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.
>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
>Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the earth. Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of Blacksteel. Crom was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of Blacksteel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just Ulmites. Not gods. Not giants. Not elfs. Not bats. Not tentacle rape monsters. Just Ulmites. The secret of Blacksteel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. *Points to the superior fiery Blacksteel sword +5 forged by the finest of the Ulmish Master smiths >This you can trust
Luke Barnes
Fourth for starting the game as it's fucking full already.
Cameron Cook
dude i love bats they teleport and keep cavalry and archers away from my good troops
Carto Revision really likes putting sea provinces on maps. Most maps had 20+ (!) of them, even though no UW nations are in game.
Anyway, I think I managed to generate something usable. Almost everyone has 4-5 land provinces in their capring. Fomoria's cap borders just 3 land provinces, but they also have ~9 uncontestable sea provinces around them, so I guess it's okay.
Starting the game now.
Evan Rivera
Please friend, no hostile
Oliver Morales
I'm willing to be your friend. Just please tell me your starting province #.
Christopher Parker
101
Xavier Howard
Reminder that blood nations falloff really fast. As can be seen on that last section of the province number graph.
Brayden Price
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Dominic Taylor
999 provinces to 0 in one turn is pretty fast.
Justin Young
Ikr? Just shows that /domg/ expert players are never wrong and you should always rely on their accurate predictions.
Blake Davis
>achievement unlocked: 'THE BIGGER THEY ARE...'
Ethan Wright
>game starts >Realize the nation I emailed in isn't actually my nation but someone elses right after me >I'm not in the game I guess the explains why I never got a confirmation email. I'm mad.
Jacob Gutierrez
You should get a confirmation after your pretender is recieved. Read it carefully, it might've said "someone else already sent a pretender for your nation, faggot".
Cameron Reed
Never got nothin my dude, I even sent it to [email protected], havent play a multiplayer in a year and the steam guide never mentioned a confirmation email for sending in pretenders. I will just join the next game.
Ian Wilson
Check your spam settings? I recieve one in 100 cases out of 100.
Nolan Barnes
As you may know, Ur and Agartha have been quarreling over who gets to take and keep AI Sauro's Capital. Well, it seems their fight has been premature, because Sauro clearly has other plans.
After Ur was driven off by Agartha, Sauro used its EXTREME TACTICAL SUPERIORITY to defeat Agartha's forces.
The result is in the picrelated.
Sauro used a hydra to bait the Pale Ones, which then proceeded to chase the fleeing androphags. In the meantime, Sauro's longdeads advanced against defenseless Great Olms and initiated a shameless slaughter of the poor worms.
Cameron Jackson
fairly sure most slugs ran away during the Ur battle
Caleb Evans
They are using the latest version of their respective mods
Oliver Cruz
In that case you should join those games.
Parker Wood
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Julian Ross
So did anyone get a sub for smerv or are we just going to let them stale for the rest of the game?
Christopher Allen
there's any mod where i can use diplomacy in this game deceiving is god
Cooper Gonzalez
Called Steam chat.
Jayden Davis
It was a fairly even exchange, but my army routed first. However, it seems that on the same turn Sauro decided to break the siege and ended up fighting and beating Agartha. Dont have the log for that one though, maybe Agartha will oblige.
Agartha then had 1 turn to regroup its shit before getting hit by Sauro ( )
Ryan Campbell
but this is with...humans
Julian Baker
What are you, shy?
Adrian Allen
humans are disgusting
Ryder Rogers
>Steam Chat No, its called ingame messages nigga.
Blake Johnson
thanks abmin for giving me a 40% chance to start with a cave/forest.
Robert Hernandez
Banes are not inanimate so they can be affected by leaching darkness of shadow brand? Or undeads are inanimate but not all are lifeless?
Bentley Robinson
Official list of nations bordering Xibalba on IchtyidsOP map: Machaka Sauromatia Yomi Fomoria Vanheim
Just food for thought. No pressure.
Lincoln Collins
Undeads are all over the place.
Wyatt Richardson
Any of those nations is capable of rushing xib, but Vanheim would probably have the easiest time
Charles Myers
Still looking for a temporary sub for MA Atlantis. It's turn 9, nothing interesting is happening anyway, we just need someone to submit like 4-5 turns.
Carter Foster
I don't think I can get Atlantis embroiled in a war to the death in that time frame, since it's UW.
Go Abysia human blood. It's the apex of their experiments.
Blake Taylor
can you discord/steamchat its not me and I dont want to post the guys e-mail here
Landon Gray
Sure, I'm in steam chat.
Mason Jenkins
>that abysia bulge what happenned?
Jack Morales
Bad player being assaulted by Sy's tribless-and-a-half Mictlan
Cooper Brown
Malakal and Sy should be banned
Cooper Wood
This.
Ian Robinson
Why? Sy lost that game.
Ryder Stewart
git gud
Levi Rogers
They warp games too much
Ethan Howard
Just strive to be like them, or even better.
Josiah Clark
improve your skills and also this
Landon Green
>tribless-and-a-half Mictlan AUUUUUUGHHHHHHH
Let me guess, nobody even tried to remove him early?
Julian Watson
SIX HUNDRED TRIPLE BLESSED OZELOTLS
Hunter Campbell
Agartha and Yomi did, but I rushed Blood 1 and then used all of my mages.
Cooper Ramirez
Unironically perfect positioning by the AI to get its mindless/lifeless units to fight the olms
Cooper Hernandez
give me some tips to win a game i am completely new also as i am newbie should i set the ai to normal or to easy
John Bell
Playing against the AI will never make you capable in MP. If you want to win games you should sign up for mentoring. It just so happens that a mentoring game is starting:
>also as i am newbie should i set the ai to normal or to easy
Play against the AI a few times, just to learn the game interface and the basics of the gameplay. Then start joining PBEM games and losing them.
If you learn from your mistakes, you will eventually win. Reading guides will speed up the process, but many things have to be learned from experience. Playing against the AI is worthless at teaching you how to fight against human opponents. It is helpful for learning the game, and perhaps practicing earlygame expansion with your pretender build.
Zachary Morales
buy me a cd key
Dominic Perez
but ppl will be mean to me if they lose cause of me
Michael Flores
Its not a teamgame (most of the time), the only one you will fail will be yourself. No one will blame a scrub for being beaten too easily by some aggressive experienced player. Or maybe you will be ignored for most of the early game and actually get to chip in in some war, then watch whatever army you have built get obliterated by some bullshit tactic, of which there are lots in this game, but most have counters.
Also important to note that with most PBEM games playing at ~1 turn per day, you should be ready to keep making your turns for the next few months after the game start.
The team (disciples) games are usually set up through the Steam group ( /v/anheim ) so you will have a chance to introduce yourself and make sure your teammates are ok with you in their team.
Anthony Bennett
Should I do Elves mini-AAR?
Jackson Jenkins
just say you were meme'ing
Gabriel Wood
Who won? I don't know which red corresponds to whom. I assume vanheim?
Christian Stewart
what
Isaiah Nelson
Nice comeback. Even though I disapprove of elfing I would like to read a mini-aar.
Eli Perry
Top bright red - Moat's Abysia. Dim dark red - Coolstory's Vanheim. Teal - Sy's Mictlan. Brown - Carlix's Niefelheim. Other colors - misc and irrelevant.
Against all odds, when at his lowest point, our hero Vanheim won in a climactic battle against 4 nations at once. But fans of the series still consider the second movie the strongest due to its darker tone and solid character development.
Asher Torres
>Vanheim >not the villain
the depressing ending makes it kino though
Noah Martinez
I'm thinking abou trying this game, how it is compared to other strategy games?
Jaxson Butler
In the end, Vanheim realizes that only winners make history. Having seen the true face of his old friend and current rival Mictlan, he quickly decides to fight for the world he loves, even though his chances of success are dangerously slim. He uses every dirty trick in the book, but he's still out of time, as Mictlan is always two steps ahead of him. Finally, after everything was said and done, he sits on the throne he just conquered, only 7 elves and a dorf remain alive after the slaughter, and he looks in the mirror. He won. But at what cost? He became the thing he feared and hated the most.
