Thread 542078647

Common Bat 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Our pastebin (extremely outdated)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

Previous Turn of the Wheel:
>>541210674

First for moosechan

Second for Black Moose

>>542079072
Cute!!!!

>>542079072
She is going through a phase ok (kills your army)

So how's that new nation?

>>542082319
Stronger than Pyrene, weaker than Andra

based on last threads responses, this is what we have so far

>>542078647 (OP)
missed moose opportunity

>>542084106
Wait, is Vanheim that good?

Summon Fiery Imp

>>542066267
Not what I had in mind, but a good track. Thanks.

>>542088269
I wish that we had the CoE imps

Gimme some ideas and I'll do some doodles if you guys want.

>>542092278
Sorgina as my pic.
Sorgina in a cross breeding ritual.

Is there going to be a blitz this weekend?

asphodel
please
go

>>542092278
Elves reeling in the face of fat ulmite cock

>>542092278
basandere with a tasteful hair bra? lankan rakshashi (seduction)

>>542084106
where is therodos in this ranking?

>>542104865
goasts are pretty cool but they scare me a little so id put tgem in b(like boo haha) they got that big weirdo telkhine guy that goes *PFFFRFRFRPHHHT BRAPP* like lol its kinda gross but hes big n strong I think

>>542082319
I'm really liking it. The worst thing is that they can't have a sacred geyser tendy so my favourite Lithuanian meme won't really work

Is LA Tien Chi one of the worst LA nactions?

>>542106332
It's definitely in the bottom 30 LA nactions.

Feedback encouraged & appreciated :-)

>>542092278
LA Dryad lusting over human tech

>>542092278
Who's left without even a baseline girl? Sauromatia? Inked girls would even be canon, but it's probably a mess to draw.

>>542109931
kinda gross
seduction failed

>>542109931
cute!

>>542109931
Tummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>542106843
Pico is a tier

>>542106843
Whoa whoa whoa! Zam needs to be at top!!

I CRAVE a new game.

IS ANYONE AROUND FOR A BLITZ
HELLO
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!

>>542109724
From EA I couldn't find Arco, Fomoria, Ubar, Ur, Lanka, Berytos, Helheim, all the UWs, though that was only a quick browse.

>>542114976
Depends

>>542114436
!!! BRAND NEW LA GAME !!!
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/686#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/686#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/686#status
vanilla, the usual settings, one level 2 throne per player, 50% +1 to win
last call!
starting tomorrow at 4pm UTC
JOIN IT!!!

>>542114976
>>542093980
>>542114436
!!! BLITZ TOURNAMENT ROUND FOUR !!! (its not actually a tournament)
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/687#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/687#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/687#status
mod: one age
the usual settings, 5 minute turns
starting sunday 4pm UTC
JOIN IT!!!

!!! SURPRISE SURPRISE EA DISCIPLES GAME FRESH OUT OF THE OVEN RECRUITING !!! NOW !!!
what? what??? a disciples game out of nowhere??? nobody saw that coming.
JOIN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/688#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/688#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/688#status
arrange the teams as you like. no balance restrictions whatsoever. youll figure it out.

THAT'S TOO MANY GAMES

today i learned that dominion strength can go over 10

>>542115258
Audibly keked.

>>542118129
5 minutes is too fast for me my brian is slow...

>>542123096
do some warmup brain exercises before the game

>>542118697
I can't resist disciples games whenever they pop up even though my teams always end up doing horribly (never my fault)
anyone with a suggestion want to team up?

>>542118129
>starting sunday 4pm UTC
>Midnight monday morning
Onegai..

>>542117204
IT DOES NOT DEPEND

>>542124268
>>542118129
i see. ok lets do the blitz on saturday 4pm UTC instead.

>>542124735
I accept this bargain.
Is it really gonna be disciples?

>>542124773
no, not the blitz. the disciples game is a different game.

>>542124848
Oh right.
SCBM-doko?

>>542124896
>SCBM-doko?
only if more people ask for it

>>542124972
would join the LA game with Sloop's
otherwise
KYS

>>542130910
uncivilised sloptard

>>542132072
I want to play as Patala
they are unplayable in vanilla

KYS

>>542132154
skill issue

>>542132154
They are playable if you just have someone help you through your first year.
Diplomacy is not an optional feature, it's a part of the game.

>>542132154
are you implying illwinter doesn't know how to balance?

>>542120231
Who would benefit from such power?!

>>542132692
Ermor...

>>542132692
Ind
Mictlan

>>542118697
can you ad Divinitus to the Disciples Game for the full Kino?

>>542132484
yes
>>542132392
no helmets
>>542132386
NO HELMETS YOU FUCKWAD

>>542133304
Yes, and????
So what??
Ur doesn't have them either lmao.
>https://www.envoybot.net/winrates
One of the highest winrates and discord niggers have a hateboner for SCBM, they win without helmets.
>>>>>>>>inb4 take it with a huge grain of salt

>>542132154
uh oh the slopster is outing himself as a true /domg/ veteran

>>542133304
Helmets are overrated.

>>542134610
Soldier from TF2 wears a helmet.

>>542134243
>LA Man
>WR: 15%
Bullshit

>it's "all my nations are already taken"-moment
Wow, I will have an entire tomorrow morning to test expansion with an unknown nation.

>>542135271
Whats there to test?
EARTH SNAKE
E6 HARDSKIN
EZ

>>542134243
>therodos 5.56%
feels good

>>542133220
nah the last /domg/ disciples game was with sparks and one age. i want this one to be vanilla and confined to one era and see how it turns out.
makes it interesting in its own right.

>>542135121
maybe people are bad at exploiting magic duel

on the assumption that no one uses magic duel, how good would la man be? flexible communions, can dump magic scale due to ignoring drain, ranged units with kite shields and helmets, gifts from heavy and air evocations, etc.

>>542115258
Imagine

>>542134243
Surprised Pangaea is this low in every single age

>>542138202
I guess white centaurs and bramble forts don't scale into late game.

>>542137368
>gifts from heavy
>gifts from heaven

>>542138202
it might also depend on which nations different players prefer. if all the top players prefer specific nations, those nations would be skewed in win rate, even though they might not be the best in theory, just maybe mediocre or a bit above average. a top player may also be way more experienced with a certain nation, making him perform better at that nation

>>542138202
They aren't, blood is still good

>>542134243
>MA Caelum that high
How? It's not even low sample size like Oceania.

>>542135271
>take Pan, brainlessly trample expansion with grove guard
>brainlessly trample size 3 human neighbor with grove guard
>communion master / soul slay x4 for the rest of the game
Easy as

>>542134243
>my favorite nation has a ~2% winrate
sad

>>542146817
army mobility scales well, is my guess. if you are the most powerful player in a game, or at least among your neighbours, and can beat any without much attrition, but your armies are mapmove 8, it might be more difficult to capitalize on that power and snowball into victory. flying armies tend to suffer much less from that. elves tend to also have good mapmove, and can do something similar some of the time

>>542146817
>>542151343
ma caelum is also the only nation in the game with a3 mages in all forts. ragha has them as well, but they are coldrecruit. and ma caelum also has a2 mages in all forts. flying a3 mages with mapmove 22 in all forts, with coldres and shockres, should also scale very well. one drawback is slowrecruit

Can't believe I waited this long for such a piece of shit faction, fuck Illwinter.

>>542134243
>discord niggers have a hateboner for SCBM
This explains so much

>>542154426
youre a piece of shit.
the new faction is epic

>>542156521
You're mother

buritsu server.... down...

>>542137368
>>542139476

> gifts from heavy

>>542157978
kek
someone make a mod that changes the spell accordingly

>>542134243
>One of the highest winrates and discord niggers have a hateboner for SCBM, they win without helmets

Envoy is one of the few servers where they play with Sloop occasionally

your data is dirty and your sample size is small

>>542134610
they are not

>>542134243
>LA Xib 0.00%
Ive won with them before, something tells me this isnt very accurate

>>542162604
Is this how my lab rats flirt with each other? Instead of referencing their cocks, they talk statistics?

>>542162604
>Occasionally
I thought it also pulls from the official Illwinter servers so as long as it's "tracked" by envoy, I remember reading that it includes Clockwork Hounds games as well as those by people playing on the official server.
If anything what makes the data bad is that not every single game tracked makes it to the winrates.
I'm aware that this also may track modded games but tbdesu, I think most anons would confirm that for EA this gives a somewhat rough assessment of how the nations compare to each other in terms of which can be seen stronger (Makes sense to me Muspelheim has such a huge WR).
If I'm wrong, please feel free to show proof that there's quite a lot of SCBM wins for some nations, I suppose you are able to do so based on the way you formatted your post.

>>542163627
It does not track every single game in existence, I simply posted it as a quick and dirty way to make the guy crying over helmets to shut the fuck up, imagine trying to force others to fit your needs knowing full well the rest accepted to play vanilla as is. It's why I also wrote (and you can read on the top of the page) "take it with a grain of salt"

>>542164223
>If I'm wrong, please feel free to show proof that there's quite a lot of SCBM wins for some nations, I suppose you are able to do so based on the way you formatted your post.

it's an open question
you are asserting that few (or none) of those wins were in modded games. But my argument didn't even hinge on that. Without accounting for game size and relative skill of players, your data is virtually meaningless.

Case in point, there was a player back in dom4 or dom5 who was obsessed with playing scales Hinnom. 0% winrate. Astronomical number of games with them. Massive skewing of the numbers

>>542166084
Why in G-d's name would you main Hinnom

>>542166084
>Without accounting for game size and relative skill of players, your data is virtually meaningless.
True, not gonna argue against that, I think you make a very strong case.

>>542082319
Wait, which one?

>>542167432
zemaitia

>>542167432
Zemaitia

>>542166665
the same reason you proceed to left click the scales icons in Hinnom pretender creation

>>542167547
>>542167556
Yo, didn't see that news. Nice.

Always like more LA nations. Seems most people play MA more, and most mod nations are also MA.

>>542120231
HOW?!?!!??

>>542168581
continue to build more temples. it was introduced in dom5 or dom6

>>542168581
Every 5 temples gives you +1 candle except for some nations.

>>542168816
I have 53 temples and none of my provinces is above 10 candles.

>>542169232
That's dom strength, not candle cap

Summon spooks

Reanimation

>realize MA Machaka actually has a sacred mage
>a measly G1H1, but they're cheap compared to everything else
>wonder if I can build a strategy around this

nah, it all gets shut down by any opponent having g2 and casting nightfall
why is glamour so depressingly shit man

>>542078647 (OP)
Zotz

>>542151343
>>542152164
Fuck it, I'm going to give them a try. What do you even want from a Caelum pretender? Full scales imprisoned? Awake monster? The sacreds seem meh, but mages aren't sacred so no mage bless either.

>>542174721
warrior illusion spam?

>>542175980
>Sacreds seem meh
Temple guards take buffs really well and are exceptionally durable with some cheap def buffing, try it out yourself.

>>542176138
They also go directly against what anon is interested in, i.e. army mobility
Ain't nobody dragging them around

>>542176042
wouldn't be viable to win but would be funny
quiet stride and obfuscate for a total of 120 stealth
spam these fuckers and put them everywhere in your targets lands
have them all do instill uprising every turn until said opponent is completely locked down with 100+ unrest lands

>>542174721
>wonder if I can build a strategy around this
yeah, it's called forging the best research booster in the game, dreamstones

>>542180032
he's right you know

I hope my doujins will serve you all well once my nation is gone

Blitz?

SUMMON SHADOW IMP

Opinions on Far Caster bless?

>>542201018
Great on evocation heavy sacred commanders and also has the utility of making your smite longer range which can be quite nice, but it is a very specific bless that requires you know what to use it for. As opposed to a resist bless or enchanted blood + undying that's universally useful.

Damn the Machaka assassin is actually pretty good with some cheap items.
(Warrior Illusion)x5, handful of acorns, and a skull talisman is frighteningly effective

Nations for this feel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f9DxDU3vzw

>>542206673
Hellblessed Yomi

>>542206673
LA Pyrene

it him
it really him

Any news on LA Ys?

>>542204331
Replace skull talisman with this on any mundane assassin. You're welcome.

>>542215272
I want LA Na'Ba first

>>542217803
sorry, oman no longer in the files

>>542215272
>"We want more fish elves"
Statements of the utterly deranged

>>542220178
The line between madness and genius is often blurry (+2 defence)

>>542218767
Nani!? Ill-sama, I cannot forgive this dishonorable coding.

>>542208291
Red pants!!

>>542220178
everybody knows there are no elves in LA Ys

Mind Vessel

For the disciple game, do I make a disciple or a pretender god? Since Therdos is already team 1?

>>542239298
Depends, do you want to dictate your team's bless & scales or do you not care?

>>542239298
Isn't Therodos disciple material?

>>542239298
whatever you like. you can make a pretender and create a new team. you can make a disciple and join an existing team. or you can make a disciple and join a team without a pretender and wait for someone else to lead that team.
when you connect to the game you can click "pretender" / "disciple" to switch between disciple or pretender for that nation and you can click "---" to switch between teams.
you can also make a pretender and play solo without anyone else in your team if you want.

>>542240393
Yes, but Theo-anon can't play anything other than penis statue, so he has to be the pretender.

>>542240529
So does everyone get popkill?

>>542240642
Ye

Therdos birthed the satyr, so I, as Pangaea, must trust him to make the bless and scales

>>542241382
this is my pretender. change teams to avoid disappointment.

Joined disciples. Feel free to come under my wing if you got balls of steel or another sufficiently hard material and a proportionately sized shaft to go with it. (might adjust bless and scales depending on who I'm with)

>>542242295
Good dong

>>542242295
I am sorry therdos, but I cannot follow a deathscaler

>>542243507
THAT's your issue?

>>542243549
I can somewhat work with the sloth scales, but sickness and infertility in my Pangaea? Never.

>>542244756
And here I thought popkill would have been more of an issue.

>>542244893
I find it hard to think of a single nation that would want to be Therodos's disciples
That team might be doomed from the start

>>542244893
People die all the time in bacchanals. I don’t mind popkill, but Death scales and cold scales? In my NUDIST FANTASY? You’ll tank my tourism! I cannot have that.

>>542244987
Therodos would be greatly improved if popkill and ghosts were UW only.

>>542245296
Not really

Is Dominions Disciple games comparable to Warcraft 3 4v4 Random Team games?

>>542245448
Rather 2vs2vs2vs2vs2...

Is https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/687#status starting in two hours?

>>542245448
>>542247107
I thought disciple teams could be bigger? Like 3-4 people in a single team.

>>542240529
He won in EArlyGasStationShift.
The chassis scales really well into the late game, we couldn't stop him from winning.

>>542249971
No it doesn't. All it took was two E2 to kill it last time and then he went AI.

>Only got 20 provinces by turn 12
It's over bros...

>>542244987
Yomi doesn't mind the scales, but Yomi does mind the bless, a lot.

!!! BLITZ TOURNAMENT ROUND FOUR !!!
STARTING IN ONE HOUR
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE CONTESTANTS!!!!!
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/687#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/687#status
https://beta.blitzserver.net/game/687#status

>>542254151
I will join if its oneage otherwise I am going to bed

>>542254276
I mean I will join if its scbm*.
Gomenasorry its 1am.

>>542254151
Yo I though tyou were doing blitzes on Sundays mein duden

>>542254929
Anon complained about having to do blitz right before work week.

>>542254151
if we dont get players then its postponed to tomorrow 4pm UTC

it's very sad that the new zemaitia mage smiths only have forge bonus 1. the difference between forge bonus 1 and 2 is really big. though it might have been overpowered with forge bonus 2

>>542254151
I would play but I have to go hunting with My Son :)

>>542259585
Just put on some shoes

>>542117370
start when?

>>542151343
for blood nations with demons that have low mapmove, are you supposed to fly around with blood mages to newly conquered provinces with laboratories, and then summon fresh demons in those laboratories?
like, capture a province with a lab next to an enemy fort, include flying blood mages in the attack, ritual summon a bunch of extra demons and thus reinforce the army right in enemy territory?

>>542259834
what shoes would give more forge bonus? i know that earth boots are needed for forging hammers, e2 to e3, but for 5 gem items, going from two gem cost to one gem cost is huge, it's a 50% discount

>>542260147
Yeah, just meant that for hammers
You ideally want them since Zem's a research bonus fiend with all the glamor and fire items they can produce

>>542259950
now
>>542117370
unpopuLAr_opinion is starting!!!

>>542259681
i would expect no less from a fellow /domg/ CEO with wife and five children

Start a game with 1 true UW nation and 22 nations total, see 1/2 the surface being UW. Never change 4chan, never change

That's a lotta players

>>542262514
deal with it. uw provinces are larger than land provinces anyway

>>542262652
I've won worse, but still its embarrassing. I guess you're the UW fag?

>>542261763
it would have been even better if the final cost was 1 instead of 2. 5 - 2 (from hammer) - 2 (from forge bonus) = 1. but maybe op

I wish there was a way to see the game from a perspective of opposing players once it's finished. I could really use some ideas to steal from others.

>>542264127
You just need to hookup with someone who saves their turns and archives them. With hardlinks and compression I was able to get 80+ turns into a 50mb file (uncompressed tar with hardlinks -> 7z)

What was the name of the mod nation that was based on "feminist literature" and all the units were like, zombie aborted babies?

>>542270604
What sacreds?

>>542274018
thank you illfraud

>>542274018
Lodun iirc

>>542274236
I'm stupid, meant for >>542117370

>>542274236
comfy :)

>>542274236
NTA but unpopuLAr admin, you have my vote for a restart. I'd hate to spawn there.

>>542274236
>>542275598
I consent to a restart as well, completely out of sympathy for Agartha and not because I have 2 wastes in my cap ring myself.

>>542275598
>>542275894
no restarts. you are of course welcome to send gifts to poor agartha, you babies.

>>542277028
This is cavesecution and it confirms that this game's creator is a CAVECIST

does mending bones work on undead sacreds with spiritform?

>>542274236
>badmins still use vanilla mapgen in 2k25

>AI takes province with almost no resources
>Ignore it because it has almost no resources for them to make knights. Like not even enough to make more than 1 per turn with ord/prod 3.
>They build a fort on it
>They are now somehow pumping out 50+ knights a turn from it
Jesus, how much cheats does Impossible AI get? 1000% percent income?

>>542274236
FKING KEK

>>542279918
The truth is everyone can do this except for you.
The truth is Illfraud has it out for you.

blitz?

>>542284321
nobody showed up. its postponed to tomorrow.

>>542285981
ok...

I'm still sad they took out twiceborning your god

>>542279918
>Impossible AI
wind of death/legion's demise/master enslave. remember boosters/mpen

>>542279918
or just a sc with battlefield wipes like firestorm

>>542288280
Fighting impossible AI is basically just dumping PD and defending while rushing battlefield wipes

>>542289159
depends, other strategies might work as well. hellbless that scales might work

>>542290348
All you need is a strategy that can counter vast hordes of trash

has illwinter ever explained why they think reanimators is worth 7 bless points?

>>542293185
If it was a 100% chance to reanimate and you kept the soulless chaff afterwards maybe it would have a use

>>542293185
does it work with sacred mages doing evocations? if yes, might have something to do with it

>minus 36 HP
poor militia

>>542300315
I'd love it if a unit gets overkilled by twice their max HP they don't just disappear, but explode into a red mist that fades away (can be a disableable option ofc)

>>542302254
I'd love it if it add effects in game too. Like, the guy is so utterly destroyed that he can't be revived or ressurected or raised again, his body is just chunky salsa now.
Like in Sacrifice where gibbing an enemy allows you to harvest his soul.

>>542302254
Needs a fear affect for nearby allies too

>>542302584
more giant buffs, delightful

>>542300315
He was reduced to a shape

>lose my thug
>instantly quits

>>542302830
>thugging out a normal ass human
deserved

>>542302830
>berserker pelt

>>542303983
I am wondering if he had blacksteel plate as well, so he just fatigued out

>>542302830
>two "thugs" get two kills and die fighting the weakest form of generic indy infantry
summon a negro servant and find out what a OG size 3 thug really is lil nigga

>>542303983
I didn't know how to give him order, Dom6's UI is too different from Dom5.

>>542304206
Nah, the berserker pelt takes the chest slot.

>>542304206
berserker pelt almost guaranteed death. blacksteel full plate, maybe less so

>>542308570
...ha.

>>542307887
shadow servant would be a great thug chassis and op for its research level if one put good armor and helmet on it, if it was not for it being undead with low magic resistance, right? good chassis if no enemy mages or priests

>>542308818
What the fuck is a sh*dow servant?

>>542308731
with more hp, and some skin, and other stuff, berserker pelt can be decent. but on a normal human with no natural protection, even a single typical indie heavy infantry can kill it in one strike at too high probability

>>542309604
This isn't canon. Illwinter has lost the mandate of heaven.

>>542309179
Honestly the berzerker pelt is here because I feared a blacksteel armour would overencumber him, since I had no nature for the reinvigoriation boots.

>>542310142
>blacksteel armour would overencumber him
it would, but it'd be fine as long as he doesn't get surrounded and if the army would win either way, and that he's just there to decrease attrition and to hold a magic weapon. if there are lots of allies fighting beside him, combat shouldn't take that long, and so fatigue shouldn't pile up too much. combat speed and scripting might be a challenge, though

>>542309706
i don't see shadow servant ever having filled that role originally either. c'tis had something much closer to that, and in the lore that didn't go so well. they became a bit more like the predator lizards, also in heritage, but otherwise completely exiled the predator lizards

>>542311448
c'tis even began playing with banefire, perhaps out of desperation, to ensure that they had something that wasn't stopped by poison resistance, like what the predator lizards also had

>>542308818
Full blacksteel armor+helmet+kite shield, no weapon, boots of giant str, bracers of protection, burning pearl or ring of the warrior to land attacks
with no weapon, he uses his high att high damage life drain to inflate his hp pool and heal himself from anything that makes it past 26 prot, ethereal and 17+ def
>hurr dat's expensive
dorf hammers and sloops

>>542311448
I mean, the reason he isn't super pimped is that he's just a commander that I put on the flank to go for the archers while the enemies are busy fighting. I don't expect him to solo anything, but I'm still bummed he died so easily, while the other commander not doing anything has a battle fright, has lost an arm, has lost an eye, and probably has lost his anal virginity too.

>>542311696
>kite shield
I meant tower

>>542311696
lodestone amulet? banishment too strong against it otherwise. or only for battles without enemy priests and mages?

what construction research level? not construction 1 or 3?

>>542311870
warrior chiefs kill easily, die easily

you almost decked him out ok. berserker pelt just has way too low protection

>>542313138
I'll try again, once I can find a bystander mod to be able to waste my gems however I want.

>>542313304
arena mod on steam?

>>542313843
Nah, I'd like a bystander mod like for Conquest of Elysium, so that I can bump up indie strength and then really mess up with spells and all.

>>542312580
it's more of a raiding thug, but you could give it a lead shield and lodestone/amulet of antimagic if you wanted it in an army
but it lacks killing power so it's really only good for tanking low damage chaff without magic weapons if it's in an army, like if you were a fire nation and wanted to spam fire eles, you could put a few of these guys set to hold x5 in front of your mages to keep them safe while they spam, and the fire res from the burning pearl would mostly protect them from the heat aura

>>542314689
i wouldn't use it as a bodyguard

i'd just use it as a novelty army thug against indies during expansion

Bliiiiiiiiiiitz

Hand of Death

Pull from the Grave

>>542302830
Well Ulm was a fucking idiot, they should have had 6+ thugs with GSSs. Plus, NO FUCKING WARRIOR SMITHS. Go back to school Ulm.

>>542315206
neanderthals being real quiet since this got posted

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Is there anyone who got the game working on android's moonlight? No clue how to get click dragging to work on the map screen.

maybe I should put this in /g/ instead?

>>542357143
Is that like wine for android? Its got a native linux version if that changes anything.

>>542362481
Remote desktop protocol basically. Streams the game on one's phone, then allows one to play it there. Bringing up the keyboard is fine; it's just that I have no clue on how to make the function keys and click dragging to work. It is playable; It's just that I have to cycle commanders instead of looking around the map...

>sitting on AI's cap to stop the flow of units
>they take all surrounding provinces
>don't have the units to deal with it, just stay on the fort
>fucking BOGUS decides to jump in
>don't lose anything in the battle but the gryphon rider's fear aura makes half of my commanders and mages rout, resulting in them all dying in the retreat

>>542315206
Thankee for this

>>542315206
>>542349138
the angle is weird, because the bekrydes have a lot of giant allies, and thus looking down doesn't generally make sense. the ermorians need siege weapons or mages to deal with such threats, like conquest of elysium ballistas

How much PD do I need to survive Call of the Winds? Call of the Wild? Horde from Hell?

Ind players really think divine blessing is the only spell they need to win a battle

>>542366568
POV: you are back in your hole

>>542369074
ind is like the only nation that doesn't cast divine blessing though

>>542369157
He was outside his dominion, if that makes a difference and I admit, he also did cast sermon of courage

>>542369316
No, their unique mechanic (one of many) is that all their sacred units autobless at the start of the battle.

>>542369413
Ah, ok then he probably didn't cast divine blessing. Do they just not get any elemental mages?

>>542366928
Depends on your pd type. If you have knights you don't need that much and if you have only militia you should not waste your gold.

>>542369074
The divine bones of creation...

>>542093935
Yeah alright fuck it. Gimme two other units for the ritual, apart from Sorgina and Akerbeltz.

>>542375621
Succubus and Pyrènian Bishop

>>542375621
a devil and a mouflon, and also 3 pyrenian monks gooning in the corner

>>542375621
>>542377175
Good suggestion.
To be honest my cross breeding suggestion was more of a joke, but I'm happy to see it materialize nonetheless.
If you want a non human unit, I dunno, maybe a salamander or an abysian or a shambler. An Illithid may be a better pick.

>>542375621
Laestrygooner and Muspel Jotnar

lucky anons getting a sorgina dripping wet from those red robes finally

>>542078647 (OP)
Skeletal Body

>>542384104
Horde of skeletons

What happens after the Late Age?

>>542403423
Excessive blood and astral magic causes mass horrors to spawn throwing the universe back into a new chaotic dawn of civilization

>>542403423
>the world is less magical
>non-human races are fading away or are already dead (except for atlantians)
>mages are more knowledgeable than ever in magic but less skilled at it
Clearly the world of Dominions is slipping more and more towards mundanity and if there is ever an age after LA there would be almost no non-human races and very little if any magic. UlmGODS won in the end

>>542403423
the meme age, what happened to that mod?

>>542404235
Ulmish men are specially gifted men and they end up slowly losing their ubermensch genes too, so no, they also lose.

>>542403423
The question would be how does R'lyeh go back into aboleths if we accept that time is cyclical and the wheel will turn once again

>>542404426
it works, we had a game some time ago

>>542406343
Aboleths are still in control of R'lyeh in LA so they probably eat all the starspawn and then go into hiding

>>542403423
Shadow Empire starts

https://youtu.be/DNUYYLaFUBM
Nactions for this feel?

>>542416056
LA Ulm is literally Bavarian

TURN ONE FAIL EXPAND

IM GOING AI

>>542418512
Bro your expansion testing?

>>542418512
What nation?

>>542419039
it's called live testing

>>542420552
Based

>>542416112
Since they're vampires, wouldn't they be more Dacian?

>>542425548
>Dacian
They're all natives iirc except for the fortune tellers

>>542433981
>except for the fortune tellers
Even in my made up fantasy war games I cannot escape the gypsies!

>>542425548
dacia is where people found out about the vampires and fought back

bavaria is where vampires thrive, and peasants are juicy plump, dumbed down and unaware

gnight domg

>>542439291
*kisses your cheek* goodnight bobo, sweet dreams

soon, noew map

lol

Haven't played since launch. What's new?

>>542442667
There is now a Polish/Lithuanian-esque LA Chud nation

>>542441594
NOOOOOO NOT THE HECKING LEAKARINOS

JUST IMAGINE WHAT DAMAGE XE'S DOING TO ILLWINTER'S BRAND

>>542443252
Leaking the beta testing information risks any influence falling outside the board of experts. A fucking cretin like you must not pollute the game with problematic ideas.

>>542441594
>Sombre leaking illwinter's new game on /domg/ AGAIN
When will illwinter throw him out of the beta FFS

I know it's no fun to be playing Ulm instead of Zemaitia, but please do turn anyway Ulm.

>>542445801
LA Ulm isn't that bad, thugging out the unique vampires can be interesting.

>>542445883
Oh, I know they're good. It's his words, not mine

>>542443752
I was spelunking dead forums and I found out Sombre got banned from a Dominions 3 forum, so the potential is there.

>>542441594
Who lives rent free in this person's mind

>>542441594
how am I supposed to enjoy my breakcore and ultrakill with immersive buttplug vibrator support when we have a fucking cis chud in the league of jannies leaking updates to the fascist transphobe darkweb

>>542454492
Wheres my buttplug integration for battle sim huh illwinter!?!?! EQ should make my vibrator go haywire if my pretender fails the def check.

>>542445801
Sorry sah, all done noh sah

>Jomon went ai
In that case...

>>542469510
>>542418512
Guess he wasn't kidding

Who had the best dream today? I will start: NekoArc was living in Power Puff Girl’s Townsville. She only spoke Engrish, she did not understand English and all the animals in the town knew her very well and wanted to have a discussion/interview with her for their blogs, podcasts and YouTube channels, but no language they knew worked. Mojo Jojo was fighting the girls at this time and passes by, throwing some rockets, which the girls blow up. It is then revealed that Neko Arc does speak in Smoke Signals and figures out “something”. She immediately leaves the park on her funny bike and goes to where the heroines are fighting. Mojo Jojo is has been defeated, but before he can get locked up, Neko Arc saves him and they ride together on her bike. She asks him, in Hebrew, why he, a high ranking Hashmal, is constantly scheming and getting beaten up by preschoolers. He says it’s because God said that children won’t want to be villains if they constantly see one losing to the same 3 heroes. Neko Arc argues that his constant jobbing is giving God a bad reputation and that he should have at least one fight at full power, to raise the stakes. He agrees, because the funny cat is his long time friend, so he drops his disguise and the two prepare to fight the girls and then the dream ends.
Can the Power Puff Girls beat a Hashmal and a Cat Fayfolk?

>>542442667
goatfucking and mpreg lore

>>542443079
0 polish elements, centered on the teutonic knights crusade against still-pagan lithuania

for once, lithuania has the spotlight*
(it has to share with teutons)

>>542479029
Yea yea shaddup, Poland-Lithuania

>>542481932
It was before the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth formed, the conflict was between teutons and Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

I hope there will be a polish nation
https://youtu.be/rvVKbwO89Bk?si=cjg5sinZaHtfLuHK

>>542472160
I had a dream where after running away from some diseases beggars, I walked into a Falun Gong tent compound that was being protested by a bunch of chickens. They showed me a bunch of magic tricks, thanked me for my patronage, and led me out. The sun was now rising and there was no one on the street. When I turned around, the lot was abandoned.
I then got a phone call from my bank. My account got put on hold because I tried to donate all my money to some random account in New York
Fucking cultists

Lift after Death

I want pain from injuries implemented as a mechanic. If you chop a militiaman's arm off he shoudln't continue fighting unless he is especially strong-willed.

newb here, trying out La Pyrene and I need a second opinion on thugging out the king. I don't have nat access but I have E2 so can I replace vine shield for the earth grip boots? Why is vine shield so preferred btw? Is it for the entangle+statstick and cheap? Am I overthinking this? They also seems to have average morale so I think I should make these bastards have the berserk axe+eruption mace so they don't rout. Also priobably replacing their plate for the shademail so I sneak, if this is good enough. Seriously why does the nation have avg/piss morale?

>>542492220
Morale is basically that tho

>>542493482
But there is only squad morale, unit morale is only used for stuff like repel and fear. Horrifying blows don't even give a morale penalty to individual unit, unless it's a battle fright affliction.

>>542492220
okay but only if units with regen and recup get a greatly reduced penalty

>>542476379
woah buddy it was big black goat cuckquean beastiality rape
get it right

Anons, ive run into a problem while playing as MA Marignon. I wanted to larp as a private army of angels. But now the problem is that i only have 20 combat angels under the command of a Seraph and an Archangel. And a 1000-strongman army from Jotunheim is coming against me. And i dont have enough gems for summoning.
Does this mean the strategy of conquering everything with angels isnt really feasible? They are cool tho, each individual soldier is almost like a hero

>>542492797
vine shield sucks now
I like the glamour tower shield
but your kings are mounted so...

gg machaka and rip

>>542496034
Twas nerfed? well good to know... Tower shield? The big Mirror? might as well cook something with the queen/countess then kek.

>>542496034
Is the glamour tower shield better than the little warrior illusion mirror?

>>542497987
they do different things
you want the little mirror on a warm body
keep it in the back spamming endlessly

whereas the big shield spawns them passively, but only if the holder is in combat. So it is for frontline thugs

>>542496885
Weird birb

>>542495948
Well to begin with only using one unit type opens you up to your enemy finding a counter easier.

How do I use boulder throwers????

What nation actually wants missile items? Genuinely curious what nation could use the bow of war. Though yeah, cept for black bow since turning a thug/sc caster into a retard must be great.

>>542484005
Okay, small issue I see with that: what would it even be?

The problem with polish/west slavic Mythology and history is that no one barely knows anything from before they got christianized, because until then everything was oral history.

A lot of folklore and lore we do know is basically pan-slavic stuff, like the Leshy and possibly some of their pagan gods.

So the problem is that the earliest you could make a "distinctly polish" nation is by MA or LA after they got de-paganized by either Ulm or Sceleria or something, and then they're just gonna be another take on Rus/Zematia, instead of really their own cool thing.

>>542507884
caelum

>>542508084
Oh neat harpy nation. tysm

>>542379034
>A dire portent
>files.catbox.moe/kx979a.jpg
This is somewhat degenerate and extremely low quality pornography, turn back lest ye suffer the Fate of Oedipus

>>542508517
>actually included the tyrant lmao
I don't blame you for not drawing the viper hair though dear lord. Though minor nitpick, maybe you should change the monk's rosarius to the ruby thing on top of pyrene's standard? The shit on the bishop and priest's sprite seems to be a red Y so I think thats what it is. That makes much more sense to me desu.

>>542508517
I NEED this in higher quality, anon, I beg you.

>>542507884
Giants, obviously.

>>542511998
It never occurred to me weapons scale off of the user. Somehow my brain is filtering the "half of unit's strength" bit baka.

>>542508517
>files.catbox.moe/kx979a.jpg
I love you so fucking much artfag, laughed hard after I noticed basically all of the suggestions made it to the final piece.
By the pantokrator I wish I were that monk getting drained by the succubus.
>>542509950
Agreed.

>>542508517
>That random olm
Lel

>>542508517
I'd say it's pornographic but not exactly erotic. It feels off despite some of the comedic inserts, much like the ritual it represents. Someone should call the dogs and kill everyone involved.
also you're too much of a gift for this spergy community, artanon

Speaking of missile items, how the fuck don't we have any magic javelins, Illwinter? Seems like something the Scandinavian and Greco-Roman factions would have, non?

Is there a way to have freespawn units spawned directly into the garrison instead of on a commander? Or is there a way to quickly all of a specific kind of unit across multiple commanders into the garrison?

>>542521107
same reason we don't have guns (john's whim)

>>542495948
those angels and angel autochorus are some of the best units in the game and if you dont know how to use them then kys

>>542521107
javelin of flight?

>>542528208
Kek. but yeah for a serious answer, trueshot javelins would be fine. For uniques, Gungnir is an obvious pick. Zeus' bolt aswell, why not? Or just downgrading it to an on-hit thunderstrike javelin in cons 7 would be cool.

>>542508517
>that olm
You're my favorite anon here, we don't deserve you

>>542523740
How i need to use them? Im kinda still learning some things here

Are there any games like Dominions but without the massive RNG factor?
Literally just Dominions without random events really.

>>542530450
gay bar is down the street fag

>>542530981
That's just STD RNG!

>>542529698
I don't know.

>>542529698
buff the shit out of them, cast battlefield buffs with chorus, spam tstrike

maybe put 15 SR on knights and cast wrathful skies

>>542530450
Civilization.
If you want straight up 0 random events, just fights: Risk the board game.

>>542530450
Total War I guess? I always used to compare dominions to those games to introduce it to people.

>>542531327
>That's just STD RNG!
not RNG if the odds are always 100%

>>542508517
By the pankoman, I want to be her
>which one?
ALL OF THEM

>>542532041
I was thinking of doing another Shogun 2 legendary difficulty run
RTW might be fun too (provided it runs fine on Win11)

>>542530450
The thing is, Dominions is an autistic project. That is to say it is constantly being refined via updates and new iterations, with multiple mechanics of it that would be sectioned off into separate games normally. The magic side is basically in any ttrpg/crpg just empowered up to the strategic scale. As said before, if youre asking for the actual strategy gameplay, Civ series. If you want a 4X that isn't Civ then Zephon. Less management and more battles to give a short difference between the two. For the combat side of things, just take your pick of autochess(rumao).

>>542530450
Shadow Empire? Eador Genesis?

>>542078914
Beeg

>>542538582
I kinda wish we had the antler weapons from Battle Brothers

>>542508517
Kino

>>542530450
>BOGUSED.com
You could just mod out all the random events.

Gnight domg

>>542555718
Gnight anon.

>>542508517
this really plays to your strengths anon, great work

>>542555718
I just woke up tho

Can we talk CoE here?

>>542575058
As soon as we get trade and taint

Alright, I'll admit that a decent bless does fit this nation's sacreds well (Hardskin + Regen)
22 by 12 (a party is underground)
Even better, if this were an actual MP game the spiders web their targets so rushing down Vanheim wouldn't be out of the question.
Elf faeries can't dodge shit when covered in web.

Imagine if illwinter took the saved scripts variable (10) & set it to (100).
Is this technologically possible?

>>542580689
I will ask em

>>542580878
Please do, I know people that use scouts to save scripts once they reach the limit, it would do a lot to save time.
Also an addendum that's more technical to implement but saving scripts across games, but that's probably more time consuming to implement. Seemingly a low hanging fruit with the first suggestion though. Since they already gave us that gem shortcut that's been appreciated.

>>542581139
Anything else? Bugs maybe you want to address?

>>542584734
Yes, revert, Erytheia, age, of princess, thanks.

Wither Bones

Ghost Grip

>>542580668
This is an overkill, they can expand without a bless

>>542584734
Black servants

>>542584734
Crannog Ys! When???

>>542517070
Yeah. Despite this being the primary thing I do, it pretty much always ends up lifeless and offputting.

>>542538318
Shadow Empire has even more RNG and in even more annoying places. That the stats of all your models are random and have to be increased by combat experience is brilliant. But the fact all your leaders have random (shit) stats and are put into the roles they have the worst stats in and you have to play the gacha to get new leaders is horrible.
Especially if you spend half an hour to roll a planet you want to play on, just to realise your starting counsel is unusable and the first hours of the game will be gacha rolling new leaders and dealing with the tantrumps from the leaders you fired and the factions crying about losing leaders in the positions of power.

Blitz?

>>542580668
This is an underkill, get an expander with those paths for +11 provinces

>>542507884
Not sure about nation specifically, but I saw Lucid using them with an unholy weapons bless in an MA Ulm game. He put them on indie priests and they decimated some other guy's sacreds

>>542534801
I got the RTW remaster on steam and it runs fine

>>542507884
Any communion nation that doesn't want to kill their com slaves
>>542595240
That sounds like more of a meme than an actual build. It's not like MA Ulm lacks a way to kill sacreds

>>542600629
Depends, if they can't kill it with evos, they're kind of SoL

>>542600835
This nigga taking incarnate bless and crafting bows for priests just to avoid making guardians

>>542595240
You can make any meme bless work when every other player has you NAP'd and is asking you who they should help you kill.

>>542591048
any number of your works have seemed appealing and full of life to me, anon

You are talented and you make people happy

>>542508517
Amazing, the dudes in the back.
As an aside, your style makes me think of Mike Mignola"s sketches a bit, which is super cool.

>>542588954
idk with how expensive they are it feels like an unkillable bless is required if you want to use them
whats the point of you having five man expo parties when you lose one hunter every combat?

>>542508517
>the monk goon squad made it in
blessed artchad

anyone interested in subbing in for me in the big game go_rEAd_a_book?
I am going on a 2 week holiday without a laptop.
Hit me up under wiyifec999@lorkex.com and I will fill you in on gamestate.

>>542618370
The point is to make 7-8 sized expansion parties that don't require a priest.

>>542618526
which nation

>>542618526
I just use winlator for these scenarios, but since we are in the lategame, it's gonna be too tedious anyway.

>>542590739
This anon is right, there's been a huge typo in the game for ages now. It should read Black ServAL.

>>542621950
sugoi

>>542621950
cute

>>542591048
Don't fall into the artist impostor syndrome or something, artanon. It's unbecoming of you.
Again, despite the comedic undertones it's an unholy orgy of monsters and victims, and some details are offputting not for the art but for the subject. To make an example, the Pyconie Bishop is subtly erotic, but seeing crossbreeding raep is not. Think the difference between some rape scenes in Berserk and purpose-built erotica.

>>542591048
It looks great, anon!!

>>542106843
Are you mentally retarded? Did you do this at random?

>>542410174
you have patrician taste in shit games

>tranime OP image
>players who don't know what the fuck they're doing
>lineart pornography
>caring about LA
/domg/ has fallen and billions must die

>>542629326
Skill issue. Rape scenes are hot when you [spooler]self-insert as the victim[/spoiler]

new nation sucks dick

>>542636181
no it doesnt

>>542636985
yeah it does you dumb idiot

>>542631815
What if I started in Dom3 and my first MP game was in LA and I have a fondness for it forever?
>>542635475
The /atg/ thread is on the other way, anon. even if I'll admit Pyrene added almost too much raep

>>542631815
LA has the most kino nations tho

>>542591048
Anon, I'm afraid you're mentally ill and your inability to appreciate the quality of your own work will be the end of you as an artist and the squandering of enormous potential.
Many such cases among anon artfags!

>>542637468
LA is the worst era

>>542635475
>spooler
Are you a printer tech

>>542637981
>>542637468
both true

ah yes the amulet of the dead outprinting jotunheim skelliespam sabbaths ah yes

>>542642725
spellcasting items are good, bro

>>542642725
What is the gem to gold ratio nowadays?

>>542642725
wait, does it create 3 undead instead of 1 in combat?

>>542637468
I'd say yes if we have a Vaettiheim mod to replace the hags and gyjas with hotter hags.
Going full goblin burrow would be fucking funny aswell

>>542643606
just one, but it costs 5 fat. spam them with dwarven hammer and put them on scouts or other cheap commanders. just 10 of them is more effective than most printing setups.

Does Blood Vengeance apply to Wrathful Skies?

>>542618526
anyone? Will probably go AI otherwise

>>542648076
say what nation. i wont bother sending an email if i dont even know what nation im going to sub.

>>542648214
I dont want nations I am in war with to know, send me an email I will answer with the nation

>>542648591
What difference does it make if you're quitting anyway?

When does Praise, the ability angels get that raises friendly dominion, resolve in the turn order?
I don't see it mentioned in the manual anywhere. I would guess that since it's similar to heretic, it probably goes right after preaching like heretic does.
Any anons know the answer?

>>542660505
Don't like messaging in game matters in the thread, but I'll set the record straight early.
I said I was moving left...
It wasn't clear to me that you had already killed his god. My most sincere apologies.

>>542660505
Sometimes I wonder how Ermor conquered everything in the lore

>>542631221
After some thought and helpful input I've made some adjustments

>>542665656
Nice marching music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeD2TvvHKg

>>542668193
Thanks for this, anon

I have a scout on an enemy province and see the swords icon there implying that there was a fight. But I don't see anything in the report. Any idea what it could have been?

>>542671728
press c or v

>>542672253
thanks, that worked

>>542672253
Holy shit, i've been playing since Dom 3 and just found that out

I wait eagerly for a Black Moon mod

It was 40 gold for this absolute legend

>>542689105
Merc?

>>542690902
Yes

Gnight domg

>>542692961
Sleep well anon.

It's not very constructive, but damn. I love pimping commanders with dumb crap and send them off to fight entire armies.
Usually they die quickly because it turns out that even indie archers realize that the guy running toward them is more dangerous than the frontline several yalms away.

>>542700119
>7 points of encumberance
>no reinvigoration
If you plan to overspend for funsies at least do it right tbdesu

>>542702539
Sorry, +5 strength>2 reinvogoriatitritroyion.

>>542118697
I was expecting this to never move forward but there's THREE (3) teams now.
There should be an all UW nations team except atlantis.

>>542707989
And Therodos, sorry anon forgot about you for a moment.

>>542700119
it looks a lot better than it performs but i love making army thugs with retardedly huge gem investments on random commanders if i like the sprite
pretty sure this guy zapped himself to death

>>542712936
I mean, sometimes it's just fun to make a RPG boss!

>>542673650
t. neverblitzed

>>542712936
Desura thug is back..

Dark Bolt

>>542637581
Such is life.

Slime

>>542712936
I've tried this with EA Ulm but the result always disappoints me.

>>542729809
Arco is cute!!!

Grugg you magnificent bastard.

>>542712936
Not an army thug, but I wanted to kit out one of my Bane Spider Assassins to be the perfect Abyssian slayer.
Invested a decent amount of gems, full fire resistance, serpent kris, better armour, better everything so he'd even win against a contingent of abyssian bodyguards.
What happens on his first mission, assassinating before a fort battle?
The fucking Salamander does the summon fire asp spell (2f, 1f gem cost) which wipes the floor with him once a single poison got through (5 poison res doesn't stop 35 poison damage).
Moral of the story, fuck making assassins amazing duelers, and instead just give them the vineman summoning acorns, a skull talisman, and script them to cast (warrior illusion) x5

Hate that assassinations aren't about who the best fighter is, but who brings the most friends.

Just started playing this game and Ubar in mp is bullshit.

Why should I have to take true sight and magic weapons in my bless just to counter 1 unit that is like the same price as a tuatha warrior but also has spirit sight, flight, invisibility, ethereal, and also still has decent prot and an 18 damage attack.

Like what am I missing here? These guys are busted. I literally have to design my entire bless around them or get rolled.

What am I missing here? What unit can actually beat these guys early game without my designing my entire bless around the fact that they are in the game?

>>542750001
They lose to equal gold slingers or archers, if the ubar player is simple enough to doomstack you instead of elfing your cap.

>>542683392
there is already and rts that works on modern hardware with no fucking around, but I would kill for a Black moon mod for dominions

Trying out Vaettiheim now that someone mentioned it, but do you just cope with not having leaders that can go into line formations? Like splitting them into multiple jarls/godes? Not really interested in swarm factions desu, but I thought it would be funny to mix undying/lucky/ench on the ice gobs for shits and giggles

>>542749127
Well, Julius Caesar was probably a better fighter than any of the 30 guys who dogpiled him

>>542753452
Caesar went there with 0 prot. Things might have turned out different were he in full blacksteel plate

>>542745624
what did grugg do?

>>542753452
>>542753987
Caesar wasn't murdered, he just couldn't do shit without weapons and autorouted on turn 200

>>542753987
Considering what paths Rome has access to natively, he'd only have either a choice of Robe of invulnerability and red dragon scale. Still, the former would have been more than enough to deal with the gankers desu.

>>542753987
nigga needed a shardblade

oh huh tb_h becomes desu? Interesting filter, context on why that is a thing?

>>542755184
black servants

>>542753352
Banes

>>542755184
because there was a fad in 2014 of saying maf hbt backwards and the wordfilters haven't been updated since then.

>>542750001
You rape them with pd dumps

Seeing how random events are (even with luck scales it's super common to get 'BAD OMENS' events that slam a prov down to 3mis) I start to wonder if it's better to just dump a shitload of pd into every province while taking mis2/3 scales anyway.
Only other events that even matter are ones that destroy your labs/temples

>>542760357
"Bad Omens" is actually a good event, because you get that event instead of something that actually immediately hurts you.

The thing with events is that the bigger your empire gets, the less the fortune scale matters as it hits the event cap.

Where the fuck is even a cave entrance in MAns_world? Agartha is throwing up every global in the book and I still have no idea where they even are or how big is the cave

buritsu server... down...

>>542767187
agartha here, i got kind of an insane position. its a big cave with only one entrance. im just chilling.

>>542767681
Badmin

>>542767681
>only one entrance
Whoever's on the other side - fart in there and plug the hole.

>>542767681
you are fat gay nigger

What's a good way of spending water gems?

>>542775295
summoning telkhines

>>542775578
Bottle of living vater

>>542775464
looking for more of a generic-nation answer
>>542775578
that and coral blades is what I've been doing, but it feels so... bad

>>542775295
naiads

>>542775295
Coral swords for squishy mages.
Vile water
Manifest Vitrol
Scrying Pool
Wolven Winter

Water gems kinda suck.

I wish there was a batch gelatinous cube summon spell
1x
3x
10x

>>542776819
This but for green lions too

>>542776819
Yes please

>>542767681
Anti-cave global when?

>>542780970
caveniggers somehow avoid more negative globals than even UWniggers

>>542776696
Bottle of living water is arguably the best assassin item in the game

>>542787412
Your commanders don't even have to be full...
>hey what happened to that guy's sick flaming sword?
>uh guess nobody bothered to pick it up

pls join the disciples game I wanna play it

>>542787412
Lel

>>542787412
>>542787770
Illfraud should honestly up the rate, especially if you have more mages/commanders with unfilled slots. Magic armor / weapons don't even break lore wise.

>>542750001
Everyone learns this and thus it is secretly agreed to work together to rape Ubar asap. Just like UWiggers are to be ignored and punished for leaving their retard containment chamber

Is it worth searching for blood sites? Do you ever use bowl of blood? I feel like they're too rare and half of the time that I do fine one, it doesn't even do anything, so I don't bother.

>>542795807
There's no point unless you already have a blood economy up and are a blood nation willing to send your mages to do something less productive instead.

>>542795807
Most blood sites give non-blood gems.

>>542795807
>Our blood mage has found a site!
>Black Servant Rape Pit +15 unrest, occasionally summons hostile demons to retake the province
t-thanks Illwinter

>>542795807
No
Slave Market is better than 99% of the sites in the game and is not hidden

Gnight domg

>>542793782
imagining a future contractor having to get permits to remove historical magic weapons (tarnish and rust free)

"Not ANOTHER fucking greatsword of sharpness. Those bastards are an invasive species. the permits on this job are going to KILL us..."

what the FUCK is this????? no wonder yomi is getting folded

>>542816608
I like how one review for Dominions theorized the reason why there's so many enchanted weapons in RPGs and dungeon crawlers scattered around was because some dude was cranking them out for an ancient war en-masse

>>542816636
its called being based
faggot

>>542816636
Holy lel

>>542816636
The "random bless" special

>>542787412
Loot lost in battle should get added to the pool of items gained in arena or given to mercenaries

>>542767681
>>542767187
pretty sure the "only" cave entrance (i can see most of the land and this is the only one i can see) is in the ocean next to asphodel (AI) cap
very blessed cave layer spawn

Reading Lankhmar and playing CoE wishes that we had just slightly more developed provinces beyond terrain types

>>542831005
Nah, there's a couple of caves in the ocean next to me, but I've taken them both. Neither is very big, and neither have Agartha hiding in them

>>542831005
>>542844436
I've not quite scouted the whole map, but the only other cave entrance I can see is at Arco's cap. Somebody should go check if Agartha's down there.

Hey anons, MA Marignon is a super fun nation. And I think one of the strongest. With their Castles you get high income + the army of Angels is very fun to play. Super mobile, and with buffs, they are probably some of the strongest units overall. The question is: what other nations have interesting summons? And is it actually possible to play similarly, for example, as MA Ind, with their Lords of Civilization? Do they have regular summons of Angels there besides those Lords, or is it all trash?
Ah, and also, please explain the mechanic with communion slaves, specifically with the Angel Choir. Do I need to assign each of these units to a specific Chorus Master commander, or can I just group them all with one such commander, and the other 3, for example, can automatically start using them too?

>>542852776
They have probably the best recruit anywhere sacred in the game aside from jags

>>542852776
Figure out how to use KotCs

>>542855292
Who is this?

>>542855651
Knights of the Chalice
One fun bless that can give you turbo expansion is an awake celestial lion with ethereal and solar weapons

>>542855862
Oh, yea, i agree. That's why i wrote that Marignon is one of the strongest nations. Their bless knights, themselves roll almost any army. They have a very high morale

Polynesian/SEasian nation when??

I want to see reworks/resprites of shit nations rather than new nations tbqhdf
or maybe a little bit of both like how the jotun nation line and vaettiheim were bundled together

>>542857042
need SEasian markata nation with shapeshifting seductresses who let you recruit a montag of fat old mages from Man and Ulm while present in a fort

What's the point of a dormant? Why wouldn't I just take an awake and have a faster expansion AND an earlier first war?

>>542858979
150 more points to spend

>>542858979
First war spike, when your expansion is good enough without your god to get a few more points for a decent bless.

>>542858979
150 points is pretty significant. It's worth considering if you want an expensive build but don't want to kill your scales

>>542857042
>>542858483
There’s a lot of cool mystery stone structures in the islands of Indonesia with unknown builders. Can easily spin that into Deep one splinter nation, possibly MA shambler’s evolving into LA hybrid land dwellers with a deep one cult.

>>542878168
very strong illwinter design principles, something that far from europe could never be human

Stay strong, the times of staling have begun. Together we can weather the storm, or at least vulture the shit out of the weak.

gg Ermor - first time Pyrene here, had some difficulties, still nice game and interesting conflicts.

t. Grugg, longing for caveburial

>>542858979
More points
You're confident enough in your base bless to not need the awake part

>>542881641
gg to you too. When you came out of the caves and smashed Caelum I was pretty scared and thought you were in the lead to win. I'd never seen so many geared-out giants before. EA Pyrene is a really cool nation, I've tried them a bunch in SP but never figured out how they're supposed to play until seeing you.

>>542796047
>>542800020
>>542795807
>>542807310
Noob question, but is there a trick/point to blood magic?

Like, I always just see it as a gimmick path/school compared to generally always useful earth/fire/astral stuff.

Anytime I tried to go for blood because the game handed me a slave market I could never go beyond tier 2 blood empowerment without getting horror marked and while demons seem like okay summons I don't see them as game winning.

>>542886169
You need high-level research and lots of hunters to make it a game-winning path, unless you're one of the nations with strong national spells.

There's not a lot you can do with low levels of it. Heart finder swords, hearts of life for your combat mages, reinvigoration at the end of a script. The low-level demon summons are mostly useful as anti-raiders, anti-thugs.

>>542887280
I like it but I think your intention was more of a Mediterranean tan than brown.

>>542858979
You get a better bless. Also, if you want to use your Pretender to cockblock aggression instead of expanding. Some Titans can slap some awake monster shit pretty well even with just basic gear and research.

>>542887280
Kino

>>542878739
You jest, but if illwinter ever starves for ideas they can just steal notes from ancient aliens. Just replace the aliens for stock dominions races and you’re golden.

How do I calculate chances for a MR negate spell to succeed? I want to know if it's even worth casting those spells against the damn Man knights.

>>542894374
look at the table on page 13 of the manual. MR check is normally 11.

>>542895737
>24%
sheeet

>>542878168
Email this idea or do something for the 1% chance kristoff considers it.
Very cool, should be implemented into the base game rather than as a mod.

Second Sun

Utterdark

Darkness

Wife for a wife

Why is there no army wide dark vision spell?
why does it stop at a 20+ aoe version?

>>542921625
You dare question Illwinter's vision?

>>542921625
It's called firestorm

How do I SC Worm Mage?

>>542921995
>have good F access
>troops aren't fire resistant so firestorm/heat from hell hurts you as much as them
>have good N access for foul vapours
>troops aren't poison resistant
>have great D access for rigor mortis
>troops have average MR

Is there anything worse than playing human nations in this game? You're susceptible to your own battlefield enchants as much as, if not more than, your enemy.

>>542922102
Research and gems
Dying makes you drop your shit

Life After Death

Draw ideas???

>>542943325
(Enlarged) Asphodel-chan's seduction/apostasy roll on a Iron Angel.
I'm aware they aren't same size but just thought it would be funny.

>>542943325
Iron Angel smoking magical crack

>>542921625
20+ AoE is pretty good anyway, it's an enormous glass cannon to just have a single mage being able to cast such a spell (in a game you should have more than one per battle it's kinda fine) if you really need it and can't cast it more than twice and you need one more cast to cover your whole army bring another mage and problem solved.

>>542945925
He would never?!

>>542922102
You don't SC human health troops, as for thugging it's business as usual.

>>542947827
Raider thug, cruiser thug, heavy thug, army thug, poison thug, flying thug, spell thug, guerrila thug, or black thug?

How the fuck do I cancel NAP's using the ingame diplo? I just lost a turn in a game with friends, and my armies are sitting around with their thumbs up their frosty giant assholes.

I don't see any option to cnacel NAP, and any attempt to attack or declare war doesn't go through

Burden of Stones

Gnight domg

>>542955060
Declare war

>>542965112
Sleep Ray

>>542955060
Declare War
NEVER use binding diplomacy in multiplayer

>>542975156
Why not?

>>542976236
Binding diplomacy only makes it so that you can't send armies against each other. But there's a billion other ways in which a player can screw with you - 'anonymous' rituals, unrest causing units, stealthy priests/heretics, bane venom charms, clearly hostile globals etc.
AI is too stupid to use those effectively, but if you play against players, you'll soon find yourself bombarded by horrors or have your provinces raided by illusory armies (which he then takes for free because he's attacking 'neutrals', not you) while you're sitting there unable to hit back for 3 turns

Blitz today??

Utterdark should slowly transform forests to wasteland, kill mother oak and all plant units

>>542979203
I could blitz right now.

>>542981549
I'll ask Johan about that

>>542981549
B-but muh fungi...

>>542990878
mother fungus

SCBM updated to v1.10
it's a big one since I was waiting for Zemaitia and that took nearly a year

>>543001683
Can't wait to see the
>stats and typo fixes

>>543001683
Also blitzmin I think the spark version I uploaded to blitzserver (SCBM-Spark v1.10) is missing the sprite updates, so if you could delete that I'll upload the right one.

>Summer is going to be unusually hot this year
Drawanon, I'm going to have to ask you to draw this group of (very) sweaty jotun gygjas stuck inside a lab in a heat 3 (soon to be heat 4) province

>>543001683
Thankee

>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zeDyK8Zb_p4lIJ0yp3a3ikMprRkmBCWvy31_4jBen3Q/edit?tab=t.0

some fucker deleted the link from the OP

Anything interesting that you can do with kings of elemental fire? It's late in the game and I have a bunch of fire gems that I don't have a use for

>>543004285
>owl quills floating around ineffectively trying to fan their users
>gygjas tugging at their robe collars and skirts to let air in, much exposed cleavage and thigh
>one with her back to the POV who discarded modesty and is working nude
>indie lizard shaman walks in and has a blushing neuron activation face (his eyelevel is at their hip height)
This needs to happen, please

>>543015979
Holy Robert Jordan

>>543020753
Needs more braid tugging and bitching about how they don’t understand X and wish Y were here.

buritsu server... down...

>>543026802
Nooooooo!!!

Seraph thug with a 2h Tempest, Igor .... tome, and Boots of Antaeus. When the storm + Wrathful Skies kicks in, the dude will literally solo kill 500-1000 units with just random thunder strikes across the battlefield. Looks kino

>>543036342
I did that with an air queen and generic thug gear against chaff+skelespammers once

>>543036342
What's the tome for?

>>543040062
Storm power: 5 and + corpse construct. Under the storm will be added + 5 str/att/def/spd

>>543043378
Thanks!

Corpse Construct

>>543003084
Done

>>543057235
Cool
I'm traveling for a few days but I'll put the right one up when I get back.
I don't think anons have even been playing with spark since the initial fad but at least it'll be there.

>>543068373
I enjoyed spark a lot. I think the issue with it is its got a bit too much of that hellenika feeling of shit just coming out of nowhere that's very unlike anything else in the game.
Which is sort of too be expected, I don't think there's enough mechanics in the game to really give pretenders identities without introducing some new concepts. I do think that one thing you could do is waive the research requirement of a specific spell or ritual. That's pretty impactful but balancable, there's enough spells and rituals that you could use that alone to give identity and a niche to a lot of different pretenders, and since its one concept you can get used to the idea that a given nation's pretender will give them access to some specific ritual/magic as opposed to trying to figure out the obscene flow diagram of unique power scaling mechanics that each of the five nations you're at war with have..

>>543073102
I like your idea

>>543073102
How does spark compare to divinitus

>>543084563
If I'm not mixing up my pretender mods, Spark puts more effort into few pretenders. I think its a lot better than divinitus. Not too fond of pretender mods that bloat the shit out of the pretender list and have half of them being pointless. Dominions doesn't have an issue of not enough pretender chassis.

I haven’t tried Spark, but I *really* like Divinitus, it gives a lot of playstyles and nations that secret sauce, by making either national Pretenders really unique and nicely synergistic or by making new common pretenders that address a big weakness of the nation

Atlantis, Phlegra, do YOUR fucking turns. "The turn police"

The Spark-compatible SCBM version is now also compatible with Divinitus btw

WHOOP WHOOP
thtats the sound of the turn police

>>543099869
Yeah but divinitus has ugly sprites and made by an esl

Anyone wanna scbm 1.10 blitz?
Sloop where is changelog

>>543104757
What's the progress on the mod?

>>543114616
where it always is, bottom of the google doccy
seems my secret admirer removed the link from the OP again