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 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
But I don't know a lot of things. What makes a unit good, and in what situations, and why?
Gabriel Hill
the 7 res ones are disgusting
Dylan White
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.
Evan Bailey
best bless for lanka?
Also best way to expand with em?
Nathaniel Roberts
A9, mass markatas
Christian Anderson
Remember, no matter how retarded your build, someone will defend it
Jeremiah Wilson
W9D9 MA Ulm
Charles Young
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.
Hudson Sullivan
1 province, full blood lanka, let's go
Matthew Jackson
>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.
Lucas Harris
Nigga wat
Daniel Turner
I once had a game where I used a W9 bless what went pretty well.
Easton White
>N9E4 awake Bull state of art
Kayden Sanchez
shroud thugs
Logan Howard
D9 on hit effect replaces the brand AOE on hit
Jordan Reyes
daily reminder: do not believe nick's lies
Nicholas Watson
The fuck? Since when? The F9 definitely doesn't.
Evan Cooper
he cant even take fomorias cap pft
James Barnes
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.
Sebastian Nelson
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.
Alexander Perry
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.
Eli Adams
>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.
Tyler Powell
They can benefit from Personal Regen as well. Trees are ridiculous.
Isaac Collins
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
Evan King
At a certain point, wouldn't dom kill be easier?
Noah Sullivan
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.
Charles Bailey
It's an immobile. They get high dom dirt cheap.
Jayden Nguyen
>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
Jonathan Wilson
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.
Kayden Mitchell
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.
Angel Gonzalez
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.
Zachary Flores
no, because
Jack Flores
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.
Wyatt Wood
Eh don't even bother friend, I don't think I recruited more than 50 units this game not counting sacreds.
Dylan Cooper
>tfw trying to take cap of Irminsul Pan with all three Treelords
Isaiah Hernandez
Well I dont have much else to do or spend fire gems on.
Ryan Baker
If you can kill one tree, you can kill 4 np
Kevin Davis
>don't do this bad thing to me it'll totally be a waste ok I believe you
Jack Kelly
If I cared I would put up a dome or something.
Jackson King
>let me just continue protesting ok I believe you
Kevin Russell
I totally forgot domes were a thing.
John Carter
Thaumaturgs did nothing wrong.
Lucas Cook
They did nothing right either.
James Moore
I should perhaps add that I am running turmoil sloth no growth and heat 3 so my single provinces give no income anyway.
Dylan Collins
dude looks like black David Gilmour
Charles Sanchez
I'm not that guy but like I said I am still going to volcano you simply because I have nothing better to do.
Carter Taylor
Why don't you spend those F gems on fire spirits and snakes to invade him with?
Ayden Cruz
So domg, should I clear this out or try to hellbind/charm/enslave him later?
Nathan Nelson
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.
Adam Jenkins
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
Nicholas Reyes
>Community Clash >2 Starts, need to restart both times due to fuck up'd start locations.
Will it ever begin for real?
Matthew Fisher
Is there a place to follow the game live? The thread seems dead
Sebastian Price
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.
Dylan Rodriguez
I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets.
Carson White
Bro, you're literally dead. The only thing left you could even do to effect the game is post the graphs.
Blake Wood
yeah nigga you're literally dead. As in, I got a message in the last turn saying that you have been permanently defeated
Anthony Gonzalez
Oh. Well I hope we play again someday. It was brief, but fun.
Luis Rogers
no worries. I might be following you soon, sandwiched between 3 rush nations as an mid-lategame
Daniel Lewis
Wait if we got that message last turn then why are we waiting for his turn now?
Tyler Lee
>admin >turn 14 >dead
Zachary Walker
easy, the turn's resolved. Try resending your turn
Oliver Long
This was the first time since Dom3 I was beaten so fast. Asphodel was pretty good.
Jonathan Richardson
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.