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 2800 units, 800 spells and 300 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.
>Dom4 Inspector This is a community resource that has every unit, spell, and item in the game in an accessible database. larzm42.github.io/dom4inspector/
>Where do I get it? It is available on Gamersgate (-75%) and Steam. Desura is kill.
>THE BASICS >Read the manual >Read the wiki >Read the pastebin >Watch some LPs by Maerlande or NuclearMonkee >Start playing multiplayer games >Do bully the elf
I wish I had a skeleton to keep in my room and hug when I feel depressed.
Gabriel Williams
I've read the Primer on Blood Magic and now i'm hyped as fuck to play as an Archdevil and take over the world with demons from hell.
However, i have no idea about how to most optimally do this and which nations in which Age are best suited for a FULL BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD PANTOKRATOR game.
Any additional blood-game tips are also very welcome.
Jaxon Ramirez
Bat blood game strong.
Mictlan and LA Ulm are also good.
Brandon Allen
Are bats good in all Ages or are they only powerful in EA?
Ryan Ramirez
They're pretty lacklustre in MA. In LA they're still good.
Christopher Evans
>I've read the Primer on Blood Magic Stopped reading there.
Ayden Barnes
Well smartass, what should i read then for good blood magic advice?
Angel Lewis
He's just meming, it's all good.
John Robinson
Is it time for [embed][embed]?
Anyway, we should remove china. He is already warmongering on anyone he finds weak
Levi Diaz
You could try not using that blasphemous magic.
Christopher Campbell
is helheim that bad? why?
Zachary Sanchez
They're not bad, as such. They're just Slightly Worse Vanheim.
So everyone goes Vanheim instead.
David Lee
This is the worst lie I've heard in a while.
First of all, their death access is shit without summod. Why in the flying fuck would anybody hire a D1 mage for 185 gold, huh?
Second, they can't sail, and their sacreds lose to vanheim and cost a ton (but are still serviceable).
They have valkyries and Dis' for raiding, they have A/D on their strongest guys, so that accounts for something. Overall, I'd never pick them without summod ever. Summod gives them actual skelespam and strong summons.
shit ill join both, takes so damn long to do turns i got time.
Nathan Rivera
>tfw you assemble a nice army to fight some shit >tfw Lambert wins anyway because all your neighbors were either incompetent or went AI Well, maybe dorfs are just too OP, we'll never know.
Jace Howard
You can say that
This game was awful
Jose Howard
We should remove Bandar Log, he warmongering against anyone who's not him.
Jordan White
Any trick to getting sunmod installed?
Just installed it and worthy heroes 5.5 and only worthy heroes shows up in the mod directory in game.
Nolan Reed
I, what. Explain more.
Oliver Watson
Do you have the .dm file in the mods directory?
Camden Brown
You need to email Llama for the file right modfile, yeah it's retarded but what can you do. Just get his email on Llamaserver and send him an email, he usually answers within the hour.
Julian White
Stop trying to get new players to randomly bother llama.
Isaac Gray
Extracted sunmod to the mod directory, doesn't show up as a toggle-able mod in game.
Extracted both sunmod and worthy heroes at the same directory at the same time and only worthy heroes displays in game.
Isaac Perez
If you only extracted the folder it won't show up. You need a .dm file.
-Post in the game to claim a nation according to the game's rules.
Is this that forum?
Cause I'd like to join memegame please.
Blake Myers
I'm not sure we do that much here, it's something we SHOULD do but we don't
Isaiah Howard
Some games want players to call nations in the steamgroup thread for that game, so they can bully you for turns more personally. Memegames tend just to be user though, to better allow players to accuse each other of being Malakal.
Elijah Jackson
>turn 2 push, LA >routed
Dominic Bennett
Llamaserver has games created in a variety of communities, ranging from this thread to the likes of RPG-Codex and Dom4mods forums. If you're thinking of /domg/ games (ie. games advertised in this thread), they tend to be anonymous so no signup is necessary, games created elsewhere typically expect a confirmation at their respective forums (otherwise the admin will just remove you from the list before game is started).
Wyatt Williams
Lambert wasn't relevant in that game for awhile. Hell, the throne I took from him I didn't really even need to win.
Keep your eyes on the thrones. And Dorfs in general just get dumber as the ages go on.
Angel Richardson
is the decay effect good?
Bentley Sanders
Most of the ways of applying it are MR negates if I remember right, which is pretty bad against decent troops, but the effect itself is strong enough to kill most things that aren't demons, elves, giants or other random magical creatures.
Luke Rogers
it takes time to kill, so you better have a way to delay the battle. or just lose the battle and then watch enemy units die after you retreated.
Jaxon Barnes
So at long last my opponent has gone AI after way too long of a battle, but I'm still siegeing his cap. Will the AI still use his scripts or will they rescript his mages and troops?
Bentley Watson
Probably rescript to fit its tastes.
Ryan Howard
The really sad part is that hiding the nation info entirely means no score graphs when you win.
Oh well.
Matthew Gray
Wait holy fuck I am tired tonight.
Can't you disable graphs until the game is over?
Christopher Torres
what the fuck is this game even
Angel Phillips
Looks like your average /domg/ game.
Juan Wood
How many are you looking for?
Daniel Mitchell
...
Nathaniel Evans
What's your favorite hero?
Oliver Harris
>That feel when a bunch of games you're in have either ended, or will in the next couple days. >Bonus feel for winning all of them.
Thomas Smith
Do you guys have any tips for getting my mages to target who I want them to target with the spells I script? Like are there formations, orders, or positions I can utilize to make a certain squad get one buff and another squad get the next buff? Or just general positioning that gives buffs maximum coverage on large armies? I feel so lost.
Eli Russell
Place square formations close to buffing mages, hold and attack closest orders so they'll stick around to get buffed.
Brayden Morris
>Mother of Monsters Alright Crossbreed hordes are fun as fuck. These things are freaky.
Parker Robinson
Started up a game, had a really great start, was pushing against my fiercest rival, then the war dragged on and on and someone else eventually grinded out the thrones to win after I had lost any enjoyment of the game.
And then I signed up for another one. Kill me.
Leo Nguyen
jews, we good?
Jackson Fisher
should be, by now.
Isaiah Brooks
Thanks I'll do that, how about for targeting enemies with debuffs/attack spells? Is that just whoever the closest appropriate target is or is there some more depth to it?
Zachary Richardson
Mages target differently from archers. They prefer HP density (this is why giants are often used as 'evo bait') and avoid units with resistance to their elemental spells (eg - a fireball will still do damage to an FR 5 unit, but the fireball caster will only target a block of FR 5 units if he can't aim at a square with non-resistant units). For MR negate spells, they will also preferentially target lower MR units first, but it's weighed against HP density and I'm not sure exactly how.
Bentley Morgan
When you say HP density does that mean a single target spell will target the beefiest unit and aoe spells will be centered wherever it would cover units with the most total hp?
So like a single giant with 100hp would be the target of a shadow bolt but falling frost would target the cluster of 20 soldiers with 10hp each in front of him?
Also what about spells with no aoe but multiple effects? would they target the cluster or the single big one?
thanks for the replies, it's interesting and helpful stuff.
Robert Martinez
How good are Iron Dragons in summod?
Nathan Adams
>So like a single giant with 100hp would be the target of a shadow bolt but falling frost would target the cluster of 20 soldiers with 10hp each in front of him? Not him, but I believe accuracy is taken into account too. Something like paralyze which has perfect accuracy and is single target would definitely shoot for the giant, but shadow bolt can deviate from the targeted square so the mage would probably aim for the cluster of units instead to increase his chances of hitting something. Falling Frost would definitely aim for the group.
>Also what about spells with no aoe but multiple effects? would they target the cluster or the single big one? Same way a spell with a single effect would work.
Sebastian Parker
>but I believe accuracy is taken into account too It is. This is often mistaken for an interest in distance in some guides, but soul slay and so on don't care how far a unit is.
Julian Jenkins
live.
Jace Nelson
Hey guys, I'm sick of these fucking stock maps and shitty random maps. Where do I get some good maps or a random map maker thing I used to have?
Jaxon Young
Fucking slaughtershit
Nathaniel Martinez
Check out Desura's forums.
Jacob Morgan
>Ashia 2h file received Valbad 2h file received Cirez'sis 2h file received Amore 2h file received Eillenon 2h file received Cynothalu 2h file received Chimori 2h file received Ninai 2h file received >Gondria Waiting for 2h file Norrping 2h file received Ceasidh 2h file received Djeris 2h file received Celaene 2h file received Tashna 2h file received Khaer 2h file received
Luis King
Thanks a ton Sauro, I was trying to remove Nefiel and speed up the fucking turns but no, you just had to backstab me. I thought we were cool man.
James Watson
One a day is the way we should play.
Ethan Cooper
I'm going to join this when I get home!
Jordan Stewart
>Just me and the coal burning single mom "PROGRAMMER" that I'm supposed to be "TRAINING" that spilled water all over my Dominions doodles at the office
/domg/ how do I get back at her for ruining my doodles? I'm already making sure she gets canned at the end of the month.
Alexander Perry
Pillage her capital.
Jaxon Stewart
>Abysia Waiting for 2h file Agartha 2h file received Asphodel 2h file received Shinuyama 2h file received Bandar Log 2h file received Caelum 2h file received C'tis 2h file received Ermor 2h file received Machaka 2h file received Man 2h file received Marignon 2h file received Vanarus 2h file received T'ien Ch'i 2h file received Ulm 2h file received Vanheim 2h file received Ys 2h file received
Jack Edwards
Unleash a horror on her pretender.
Isaiah Lopez
Take her out with mind duel?
Tyler Hill
Don't be silly, user. Women are mindless.
Daniel Rogers
Fuck off, i still have 10 hours
Bentley Lee
Anywhere from 8 and up.
Carson Price
Exercise that seduction skill of yours
Joseph Taylor
Roll for anal circumference.
Brody Sullivan
*BONG*
Liam Nguyen
memes are fun
so is playing your turns but for now memes will have to do
Easton Barnes
For the sake of discussion what is the most efficient way to deal with Rain of Stones? Does /domg/ ever put defensive items on mages?
Gavin Ortiz
usually I prefer using anti-army stuff to kill armies and thugs to kill lone mages. If you know you must face tank RoS, you need your mages armored and your troops immune to it. When you are trying to move things into magic that explicitly counters them, you should start looking for strategic alternatives.
Gabriel Johnson
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David Brooks
That sounds reasonable. I recently ran into a Rain of Stones that I wasn't expecting and lost a lot of stuff. The game was a loss for me at that point anyway but it seems like something to avoid in the future.
Eli Bennett
Best way to deal with it is to attack other provinces.
If that's not viable (or they have RoS in every province) then send thugs or SCs to clear out provinces for your to advance into.
If that doesn't work (anti-thug/SC measures) armor up your mages and pray your troops can beat his in a slugging match.