648
I almost never sign NAPs but the one exclusion is with cave nations (agartha, abysia, etc)
In a current game I'm in, the only NAP I've signed is with a cave civ that shares 3(!) entrance/exits with me. I am not going to deal with planting large armies on top of all 3 holes just to make sure my own holes don't get fucked in a surprise attack.
I think it was a good idea who, as far as I can tell this has given them free reign to pop up and fuck with a neighbor I personally want to hit, so win-win.

>>527922574
There is genuinely zero difference. Look at Valanis or Peliwyr or whatever other map. Cave provinces are either larger and thus quicker to traverse the map, or simply have massive stretched connections to other cave provinces across the map.

>>527923831
This is the most common situations in the respective games. Also, the new cave layer makes certain province connections possible that just weren't possible before, as in dom5, caves took up space on the main map, separating surface provinces and preventing their adjacency.

>>527928206
>blockade works when you guard the cave
>blockade doesn't work when you don't guard the cave
Astonishing insight. And those connections certainly were possible. Is 6 your first Dominions game?

>>527929420
The following set of connections shown here were not possible in Dom5.

1 connects to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
2 connects to, 1, 3, and 7
3 connects to 1, 2, and 4
4 connects to 1, 3, and 5
5 connects to 1, 4, and 6
6 connects to 1, 5, and 7
7 connects to 1, 2, and 6
8 connects to 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14
9 connects to 8, 10, and 14
10 connects to 8, 9, and 11
11 connects to 8, 10, and 12
12 connects to 8, 11, and 13
13 connects to 8, 12, and 14
14 connects to 8, 9, and 13

>>527933438
>Dom4 map

>>527817651 (OP)
Who is this fluid druid?

>be an actively playing domg veteran
>begin losing the war you started
>chainstale
>there is now no one in the driver's seat, which is better than having a domg veteran behind the wheel
>begin winning the war (your opponent is another domg veteran and gets outplayed by an empty chair)

>>527934764
How does this prove anything?

>>527935784
Those fucking einheres are brutal if you don't have your mage engine up and running and your bless sucks

>>527935784
I swear you gays give up way too early.

>>527935417
Dryad (no seduction)

Can anybody else please chime in and tell me if my point here >>527934764 is really not clear, or if this guy >>527935841 is just being retarded?

>>527938542
I'm not reading all that shit but cave system is an improvement at least considering being automatically generated for random maps. It's more visually comprehensible being on multiple layers and allows for other layers being added too without making everything a 1 plane clusterfuck.

Could you functionally make something similar in the previous games? Yea, but it was always a custom edit, work intensive and not possible in random map gen.

>>527935784
Gimme a break this is my first multiplayer game ever how was I to know a bunch of barbarians with axes were gonna turn my sacreds into mincemeat

>>527939548
pro tip, summon some fire elementals

>>527939397
Holy shit this design is pure sex

>>527939548
You did pretty good for your first game. I saw you carving territory to conquer later very efficiently. You could have gotten massive. Maybe you got too aggressive too soon.
Pro tip: a few indies punch WAY above their weight class. Barbarians are the most common ones. They also bring multiple commanders and they're usually mixed in with the rest of them, so you can't easily hold + attack rear with some cavalry either. Wait on those until you heavily outnumber them, have some magic, or simply bring a lot of firepower. They melt under heavy ranged attacks.
As a rule of thumb, be careful with anything that does more than 15 points of damage per hit. Barbarians do 24. They'll fucking wreck your shit in the early game. They're beatable, but rarely worth the cost. Things in caves tend to be nasty too, plus it's dark in there and they usually have dark vision.
Now join another game and do it better.

>>527943150
I could've gotten massive but Ulm fucking swept in to my right and I was not gonna piss them off in the early game

>>527943394
Well, there were 16 players in the game. You're bound to crash with people soon. You did pretty good claiming that land bridge, though.
Focus on winning your first war next game. Don't quit or start staling, sometimes you just have to withdraw and let the enemy advance for a few turns, maybe even start sieging you, while you research some helpful spell, build up some other troops, do some diplomacy, or whatever else. You can't prepare for everything in advance, and you learn the most when you're trying to hold on for dear life with what you have available, even if it's not enough. It's very easy to stretch out your defeat and make it so costly that your opponent fucks up their own chances at winning the game, and many will accept a truce when they see things approaching that point.
Think too that you also can't judge yet when someone is actually playing well against you. Might be another newbie who just happened to bring something that counters your stuff.
Also lots of people will go AI if you manage to defeat them once.

>>527943394
If you're in a bad war just turtle up and start messaging people neighboring your enemy for help, most people would rather avoid someone going ai and getting run over giving all their lands to one guy.
I know for a fact that quite a few people were eying that war :-)

Basically if you're losing a war just turtle up don't put too much effort into turns message around but only give up once you lose your capital in siege storm you would be surprised how often enemies just kill themselves doing the weirdest things.

In addition you get to laugh if they fail to storm your cap and share the battle report in thread.

The DE release is soon apparently
Soon the newfags will learn how fun spells like Acid Seas and Rise of the Insects are

>>527947743
They're already releasing a Definitive Edition for Dom6?
Shillwinter you greedy fucks!

>>527947941
Please wait warmly

>>527947941
Maybe he meant the german release of dom6? Maybe they’re stuck with 5 for now.

>>527952138
DE for German?
What is this, an early 2000s Counterstrike lobby?

what do (you) think the weakest nations in each age are?

>>527959832
your favorite nations in each age, when you're playing them

>>527952979
Yeah, its short for Deutsch or Deutschland. And its the most common two letter code for german or germany, just like EN is english, DE is german.

>>527962373
I’m playing Lemuria right now, I’d like to hear your reasoning as to why they suck :)

Starcraft Hatchery has arrived!

>>527959832
EA Hinnom
MA Ermor
LA Mictlan

>>527959832
ignoring water,
Kailasa
Ermor
Phlegra

>>527959832
Not counting water
Ulm
Eriu
Feminie

Another Total Xibalban Victory™, was a nice fight. Abysia needs another throne or two to win and controls most of the map and we are both flooding reinforcements to one of my cave Thrones like it is Verdun, Early_Demise is HEATING UP

>>527977373

Fug forgot link. And that one key aspect of this battle is that I had 1 mage with Fire to cast Fire Ward and it landed somewhere but god knows because fires were falling everywhere https://litter.catbox.moe/okxyif1ptk8uqp90.mp4

>>527977373
I wouldn't call that a "total" victory, seeing as you lost most of your mages and I still have all of mine. You should accept our rule and the holy nation of Abysia might even let you have one of the two suns for your goon cave.

>>527978086
That's the joke, my Total Victories always end with me controlling the territory with 4-5 units remaining. I am not gloating, I'm just playing the game Abysia anon

so in LA pyrene is basically marignon with worse military units, no sea affinity
they get better sacreds and "cheap" blood sabbath priests?
did i get this right? cause it seems weird to take LA pyrene when marignon just seems better

>>527979253
I just play the nations that I like and only look up their stats later, I don't have any advice for you

>>527979253
I think they have better blood access? I think they also have strong cavalry? I haven’t looked a their stats in detail yet, I’ve been slowly making my way through all the nation overviews and reading the stats of their units and I’ve only just recently reached late age.

>>527980339
>better blood access
the cheapest blood mage in marignon costs 90 gold and their priests cost 70
in contrast pyrene offers a more efficient package of a blood priest with 120 gold

>units
pyrene does seem to offer shields at a cheaper price
it lacks in the crossbow department but with innate darkvision and glamour communions to get twilight going i think they compensate well
and i think that cold/fire resist 5 on every standard footman might tip the scales, but im unsure

>sacred
flagellants xd
cambion knights mog knights of the chalice statwise but being demons they get mogged by preists afaik

dunno, its about to be dead hours soon so im just trying to get a discussion to look at while at work

>>527979253
>Sacred heavy cav
>Frost fire resistant troops with darkvision
>Underground
>Research 0 succubui
>Blood searcher commanders
>Same naction
Veteran-sama..

>>527982463
ill succ your bussy motherfucker
but thanks for the quick rundown doctor

Alchemize water gems
Gift water gems away
Make shitty thug items with water gems
Destroy water gems with a hammer

>>527985436
Hey man, water has the cheapest boosters in the game

>>527985436
Use oysters to make water gems into astral pearls

>>527985436
all signs of a water "man" without fire crosspath
acidcels should find solace in donating their W to a man with a functional green lion engine

>>527988767
don't forgot mage breaker

Last time I played Dominions game (I think it was 4) I played hotseat mode against myself.
It was the best way to play it.

>>527970163
Which Doom Horror is the doomiest?

cast orgy

>>527995936
Umor

>>527999005
domg veterans not invited

>>527939397
need jag girl playing hoop ball now

>>527999005
I got you bro

illwinter doesn't care about dominions 6

>>528009140
They care about their swedish summer

Dust to dust

>sent my awake berserking expander into a swamp with Heat3 without even considering all the extra enc and fatigue generation
>proceeds to exhaust before the throne indies routed, dying in the process

I'm a fucking retard holyshit kill me

>>528016409
Bull?

illwinter more like, EL SHITTER

Any new games recruiting

>>528019721

>>528024154
>come home from work
>put on my robe and wizard hat
>fire up dominions
>blitzserver is kill
Blitzmin why have you forsaken me

>>528028824
Blitzmin just died in a white phosphorus attack on Bakmut and you're here complaining about not being able to play your game

>>528028824
>post this
>it instantly goes back up
I'm starting to get the feeling that blitzmin is a divine pretender who feeds off our prayers

>>528029043
He's essentially this guy. Though possibly made out of some lesser material than wood

>>528029634
>tfw Matrioshka PD

>>528030623
>I wonder what happens if I raise the fuck out of it
IT'S COMING

>>528030916
New undiscovered horror?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa5fshKL0PQ&ab_channel=Quasimorph
Any new EA games? Quasimorph is nearly coming out with an irish myth faction so i'm really looking forward to playing fomoria or tir

>>528028824
I need to get a good robe and wizard hat, I feel it would at least double my gaming energy

>>528030916
summon tiny horsemen swarm spell backfires, size 10 horseman trampler appears

>>527988767
>Kills your mages in friendly fire or hp routs you by running in front of army
WOW

>>528040703
or even worse, your commanding mage just decides to run to the frontlines and die, so your entire army routs

For me,
It's the gelatinous cube

>>528042094
I love jelly monsters in fantasy games but it's not for fetish reasons

>>528042094
Gelatinous Cubes are incredibly OP in CoE

>>528042094
>GoR a gel cube for the laughs
>give it a barkskin amulet so it turns into wood
>it can still swallow enemies despite no longer being gelatinous

I feel lied to

>>528050646
liquid wood gelatinous cube of mixed gelatinousness and hardness, the parts you strike turn to bark

>>528042094
Imagine being swallowed by a galatinous cube but instead of being drowned it starts doing weird stuff that would be funny

>>528042094
I like green lions desu

>>528054307

>Finish turns
Man, I wish I was in more games
>New turns arrive the next day
Fuck, I should not have signed up for so many games

Early Age faction designs and lore feels better than MA and LA.

I like TNN but I don't like my entire nation being countered by vine men and longdead.

>>528069505
I disagree, for example, Bogarus is quite boring, Ermor isn’t as interesting as any of its successor states, and Phaecia is more interesting than Beryros.

>>528070915
Why? Both those have shit stats

>>528075362
Ermor maybe, it's more so that Emor has a more fleshed out story trough the ages. But Rus I like EA way more than boring LA Bogarus.

>>528076982
Oh I mixed up which is which, that’s how boring the roster is throughout all ages lol, the only interesting thing about that line at all are the summons, because Chudes are like, what, humans with 1 more magic resist or something stupid like that?

>>527921665
time to axe shartcosyphilis

>>528076006
Mindless turns off basically the entire glamor path, they're very resistant to poison, they're also resistant to pierce damage, which nearly all your units (including all of your elves) do. Plus their shit armor means that most mindless chaff can actually present a credible threat to even your elites, and these units are also inherently good at wasting mirror images. Oh, and TNN has expensive priests. The general theme is that TNN has very bad diversity both in units and in magic, and almost everything they offer trades badly against these common, mindless chaff units.

>>528079148
imagine getting mogged by ermor lmao

>>528079661
Considering you need either death or good priests to crush ermor and they have neither it's not a shock

How can undead chaff be an issue bro just ravenous swarm

>>528079148
Just put solar weapons in your bless, bro.

>>528079148
A lot of this also applies to elementals, manikins, corpse constructs, swarm, etc. TNN kind of sucks ass against mindless in general because they're like an S nation if S lost the ability to focus fire non-mindless units with perfect range and precision in exchange for summoning mindless chaff that loses to literally every other mindless chaff in the game.

>>528077928
Rus seems to be a blend of slavic, baltic and finno ugric stuff, so I think the problem was the dev not knowing enough about mythology of the region. For baltic mythology you could have added werewolf or maybe other shifters, serpent worship/serpents and so on. Slavic and finno ugric have more stuff as well.

Getting forge up before everyone else is a good feeling

Is Ermor still high tier in the current meta?

>>527979253
LA Marignon is godawful at expanding, the heavy cavalry are incredibly good

>>528092846
Out of the Freespawn nations, Ermor is mid, Lemuria and nu-Asphodel are better

>>528096835
Lemuria has early counters and late limitations in a way Ermor doesn't. 0 prot ghosts are a weakness at all stages, elite BV sacreds are a strength at all stages, and Lemuria's immortals aren't enough to make up for that, they only allow them to tread water defending and raiding while the ghost stacks they need to actually take forts and win fights are hard-countered too many ways.

>>528094834
Especially the vanilla starting army of Marignon is terrible, it's what? 20 city guards and a handful crossbows?

>>528097257
They have really good researchers though, lets you get to burden of time or utterdark fast :) and via their freespawn priests you can pump out a lot of shades, and ethereal and dark power on the shades works great with utterdark. Also the grand lemur has great paths for late age, death 3 and astral 2 with a few boosters can be really nasty, and he’s immortal to boot.

>>528099193
I just checked and it looks like they stealth buffed it very recently, it's 15 city guard, 20 crossbows and 15 pikeneers now
which is still pretty shit but definitely better

And speaking of treading water Lemuria’s troops have full amphibian, letting you really dominate the sea in the late age where your only real competitor in that regard is Ryleh

>>528099246
>alt 9
>fast
Their research is still worse than any regular nation. Even casting Utterdark does more harm than good since everyone will now be killing you and outpacing anything your immortals can do to stop it. And BoT is just an inferior version since you'll still be killed/dispelled but you don't get nearly as much benefit.
>>528099473
R'lyeh, LAtlantis, Erytheia, Jomon, Patala and Mictlan are your competition, and the first three kick your ass UW, especially LAtlantis who's the most popularly picked of the five. No one's afraid of contesting Lemuria UW either, in fact if they're smart they'll prioritize kicking you out because you can't recruit or cast anything down there and someone on land is bound to attack you too and keep you from focusing on the water.

>>528100004
Jomon was the last guy alive before I won in my last game as Lemuria, and he didn’t do a good job contesting me underwater, he only had one real underwater army that I crushed by bringing 2 of my armies down on. Helps that I spawned on a peninsula only bordering Midgard I suppose, and the only other UW-capable nation in that match was Jomon.

>>528100808
You can win as any nation depending on spawn RNG and who fights who, especially in domg games where a couple lucky players will have most of their neighbors go AI.

>>528101403
Yeah, could just be personal experience, but I haven’t been able to make Ermor work and I do pretty well as Lemuria usually. Last time I tried to play Ermor I got pincered by Vanheim and Na’Ba who killed me simultaneously then divided up my territory between themselves. Still, I think you’re underestimating how annoying Ethereal can be in the earlygame, and how good their magic is compared to most other LA nations.

>>528101718
Ermor is more likely to get rushed by multiple players because it's an existential threat no one can fight alone, especially without crippling themselves (losing so much for dead lands, most of your surviving army dies of disease from starvation). Lemuria isn't much of a threat at rushing you down early and all they build up to is easily wiped ghost stacks and annoying immortals, so it's easier to procrastinate on since no one wants to fight for dead lands and doomed armies that are useless, full of disease but still cost upkeep while they're taking 10 turns to die.
Ideally you crush Lemuria early with multiple players, save some of the population and minimize losses, but teaming up is a pain in the ass.

>>528103948
Ermor isn't an existential threat, it's just a hassle to deal with later in the game so most players agree to kill em now rather than later.

>>528099193
the city guards die so quickly they cause your starting army to rout basically every time

>>528104213
>Ermor isn't an existential threat
Skeleton hands typed this post

>>528105676
Ermor hasn't been the threat since dom 4, Sceleria is an actual issue.

>>528105756
Yeah, no, I don't believe you skeletanon

>>528104213
If neighbor Ermor decides to kill you with his hellblessed Lictors, he WILL kill you, or at the very least deal major economic damage you can't make back because his shit is dead.
Fighting Ermor 1v1 = you can no longer win the game = existential threat.

>>528106078
Every player is an existential threat. What are longdead skeletons gonna do? We're not an issue.

>>528106218
>we’re

Ermor doesn't suck to play against because they're unbeatably strong, they suck because beating them makes you lose the game

Is the undead command cap bless mandatory on Ermor if you don't want to kill yourself on undead managment?

>>528106758
That's automatically the case for every popkill, but Ermor can also be unbeatably strong because they have a full hellbless with guaranteed BV and 12 sacreds per turn off their cap income alone, not counting the freespawn knights.
Even the strongest sacreds that can actually kill Lictors take heavy attrition, there's no casually wiping them unless you shit out a metric ton of eles they aren't blessed to counter.

>>528107913
If they would only let Blood Vengeance work on living units and then buffed Ermor in other ways, that could give them more dimensions to work with, would be cool. I'll never not be mad about Blood Surge not working when a unit with it kills a skeleton, but the skeleton being able to enjoy Blood Vengeance as long as its sacred, and it completely warps the dynamic

>>528108275
This would do a lot to solve the Ermor and LA C'tis dilemmas. If there's a lurking beta tester, please suggest no BV on undead or inanimate.

>>528108539
Hell, give them a National summon that is a lictor with Blood Vengeance, just make them pay an appropriate cost and have it make sense like they have blood pumping through veins in their body lel

>>528106218
>We're not an issue.

>>528118643
>1153 lictors
Jesus Christ how horrifying

>>528118853
And that's why MA Marignon had to do the things that turned them into LA Marignon.

>>528107583
No because you get undead commanders for free

>>527915679
Not the first goat fucking women of Dominions.

>>528127035
Won't be the last either

>>528127035
Why are goats so erotic to dominions women?

>>528132951
Goats look like Satan, and women love Satan.

Is spell damage subject to prot drn?

>>528135014
Every instance of damage in the game rolls a damage drn against a prot drn.

>>528135590
Oh, so if a spell says something like '15+' damage, then it rolls a damage DRN vs Prot DRN?
Cool

>>528136074
The + in 15+ means the spell damage scales with level in the main magical path

But yes, and the result is further modified by tags such as armour piercing, armour negating and fire / cold / lightning resistance

https://illwiki.com/dom5/damage

>>528136494
Yeah I got the + part since the game actually explains it in the spell if I hover over it thankfully.
Just glad this should work then. Enemy with marginally beefy very high prot units is about to shove them down my throat. If I blitz a few levels of AP Evocations then a bit of mage spam should be able to nuke them down.

LMAO

Final_ReveLAtion badmin set arco AI before patala rolls the turn

Where are the mods...the maps...the games??

Is this still popular? I remember I played Dom3 a bit a couple years back and did a few PBEM games though I was still very much learning and a lot of mechanics went over my head

>>528150415
popular might be a stretch but we're still playing games

>>528139848
Take the same army net worth with 10-15 gladiators instead and thats a free win

>>528150415
I mean its more popular than dominions 3 was. But is it popular? Ehhh.
At least we aren't playing games by email anymore.

>>528150415
It seems like it's a little more known with the Dom 6 release. Even Dom 5 felt way less known by comparison. The price point probably still puts a lot of people off though.

>>528150415
Sseth or Mandy will drop a vid anyday now...

>>528139848
Guys I think I might be toast

>>528157412
I think that’s thanks to Br0leg

>>528139848
Parthia'd

>>528162038
Once Illwinter updates their yee-yee ass game, maybe.

>>528162090
Let me butter you up then

Summon kappa

>>528164336
Butter me up and call me a biscuit mommy

does a buff end if the mage retreats?
i don't mean the whole battlefield enchantments, more like barkskin cast on some units.

>>528167821
No.
It's totally a strat to send a mage in with a thug. The mage buffs the thug then retreats off the field and the thug remains buffed

>>528178046
Even in an apocalyptic war for creation, joes find out ways to sham out of deployment.

>>528179251
The most likely thing the pretender will do once becoming pantocrator is wiping the slate of existence clean and rebuilding it from scratch. Even if you win the war you still die.

i exclusively play as the Vanarus Chuds in a spiritual war against (((Hinnom)))

>>528179820
Not lore accurate

>vampires in my cap circle turn 18
fucking epic

I hope our game goes well

>>528189221
Link

>>528189285
Should be here in an hour if I'm reading this correctly
https://cytube.implying.fun/c/vgleague

>>528189221
If our team jobs that's also in character

>>528191429
Somewhere around that, depends on how this match and the next one go.

Waiting warmly for our defeat

Right, you guys already know we're going to be playing soon, but the rules say I should be letting you guys know about it. Once the /hgg2d/-/ksg/ game is over it'll be time for our third and final game of the group stage, against /zzz/. The link is indeed >>528191429

>>528200052
Maybe we’ll even go AI before the match is over

>>528200468
What's our standing in the group?

>>528200556
0 points. It's theoretically possible for us to still advance on a 9-3-3-3 but it's very unlikely.

>>528200770
Just, broke, the, seal, I, shall, now, go, AI,

>>528200770
>0 points
Get crazy with the scripting coach, we have nothing to lose

/zzz/ here
good game friends :)

>>528202640
WRONG
HAVE A BAD GAME AND GET STOMPED (by us)

>>528202640
it didn’t happen yet

HOLY FUGGG MVP

why do we always lose?
how do we get better players?

It's so over

That's it, I'm beating my blood slaves.

it's beyond over

Well, that's that. A win would've been nice but at least we didn't get run over like how it sometimes happened. Hope you enjoyed watching!

going ai in all my games because of this

We went AI at halftime

The mages went off script after halftime.

>Win early game
>Victory assured
>Go AI

>>528207350
The /domg/ veteran strikes once again

>>528207350
boksi confirmed shinu player

We should have cast precision buffs on our team, we whiffed way too many shots.

>>528207683
Tent Owner barely missed the shot to tie the game, if only he had 2 more precision :(

>>528207683
illfraud need to fix their precision algorithm

>>528207350
Truly the hallmark of someone playing since PPP

>>528206614
why is our team so garbage?
what gives players better stats?
Is our script sweaty enough?

>>528209905
I say we let the players offscript and see if it's better than the decade-running manager's best scripting attempts

>>528206614
it's ok vgl guy. domg vgl is what got me into watching vgl in the first place and it's fun and funny to watch regardless of what the score is

can aoe spells be parried by shields?
if i'm reading this right, spells that are aoe; one person can be parried, but ones that are aoe; 1 or larger aren't parried?

>>528222714
correct

>>528223347
thanks, dunno why i asked, just opened a test game and went blasting the first indies with shields and confirmed it myself before even seeing this message

ea chads rise up

>Use thug aggressively
>Dies
>Use thug passively
>Routes before being able to do anything useful

>And we know that EA is a great age
OUTSTANDING, SIR
>And we know that it is the best age
BEST IN THE GAME, SIR

>>528238741
average bronzelet

>>528209905
>players
It's tactics and RNG, as far as I understand it.

>>528242681
Basically. You can set up the formation and try to get a gameplan together, but in the end you're at the mercy of however the game feels like having your players do. For example, there's the whole thing with player conditions that is rolled randomly and has some hand in determining how any given player will play; most teams that had their key striker or forward in the lowest possible condition had that player do jack shit, but then another team that has their center forward also in the lowest condition score 3 goals. You can see times when your defense or offense isn't working and make changes to try and get those dumbasses to do their jobs properly, but sometimes despite all efforts, nothing happens.
In short, you might as well go AI. A team's manager can always just tell the guys running it "just treat the team like it's an autopilot."

domg? more like DONG

my SP LAphlegra game got fucked
>decided to use my pretender to expand underground and it just stalled like 10 turns of doing jack shit
>forgot to make a dwarven hammer and wasted all my gems on a singular thug
>200 fire gems? no way to use them
>late game and still no gigantomachia
>armies wiped by the fucking frost midgets

guess ill restart my game
nations to rectify my failure? looking at MA Abysia, Asphodel and LA Pyrene

Foul air

>>528251697
How are you wiped by the ai

>>528251697
I don't even think its possible to lose to the ai with Asphodel.
Just shuffle trash units at them until you win. Take big growth and magic scales, and enough bless for your sacreds to expand well.
Get foul vapors for easy ai rape and drown people in vine skellies.

>>528132951
Pankomang cursed all women with goat lust after he grew jealous of his pet goat preferring his wife's company, then flew off into space.

>>528264303
BRAP

>>528278278

new games?

>>528266856
nations for this feel?

>>528280603
Which one do you usually like to be?

WHERE ARE THE NEW GAMESSSS

>>528285470
its swedish summer, nothing ever happens

>>528285470
Be the change you wanna see, I'm in 5 games already.

>>528280775
b-both...

>>528289546
Good girl. Play Pyrene.

>heh we may AI and chainstale and play like shit but at least we aren't a bunch of troo- ACK!

>>528295526
Did someone die?

The one thing I wish for Dominions is some way way for me to be able to punch up if I lack land.

>>528307621
>not to be able to rebind the keys

>>528307621
Awake rainbow sitesearcher. Your magic might is your punch up.

Vampiric Weapon, Bloodsurge, Undying 3
EA Xilbaba (for fun), a bit of a hellbless type scale, do I still focus on scorpions and Darkness?

I should be able to stack Enlarge blesses.

Morgen princesses owe me sex.

>>528307621
bro your bless?

>>528315510
t. piconye

I wish there was a stackable miniaturizing bless. I want to make giants size 1 and stick ten per square.

this game needs an ERP mod

>>528324301
>ERP mod
That's in the base game already. Have you even been watching the in-game cutscenes?

Hi /domg/, i won my first SP game, i started playing a month ago :)

>>528324901
Good. Now play MP.

>>528324901
Congrats. Now hop on Multiplayer.

>>528324901
let's see the tendie and the bless
who did you beat ?

>>528326479
I used this, i admit i was also playing without that many nations and with One Age turned on but by the time i realised the later i was kind of too invested to just drop it and go back to reading the manual or looking into more specifics.
>>528325972
>>528326223
Im in 2 MP games currently but havent fared that well, small nations without many forts and with limited research

>dominon luck +1
>indies stealing my fucking provinces
Never pick luck EVER

>>528331828
>poo clover 1
>1000+ gold events
>poo clover 2
>barbars attack

>>528324901
Gz desu

The recent world news asks the question to me: Are any remote attack spells worth it?

>>528341280
Depends on the remote attack. In terms of army killers, fires from afar sucks, flames from the sky, leprosy, and murdering winter are pretty good.

The power of mages

>>528348920
I like to believe it was the piggus
Tuatha have good MR, so I doubt you were spamming Soul Slay.
What was the spell of choice? Gifts spam?

gnight domg

Will a line formation split?
I've got it set to attack cavalry, if my opponent does a flank on both sides, will my line move to intercept both based on whoever is closer?

>>528362779
the way I've always assumed it works is a squad sets their sights on one other random squad and they don't do anything very intelligent like that. kind of the reason why making one huge line squad is a terrible idea, because they end up clumping together like retards and stuff gets behind them anyway, except everyone ignores it unless it directly makes contact with them and initiates one on one combat

>>528360452
good morning

And so ends EArly_Demise with another glorious victory for Abysia!

As you can see, I had a very hot pretender for a very hot nation, which once again goes to show that thematic tendie > hellbless. Sadly I didn't start in a cave nor did anyone try to cast darkness or steal the sun, so the whole "sun is always where the Solar Disc is" didn't even come in to play. On the other hand though, that meant that my capital was on a wasteland province, which let me cast Hidden Underneath whenever I wanted. Fire resistant skeletons are actually quite useful as Abysia.

>>528373152
My starting spot was very nice, aside from the river blocking my capital in, which only left me two provinces to attack at the start, since I didn't want to suicide into the throne quite so early. Thanks to some good diplomacy I forged an alliance with Lanka very early on as fellow red brothers which secured my southern flank, in addition to the river which acted as a great natural border. Like that I managed to take all the land from Roca in the north to Troll Canyon / Ephesibor in the south. As I didn't travel further north, neither Niefel nor Mekone ever tried to attack me until it was too late. On the other hand Hinnom for some ungodly reason attacked me with one of their thugs, which after taking one province, got utterly obliterated and resulted in him losing his fort to me.

Before I could march any further, Sauromantia had already taken the initiative and attacked Hinnom in that moment of weakness which made him go AI. Funny, considering AI Hinnom survived until the end and even made some gains, while I destroyed Sauromantia a few turns later.

>>528373285
One of the best provinces in my starting region was Blackport which gave me access to water / nature casters. Great for forging and summoning Kydnid soldiers over and over again. The other important part was, that it had a huge population which is why I made it the center of my blood slave hunting operation. I used relatively few of them for infernal breeding and spent the rest on summoning an Arch Devil and the Heliophagi.

>>528373439
One of the, if not the, most important factor in my victory were my globals. An early Eternal Pyre meant I always had enough gems to forge Fire in a Jars and summon flame spirits for extra research and combat power. The real menace however, was Second Sun which did a lot of different things for me, a really underrated global. The 4+ heat on provinces meant that my Abysians natural heat always hat a stronger effect and the "beings with affinity to flame will appear to serve you" meant that I had a whole lot of casters with fire/astral/earth all of a sudden, which of course boosted my research quite a bit. They also always appeared with a set of gems, depending on their elements.

My enemies, aside from the funny bat people, were for some reason not happy at all about having another sun in the sky. Niefelheim especially was trying to dispel it a few times, because it canceled out his Illwinter and made frost armor useless.

>>528373582
After getting most of my thrones slowly over the course of the game, I only really had to rush the last 2 or 3, since that was when the other non AI players started to wake up and declared war on me. At that point however, it was already too late. After one final battle with Xibalba, I took the last throne and became Pankoman.

Raven Feast

>>528383538
When to cast it?

GAMES?
WHERE ARE THE RECRUITING GAMES???

>>528392773
svensk sommar

Alright, I will make a new game then!!!!

i'm forced to place my mages within longbow range /domg/
i'm going to gamble it all on lucks 75% insta-kill negation
pray for me, this battle

Can someone redpill me on Bandar Log? How am I supposed to play them and build my god?

>>528402671
Get a fat bless for expansion and your first war.
Take the bare minimum scales you need to fight.
Site search early and hard, kill a neighbour early with your fat bless, then transition to sacred summons. The summons get you magic path access and fat(ish) sacred troops.
Awake immobile or awake monster are probably what you want, depending on what kind of bless strat you are going for.

>>528402671
Take the same Asura-pill i administered in an earlier thread. Vampiric weapons is awesome on Kailasa line sacred summons because they have 2 attacks, and makes the tigers tanky af. Asura can help defend the initial rushes and blood hunt in the mean time for some searchers and all his magic paths are tailor made for national blood summons, transitioning you into an Astral/Blood late game. You only need him dormant for first war, and can route bless into blood surge+vampire for the tiger expansion and later raiding squads, while getting some decent-ish scales to buy tigers

>>528405554
Vampiric weapons do life drain?

>>528405713
Deals 3AN dmg and drain the same amount

>>528406134
Does it overheal and does it work on bows?

>>528406220
yes and yes

>>528352734
Don't know the spell name but the druids were somehow raining fire from the heavens

>>528406220
Read the manual man:
Life Drain cannot increase a unit’s hit points above 150% of its maximum hit points +10.
Works on bows, not innate attacks like mind blast

>>527817651 (OP)
Did they change anything to/about the map generation for Dom6?

>>528410705
As in behind the scenes code? I don't know anything about that. But the cave layer is new.

>>528402671
imprisoned with larger bless and some blur/def to help your tigers with afflictions
tigers are size 4 so larger is just free HP and +3 str to all three attacks, so size downside, and your summoned sacreds are mostly size 4 too with two attacks

So I get that skellies and the rest of this trash isn't exactly the stronger troops around, and when fighting indies which are all armed with slings and clubs they're at an extra disadvantage

>>528416738
So I get that there's going to be heavy losses from the very moment we get within range

>>528416968
But when the fuck did we get Asterixcatlu, Obelixitlan and the irreductible Aztecs in Dominions
Isn't damage even capped at 999? What the fuck happened here?

>>528417460
headshots I think hit for max damage

>>528417460
No land stealing for you today, white man.

>>528417574
That doesn't sound reasonable... It'd also mean that pretenders, giants, etc. get easily wrecked by slings, and they don't

>>528417460
they're getting banished by the h1(?) priest in the back, not the slingers
banish is an insta-kill, hence, 999

>>528417982
That doesn't make sense either. We'd be seeing 999 here too.
You can also see the Banishment is hitting somewhere else in the second picture

>>528417460
Looks like mindless units dissolving due to lack of leadership.

>>528417982
Here. Banishment causes damage, and it's not auto 999.

>>528418427
Oh, this is it. I never noticed it's an actual damage roll.
Well, mystery solved. Thanks anon

>>528418908
>didn't look in the more detail tab first

>>528418908
Press 3 for controlled movement

>>528417574
>>528417982
domg loremasters

Infrastructure is so damn expensive now and takes even longer. Do you guys still save up to build a fort in the first year or just save forts for thrones?

>>528422084
for me the fort choices are throne or high pop money town. maybe if there's a sweet spot for defense I might throw one done. I just try to make sure there's 1-2 provinces between each fort

>>528429419
I think it's worth it to place a fort in the capcircle if it's 20k-30k pop province, the resources losses are marginal. But it all depends on scales and cap placement.

>>528422084
I played too much against mighty AI I just plop down a fort spaced out 1 province from the others

Why do my knights of avalon keep getting diseases mid combat despite having 100 resist?

>>528435537
They can get diseased but it doesn't affect them
undead can get diseased too

>>528435537
I think diseased can still be spread even if you resist it, so the diseased condition is tracked

Anyone want another EA game?

>>528438171
Yes.

>>528438171
yeah

>>528438728
>>528439241
OK tell me how to make a map that doesn't suck and I'll make a game

>>528439296
15 provinces per player
Wraparound north south east west
Small caves
A single level two throne per player, get half to win. So 10 players = 10 level two thrones get 10 points to win for example.
Sloops comfy balance mod is fairly popular, but that's your choice.

If you wanna be extra effort you can download mapnuke and generate your own map. Though that will require setting a hard limit on how many players can join, I recommend between 9-15 players. 12 being a sweetspot I think.

>>528441395
OK thanks

>>528441395
What would you say is a good amount of cave provinces? 30?

>>528442968
That would depend on the amount of players ingame

>>528441395
>north-south wraparound
ew why

>>528450180
Every game that did not have this enabled I've been stuck in the cuck corner as the threat wins the game on the other side of the map, it sucks.

>>528447359
12

>>528450330
If you have east-west wraparound on there is no cuck corner, just the map edge

>>528452571
>mommy i want to be safe on the map edge
>fuck the guy in the middle though
You are quasi-UWgger

>>528457914
Doesn’t necessarily have to be a guy in the middle

>>528441395
should be half + 1 thrones to win
if it half to win you can have two leaders that never have to interact

shit sucks

>>528450180
i despise the way it looks but this game is genuinely better without map edges. less chance of being surrounded by AI, and more options for wars and diplo is always superior.

>>528469218
The worst thing imho is that the winner is the dude who borders the most AIs

This will be either the greatest operation in my career, or i will go ai immediately after.

>>528474120
not as often as you'd think

I have seen AI hellwars you people wouldn't believe
I have seen /domg/ veterans trounced by first time players
I have seen horrors and humiliations that turn your blood to milk and then curdle it to boot

I have seen Burden of Times left up for 40 turns
I have seen bane venom charms on caps mistaken for random events
I have seen assassinations take out a water breathing bless kill stacks of cap-only sacreds in three provinces on a single turn
I have seen bumps on turn 8 that changed the course of the entire lobby

These are why I drink
also my hag of a wife... but mostly dominions bad beats

>>528476241
Don't you dare ermor

Summon Succubus

>>528489198
Pyrene, STOP summoning succubi

>>528373717
Congratulations Abysia, and well played. I wish that I had attacked you in earnest earlier, however mekone was allied with mekone for so long that i was afraid of over extending and either finishign them off and getting attacked in the rear by mekone, or attacking you in the early phases after you steamrolled the ice giants. Looking at my miserable income all game just reinforces how painful the cave income penalty is for the Xiboys, which also reflects in the pitiful research, which sends me back to not playing this game very much for awhile lel but it was a fun one with (you) fags

>>528491028
*Mekone was allied with niefelheim so long

I started in the caves and had an exit to the surface from the start, however I was blocked both in the caves and on the overworld by Agartha, who had also built up far superior infrastructure than I did, ensuring that in the future they would dominate me in all aspects and at best I would get a small sliver of provinces to expand out from. Seeing that they were so invested in the future, I decided to take them over now, rather than trusting in their good will later. Having been betrayed by the cave fatties several times before in previous games swayed my decision as well.
It did not take long to take over most of their non-forted provinces, and they promptly went AI. they still had quite a lot going for them and if they had endured in the game they probably would have defeated me, because neifelheim saw me about to capture all of the Agarthan provinces and decided to declare war. this put me on the back foot for quite some time, and as I was running an experimental Cold bless as a counter to Abysia, who I expected to be the only other cave nation in the game, and who I expected to attack me early, it gave the ice giants advances not only in combat but also in movement, as they can ski right through snowy provinces, and gain additional buffs from it being cold.
this story is already too long so I will wrap it up, Lanka jumped in on my war against the ice giants but they eventually gave up, i slowly fought the ice giants back to close to their forts, then Abysia came through a few turns later after I dithered because I was concerned about Mekone buildups on my borders.
It was a fun game but man I wish the icefags teamed up with me instead of just obstinately continuing our war while you cast global after global, it could have been a real war
t. Xibalboy

>>527817651 (OP)
What new nations and based on what historical background/mythology would you love to see?

>>528498838
The naction of Denmark.

>>528498974
But there is plenty of Germanic/Norse stuff in the game.

>>528498838
Turkiye

>>528498838
Anything based on Polyneisa
Maybe SEasia after that

>>528498838
Easter Island, with the giant stone statues. I'd like to see them gain powers from creating these statues on far flung shores and then from some mechanic drawing power from them and casting national rituals. I'd like a mechanic where the statues can get 'activated' in such a way that lines get drawn between them and any province within the boundaries gets affected by Easter Island Magic, and they should have national rituals to go along with that as well. Maybe they aren't very strong at all but are very good at boating around and building basic infrastructure so they have a fair chance at carving out enough space to get their thing going

>>528498838
crannog ys
zemaitia
steppe friends

>>528501637
they need to be vulnerable early and then a menace when you get the ritual that a head can cast to haul its whole body out of the ground and become a SC

>>528502260
>when you get the ritual that a head can cast to haul its whole body out of the ground and become a SC
okay and at spell level 9 you can launch them

>>528502428
ok no thats too much however yeah being vulnerable early and then a menace later based on statue head ley lines is my current approach for this nation

>>528502163
isnt tien chi basically turkic/steppe friends?

>>528502574
the soimodder fears the intercontinental ballistic moai

>>528502771
he intercontinental ballistic moai fears the Hinnom Brass Dome

>>528501637
There was a mod nation in Dom 5 that was pretty much this. Karanac or something. All their troops were just big rocks that could cast spells. They were pretty OP.

>>528506103
Hellenika when?

>>528502723
too much china and not enough central asia, ragha is closer to being steppefriends than LA TC

I want to stick three mages in a single tile, directly behind the main battle line.
One of the three mages, I want to cast Luck, specifically, on the very tile he's standing on targeting the mages instead of the troops directly in front of him.
Will the mage be smart enough to do that?

>>528514625
Fuck me, just tested and yes they will BUT if a bush spawns in the same tile one of them gets jutted out and not targeted with it.
Now that's some horsehit RNG

>>528514625
>>528515124
what little understanding of the mechanics we have tells us that mages prioritise the highest hp pool per square when targeting for buffs, and they will also consider their own hp to be doubled (or is it tripled?) for these priorities. the best way to get a mage to buff his own square is to fill it with high hp units

Ind won

MakingItOuttaHelheim

congrats

>>528520684
What the fuck

>>528498838
I want North(er) American Indians, like Iroquois or Haida

>>528520684
>15 players
>5 thrones to win
What a fucking anti-climatic win. Oh well.

>>528520684
>it's real

WHAT THE FUCK

>>528520684
>>528476241
t. Ind
I'll write up tmr

5 globals is way too fucking low imho since one faggot gets them up all at once and hogs all the space. 10 minimum.

>>528526376
IMO there should be about 0.75 global slots per nation in the game

blitzserver?
more like
onthefritzserver

I am drunk as fuck for the Baltic version of midsomer.
Nations for this feel?

>>528537602
Rus

>tell mages to eagle eye (attack) web
>because they are targeting cavalry, they place the target point 20 tiles ahead
>this is directly on top of my own slow ass troops right as both sides clash and stop moving
>half of my entire army gets webbed with perfect precision, his side barely touched

I'm never using evocations again. This fight would have been a blow out if that didn't happen, instead it was a pyrrhic victory (both lost ~half our armies, none of my mages died fortunately)
If it ain't got 100 prec, I ain't using it from now on.

>>528540637
what was the precision of the mage because i've done similar and had amazing success with shotting web

BLITZMIIIIIIIIN

Blitzmin's underground server facilities 30 miles south of Tehran have been obliterated by an Amerikkkan bunker buster

>>528547085
You can spam fires from afar all you want but no war is won without taking thrones.

>>528545403
How do I shot web

>>528545403
10 or 11, +4 from eagle
webs they shot after were fine, it was just this initial one I had scripted that really ruined the momentum.

Good or shitty EA Rus god?

>>528556042
Sounds like a casualty of the aiming function for projectiles being essentially broken.

What likely happened is your mages were aiminh at where they thought the enemy would be but did not account for them running into your own line and stopping. Hence, they aimed at your own dudes.

>tfw I'm going to have to go to bed before blitzserver is back online and I'll probably stall on all my games

>>528559376
like I thought in the original post
it's why I rather liked turn based more
enemy army isn't moving at all when the spell or arrow is cast? projectiles land with decent accuracy
enemy is moving at all, especially if they're fast? TO THE FUCKING MOON with these bolts!

is it worth arranging your tendie's paths for a nature banish? guess this is a big "it depends" question but I figure if your nation has a bunch of priests around (maybe someone like Man who has priest mages and cheap monks) then it could be useful even if it's a easy to resist spell, since there are big spooky baddies and thugs out there

>>528567827
It can be worth doing, but its not an amazing reason to do it. Generally all the banishes are good enough, even the basic one.
If you have a lot of priest 3's you may want to think about what smite you get though.
The astral one is great because of its range, and the blood one is great for its damage and wounding potential

BLITZMINNNNNNNNNNNN

>>528571985
Its back up. I'm working though so can't go rolling back games and fiddling with timers, sorry.
Not even sure what happened. Woke up and the whole server was non responsive and I had to pull the cable. Not the usual satellite outage from israel firing neutron bombs into the sky over me.

>>528523260
GG. No idea the game was close to ending. My precious score graphs!

>>528559376
Many such cases since the DOM5.

>Ys staling while sieging R'lyeh
DO YOUR TURN YOU FAGGOT

>player in another game gets 2-man war dec on the same turn
>instantly gives up and becomes a pouty bitch
Dom6 mental worse than the average League of Legends player I swear

Are solar weapons or withering weapons ever worth it? I've tried both against the AI but I can't tell how much of a difference they're actually making.

>>528592952
Solar is only good if you're a nation that struggles against undead hordes

>>528593804
you will join us soon enough

>>528595893
>be poor peasant farmer
>get enlisted in the all encompassing world holy war
>die
>be poor peasant farmer
it never ends

>>528592952
Withering is ok. Nothing great.

>>528592952
Solar weapons is nice-ish against undead and gives your sacreds at least some damage dealing capability against ethereal, but it's very meh. Withering is pointless. If you can hit them to apply the wither you can kill them normally.

>>528592952
Withering works if your sacreds are weak shit but hard to kill and have good attack application. So something like Arco heart companions, or Tuatha/Eriu sacreds. It fucks with thugs and SCs a lot if they don't have mr resist.

>lose job
>join a bunch of games due to no job
>have fun and do well
>get a new job faster than expected
>lose all desire to play and phone in my turns
>play like garbage as a result making me want to play even less

I'm starting to understand the veteran mindset.

>>528602303
some dude explained the caveat between solar and flaming weapons, and even magic weapons from astral?

something about solar being magical and flaming weapons not? or was it the other way around?

>>528604419
Magic weapons make your weapons magical. If it did 10 it will do 10 magic.
Flaming weapons add extra fire dmg to your weapon. If if did 10 now it's 10+fire, but only the fire part is magical.
Solar is the same with flaming, only much weaker

>>528603945
>not having the willpower to quit your job and focus on winning
NGMI

>>528603945
I was looking for job and then I found a job, and heavens know I'm AI'ing now..

>>528603945
>>528606496
>get job
>start jobbing

>>528537602
Far... far too much wine and shashlik.

>>528592952
Solar weapons work wonders against ghost nations, but they are pretty shit otherwise.

How useful is flying ship as an artifact?

>Water rituals are kinda shit, well at least Sea King is okay
>Cost gold upkeep
WOW

>>528627456
You only have to cast Wolven Winter 20 times to completely murder a province, anon!

>>528630724
If you've set up to cast wolven winter 20 times, you might as well take the capital for yourself with all the income.

>>528627456
Fucking trolls

Spectral Soul claims his rightful place as god.

I won't talk about my tendie design since i have already shared it and explained my choice on why i picked scales and path, but if anyone want to just say it and i'll post it again.
The Asura is the MVP of my game though. He probably butchered close to 20k worth of enemies. He did die once to a stack of 11 sorcerers and assorted mage support spamming raise dead but that's acceptable casualties to me. In total he had 1300 kills, 1100 in melee.
Expansion was so so, the greatest issue was that i'm surrounded by mountains and blocked by 2 thrones, still i managed to bag a few highland provinces and a cave mouth with decent pop.

bird bros how do we respond

>>528635763
Trouble start immediately when Phlegra goes ai immediately upon being attacked by Machaka. I don't know why he bitched out like that considering Phlegra is still alive in game to this turn and thriving somewhat. This fucks me up considerably since Machaka would likely cap him and eat me very soon.
If you played Xib you would notice that the cave where i had that fort was relatively unclaimed. That's because my only expansion path through the cave bar the throne was blocked by Bogus and his goons spawning immediately just 2 turns after i took that province and wiped my army. If not for that i would have had a much stronger position underground and possibly took it with impunity.
I paid a handsome amount for an amphibian merc company and took some water provinces next to me. Then Ys came along and be like, all water is mine and just hit me out of nowhere. Bitch, you only need coastal provinces why the fuck are you taking indefensible land? And in the end he didn't build a single fort underwater there so i could just retake all of it with a few geared Hashmals.

>>528635763
Instead of just eating Phlegra peacefully Machaka decided to attack me right as i take a throne nearby. This is also the moment i realize there are 6 thrones in good vicinity, 2 just 1 step away from my cap, 2 in caves, and i just need to kill Machaka to access the final throne. Machaka went full hellbless on his spiders, taking max O,P and tank both death and drain. My armies are obliterated upon contact. I was close to AI as well, but thankfully Asura was able to blend all the spiders within dominion. Any squad of spiders he put in my candles i just trapeze over and destroy. Machaka also did a somewhat annoying thing by spamming 50-60 PD every single provinces, every battle had 180 auxiliaries making it difficult for me to take with my bless, except my God. Even squads of dogs get killed off. But i know with how reckless he was spending money and with spies on every single province he had i know he was pumping every coin into making spiders and 0 magic, and even though he was big he had like 2--3 fort? I endured until Conj6 where Hashmals can just take a province whatever amount of PD it had. In the middle of the fight, Arco decided to send a rather large squad into my land intending to vulture, but after a cloud trapeze from Asura i "convinced" him to leave me alone in my fight

>>528635763
With Hashmals raiding and counterraiding my income and gem situation slightly improved. I took back a lot of land from Ys and Machaka. Lost my god here unfortunately to a doomstack of full mages, but he managed to kill all the spiders present at that battle. Then Asphodel showed up and took all of Machaka's left side land. He also went down and took the throne i needed to win, then parked 800 troops there, for which i have 0 way of contesting. I turned my attention to a throne near my pond that had 20 watchers and a monolith. Some poor motherfucker must have tried his hand at fighting this throne and lost all his shit because i pinged it earlier and it still had a lot of chaffs. I rushed for the thrones underground, then teleported 4 supreme mages on the monolith along with my god decked in anti shock, with a Hashmal taking Shinu's province nearby just in case it's a dud and i had to retreat. That's where i said it's my greatest operation or AI because Shinu had 2 gem gens up and desu no one can win even if the remainder of the map ganked him. It's now or never. And it paid off.

>>528635763
This is the final gear Spectral Soul had. I could replace the boots with quickness boots, and antimagic for the trinket, but i was very afraid that soul vortex can't drain the statues and he was fighting in non dominion land so no vampiric

>>528537602
what did you see in the fires?
zemaitia in june, chuds coming soon?
angry bear head, dominions is dead?

>>528638820
I seen shashlik being cooked.

>>528638330
Theoretically, what kills this?

>Average domg win be like
>Dude next to me failspands and is vultured
>Half my neighbours go ai
>Some other guy who's really bitter at someone else deathbaskets me
>Hoard up all the global spots
>Win

>>528638330
>3 horned helms
>not 3 spirit helms

>>528642929
>No regen
>No N path

>>528642929
A good astral mage

>>528642929
Summoners are usually pretty good at locking down titans unless they have an army present. If an army is present you're usually better off just trying to cause an HP rout than killing the actual titan, I think.

>>528642929
Titans in general are usually going to have some obvious defensive vulnerability, what makes them good is the ability to change builds for each encounter so that vulnerability just ends up being something the opponent doesn't have. Especially if they can magic phase.

>>528498838
SERBIAAAAAAAAAAAA
SERBIAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>528498838
Scandi LA troll kingdoms

>>528642929
>Lack of poison resistance.
Pick any poison spell.

>Lack of cold resistance.
Frozen heart is a bitch.

>Vunerable to major fatigue plays like any thug.

I could go on.

>>528654396
It has 10 cold resistance from the armour

>>528654746
I did not notice the elemental armour.
Bitch has too many effects on him.

>>528654396
That thing is only vulnerable to some fatigue plays since it will be rocking Soul Vortex

>>528654396
Can't fatigue against soul vortex. Can't do elemental damage. Any counter thugs has to pass through both the lightning damage and the 5/10 attacks, and halved damage. Poison is a problem if you don't gear for it, it's as easy as getting a replacement weapon. But it have to get pass vamp drain and soul vortex heal. Skelly spam is the only good way, but i scripted personal flight attack rear just in case, so you have to bog him down with summoned undead first, then get like 10 death mages spamming. Or illusion spam. You still have to lock him down somehow because he can just retreat and cloud trapeze back into an unsuspecting stack

Here’s an idea domg veterans, instead of joining 5 games and going AI in 4 of them, join one game, and play it all the way through. It’ll be more fun for everyone, do you find no joy in the comeback?

Wasn't someone supposed to be making an EA game?

why tf does ma ulms units have magic armour?
"oh we're an ultra might based barbarian nation relying entirely on blood and steel in a completely magic devoid land!... But we still enchant our armour because... we just do, okay!"

>>528660753
So it doesn't get broken or rusted.

>>528660753
Someone utters mombo jumbo and your face melts off, while ulmite steel protects you from arrow fire.

where cute ulm girls

>>528668776
With the the goat chads of course. Where else would they be?

>>528669784
>lose their charm abilities by MA
I don't think they were very chad bro

>>528669875
They lose it in LA.

>>528669784
you got it backwards the cute centaurides from MA Pangea are dating ulmchads because they admire their steel.

>>528670147
O

Is blitzserver down?

>>528668776
on thronebooru

>>528670817
It's down every single day for like 3 hours

IT'S BACK

>>528656035
Soul slay will hit it eventually in a long enough battle, or with enough mages spamming it.
Bonus points for pen gear.
Soul Slay is (almost) always the answer

>>528674782
Sometimes too I also wonder about just spamming bane fire since it's 55 damage, no MR
granted the mages will need precision to actually land it and that D3F1 is pretty rare natively, but if even five land it should drop it.

>>528674782
Pillar of fire is the ultimate redpill

have we finally reached the consesus that goat cock is an integral part of the general?

>>528680286
Always has been

>>528681425
i have found my home

>>528680286
/lgbt/ is leaking again

>>528681727
yeah, i am actually
MA pangea, lord of the wilds, panii for maneadmaxxing
sacreds are forbidden, full scales

>>528683319
The centaur council refuses your dirty forest orgies and prefer to build houses and forge metal

sorry chad but this is real life
the goat gets the girl

>>528683651
TOTAL
BRONZOID
DEATH

>>528685128
>how I imagine myself when the cashier lady smiles at me

>>528683701
god i fish that were me

>>528656035
>because he can just retreat
Not if you snipe the neighbouring provinces

>>528683701
Phish

>>528680286
/utg/ is over there

>>528685128
Too late, already upgrading to steel

The tuathas did nothing wrong and yet for some reason they just get completely genocided before even the late age.

>>528697980
deserved fate of all things irish

>>528697980
Do victims of genocide usually do something wrong anon?

>>528697980
too fair and magical for this world, like the prester king

>>528697980
Despite having an extremely sexy populace, they did not breed hard enough or selectively enough.

>>528697980
they gave rise to underwater elf feminists, so they clearly did something very wrong

>>528699185
Well Ind gave rise to Feminie, who are maximum misandry, so by this logic Ind also did something very wrong.

>>528697980
Technically the sidhes were the ones to get genocided. The tuathas just fucked off to their paradise dimension outside a few that wanted another round of fighting for the awakening god.

>>528699345
Wrong. Piconye inherited majesty of Ind. Andramania inherited the civility of Ind. Feminie stole the knowledge of Ind and immediately used it as unwisely as possible freeing their cursed giant gigachad bfs from house arrest.

>>528701882
Didn't both the Sidhe/Tuatha and somewhat the Van mainly die out because their hateboner towards giants is what kept them going so most of them just died in war?

>>528702264
I don’t disagree, I was arguing that you’re not responsible for the actions of your successor nations (if the nation has the same name in the next age I don’t count it as a successor nation I count it as the same nation in a different time period)

>>528702479
Tuatha's lore is pretty convoluted but they're not very warlike at all. They basically just attacked the fomorians one time because of ancestral hatred and, failing that, they became island NEETs until Man invaded. They lost/fled against Man, and most of what follows is just various places where their splintered forces went to. Some went underwater and made Ys, most of the sidhes and some tuathas fled into fae realms and were sealed there when Man destroyed the gateways into them, and most of the Tuathas fled to "The Land of the Ever Young", which is apparently distinct from the fae realms, and never returned. If anything the implication is that they are cowardly.

>>528705438
The Land of the Ever Young is TNN. Avalon gets conquered by man and the forces dispersed in that conflict become Ys and Eriu. The rest just go back to TNN who, for whatever reason, doesn't get involved in the ages after EA. I guess Illwinter couldn't make up his mind between either burning TNN to the ground or de-mystifying it so it would fit in with the later ages.

>>528699185
>>528702264
the merrow and piconye are the inheritors of the shining example of the tuatha and prestor kings, and they nobly uphold their traditions in a more diminished capacity and darker world

tuatha and the prester king are wonderful, but their grandeur comes effortlessly, so the model they inspire to far lesser beings is cooler than they are themselves

>>528708518
Don’t count out Andramania, they’re trying to live up to Ind’s example as well.

>>528702479
the tuatha would rather do poetry than fight and as the world becomes more bleak they just go into NEETcaves and/or underwater paradise cities

>>528708840
the way andramanians look down on humans, think they have evolved past their own nature, and de-emphasize the religious (i.e. most central part) of the prester king's teachings makes them less sympathetic to me. Butt-sniffing ~enlightened~ vegan doglarpers

>>528706567
LA TNN could probably return as a low tech representative. They were basically already that in MA anyway. Maybe give them some merrows and summonable Morvarchs or something.

>>528710572
but then they’d just be less interesting than the EA version, gotta give em some special sauce in LA like most nations have

>>528711142
EA TNN is pretty uninteresting to begin with
>only gets 2 national spells

>>528711367
yeah formoria is the much better irish mythology nation

>>528712757
>tfw Quasimorph is getting a new Celtic mythology faction before Dominions this year
It hurts...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa5fshKL0PQ&ab_channel=Quasimorph

>>528713063
Please understand, illwinter has a hard time understanding any mythlogy that's not Norse exists.

>>528711142
What I mean is LA TNN would be an elf analogue to Mictlan, where their MA is an outlier and their LA is just the return of EA but with some friends they made along the way.

>>528713063
>>528713391
I want to believe the addition of new celtic factions was shelved until the glamor path was finished and they'll start emerging now that they don't have to have their paths reworked.

>>528713063
I've unironically been listening to this banger on repeat all week
I just wish they'd release a 1.0 so I could give Quasimorph a spin, hate playing through an unfinished game then having to wait years for the final experience

>>528713743
Yes.... only a matter of days I'm sure

>>528713391
so real, they have waaaaay too many norse nations, heck 2 of the nationd they added in dom 6 were yet more norse nations

The worst part about Eriu is you're a glamour primary nation in an age with MA Ermor, Asphodel, and Sceleria all exist, are strong, and are relatively popular.

>>528714832
The elves fear the skellyspam

>>528708840
Andramania are enlightened atheist Redditors who LARP as Ermor.
Howlers are, spiritually, the only element of Andramania that is in the right.

>>528715068
I always assumed the Ind spinoffs were the Anglo colonies

>>528715051
It's more of an Eriu specific issue. Vanheim still has air magic, magic phase thugs, and einheres in 6. Eriu basically lost all the important parts of the path for the undead matchup, and has much worse normal troops. Glamour is half of a path and it really shows in that particular matchup.

>>528717732
>thugs
I don't think you can send elf thugs into undead anymore with the mount/vine shield changes.

>>528710572
>>528711142
>>528713579
Merrow and fir bolg with primitive forts is LA TNN, its only a matter of time

>>528713743
>>528714085
glamour path was definitely heavily made with celtic nations in mind, and its no coincidence that new national spells arrived, even for MA Ys that never had any. Illwinter is just fickle and can't be made to continue working at their masterpiece, but they'll finish the work eventually
(because my mental health depends on it)

>>528717732
It's a mounted issue. Now you need to put armor on the horse. Vanheim at least has blacksteel immediately at Cons3, while Eriu/TNN has no such luxury.

At long last, I've reached conjuration 5. Now my glamour 3 mage can spend a gem and all of his fatigue to summon a mighty Phantasmal beast that... Loses to one single Soulless.

illfraud released the game in january last year, then revamped asphodel in march and released LA pyrene in april

they got the desire to update the game out of their system within three months and haven't made any notable additions for a year

>>528719783
Actually, it loses to one Large Beetle. Sending a soulless to kill a glamour gem summon is an over-commitment.

>>528719783
Anon, illusory army is that way. Conj5 is for fay knight.

>>528720094
Pls understand, they are working on CoE and T&T

>>528720141
Illusory Army also loses to a single soulless. That's why Glamour is half of a path. Half of the spells in Glamour say the same thing: Summon a thing that stands still while a Soulless punches it to death. Most of the spells in the path are placeholder tier copypaste jobs.

>double bumped
>won both

>>528720439
Guildmaster is a cool addition

>>528720958
they were working on guildmaster all the way back in november, so presumably they are spitting the vajority of their vile non-dominions passions into never-ever T&T

>>528721262
We haven’t heard anything about T&T for at least 15 years right there’s no way they’re working on that right?

Has anyone made a good Stormflight build yet?

>Illusory Army loses to beetle
>Drakon loses to Illusory Army
>Therefore, beetle is stronger than Drakon
QED

>>528722268

>>528723016
I stand corrected, bruh why are they still working on that shit its never gonna come out

>>528722859
You're going to encounter beetles a lot more often than you are drakons.

>>528724729
really though you aren't going to be using pure glamor summons, they need to fight alongside mundane troops that can kill enemy mindless units. As long as you have a good mix they can do work

>>528724729
>>528726357
It's not like there's much else to spend your glamor gems on, other than maybe rainbow armor/simulacrums for your mages. There's basically no useful rituals in Glamour at all.

>>528726357
>they can do work
Not if your opponent is mindless freespawn. That's precisely the problem. The path does literally nothing against mindless armies. People bitched about fire being countered by rain for years on end and yet that wasn't even anywhere close to as egregious as an entire magic path being turned off by a single unit tag that entire nations have by default. Even S has the ability to resist using Body Ethereal and 100 range evocations. G doesn't even get that much.

>>528728697
You can at least summon some fay knights that will just die to longdead anyway because your G primary N secondary nation can't field any kind of meaningful mage support against those units whatsoever.

>>528683701
>>528266856
>>528685128
souce on the artist?

>>528730416
well, glamor mages can buff units with luck at least. that still works against mindless units

>>528730416
"Entire" nation is a bit of an exaggeration. The mindless freespawn nations are all undead, so the best mage support against their mundane troops is going to be priests anyway. Also, their sacreds are non-mindless, so the false damage actually presents a threat against them and can even be a counter if they're running BV. Just like longdead are immune to glamour magic, illusions are immune to most death magic. It's a pretty weird matchup where neither path has great magic against the other, but longdead have the edge because of their holy vulnerability.

The one path interaction I don't like very much is illusions triggering overcharge. I think the fact that illusions instakill themselves on it, immediately freeing up space for more illusions to do the same, makes it too perfect of a counter. It also just doesn't really make sense how an illusory attack is conducting a real electrical shock against the attacker. That would imply the illusion tricked elecricity into shocking it when it can't even trick a mind controlled bug into thinking it's dead.

>>528732185
perhaps /domg/'s most talented native artist

>>528734169
/dong/ has artists?

>>528723016
They're going to wait for the ENTIRE Lucid tournament to finish, receive the consensus™, and start making updates accordingly.

>>528735227
come to /domg/! we have:

tentposting/chudgartha artist
fetish inannaposter (theredosbros HATE him)
merrow spammer
sketchmaster (this is the talented one)

I think Orionde is more interesting than Feminie and should have been an ind successor state instead of it.

>>528739648
im still waiting on cynocephali to get an MA or EA equivalent that isnt locked into ind

>>528710572
>>528711142
>>528711367
>>528719001
>primitive forts
>unarmoured merrows and fir bolg
>rare super strong elves get insta-killed by steel
>Morvarch? 50 glamour gems summon o algo
Indeed, they can be like Mictlan, and nobody plays Mictlan in LA.

>>528717357
>

>>528745847
I would play it every single game

(I have played mictlan in LA)
(I lost)

>>528750508
You're just a Thedoroschan-Masochist and barely human.

>>528750632
what did he mean by this

>>528751554
Seems pretty clear to me, anon. You love playing shit nations. You crave the sight of other men's armies raping your succulent lands.

>>528754264
unfortunately I am the eternal champion, a man cursed to be The Threat in any game I join

a merrow-based nation may finally break the wheel and stop my constantly repeating ascension

>>528755975
Can we trade places? I fucking suck at this game

>>528732185
Me.

>>528760557
Where can I see more.

>>528761954
I think someone's added a few to the booru, but otherwise only on my hard drive or in the archives.

>>528762901
Dammit You should post them all.

>>528735467
>tentposting/chudgartha artist
amuys

>fetish inannaposter (theredosbros HATE him)
some cringy weeaboo

>>528765224
yes we know anon but you can't just name people, it isn't the done thing

>>528765224
>some cringy weeaboo
that goes for at least 3/4 of that list

>>528766272
website*

>>528745847
Mictlan sucks in LA because their main national features, their sacreds, are countered/de-scaled by the high quality equipment other nations have access to, and all they get to compensate for that is some naked atlanteans. Primitive TNN would actually be quite effective in LA, because glamour is at its strongest in that age. The units it counters (high prot, low HP/MR nonmagical units) are everywhere and its main counters (high path evocations and combat summons) are few in number. It's also well suited for dealing with blood path, because blood evocations don't work on inanimate illusions whereas false damage is good at killing vampires and ghosts, as are magical golden spears.

>>528755975
I will just be the Gaynor then and just declare you the threat while jobbing horribly

>>528762981
Typically I wouldn't because they're crap but alright. What's the site of choice for anonymous galleries?

>>528771816
It doesn't help that mictlan's sacreds are multi-attackers, so ozelotls go from doing 15+12+12 damage against 10 prot with bloodlust in EA to doing 2+0+0 damage against unbuffed 20 prot platemail with bloodlust in LA.

>>528774816
imgur, I guess, but I honestly don't know these days.

Whats the play if I'm summoning fire elementals?
Do I first have to slap down fire res on my army to prevent the fuckers from burning my own team down first?
Or live dangerously and throw my fragile, old ass mages straight in front of my army and cast from there?

>>528774816
you should just put your entire dominions body of work on thronebooru, its whole purpose is preserving dominions fanart

>>528775308
You don't really need fire res on your troops unless you are summoning A LOT of fire elementals. If its easy for you to do though go for it.
Depending what size your troops are, the elementals can just wade through your army to the frontline anyway. Have mages up front if you feel safe from arrow fire, have em up back if you are afraid. The eles should find their way to the front either way, unless you are playing a giant sized nation.

>>528775562
Morally yes, but then I'd have to tag and upload them individually and check for duplicates and that's just more effort than I'm willing to put in on something I don't exactly want to do in the first place.

>>528776614
sasuga sketch-sama, lack of follow through and reluctance to put in the full effort is truly your maker's mark

>>528775308
just give them either a cheap hat or a lion pelt and let those fuckers eat an arrow up front

>>528777112
Yeah...

>>528777760
The person I want to do this to has xbows, so it's very annoying to work around. Normally I'd just clump my mages and cast Ironskin and call it a day, but xbows still easily 1shot with it so I'm stuck gambling on Luck negating the hit.

What is the best slot to fill on a naked mage to protect from arrows efficiently?
I know the lion pelt is good because it gives head and body prot, but if you don't have it are you best off with a hat, shield, or armor?

>>528778554
There's a shield that gives air shield

>>528774816
Just post them here. Or maybe catbox.

I've got a map move question, don't want to risk my army getting annihilated because I misunderstood.
Opposing units and commander has map move 16 and no terrain/snow bonuses.
For them to intercept the province I want to attack, they must:
Leave a snowy forest mountain (halfstep 5 (or is it 10? 5 forest + 5 mountain?) +1)
Enter and leave a snowy plains (step 6 + 2)
Enter a plains (halfstep 3)

They should NOT be able to reach this province in time because that would need 17 move total, correct? Or does the half step of them passing the snowy plains put the army inside the final prov?

>>528782118
I aint gonna do the maths but hit ctrl+m and the map will show you all the movement costs between provinces.

>>528782284
oh fuck that's exactly what I need thanks

>>528779178
>catbox.moe/c/uvwen9#
Try that.

>>528783803
artfags be like "yeah I'll draw a hundred sick pieces of art and then let them be swallowed by the void unless someone hassles me enough to preserve them"

>>528784474
1. Impermanence is the point. The wheel must turn.
2. They're shit.

>>528784943
>hurr it's better than 90% of the rest of the dominions fanart but I think it's shit so fuck you it's gone
total artist bullying

>>528783803
Thanks.
>>528784474
It really do be like that, I noticed.

How prone is vanherse PD to killing itself with charge body?

Is there a way to make a map in something like mapnuke but with the built in Dom6 map generator art?

>>528799885
You can do a generation in game and then adjust caps with
https://nixx.is-fantabulo.us/dom5ranmapnos/
as far as I know
But otherwise I don't know tools

>>528799885
Dreamatlas.

>>528799885
It's not hard to make a map, just annoying

Wailing Winds

>>528783803
i'll check the booru and upload all of these that haven't been put in, so could you add tags for some of the ones that aren't obvious? Since you have such a large body of work it would be nice if you had an artist name to sort with as well- any preference?

You should value your art more by the way, other people think it's great

https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/637#schedule

New EA game

World_pEAce players are dying but no one is posting battles, here have the Ubar cap battle.
the firegiants there hard at work killing random summons in this one.

>>528823412
and here is ubars army tubbas being mvp team killers

Is there a Dominions 1 music mod yet?

>>528823804
>mages killing more of their own than the enemy
classic.jpg

On that note, why tf are Tubbas 270g?
f1h1 with an random(FAE) seems pretty shit to me

>>528826938
it is overcosted because it has a lot of random shit stapled on to it.
like:
110 base leadership + task master 2
50% chance to get a s1g1 quarin in battle
great stats for a human (14 hp, 15mr, 11 base Combat stats)
4 Adept Researcher
5 fr

for some reason its also the only non jinn leader ea ubar gets that has formations.

>>528830205
Didn't notice the leadership, normally I see 'person in robes' and instantly assume '10-25'
That alone does make it much better

>>528830205
>110
I hate how there's values of leadership you'll honestly never be able to take advantage of

gnight domg

>>528846321
gnight, sleep tight, don’t let the longdead bite

>>528825140
Wtf even was in Dominions 1 music? 3 was the earliest one I played.
SANTA MARIA

i have a (not so) quick question about research
taking my MA pangoat supremacy game as an example, i have spread out research over
>enchantment 3
>construction 3
>alteration 5
>somebullshit 3
>going for blood 5
with the main intention of getting chaff buffers for my swarms

now here's the million dollar question, what went wrong? it could be something like bad mage scripts, but that's an everyday thing

the real question is whether i need to have repeat research recruitment going and is getting base schools to a functional level before going for the big research goals a viable things

because so far im getting kicked around by Vanarus in fights where theyre outnumbered 2.5 to 1
>le mossbody
>le foul vapors
>le staple spell in every game
i get that you """need""" those spells, but how do get enough research points to actually push for them?

the only strategy i can smell for Pangea is to have labs up in forests and sack what gold i have left to pump out hierophants

>>528818339
Just give him the name autists use here.

>>528846321
good morning

got 100 blood slaves and no blood magic levels
what the fuck do i spend them on

>>528880553
Empower a mage for crosspaths and more blood hunting obviously.

>>528823412
the game is such a slog, my cave provs are dogshit and the only thing I got to do is clean up AI armies

sketchfriend, you should draw a stalwart little lady of piconye

Exterminate elves

>two aids wells adjacent to my cap
not a single other site even after spamming 2 site search across the planet, but at least I have aids.
it's honestly a miracle my awake pretender didn't get diseased, the power of having affliction res I guess

>>528886871
Make sweet love and diplomacy with elves.

where's my ammo cart illfraud you frauds

>>528897264
?
Do you need more arrows or something?

>>528899214
Yes

>>528784474
And they also spread their art through multiple sites and often uploading inconsistently, with different art in different sites. Or also using something like twitter which is garbage for art galleries.
They all need to be beaten and trained to stop doing this shit.

>>528859880
bro there are like 8 good spells in the whole game
rush the best one for your nation

divert only for specific counters to things

>>528906126
All astral and blood spells are good
Except for blink

>>528909252
lol
blink is great in certain circumstances

>>528909346
Did that even cover his upkeep for the turn?

>>528859880
You should always be recruiting as many research mages as possible. Though sometimes you're forced to utilize them or invest in infastructure to make more mages.
The game is one big balance act between research and warfare.

I think that all schools are but since research doubles in cost every level you have to make priorities:
Evocation
Thaumaturgy
Blood magic
Are schools are fairly dependent on your nation.
I wouldn't rush going higher than 4-5 as a standard. But getting to level 4-5 isn't that expensive and can give a lot.
Construction
Conjuration
Alteration
Are pretty much universally useful, getting to level 5 in these schools first is good.

>>528910294
He was freespawn, so yeah.
Then he got hit by 12 crossbow bolts from a trap, though.

>>528913237
rip in piss freespawn indiana jones

Can we get a new warhammer mod game going?

>>528720094
at least they are always adding tiny bugfix/change updates and adding more mod commands every couple of months

>>528792320
Doesn't that give some shock res now as well? Or is that just the bless?

>>528909346
>1 pound of gold
that seems like a lot. gold should just be measured in coins/pieces

>>528928731
They mean a British pound worth of gold.
The Pantokrator was the Queen.

>>528928587
It was changed to do 5 damage to yourself and 20 to the attacker, but the stun is the real danger. It's also a moot issue, the vanherse just kills itself by spamming illusions until it falls asleep anyway.

>>528932670
Ah lame

Considering the amount of suggestive content and lore, i'm surprised there's no lewd sprite mods for Dominions.

Are Lines worse than Box formation when it comes to receiving friendly buffs?
The way I'm reading aoe targeting, it picks a point, and then they one by one target the next square. This means lines are way more likely to have missed spots since if it deviates at all -/+ on a y axis it misses right?

>>528946981
That's correct, I assume you've never played before if you have not noticed this

>>528945729
There's plenty of lewd in the game already tho

>>528953653
>>528945729
How they were able to slip all of these hard throbbing cocks into the game without it receiving an 18+ rating is beyond me.
Sickening!

>>528945729
There's the goblinas mod

Bump for rus maiden

>>528963737
Rus is the most boring nation in the game

>>528964830
Most of the greco-roman nations are more boring.

>>528783803
there's a few missing from this i think

>>528965236
nah they’re mostly cool, mekone, phlegra, pangaea, asphodel, ermor, pythium, lemuria. All very interesting. The only one that’s less interesting is arcoscephale, but even that is more interesting than the rus line, which the only gimmick is the chudes, which are humans under a different name. The summons are interesting, but the base roster is so fucking boring.

>>528970580
Chuds are mystical barbarians, which are a unique contrast from Ulm's mundane barbarians. Meanwhile EA ermor is just vanilla "dude legionnaires lmao" in a game where there's already like 15 spinoffs of "dude legionnaires lmao" to pick from.
>inb4 being boring is what makes EA Ermor good

>>528972107
Well ermor gets interesting in MA, Rus never gets interesting. And no, stat wise and sprite wise chudes are identical to humans.

>>528973716
>stat wise
It takes an ulmish sacred to match the attack and strength of a chud hunter that can be found in any forest, and the sacred still loses by 2 HP and 4 MR. May as well be claiming elves are just humans stat wise.

>>528974760
elves have glamor, heck, even bekrydes, which are still technically human, are more distinct due to their darkvision

>>528975938
and innate fire/cold res

>>528975938
>>528977030
Chuds have more total stats than elves, bekrydes don't even come close. 5 fire resist a superhuman does not make.

Are you sure you aren't confusing rusians with chuds? The Rus line has human troops, called the vana/rusians, but calling chuds themselves human implies never actually looking at the units in question. They're basically a race of berserking ubermensch. They even get natprot.

>>528981535
I read every single unit description and stats and I for the life of me cannot remember the difference.

to be fair, chuds are the least exalted of the exalted superhumans in the game

With its cool moiety stuff, two types of races and baltic autism I don't see why it would be boring though, and mechanically they have mass magic phase movement, strong foreign recruit, tons of summons, and units that are both challenging and rewarding to buff, so I think they are pretty cool

>>528985610
Only the summons were interesting though, the only thing their base roster has is what, snow move? snore.

>>528987607
the thunder priest aspiring to be a perkunu only eats wild meat, berries and mead

if you can't enjoy this sort of thing abysia or c'tis may be more your speed

>>528988838
I’ve read through the rosters of all the EA and MA nations so far, and I’ve only had 2 criticisms, the rest has been stellar:
1. too much norse
2. Rus and Vanarus were boring

I liked everything else, Rus just stuck out as super boring to me, especially within the mythology-packed early age.

>>528981535
>16 natprot on a chud
>11 on a huskarl
>13 on a hirdman
motherfucker that explains why i have been getting assblasted by vanarus and how they mow down my units with almost 0 losses

why exactly do they get that much along with good armor?

>>528995271
anon natprot is the skin hardness prot, you're listing prot totals of natprot + the armor
chuds only have 2 natprot and vanarusian huskarls and hirdmen aren't chuds, they're humans with 0 natprot, only the chud hirdman and chud skinshifter have natprot

>>528995684
i am retarded
i will go back to seething in the shadows

>>528985610
They can actually fight w/o a bless unlike yavanas tho

Thematically speaking, MA Arco is the most boring naction.

>>528998119
its near the bottom to be sure, but bottom 1 is definitely Rus

I love this norf elf

>>528953653
but there's no big tiddy anime sprites. Get your priorities right Domfags

>>528963737
>>528964830
>spam Skinshifters with a size and righteous wrath/blood surge bless
>almost 40 fuckin damage per unit and ~70 health including the bear form
>steamroll everything with minimal casualties
they're boring for how great their sacreds are. if only there was a way to give them all trample and half their commanders not sucking ass.

>>528973716
A well fed, well trained, chude adult (60 years old) is twice as robust as a man with 16-20+ hp and nearly Giant strong 16-19+ Str (without berserk). And unlike the Yaksha, they are actual mythical High-men, not semi-divine humanoids
If Rus didn’t get colonised by the Vanir you’d seen some real Dunedain aesthetics in MA and LA

>>528954637
giant man eating jews

>>528964830
You take that back!

Is summon draconians a good spell?

>>529006368
zemaitia soon!

>>529012780
Yes. Cheap and summons more. Excellent for fort cracking

>>529012780
>>529016070
I don't know that I would call it cheap but they fly, you do get a good number of them per cast, a commander who can summon one more per turn.

Economical might be a better word than 'cheap'. Their fight ing stats are OK but they are kind of squishy. I use them and do recommend them, so by that logic they are 'good'

>>529012780
Possibly the best siege strength spell in the game in terms of mobility and mage turns.
They are also useable for raiding, but they will take some casualties doing that.

Redpill me on heavy cavalry.

>>529026135
Hold and attack rear

>>529026135
>>528636279

>>529026135
Cavalry are just formation fighters but the trample weakness is replaced with animal weaknesses.

>>529026135
See >>529027097 but also >>529027486 is generally true. Animals usually have low MR tend to be preferentially targeted by spells that check against MR. If you know you are facing heavy cav and know that the mount half of the unit has low MR then spells that target vs MR will probabbly be a good idea. However, this will not eliminate the lance "charge bonus" that the rider gets (if they have a lance) even if the rider isn't moving because it always applies to the first attack. That said iirc the bonus is based on unit combat speed and size so a demounted heavy cav rider will not get much of a bonus.

most aryan nation in the game and why is it caelum?

Going to join the ea game on a 5

>>529032248
They're literally called Airyans, so yeah.

Do your turns

any ma caelum pros itt?
do you use mammoths at all? they seem inefficient.

>>529038287
confirmed ma caelum pro here
mammoths are great mistform targets and in some cases can help with expansion
I don't like to use them past the midgame because they get to be a liability

>>529038287
You can make decent expansion parties with just 2-4 mammoths and a cheap line of screen units.
You need to practice your script so the mams roll down the frontline from the side right after your line troops meet the indies.
Might be worth doing for provinces with bad bird matchups that make it very hard to attack rear enemy commanders.
I'm not ma caelum expert though, their other tools might simply be better. But I've done elephant expansion with other nations and it can be a good option for some of them.

>>529038470
whats your bread and butter army composition? do you use the sacred units? do you use a strong bless?
me, i dont use the sacred units at all and i use scales instead.

>>529038789
sacreds aren't real, don't even worry about it

You have some leeway in a bless but I like stacking inspiring presence to make seraphines good commanders/ keep spire horn from routing so fast. You should strongly consider an awake expander

army composition is it depends

Round 2 in Lucid's tourney is just starting now looks like.
Any domg vets make it into round 2?

>no sacred units
>still have bless points
>all in on reinvigoration
i think i made the right call

tfw no centauride gf

>>529036305
Nation for this antidemiurge feel?

Is it a good idea to have a death scale or two on a nation with access to undead?

>>529051552
demiurge is a pretender, the best nation to fight him is vanarus, land of the chuds.

>>529051578
if you’re already popkill its a no brainer, if you’re not popkill it doesn’t really matter if you have access to undead.

>>529044546
I don't really care for the format so I didn't join. 3 potential games is a massive commitment, the randomized ages and pick/ban system means there's a good chance I won't get to play a nation I'd most want to, and I don't like the discord dominions social networking metagame. If I want to tryhard it'll be in mahjong where stuff outside the table can't influence success/failure at the table nearly as much and 3 people probably aren't going to be discussing how to beat me with each move.

>>529052570
Ok but who asked?

>>529051578
The more you lean toward summoned armies (no maintenance means no income recruitment bottleneck) the more it's worth considering death scales. Undead units themselves generally don't have a particular scales bias the way demons might.

>>529052724
Why do you care?

>>529052570
Bruh I don’t care

>>529051552
MA Ulm, duh

>>529051552
Mekone

>>529052724
>>529053302
Calm down discord baby, it's not a crime for a man to write his opinion on the internet.

>>529053650
Nigger he's talking about fucking mahjong.
>Hey guys how about that dominions related topic?
>Actually mahjong is the superior competitive game plebs
Like again, who asked?

>>529053936
He didn't say that, he said that the format that Lucid uses for tournaments is cancer

>>529053936
He said mahjong is superior to lucid's tournament format, and the reasons why are reasons people here have avoided discord games for years. Why are you getting this defensive over a critique of a discord tournament?

>>529054117
He saw somebody post one thing related to discord and then typed out a personal biography like a sperg either in an attempt to shutdown discussion on this niche as webhole or out of an over inflated sense of self importance.
Bugger off

BLITZMIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>529054658
Last time discord got brought up here people lost their shit too

>>529054658
God forbid someone write 3 sentences in a page 10 general. Do you have brain damage?

>>529055383
You could have left it after I said
>Ok who asked?
You are the one flaming it after that. Also in that case, I'm going ai

>>529055859
>You could have left it after I said
>>Ok who asked?
So after you abandoned the premise of dominions conversation to act like a combative retard?

>>529056569
I type 3 words at some guys passive agressive smug personal blog and then you come in to white knight him for multiple posts.
Your maths dont add up. Pot and kettle.
Pot and kettle?

>>529056860
God forbid someone post 3 sentences of dominions opinion on the dominions general. Your 45 minutes of pure undiluted seetheposting is so much more on topic, right?

>>529056860
>>529057170
Now kiss

>>529057170
Three sentences of
>Actually dont discuss this dominions related topic because of DISCORD and mahjong
Oh but god forbid somebody call that out. If you believe what you are saying then why would you care about my three words, which by domg standards was extremely tame. Is it because you too must express your hatred for discord at every opportunity to look like a true domg vet?
I look forward to your immediate cope response once more. Keep the thread bumped and keep me entertained.

>>529051552
He's not a great chasis so anyone that can deal with a lower tier monster can do it.

Thoughts on the Uttervast for LA R'lyeh?
It seems pretty good.

Maybe give it a pen bonus bless and extra MR. Thoughts?

>>529058625
Its actually really bad. The only reason its forced dormant is to prevent moving it onto an enemy capital on turn 2 with a hellbless.
It's actually pretty easy to kill if its solo raiding, which means its only good use is as an important battle caster that can always be where you need it for big battles. But it only comes with astral and 80 points per new path. Rlyeh rarely has problems bringing astral magic to fights.

>>529057629
To "call out" on topic discussion with off topic insults degrades the discussion environment. Not liking someone's opinion simply isn't a reason to act like a combative retard. You've done a better job killing your own desired discussion than anyone else ever could.

>>529059114
Ok but who asked?

>>529059114
>degrades the discussion environment
>Jumps in the mudhole with a combatitive retard for 30 minutes
lmao

>>529059253
>>529059570
I accept your concession.

>I might be retarded but you must also be retarded for calling me retarded
Discord's smartest dominions player must be posting ITT right now.

blitzfag server down

>>529060262
Hypocrite. If you cared about the quality of discussion you would not have got into this dumb slap fight over
>ok but who asked?
I wasn't even the only person who replied that to the original discussion deteriorating post. Wanna keep going? We may be on the verge of some real good quality discussion here friend

>>529060936
i'll fite you if you come around suffolk m8

>>529060936
The original discussion deteriorating post was the guy that crashed out over lucid’s tourney, the guy that totally wasn’t you.

>>529060936
So your solution to a retard that tries to shout down any disagreement is to let him shout down every disagreement? Must be hard living the life of a cuckold.

>>529062102
> shout down any disagreement
>Ok who asked?

>>529062772
>zoomerspeak for "shut up"
Demonstrates the point perfectly, yes.