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 Nuclearmonkee >Jump into MP feet first; ask for pretender advice in the thread
If you liked the original Homeworld 1 no, I hated it. They do alot of things differently because the new company shoved all the bullshit HW2 engine into the HW1 game. So you are limited to what you can salvage, so many fucking bug you won't believe this is the same game, the game is also dumbed down alot (10x less enemies compared to the original HW). Basically it's a bad game. If you liked HW1 just play HW1 or cataclysm.
Bad idea. Some people are in games that are not domg. Like 3/x games that I'm playing are not from domg, but random games that are listed on llama.
Hunter Jenkins
Jesus fuck, guys. I think domg has as many ongoing games as the other communities combined.
Jaxson Morales
>No Mercs >No Recruiting >No Building >No Research >Players pick a monster >It grows through XP shape >Heroes are weaker monsters with XP shape >First player to evolve into the Panto wins There's your easy SP game.
Wyatt Kelly
also, GrandestMemery and ScrubWarriors, i guess?
Nathaniel Lewis
So anyways I've never played demonologist, but it reminded me of the elemental casters that require fucking 50 gems to summon anything. They were too gold dependent. Do we have to spoiler everytime we wanna talk about CoE here? It's the same company, but a different game with an even smaller population than dom4.
They might seem that way at first but demons are really good. Hellhound for example come in a big pack, have like 50 health and can shoot big cones of fire as well as just biting shit.
John Peterson
That actually sounds interesting.
How about a mechanic similar to CoE where you get a random spell for every time you invest your "currency", I guess in this case XP, into magical schools (conjur, evo etc). Or just get a random spell related to the school you already know every level. Or monsters/treasure drops spells.
Carson Collins
Items let you cast spells.
So pop back to your cap, buy a staff of skeleton horde, and you're good.
Liam Russell
Or how about research actually is a thing, but since you can't recruit mages to research for you, you need to spend precious turns researching.
Juan Rivera
How early can you get them? The biggest factor in winning is to get resources as quickly as possible early game. growth in CoE is an exponential factor and the earlier you get resources the better. Cultists can summon VERY early and alot of troops that are competitive with 5iron troops from cities. mid/late game it's very easy to summon a lv2 mage + 20 troops with 2 (or was it 3) protection. I've been fighting Baron level AI and cultists have never lost me a game yet.
Isaiah Hughes
I don't think I've played more than a demo of the original game and I already own the remastered version. I'm just too lazy to start up any game. Other games I should play: Castlevania: Lord of Shadows Darksiders II Devil May Cry 3
Could also list loads of strategy games, but I'm kinda burnt out on those.
Cameron Brooks
I haven't played in a while but since they are one of the better ones they might be a bit later. The standard early demons are still pretty good and have a lot of variety. Form what I remember I would say the early proper demons would be better than their cultist equivalents but I might be full of shit.
Jason Scott
Devil May Cry 3 is pretty rad.
Gabriel Wright
What the fuck, sum1, you nigger?
Are those scorpions made from glorious bat steel folded 10000 times or something?
Levi Wood
reasonable Xibalba nerf tbqh
Henry Jenkins
I know, but supposedly you need to fiddle a bit to get a controller to work and I'm in no mood to fiddle around.
Thomas Gomez
Finally! Xibalba is now balanced.
Josiah Barnes
Checked the Steam forum. Apparently it takes no effort after all. Guess I'll be playing DMC tomorrow.
Xavier Collins
I figured it out!
You have the XP shape that gives better forms but items will act as your mutations. I can even randomize what these items do using that spell mod.
So your form 2 cave crab goes home and picks out a new armor. This new armor could cast fly, summon an ice elemental, make him ethereal, or whatever.
Charles Diaz
definitely. cultists lack a good SC. when i fought hell portals cultists had a tough time unless they had ome mindcontrol magic which is possible with their school.
Daniel Ross
Did you get permission from charles to post this image? It's copyrighted, you know.
Xavier Johnson
No takers for subbing, so... looking for someone to set Utgard AI. Please reply with email
Asher Foster
What position are they in? I've never played them before and might be willing to try
Mason Ramirez
He was doing fine before staling three turns in a row. This is a noob game, though, unless you are a beginner it's not fair on the rest of us.
Robert Thompson
>it's not fair Neither is playing with a three turn deficit.
Tyler Campbell
Mandatory memeposting. Cirno getting memed here -> imgur.com/a/U1ZNv
Sorry
Andrew Perry
That's unavoidable, unless you expect me to arrange for subs before people even stale. Not a lot I can do about that except rollback which is much more unfair (since we'll know how battles went). I was told in this thread that 3 is a good point to find a sub. Sorry.
Jason Wright
post bless
Joseph Martin
Activate your windows, amigo
John Morales
>Don't bother with a supaya bless they said >Nazca's really all about the mages they said
Isaac Gutierrez
Nah, you didn't do anything wrong, and giving someone three chances is plenty, but a complete noob probably won't be able to salvage a winning strategy with the nation and position if they have no idea what they're doing or what they're supposed to be doing.
S-sorry Bill, I s-swear I have a original copy of Windows!
Supaya-spam being a noobtrap is actually the noobtrap.
Best blesses (imo): B9W9, B9F9 and W9F9. But the last one is really expensive and doesnt bring BV (this is good sometimes as you will be able to use evocations).
There is also B9F9W9, I'm probably trying that some time soon.
t. Some guy
Josiah Cooper
>There is also B9F9W9, I'm probably trying that some time soon. what awake?
Lincoln Wilson
Supaya spam is fine, but Nazca's mages are pretty fantastic and taking advantage of that is also pretty important.
Landon Moore
You forgot to mention Summod makes supaya weapons hard mr for some obscure fucking reason.
Aiden Hill
t. Malakal :^)
Bentley Jackson
Yes.
That -4 MR on the check really fucks up Mictlan. Its 30% more killing power.
Elijah Smith
can't he just thug his pretender?
but yeah, hard-to-negate supaya spears are bullshit
Easton Wood
Can pretenders wear shrouds?
Juan Roberts
Yes, but they don't get sacred.
Easton Butler
I agree When I picked Nazca I had no idea summod gave them hard to mr negate, I found it out later
Ian Moore
Thanks sum1won. And people thought the crossbreeding bug was bad.
Jaxon Myers
That 'fuck the ghostbirds' guy plays in a community where massive unnecessary rainbows are considered a top tier strategy and games are won with them. I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt. Or several.
Jaxon Thompson
Yeah, sure thing Rejakor. Fuck off.
Leo Watson
bug introduced when certain other weapons were changed. fixed in later versions.
Jace Ward
It seems that #xpshape works on pretenders.
Someone could definitely have some fun with that.
William Bailey
What's fantastic about them?
They look overpriced to me, with flying mobility being the only reason they're usable.
Jack Ortiz
double communions
Gabriel Mitchell
TWICEBORN
Michael Bennett
>tfw dumped gf >tfw alone tonight >tfw no turns >tfw most games are delayed because one or two fags who played in the same games as me and simply poofed out of existence Just shoot me
James Hernandez
>dumped gf Why?
Camden Cook
Not dumped, just gave her time. She was dumped by a ugly nerd (she is literally a commercial model for small brands and instashit I don't know how that happened) , hooked up with me but ended up falling in love with me. I saw she was still confused after only one month after the nerd and decided to give her some time to clear her ideas and decide what she wants. So... Should I focus of scales or blesses for my nites as MA mari?
Jace Kelly
I wouldn't focus on a bless for knights. Either use flagellants with some mad bless or go for something like N9 for angels and try to survive with crossbows and fire evos until then.
Thomas Morris
>evos You spelled 'elementals' wrong
The N9 angel bless makes knights better at expanding and lineholding too, but they're already decent at that without the bless too.
Mason Morris
Flame Pillar is pretty great on your shit mages (especially in summod), and you can reach it relatively early with high magic.
Chase Evans
Flame Pillar is great. It's also late game. You're sure as fuck not getting it before harbingers.
Gabriel Adams
You people are pathetic.
Nathaniel Gomez
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Charles Mitchell
>when you feel like you're gonna stale because you're unwell and too lightheaded to think >and it turns out you have another 12 hours to get the turns in I'm gonna go lay down now and hope no one is yelling at me when I get up/I feel well enough after sleep
wish me luck
Julian Gutierrez
What gaem?
Nathaniel Diaz
YIAMAG and AbsoluteMadman are closest to their timer; but I'm in like... 5 more that have a lot more time on the clock; I'm not even at the 12 hour warning for those two though
Hudson Watson
Got some updates on Shaige the Horse Tribe Chief
Samuel Carter
He actually took a pretty big hit from the first Water Elemental. Survived, but the wound left him permanently weakened.
Elijah Hughes
...
Alexander Morris
Tell me more about Shaige. Was he responsible for bringing chaff to the front, making him something like a drill sergeant to the recruits? Did he oversee the construction of any forts? Had he previously commanded at any battles?
Justin Williams
...
Brody Howard
The reason there were so many assassins in that province in the first place was I was using them to keep Tisor's huge army of 150 insane sacreds and chariots locked down. He however managed to break through and bring 85 units with him and siege my fort.
>Had he previously commanded at any battles? Not previously, but there was this one minor skirmish.
Kayden Morris
Oh, so Shaige works for Tisor?
Kevin Walker
Yeah, but he's so inspiring I kind of have to cheer for him.
Colton Cooper
Not a really great turn for me overall, honestly.
Thomas Scott
>when you have a neighbor that you consider an ally and stand by throughout the game >when he does the same for you There are some feels that you can only get in a RP game.
Ryan Morgan
I'm pretty sure he doesn't need our pity.
Luke Evans
Mabakiel is going to be the laughing stock at the next Heliophagi meeting
Christopher Morales
We'll see how much they'll laugh when Mabakiel goes back and infernal prisons Shaige.
Lincoln Murphy
Ole Mabakiel doesn't even have the paths to infernal prison him.
Andrew Butler
>busy all day >finally get some time >spend literally fucking hours on a turn >just barely miss the deadline FUCK
Luis Brooks
They'll still laugh. They'll see him and be like "This is the guy? I've got imps that could kick his ass."
Daniel Young
Well it clearly reads large, not giant.
Aiden Bell
>Well it clearly reads large, not giant. What a way to miss the point.