/domg/ Dominions General

Machaka 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 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.

>Steamgroup
Join the steamgroup for multiplayer
steamcommunity.com/groups/vanheimageofvidya

>Group chatroom
steam://friends/joinchat/103582791434709795

>Our work-in-progress wiki
dom4.wikia.com/wiki/Dominions_4_Wiki

>Our pastebin
pastebin.com/uTZnjYwm (embed) (embed) (embed) (embed)

>Dom4 Manual
jaffa.illwinter.com/dom4/manual_dom4.pdf

>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/

>Play by email guide:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=202096551

>Debug Mod:
For testing battle formations and spells
dom4archive.kermodebear.org/www.desura.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/thread/debug-mod.html

>Where do I get it?
It is available on Gamersgate and Steam. Desura is kill.

>THE BASICS
>Read the manual
>Read the wiki
>Read the pastebin
>Watch some LPs by Sy, Maerlande, or Nuklearmonkee
>Jump into MP feet first
>Die and join the ranks of brave skeletons
>Elves are friends, do not remove them

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Previous thread

First for aboleth traps

More like bad OP-pic edition.

calm down

I don't even know why i bothered

Just let it die.

t. OP

is it because no weeb image?

I think it's because no topic has arisen as yet.

Let's talk about AP crossbows. Threat, or menace?

I don't know.

But I don't know a lot of things. What makes a unit good, and in what situations, and why?

the 7 res ones are disgusting

On that front there are a couple different roles, with different requirements.

Chaff, for example, is good primarily for reasons of being cheap and plentiful. Blockers for being able to be hit many times and not die.

Those are fairly similar, but Dudes For Actually Killing Shit are another ballgame. For those you want high attacks-per-square with good Attack and Strength, although of course not dying is also useful for those.

best bless for lanka?

Also best way to expand with em?

A9, mass markatas

Remember, no matter how retarded your build, someone will defend it

W9D9 MA Ulm

is good but Lanka's blood mages are so strong you can also just ignore the early-game expansion in favour of setting up your blood economy, which will be crucial for summoning your sacreds.

1 province, full blood lanka, let's go

>ignore expansion

Fastest way to lose. Personally, I'm a fan of N9E4 awake Bull Lanka. Gives fantastic expansion, a break into E magic, and a solid bless.

Nigga wat

I once had a game where I used a W9 bless what went pretty well.

>N9E4 awake Bull
state of art

shroud thugs

D9 on hit effect replaces the brand AOE on hit

daily reminder: do not believe nick's lies

The fuck? Since when? The F9 definitely doesn't.

he cant even take fomorias cap
pft

It does, actually. I've tested it, and it's pretty easy to see.

Interestingly, D9 and F9 effects stack, but they overwrite the brand's on-attack effect.

Man, that's nothing. You should have seen him lose 3 armies trying to kill AI Midgard's tree in edible gloves before giving up.

Then again, Sum1won also failed to kill tree in antiquis, so apparently they're just tough to take down.

I was roused. I didn't see any commanders with projection, and figured if he had any Nemedian sorceresses he'd have put some birds in the capital, which I would have seen.

Apparently he deathbasketed Ur instead. Which, iirc, brings Ur's deathbasket count to an impressive 4 so far.

>tfw winning the game so I won't get to see my tree demolish an invading army

I've seen N9 Poison Touches do some serious damage before.

They can benefit from Personal Regen as well. Trees are ridiculous.

best way I've found to kill a tree is three fights -
first send in a battlefield clear to wipe chaff and vulnerable mages
then send in some resilient fightersto kill their tougher surviving mages, and thugs, and elite troops
finally, now that the tree is mostly isolated, send in thugs with gatecleavers or otherwise high damage AN/AP weapons to kill the tree

At a certain point, wouldn't dom kill be easier?

I t d e p e n d s

It was much faster in this case to do it that way, since I had the resources to actually take it and dom kill would have taken a very, very long time.

It's an immobile. They get high dom dirt cheap.

>send in thugs with gatecleavers or otherwise high damage AN/AP weapons to kill the tree
If you can cast it, living clouds is a really good alternative

Anyone know any of china's especially large provinces? I'm going to volcano the shit out of them since I probably cant beat him in a straight fight.

It's a nice thought, but it's an N caster. It gets Elemental Fortitude, which means you're not gonna break Personal Regen with eight 1 damage AN hits.

Probably, that's how I killed the ones I faced.
Although if it's a treelord wouldn't setting it on fire do the trick?

Post-combat burn on fire weak units kills both Niefel Giants and Forest Dragons.

no, because

domkilling a decent dom pretender with a forted temple, prophet and a couple of priests can be quite hard. building 6 temples and waiting 5-6 turns with an army on top of it hoping no one will come in and smash them sometimes it's a bit dangerous.

Eh don't even bother friend, I don't think I recruited more than 50 units this game not counting sacreds.

>tfw trying to take cap of Irminsul Pan with all three Treelords

Well I dont have much else to do or spend fire gems on.

If you can kill one tree, you can kill 4 np

>don't do this bad thing to me it'll totally be a waste
ok I believe you

If I cared I would put up a dome or something.

>let me just continue protesting
ok I believe you

I totally forgot domes were a thing.

Thaumaturgs did nothing wrong.

They did nothing right either.

I should perhaps add that I am running turmoil sloth no growth and heat 3 so my single provinces give no income anyway.

dude looks like black David Gilmour

I'm not that guy but like I said I am still going to volcano you simply because I have nothing better to do.

Why don't you spend those F gems on fire spirits and snakes to invade him with?

So domg, should I clear this out or try to hellbind/charm/enslave him later?

I got better chaff from earth and I have never once seen a successful invasion on EA china.
Granted I haven't been playing that long but every invasion I have seen so far has backfired hilariously.

Personally, I always go for the charm. I also will spend 60+ gems overgeared my assassins in actual games, though, so I'm pretty biased

>Community Clash
>2 Starts, need to restart both times due to fuck up'd start locations.

Will it ever begin for real?

Is there a place to follow the game live? The thread seems dead

Game: AutismWars
Turn number 14
Next turn due: 07:18 GMT on Thursday February 9th

Abysia 2h file received
Arcoscephale 2h file received
Asphodel 2h file received
Shinuyama 2h file received
>Bandar Log Waiting for 2h file
C'tis 2h file received
Jotunheim 2h file received
Man 2h file received
Nazca 2h file received
Ulm 2h file received

Admin postponing for himself, despite being dead. Toppest kek.

I will not die until I achieve something.
Even though the ideal is high, I never give in.
Therefore, I never die with regrets.

Bro, you're literally dead. The only thing left you could even do to effect the game is post the graphs.

yeah nigga you're literally dead. As in, I got a message in the last turn saying that you have been permanently defeated

Oh. Well I hope we play again someday. It was brief, but fun.

no worries. I might be following you soon, sandwiched between 3 rush nations as an mid-lategame

Wait if we got that message last turn then why are we waiting for his turn now?

>admin
>turn 14
>dead

easy, the turn's resolved. Try resending your turn

This was the first time since Dom3 I was beaten so fast. Asphodel was pretty good.

You need to submit a turn for the turn on which you are defeated before llama can take you off the "this player needs to do turns" list. I assume there is a reason for that.