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
Looking for a sub for Mictlan in the all-sacreds game
Mictlan gets SLAVE SACREDS, LONGDEAD SACREDS, SLINGER SACREDS and is packing a HUGE BLESS
Brayden Thomas
Shouldn't pick immortal chassis if you won't dump points on candles /domg/.
Isaac Moore
fuck you, I do what I want
Chase Brooks
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE what did he mean by this?
Elijah Murphy
grap
Nathan Moore
LA Pythium is shit. Lemuria is shit. Why is it suffering to be LA Romans /domg/?
Mason Torres
summod Lemuria is good
Gabriel Kelly
What's a good pretender for EA/MA Pangea?
Thus far I've just been doing Turmoil/Luck with some variation on an N9Ex bless (usually N9E6W4) but I get the feeling that isn't the most efficient design. Also how can you even manage Blood as TurmoilPan?
Nicholas Jones
MA Pan works well with order, actually. It's great with the extra money.
Either way, W9 is great. If you want to go turmoil, you can reasonably afford a W9N9 double bless
Tyler Turner
But muh unquenchable tide of naked women.
Justin Ortiz
As other user said, W9 is amazing for your sacreds. N9 might have more utility later, though.
>Also how can you even manage Blood as TurmoilPan? You should be patrolling away unrest anyway. It'll just mean a few more troops to negate the unrest production.
Samuel Carter
>blood as turmoilpan
patrol with wolves, make sure you have a decent amount of dominion in the province and 10 or 20 PD.
the main reason you go blood is to craft blood items and you don't need one million blood slaves like xibalba who needs to spam national summons as much as possible, therefore sustainable bloodhunting with order 3 is not necessary.
Jordan Moore
How often is it that somebody offering a truce is almost likely to just try and fuck you with it?
Caleb Edwards
in a domg game that would be 60% of the times.
100% if it's nightnick.
Brayden King
Always because they're all out to get you.
Jacob Sullivan
What do you mean by truce?
Stopping a war where neither of you is getting anywhere, or a non-aggression pact with a nation which you're not at war with?
Jaxson Nguyen
Could I get a 24-hour extension? I'm on a weekend trip, getting back late tomorrow.
Cooper Barnes
What was the name of the book that Illwinter harps on about? It was a really really good book of shitloads of different myth and the cultures that spawned it all. I think it was centered around the priest kings of sumer.
I'll soon have the opportunity to cast Wrath of God, but is it worth it? The description of what it does isn't very detailed.
Nicholas Fisher
100% Any attempt at diplomancy should be taken as an act of war
Isaiah Bell
It just randomly kills enemy chaff Not worth
Jaxson Green
The first.
Jason Cruz
You should always trust me, malakal, I will never backstab you
Eli Myers
i don't think i'm any games with you my dude but i'll keep that in mind
Jaxon Ross
Looks interesting, thanks for the link.
I'd expect a low chance of betrayal, at least in the short term. Breaking the alliance will just put them back in the same stalemated war they want to get out of.
Longer term, I'd be concerned about them looking for an ally to restart the war with. Watch what they're doing - building forces back up is to be expected after a war, but if it's been a year+ and they're still not doing something I'd get a bit concerned.
Overall, I'd probably take the deal. A war which is going nowhere is terrible for both people. One place I'd be a lot more hesitant is if it's something like elves or birds, where they can go for a decapitating strike if you're unprepared.
Austin Taylor
>"hey do you want to make peace for a while?" >he accepts >immediately start making conga-lines of all my stealth troops/thugs on enemy territory, or start amassing burds in focal points >1 year later >set all my troops to attack >send message with "ok peace time is over" >send turn
Brandon Long
Already the thread is dead again.
Austin Flores
How the hell am I not dead yet? Also can I please stop being gangbabged now?
Sebastian Wilson
yeah, 24 hour extension applied. If you need more time, I'll try to catch it.
Landon Young
Tell me user, where did asshole batman touch you?
Benjamin Watson
Is the planet of the apes faction any good/fun?
Christian Flores
I liked Lanka the time I played them.
Anthony Moore
I disliked Lanka the time I played against them.
Aiden Rogers
Are the sticks and stones any good?
Connor Gutierrez
I am about to drown in skeletons courtesy of lanka in the everything is sacred game
Angel Hill
Yeah. 2 attacks/turn, lots of ammo, strength buffs work on them and you can cast flaming arrows on them.
Chase Hall
Bats probably stopped attacking you and Ulm must be incompetent (or got attacked by Agartha).
Luis Evans
They are if you cast flaming arrows on them.
Christian Robinson
Someone get a priest in here, we need someone to start reanimating.
Isaac King
I cast Banishment
Benjamin Long
Lanka's quite good, but were you talking about them? There's also Kailasa, Bandar Log, and Patala. Kailasa is my overall favorite of the monkey nations.
Xavier Rodriguez
Is any unit in game your waifu?
Ian Scott
Ur mom.
Xavier Clark
How do I make Bandar Log work in multiplayer? What scales, what type of pretender etc.
Henry Lopez
W9 seems good for your tiger riders.
Aaron Smith
Awake N9E4
Parker Hernandez
Awake expander. If anybody needs it, it's Bandar Log. Their mages are good, but their troops are garbage.
Eli Sullivan
>tiger riders >garbage yew w0t
Parker Walker
Oh man yeah, a cap-only sacred that is massively expensive and costs a relatively high amount of resources on a nation with fuck-all to do with those resources everywhere else.
Yeah
Definitely worth building around
Colton Thompson
>17 res is high amount for a cap only sacred wew, I bet you think white centaur aren't worth building around either
Gabriel Reyes
You might have a better case if they also didn't get white ones. Not that I don't agree with taking an awake - imo all the monkey nations are best with awake N9E4s on account of their TERRIBLE FUCKING STARTING ARMY, and recruit anywhere sacreds/sacred summons.
WC are 15 gold cheaper and much more durable. Tiger Riders are still something you make and expand with, but lets not kid ourselves comparing them to WC.
Zachary Cruz
W9N9
Lucas Lewis
I wrote up a thing a few threads ago, I'll look for it when I get home.
Essentially though, mono bless with a blood minor and dormant. N9 works, but honestly it's a late game bless and you don't have a strong early game without an awake, which is fucking expensive, or a bless for your tigers, which means a dual bless
Christian Gutierrez
Testing cav vs cav heavily depends on charge. Did blog get in the charge or did Pan?
Jayden Phillips
Tiger riders don't charge
Joshua Turner
>charge You realize that lance damage is based on AP, not distance moved, right? Also, tiger riders don't have lances. ALSO it was less close than it looked, since there were a fair few tigers from the dead riders left after the fight.
Luke Richardson
After modifying the white centaur formations to let them get a near-perfect surround on BL and fixing their positioning to get first hit, this is the best I could do.
Again, there were still living tigers there at the end.
Brandon Smith
...
Sebastian Wilson
>worst girl is a smoker
quelle surprise
Alexander Rogers
worst girl, more like best
Austin Thompson
Tigers turn back into tiger riders if they survive do they?
Parker Perez
no. they ded. that's why they show up as ded on the battle report while there are still tigers left alive
Landon Wright
No. You also don't keep the tigers.
BL does not get to go full Zheyadan.
Jonathan Jenkins
So, would there be any interest in a disciple game with 6 teams of 3, either in EA or MA? Mods likely would be worthy heroes, and summod+ME.
Noah Jackson
I want a no-diplo disciples game. You have teammates to talk to so you can get out the "omg I want to talk about this cool thing that's happening" while still making the game more of a bunch of simultaneous wars rather than a series of gangbangs
Dylan Gonzalez
Does anyone have a game recommendation that helps you play out the growth and development of an evil fantasy empire with magic that matters? Dominions is honestly the closest thing that I've found to it, but I'd really like a game with more interesting single player.
Cooper Baker
First, if any of the monkey nations needed an awake expander it would be Kailasa. Second, Bandar and Patala get elephants, which are GREAT for expansion.
Third, tiger riders are good, and they work with a W9. Really, they expand fine.
Wyatt Young
EA Abysia in single player is pretty damn close in my opinion.
>technologically advanced >heavy plate on all your dudes >throwing fire everywhere >human units drafted into your army suffer because of your heat auras >turning the entire world into desert with your dom >assassins everywhere >blood magic and easier access to horrors than pretty much everyone >your guys are limited in number but still shit all over the hordes of chaff the AI throws at you
Xavier Rodriguez
Yeah, Dominions is really good at it for a variety of nations, honestly. I'm basically asking for a game that can give a similar feel, even if its actual mechanics are very different.
Samuel Long
Master of Magic
Zachary Edwards
Played. It's like a lower tier Dominions
Luke Mitchell
Endless Legend is quite good. Fantasy civ.
Andrew Foster
Definitely a fun game, but magic just isn't meaningful in the way that it is in Dominions.
Fallen Enchantress does magic better, but in that game the game revolves around one or two super spells and being able to get dragons (which you need to kill a dragon to get, which is really hard without the insta-kill death spell and completely trivial with it).
Wyatt Cruz
Haha no. Yavanas are good for expansion with a couple of arrow blockers and a little thought.
Zachary Evans
elephants are better at expanding.
I dont think either of those three should get an awake expander, but definitely Bandar is the one of those three nations who needs it the least.
Julian Gomez
I think N9 Yavs beat elephants on cost for expansion, espeically in Summod (30 gold). But I'm interested...what kind of pretender would you take for BL?
Luis Rogers
>previous turn other player messages me to attack a neighbour >tell him i'm sorry but i won't >turn after that he messages me about attacking the nation i'm playing >he is diplomancing against me but failed to send it to the right guy Jesus, why is domg so full of diplomancers? I should play in dom3mods or some shit.
Benjamin Jackson
obviously W9, don't you know how fucking good tiger riders are? Check this out:
Isaac Russell
what does the ravenous swarm exactly do?
Jacob Morgan
Arent they worse what with actually expecting you to stick to what you say and getting super butthurt after getting attacked by a dude who stalled for 16 turns in a row?
Joshua Rodriguez
>THE BASICS >Read the manual
Liam Long
Yes, but it really depends. There's a large variance in players in just about every community.
Christian Walker
How to play as EA lanka?
Gavin Martin
Spam indy priests so you can spam longdead.
Angel Jones
How's it going in Olathe, Kichikuo and Today Local Domg Man?
Jeremiah Roberts
This version's much better, thanks
Jackson Diaz
Who you then cast mass flight on.
Michael Edwards
priest thugs
Josiah Lee
Any games starting up? Haven't played in awhile and want to get back to passive aggressive diplomacy.
William James
What kind of bless would even make an Indy priest thug viable? With N9W9 you 'might' be able to take PD up to 5 or 6