/domg/- Dominions General

What's your pro fort strat?

Do you plan for your first fort to be out by the end of year one. With full lab and all

Or do you plan for your forts to have begun construction before the end of year one?

It's a meme from Veeky Forums, of which I expect at least half the playerbase is from.

Bullying elves is our national pasttime.

i try to aim to start the construction before turn 10.

Typically, you want forts to begin constructing as early as it doesn't hamper your expansion, and that depends entirely on the faction's expansion potential, fort era (palisades can be constructed much more readily than fortresses never mind larger forts) and to some degree starting location. It's possible for some nations to have not just one but several forts ready by the end of the first year, while for others having a fort started at that point is good timing. Gold events will obviously change things further.

I try to find a good place, and save money for an investment on the turn that fits the most, all before the end of summer or autumn if it's LA and all the forts cost an arm and a leg and 1000 gold.

sidhe slave, wat do?

Well that didn't go as planned

>Underestimating Shark Tribes

Bone Fiends.

Yes/no?

Probably no unless you really need some crappy troops right now

Apart from the fact that Shark Tribe are maniacs who often hit above their weight class, you should work on your positioning so you reach the enemy on your own turn. Getting the first hit in makes a huge difference vs indies.

They're decent troops for their price, and they're a lot faster to summon than other demons.

If either number of blood slaves or time is an issue, they could be worth it. Otherwise go for other types of demon, they're far stronger.

Can anyone please tell me why my turn file is corrupted or how to fix it?

It's memeoftheages. Could it be cause I died or whats the deal?

Try going to the game page on Llamaserver and requesting a turn resend. Sometimes things get unstuck somewhere in the process of getting the turn into the mailserver and sent.

If that doesn't fix it, I dunno.

Oh shit, I resent it five times and no go, still error.

Oh well, I was losing anyhow.

RIP shit Mictlan.

TC, I'll leave that Ermor fort in 52 this turn if it would be more convenient for you to take it.

Also, check in-game messages.

How do you figure out how your position should be? I can check out how much they move and how much I move, but who moves first? How much distance is between the two front rows? Etc.

Noooooo mictlan, don't give up!

The defender always moves first.

There's a handy diagram showing the size of the battlefield and the space between front rows, but I can't find it right now. I hope some other friendly user can post it.

10-15 rows between the fronts.
Defender always moves first.

Never mind, I had it after all.

Holy shit is that a useful tool. I can't believe I've been playing without it. I can now actually figure out just how far my spells will be able to hit instead of guessing at it. Thanks a lot for this.

You got it all wrong. Here, I fixed it.

Do indies always start in Front row, or more towards center? Randomly somewhere in between?

Indies and PD always start around the center as far as I know.

Ranged units in the back, melee in the center

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llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=AntiquisTerra
Reminder to join this shit.

Why?

If you have a Fort in a province with a Farm of Plenty, does that affect supply use when sieged?

All site bonuses are legit even for sieges, including gem income and supplies.

Because you must.

I really need one of these merc companies, you guys.

What are the stats of Durand's Cavalry anyway? It's not on desura.com/games/dominions-3-the-awakening/forum/thread/calahans-complete-list-of-mercenaries-mercs-mercenarys which is what I've been using. Looks like a Heavy Cav commander so 10x Heavy Cav?

Get in vanheim lads I'm doing a blitz

larzm42.github.io/dom4inspector/?page=merc&panes=merc 13@605@71:unit 292@301@71&mercq=durand

Oh geeze there's an entire page there labeled "Merc". I never even paid attention to that before, thank you.

Hol up, I want to recruit them too. It's heavy cav galore where I am, and I want to fight fire with fire.

Outbid me 1v1 IRL bro, see what happens

>it's a "Green tries to assassinate but accidentally attacks" episode

Is this a random event, or was there some magic heresy involved?

This is what happens when you turn story events on.

Enjoy your war in hell for 50 turns, random demon lords, ermorian cultists, and 200 barbarians attacking the same province over and over.

It's an event. The battle happened after all regular battles. (Order is magic rit battles > battles > event battles)

Also, meanads don't have stealth :)

>entire female population
>random event gives pangaea 15000 maenads on my capital.

I tried everything, I juuuust got my sick mages online too.

Oh wells. Maybe if I stale a turn it will magically reset somehow.

So Unleash Imprisoned Ones will cause the 3 titans to spawn in other people's provinces rather than yours, right?

A-asking for a friend

Yes. And when they die they transform into legions of gods.

Hey Asphodel are you considering (6) and (8) your side of the mountain of mine? Waiting to hear back from you before I send my turn.

Yeah those are the real deal, the titans themselves aren't too bad. I assume the spawning is completely random and you won't be making any friends casting it.

They can spawn in your provinces, just not on your capital. In a singleplayer game I run one landed on Man's capital i conquered.
I think they have a preference for thrones/capitals in general.

sounds like feminism if you know what i mean ;^)

Bats and Ragha both on blood plane, panic.

Well, that's novel.

If Ragha isn't retarded he just won the game.
>Rush bat capital asap
>get free cap
>proceed to kill everyone else with endless gold.

Why is Legion of Gods better than the tartarian? What makes it good?

Look at it in dom inspector. You'll be terrified.

>try to rush bats
>get raided lose because he weakened you
wew i hope he doesnt do this

All I'm seeing is a 55hp ethereal unit with 5S

Which can easily get rekt by any kind of magic weapon wielding undead or demon, because they don't give a shit about fear

Or a high level Mind Duel caster

Or the typical Stellar Cascades spam

Horror tier stats except for protection
true ethereal
25 (!) fear
Teleporter
An instant kill attac
Damage reversal
Innate spellcaster whilst having strong paths
Increases unrest and kills dudes

The fear and true ethereal are probably the most annoying things about it.

True ethereal doesn't care about magic weapons.
There are ways to deal with it, but it can screw up unprepared armies.

That's not ethereal.

So, you don't see true ethereal, innate spellcasting 2, and consume soul? Not to mention +5 to a random path.

>You will never have a wild orgie with hundreds of meanads, wild and crazy for dick

I can't even tell how triggered I am by this dumb post. Okofire, is that you?

Innate spellcasting 2.
Innate.
Spellcasting.
2.

Innate spellcasting is junk on indies. Legion of gods doesn't cast anything of value ever. Not even if you give them gems.

t. scrub

where is my summon dragon spell

They are probably smelly anyways
2/10 would not bang

True ethereal ignores all mundane weapons, treats magic weapons like normal ethereal treats mundane weapons

Hi bats.
You got no forests anywhere in the area, ragha can counterraid with much stronger flyers and your troops will mass desert without gold anyway.
At worst raiding this early into the game is a loss of a few provinces worth of income in exchange for capital and the dominance of a very good plane.

Nobody's saying that those things are unkillable, they're just REALLY annoying to deal with. It will drain life from your troops while casting evos and teleporting around.

t. seal breakage witness

>bravely defends a province from the undead menace
>inspires men to fight in the crusade
>game won't let me rename her to Jeanne D'arc

Do you know where you are, punk?

Do you know what we do with those who have nipples around here?

Hiroshima said that nipples are allowed if they're not from porn, unless you also want to ban me for this.

Berserk is revenge porn, so your argument is invalid.

I wish. Not anymore.

>True ethereal ignores all mundane weapons
There's something like 1/16 chance for mundane weapons to get through.

Which is basically immune in practice.

Oh boy, I'm so looking forward to what's going to happen next turn. This gonna be good.

You know what the real worst case scenario is?

[Spoiler]If they work together.

I wonder how mages feel like, being ordered by their god to transform into mindless monsters just so they can skip on paying their salary.

Being an employed mage sounds like a shit job in the domverse.

>two small nations is a worse scenario than one big one

uhuh.

I'm so looking forward to what's going to happen in 5 turns.

Admin is going to mercykill Flatus again?

Well, from worst to best, One big nation killing you < Two small nations killing you < Two small nations killing each other.

If you want it so bad, you ought to make it.

Did Flatus really end after ten turns?

It was more like 20 or so. Let me look it up.

Yeah, 23 turns. C'tis and Riley gave me death gems, I cast BoT, and Gath scammed everyone for pearls.

I almost like that version of dominions more.

New version of summod is out with mostly bug fixes.

Illwinter's last patch did some stuff with events, and a few of the more complicated new mechanics used event modding to make stuff happen. It also makes Thed less strong (earlier versions of summod overbuffed them)

I mean you're Lemuria again, I'm 100% fine wrecking the blood plane so it's actually a game...

Mindless only if they're unlucky, otherwise they are continuing their mystical journey of the soul, ascending to a different, possibly higher form, in the best case scenario unlocking further the secrets of the arcane. In these new forms they have no more use for gold or other petty material things.

But not for sieging forces