/domg/ - Dominions General

Stated in the deleted thread, so reposting.

C'Tis went AI of his own volition and is apparently losing anyway. I did fuck up by subbing someone who did nothing wrong (I thought they had), but when I offered them their position back they declined.

Then what if they just have a portion (or all) of their eagle warriors attack closest? They have nothing to lose from the 50/50 because all of their eagle warriors are going to be attacking something of value, while the non-fliers end up with a sizable portion of their troops in the wrong area. It just seems like it's such a large tactical advantage on top of their already strong combat stats. Only thing I can think is to bring multiple commanders spread out to prevent a rout.

In that case, I'm going AI as well.

Therodos will be the only UW nation in an upcoming game. Is this sufficient for fucking them up and how much a dick would I be for doing that?

How do you plan on sieging forts?

Take Turmoil 1, Sloth 2 or else you'll be gated on white centaur recruitment.

Reminder to join llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=the_LAtest_innovations

>Inspired by the MA innovations game, I decided to make an LA innovations game as well. Some people say LA is the most boring age. It's up to you to try and spice things up with an innovative new strategy!

>If you're a new player, feel free to do your best. It's assumed that your best isn't good enough anyway. If you're a reasonably experienced player, use this game to test out "innovative" new strategies or just mess around. Doesn't mean you can't play to win, just try to do so in a non-standard way.

>Game starts when we've got a full house, or failing that it'll start with however many people we manage to get by tomorrow afternoon. If necessary I'll gen a new map for the amount of players we get.

If you take dom 6 turmoil 3, sloth 2, heat 1, misfortune 2 you can take it awake and rush for water immediately

Turmoil 3 can't recruit enough wc

I'll join, but can you make sure to actually go in and nostart provinces with less than 4 connections? Of the 5 games I'm in, none of my caprings have more than 3 land provinces in them, and I'm sick of getting dicked before I even get to turn in the first turn.

To be fair to the admins of those games, you probably dicked yourself when you sent in your pretender file anyhow.

I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.
In my Pan tests so far Sloth 3 hasn't been much of an issue. The map will have nostarts on provinces that'd make a shitty starting location.
What said. Plus I want to do a normal expansion first, anyway.

I already manually disabled all provinces with less than three land connections on the current map, as well as provinces with lots of river/mountain connections. I'll give it another look-over before starting the game in case I missed any.

So what, my thread got deleted for uttering the R-word, despite OP image being a bad build literally from there? Veeky Forums jannies seem cancerous even by janny standards.

You should've just called it Singleplayer Edition or something.

yeah, gotta tiptoe around the forbidden fucking words
actual on-the-spectrum autism moderators

Exactly, I need all the help I can get

Did you get a ban notice with that in the note or something?

I didn't receive any sort of ban, but I can only assume mentioning (((R*DD*T))) was the reason since that was the only word added to the usual pasta and OP image was an innocuous screencap.

Jannies can't ban anyone. They can only delete posts/threads and recommend people for bans, but only real mods can ban people.

Uhh whoops it looks like I accidentally turned score graphs on completely instead of just spy reports/acashic scanning. No idea if you guys signed up for that but uh...we could still restart if a majority wants secrets. Or we can live with this meme and constantly screech about who has best graphs. I'll set up a strawpoll tomorrow like 12 hours from now because I want to sleep instead of doing things.

I can't help but wonder what a xcom type game set in the Dominions world would be like.
>gain control of more areas with dominion
>can recruit different races based on their original nation
>explore ruins to get new spells/weapon schematics or even new recruits
>magic and item system would be pretty similar, wizards would be your scientists/engineers
>your god is basically a super unit that can only leave your capitol late game when you do the right research

What's the worst pretender in your opinion?

Personally I hate the demilich. Looks so stupid just a few little bones piled on each other. It could at least be in a coffin or on a skeleton or something.

The hosting interval will be back to 24 hours after this turn, have a happy new year folks

Solar disc looks dumb

>Play your first multiplayer game
>Your cap-circle has 4 provinces connecting to it
>One is a cav with shades and shade beasts
>One is across a river that takes 4 turns to walk around minimum

>not having/taking magic weapons
don't call it a grave

If you don't start with a plan on how to bust forts it seems pointless to try going UW.

As for the bless, does water breathing act as if the unit has full amphibious(no stat penalties)?

Anyways, drop the titan for the frost father, you'll have way more points to spend and can pursue a rainbow bless with the water breathing+astral stuff. x2 swiftness, reinvig, blood surge(for other players) and HP/strength are all useful options.

Attached is to show how wide your magic can go while keeping water breathing.

>fire random Logrian with a crystal matrix can cast Flaming Arrows for my Longbowmen via Daughter of Avalon chorus
yessssss

What's a good nation to play if you like using lots of thugs but don't want to rely on them as much as Yomi does?

Hard mode: No elves or giants.

Any nation with good death and some access to nature and elements to spam kitted out Banes

Blood nations, Mictlan as the foremost contender thanks to their wide blood crosspath access (having both W+B and F+B). As far as heavy thug/light SC chassis are concerned, the unique devils are affordable and available early.

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Patala's got some pretty beefy recruitable thuggables?

Are you referring to nagas, by any chance?

Ermor, I'm splitting my offensive to take #104 and #98 next turn. I'd rather avoid a collision, so I thought I'd let you know. I admit I'm somewhat curious to see how a horde of Skratti Werewolves fares against a "proper" human army, but I wouldn't want to waste both of our resources like that.

Nagaraja are W2E1N1H2, which gets you a ridiculous set of thug buffs even before factoring bless. Decent enough attack and def, 25HP chassis with three attacks. Need a Not Goddamn Enc5 armour though, which makes them slightly more gem costy than Ye Standard Brand And Shield Combo. They're pretty fucking robust though.

So what's up with the new Marverni? What tactical considerations should one make involving their new tattoos?

Sorry, FIVE attacks. Venomous Bite is apparently a three-attack weapon now.

>Man has no game plan to answer arrow fend or storm

Wind Guide mostly mitigates the negative precision from Storm, Arrow Fend is pretty annoying but I don't think Enchantment 6 is a big research target for a lot of nations so I might have Fog Warriors by then.

It already was like that in dominions 4, but only for commanders. I never understood why.

Either way they're respectable recruitathugs with fairly minimal gearing.

Storm also outright deletes half of your projectiles iirc.
It's because the commander nagas have extra snake heads on their hoods. Look at the sprite closely.

I think it may just be mundane projectiles? But yeah, it shuts down archers hard.

Redpill me on strabo mods and warhammer mods.

How about I redpill you on not posting the same garbage every single thread you filthy elf.

I got no responses last time.

Along the same lines, what the fuck do you do against a big pile of bats? I try to stick my commanders in the back, in the front, in the middle, but if they have 3+ squads then everyone is getting pounced on.
Am I just supposed to set everyone in one big skirmish square on "hold and attack fliers" with my commanders in the center?

What is good gear for a Succubus? Does the cat charm actually help with seduction?

it's +1 in the roll, not sure if it's worth the gems.
Back in dominions 4 i used them with wand of incinerate and they worked great, but that's a lot of fire gems, I could afford that because I had an enormous fire income in that game.

I think Cat Charm, Bottle of Living Water, and Winged Shoes should be enough most of the time.

>everyone is in so many games that no one talks about shit in thread and people randomly go AI in games they are less interested in because "lol i'm in 17 games hurr durr"

i'm not joining another PBEM for 5-6 months, fuck you dumb faggots

>Winged Shoes
What?

I want to avoid burnout I experienced in Dom4 so I'm in only 4 (two of which are just starting and one is very likely to end with my victory in 10 turns or so)

Heart finder sword. If you can't fuck them, stab them.

>join every pbem that's ever posted to /domg/
>go AI in all of them where your first year/war isn't absolutely perfect/dominating
>enjoy 100% winrate in the games you stay in
>mfw

please tell me i'm not the only person that does this

I'm strictly monogameous

i have a strict rule of 1 pbem at a time since otherwise i will naturally prefer one of my games over all the others and will gradually lose interest in doing turns in all of my lesser-preferred pbems until it reaches critical phase of where doing turns in those lesser-preferred games feels like a chore, at which point i either dread launching dominions to take those turns or i just go ai

so yea, 1 pbem at a time

...

She needs flying to get her targets back to your territory, unless you only want to do seduction right next to your borders

Succubi have flying as part of their chassis.

Well, I blitzed Yomi man as an elf and took 2 of his provinces in one turn is that good enough?

So your actual winrate is presumably mediocre.

That's a good point

I'm used to dryads and oreiads

>So your actual winrate is presumably mediocre.

only if you consider 100% winrate mediocre my dude

>tfw not in any games but still post about turns for attention anyway

>randomly go AI

I know that feel.

>Blitzed Yomi man as an elf
>2 provinces in one turn
You are so far below the level of elfing that you aren't even reaching gnome. If you aren't taking every single one of his unforted provinces in one turn then you are no true elf.

join games through the steam group when you can, and advertise the steam thread on here

that way when people go AI in year 0 there's some accountability

>games I lose don't count for my winrate

this community is the only reason i decided to play mp in doms 4 and now 5 no lie

fukkin dank nigga

I am not a dirty coward, I play fair.

it's easily one of the best Veeky Forums threads, people dont avatar-fag, there isn't a huge amount of drama, shitposting just serves to keep the thread rolling and mostly everyone just plays the game

if you dont go to other threads outside this one you have no fucking idea how bad it is

Ascension wars feature two categories of pretender: the fair, and the potentially victorious.

>tfw your chosen faction has sacred mages that start old age, but there's only one and they're not even your best so it feels like a waste to take Unaging

And I have a (theoretical) 100% win/draw rate in Chess while playing Magnus Carlsen, Stockfish/Komodo, AlphaZero and the reigning Advanced Chess champion simultaneously, while blindfolded.

After all, by making random moves determined by throwing dice (four 8-sided dice, two with a-h and two with 1-8, marking the move I'll make), I'm bound to win some games, and the games that I lost (an overwhelming majority due to being disqualified after making an illegal move) don't count.

>if you dont go to other threads outside this one you have no fucking idea how bad it is
I usually check in on /gsg/ when I'm getting my Paradox fix.

It's bad

plays a nice contrast though
coming in here is a breath of fresh air

I presume those that are for hentai games (all) are pretty good, since the sheer amount of porn they have means that they don't have to go off-topic.

>not just making ebin groB ulmaniums in Dominions

It's not like the prize is anything special, the win text won't change even if you pick a fucking Bodhisattva of Mercy. I have the Oni to bully, that's good enough for now.

It generally depends. Dominions is a fairly niche game (though lively by those standards) and those typically draw in decent crowds.

If a game is popular enough that it gets commonly discussed outside of a general, it tends to filter in only the most horrifying of autists.

It's a pretty stark difference. I play FGO on my phone during my commute on the train. I look at the thread for that occasionally to see if it's become less of a shitshow. So far it never has.

truly a recuperating crab in a sea of chaffposting

And then there's this guy.

sacred Ys swans when??

Coming back to the game after staling 16 times in a row just to catch your foe off-guard is NOT acceptable.

I wonder. Is Helheim from the Bobgame still here? Will he still loudly declaim Bob's unimpressiveness as an SC if it is mentioned? Have the passing years soothed his mighty buttfluster?

>tfw you will never live in Agartha