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Blood magic edition

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>wiki
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>Dom4 Manual
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>Our pastebin (Don't bother reading this right now, it needs an overhaul)
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>Dom4 Inspector
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>Noob questions answered that you didn't think to ask
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>Pretender designer
bsielski.github.io/pretenders/

>Play by email guide:
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>Debug Mod:
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>Debugger guide and download
forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=36453&highlight=debug

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

>THE BASICS
>Read the manual
>Read the wiki
>Watch some LPs by Sy, Maerlande, or Nuclearmonkee
>Jump into MP feet first; ask for pretender advice in the thread

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DO YOUR TURNS

ok

Patala pls, doubble turn

Patala's plowing his friend's boipucci right now, don't bully him.

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Your S1 mages are among the cheapest, so you should build many forts with labs and temples early for dem communions. Naga sacreds are mediocre at best, but hypmotize special attack, although one-shot, can be used for some funny anti-thug shenanigans. Nagas are amphibious and have water magic, which means that you'll have an easy time conquering UW shits with water elemental spam. E/S on your cap only dudes can be used for gifts from heaven communions. Earth buffs are always great as well. Nature will allow you to drown the battlefield in insects with creeping doom or swarm, allowing you to never trigger hp rout with your shitty baseling monkey shitflingers.

Patala's true strength comes from their summons though, and most of them require non-native paths, especially blood. Just open "summoned" tab in dom inspector and prepare to be amazed. Summonable sacreds of varying strength with both blood and pearls (that synergize with earth, astral, nature, and water buffs well), mapmove 10 teleporting siddhas (literally claim thrones in one turn from your cap), flying gorillas that autocast Darkness and can into air buffs, MOTHERFUCKING DAKINIS that will win your a motherfucking game. The problem is, they all need pretender made specifically for blood and maybe a bless to take full advantage of. So think about it while I think of pretender designs.

Didn't say anything about seducers. So yeah, you also have cap-only assassins. Regrettably, they lose 1 point of water in their human form. Still, give them 2 water bottles and you're golden.

thanks for all this
already in a game so too late for pretender but water bottle assassins

Something like this for a no bless build, I think. Expand with elephants (you CAN script elephants against indies, right?), build a lot of forts and labs, wait for that shit to awaken, summon your first dakini, and that should get you going. Bully everyone with your RoS-capable Bloodletting casting pretender. You can go for awake if you drop dominion and luck/magic/prod.

For a bless you can go either with blood fountain for B9, or A2N9B4 something for dakinis and golems, thought the latter will slow you down considerably. Buy bloodslaves from your friendly blood neighbors.

udabess
saved more future games

Is there any better mid-tier mage in the game than the Mastersmith?

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Do you have an artist profile somewhere online? Asking for a friend.

>A1E1

The art's by Amuys

>acquire earth boots and cast RoS
>cast Parting of the Soul
>use to summon Corpse Constructs
>cast Ghost Grip
>cast lightning bolt
Still objectively superior to LA Harab Seraphs.

Guess serving on a submarine is really fucking boring.

I was saying that you were missing that first one, which is actually important

>prot 1
>'resistance to rain of stones'
lmao

>malakal didn't do a double turn and is the last one to send AGAIN

fucking saved

And Arco u mean?

>always deflecting attention and blaming someone else
t. Malakal

fixed

FinalCountdown Patala is cute! CUTE!

ded

got a few more magic gems hiding around my pockets and troll lairs here

brap?

I sadly don't have labels for what minerals things are

>not "how many threads have you let die in your life"

>not "how many times you came to the Steam chat in your life?"

that would be 0 for most...

>"Do you remember how many gems you've used in your life?"

Malakalia is CUTE!

>tfw no qt Malakal gf

Only because she doesn't have a bunch of piercings and tattoos

Yomi, I'm killing the snek on your border. Don't interfere.

Gath, where are those Levites going?

Get in Steam chat

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that looks like agate or some other kind of quartz

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>by me
No

Is that your gf drawing? How's the life on a sub?

Is this a game played by fucking vampires or something?

Life in the navy?
youtube.com/watch?v=ipEq_FuQb28

Your guess is as good as mine. Looks like he is still waiting for Patala to make his turn at the moment:
llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Mistletoe

>Turn number 326

>Turn number 326
what in tarnation

In all fairness, Patala has 161 provinces, maybe it really takes him several years to complete his turn.

Abysia's snek?

Agartha's.

At last, I found them! The other immortal liches!

The birth of the legend

>2008
>Oi people, this is to be my first hosted game on LlamaServer. Huzzah!

>Executor
>Hoplosternum
Huh, guess those fags are old.

>TEN YEARS

>Plays game for over a decade
>still shit at it

true sign they enjoyed their time playing it though

Haha I started high school in that year
I'm in my 5th year of uni now
haha
hahaha
oh my god what the actual fuck

Do Mictlan's pretender/prophet still spread dominion?

No.

Pretender spreads some.

What do you do with all this useless chaff you get as LA Ry'leh?

Throw them at things

I'm having issues because half of them seem magical, and the cheap chaff commanders I get aren't good enough to be able to dispose of that much magical chaff. Am I supposed to be building commanders to suicide them with?

If you want, but they're more useful since they have no fear. If you're playing with summod, they're sorta useful since they produce resources.

post you're favorite LA Caelums

bump

Post fish.

This was made by a player and endorsed by a community.

Guess the community.

Why would you give a heliophagus a crossbow? Also never noticed you could see his dick before.

>Guess the community.
Clockwork Hounds

YOU SEE IVAN
WHEN YOU OF GEARING A THUG
YOU OF PUTTING BOTH A MELEE AND RANGED WEAPON ON HIM
SO IT CAN OF SHOOTING AND OF STABBING AT THE SAME TIME

But it can already shoot magic.

How it's possible? He's not ambidextrous, why crossbow attack didn't replace bane blade attack?

Moreover the crossbow requires 2 hands.
You filthy CHEATER!

Ranged weapons never replace melee weapons as far as I know. Most units can still fire bows even if they lose both their arms. Probably some bullshit workaround to let things have a shield, a sword and a crossbow at the same time.

What would you do to a cute zotz boy?

UImm, what bless does the guy have anyway? +1 morale?

Just tested it.

this seems to be the case.

Same with wraith lords.

If you give a scout ethereal crossbow, it will replace his bow and leave the dagger. If you give him a brand, it will replace both weapons. Illfraud logic. Go figure.

I guess making shit like foresters and wardens would be too hard otherwise.

bump the thread fags

but i'm almost out of gems

Ffffffuck Sandor was so based, I remember a multiplayer game where I had over 10000 skellies and i was just wandering around BTFOing huge stacks for mad necromancy

How to Marverni?

B9 and full scales.

There's three things that Marveni does well:
1. Freespawn sacred boards
2. Massed Stellar Cascades/Astral Geysir/Soul Slay with 45g Stargazers, either in communion or with Light of the Northern Star
3. Gifts from Heaven communions with Druids

Scales are an obvious pick to do 2 and 3 as best as you can and like the other user said, you can get max scales with B9. However, it wouldn't be unthinkable to omit the bless in favour of an awake or take a double (I don't think that's generally speaking a good idea but it's not completely stupid and supposing you somehow know you're going to face big battlefield clear that ruins your massed mage tactics, it might be a good idea too)

war chested barriers

tfw necromancy so overpowered in mp that the Horn of the Abyss mod reduces all necromancy percentages by half
and it's still fairly good

LA Agartha strats in a 1v1?

vs which nation? Overall, a lot of crossbows, blindfingters with N9 or E9 maybe as cover, and mage support.

prod 3 awake

Your bless comes online for your summons moreso than your blindfighters, so scales to get more crossbows and to get elementals sooner will help you more

>tfw Sandro was a sorcery hero (useless) and not even necromancy focused
Vidomina where it's at.

>not Thant
kys

SAY IT TO MY SKULL AND NOT ONLINE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS MEATBAG

When do you realistically get 99 Spellpower without cheating?