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 3000 units, 900 spells and 400 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.
>How do I change the fonts? Replace guifont.ttf, guifont_fancy.ttf and guifont_texty.ttf in the game's 'data' folder (C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Dominions5\data usually).
The one I'm kind of starting on now is a sort of pan-Yoruba nation chain. African Yoruba in the EA, Santería with some voodoo influences (particularly foreignrecruit) in the MA, and in the LA splitting into a Umbanda nation with missionaries and other Marignon/pseudo-Christian influence from the spiritist side, and Quimbanda building more Fon/Gbe stuff off of the voodoo influences.
The problem I'm having is that I know Yoruba myth almost entirely from a syncretic perspective (I'm Cuban) so I know fuck all about what should go in the EA. I know I want it to be a romanticized homeland period but aside from having a cockerel pretender or maybe summon (which also applies later) and putting kings on horses, my perusal of the wikipedia articles and the five Yoruba objects at my local museum aren't giving me enough to go on.
Austin Sanders
Again shill for new EA game. Playing on decent random map with more players due to demand.
Pretenders so far: 3 Max pretenders: 9 Map: LAtest_Innovations_2 fixedstart Mods: Worthy_Heroes 6.0.1, BetterArena 1.3 Early Age Score graphs off Research on Standard Random starting research off No story events Human AI level: Difficult AI Renaming on Victory by Thrones of Ascension Ascension points required for victory: 14 Number of level 1 thrones: 0 Number of level 2 thrones: 10 Number of level 3 thrones: 0 All other settings on default
Cooper Lewis
Race of Gelatinous shapes. They develop more sides and angels as they progress through the ages. >Spirtes are poorly done in mspaint
Christopher Ramirez
Clearly just a Hamadryad on a flying carpet.
Eli Robinson
Admin, can I have one hour? I was taking my turn and my house's light died. I hope we can get this fixed soon.
Jeremiah Cooper
Anything interesting happen to you lads this turn?
Grayson Ward
pls donate on patreon
Nicholas Rodriguez
I'll donate only when we get full fetish ooze sprites
Benjamin Edwards
Oh shit, nice work lol.
Brandon Ramirez
>develop more sides and angels
Camden Parker
Lost my green dragon to some carnivorous yellow reptiles with spears (there were 60 of them) cause I thought I could solo them. Im also a huge newb and suck cocks
Lincoln Peterson
Kekd hard, 10/10
Nolan Flores
Get that anthropomorphic low-tier SHIT angel from the bottom of the hierarchy out of my sight!
Nolan Watson
I guess some moe stuff now
Lucas Ward
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Andrew Thompson
You should have created new clothes for Atlantis. Atlantis here looks too much like your androgynous pan. Though you've done a good job at creating an Oceania pan that is more fishy than usual.
Jacob Foster
It's the Innsmouth look
Jaxson Morris
>It's the Innsmouth look
I'll accept that.
Cooper White
hows the upgrade from 4 to 5.
Thomas Turner
good, people are playing a lot more
Chase Wood
Pretty good overall. A lot of things stayed the same and some aspects are a bit controversial, like how Attack Rear is now super reliable (though that's getting patched) and the addition of recruiting points, but overall it's mostly just a straight upgrade.
Brayden Wilson
Solid. Not like a completely new game, but almost universally an upgrade with few exceptions. If you've never played multiplayer and don't intend to, don't bother.
Leo Hall
Population Recruitment Points 0-5,000 10+pop/100 5,000-10,000 10+50+(pop-5000)/200 10,000+ 10+50+25+(pop-10000)/400
"Order scales also affect recruitment points by +10% per step."
What is a 'step'?
Evan Campbell
One step is one scale.
So O0 -> O1 is one step, O2->O3 is one step, T3->T2 is one step, etc.
Lucas Garcia
oh. So the 10%/step is just added at the end of the calculation. got it.
Jeremiah Foster
>played 4 a load and found ai pretty dumb and easy >played a few games of 5 and keep getting my ass handed to me
I always like to play random map all nations with a variety of difficulties. I think I just suck...
Gavin Robinson
10/10
Samuel Green
SANTA MARIA
Brody Peterson
>Apparently one of the few songs from the medieval period that has the notes, so we can accurately know what it was meant to sound like.
Whats a good bless build for Marverni that can put up mother oak up and spam boars while being useful to boar warriors?
Noah Murphy
I guess you could put all points into more HP.
Carson Wilson
use the boar e7n7 fort/regen lower e and just get reinvig if you need more scales
Jacob Lopez
I'm this guy and I'm still having issues. Need 24h.
Evan Rivera
you don't need any foreign magic to spam boars, just flush all of your natty into carnutes and achieve infinite boar works Larger lets you trample size 3s but halves boars/square, nerfs boar warriors (not that those are terribly useful) and is stupidly overpriced, so probably not that you could go for a rainbow bless with +3 MR so that with Antimagic your boars' godawful 5 MR becomes an okay 11, and some atk/def/str to make them not complete dogshit against size 3+; rainbow is also probably the most effective bless for your boar warriors and sword&board small guy sacreds in general; I'd get str from blood 3 since your boars aren't elite enough to benefit a ton from Blood Surge, and use your earth points for mage reinvig
Jayden Wright
He means he wants someone to cast mother oak so he can afford even more boars, not that he needs a pretender for boarspam in the first place. Doesn't seem worth it to me, honestly, but regen+prot is a decent combo.
Wyatt Russell
Regen doesn't work to well on boar warriors, and they don't really need prot either.
Ryan Lopez
>go nat 3/4 (depends if you want to skip death 3 or not; -6 undying HP is actually useful when using hundreds of meatshields, plus sitesearching/forging, so I'd take it) as part of your rainbow >get darkvision/poison resistance/HP or whatnot >forge thistle mace + moonvine/twisting thorns with your humanoid pretender and equip em >cast treemommy
Owen Bell
People are going AI a lot more too.
Elijah Thomas
well yeah, it's early and there are a lot of new players. i've been having better experiences with my new slate of games.
Benjamin Flores
Not me, I am in a REALLY bad position of my own doing now, but I didn't go AI yet, even though it's turn 15 already. Maybe when it's turn 18 or 19...
Jose Cruz
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Christopher Torres
Dom5 became the most sold game place on Steam for a short while.
I can imagine we got a shitload of curious people who somehow had enough interest in it to get in a game but not enough to actually stick to it.
To be fair, this shit takes a special kind of personality, and more patience than most people have.
I can imagine the mass AIing will go away soon.
It could also be that we just got two or three sad faggots who just find it fun to join games only to stale and go AI. I guess they´ll get bored eventually, when they find some other collective to annoy.
Levi Williams
e7n7 fort/regen seems like a solid choice but its not that impactful for the boar warriors. =/
lots of interesting thoughts. I'm not sure if I'm a fan of larger bless for boars, seems a bit situational for who i'm vs. I completely missed the 5 MR on boars... yikes thats bad. Full rainbow is a neat idea but I feel it'd be better for a imprisoned build when I want dormant or awake for fast Mother Oak. I agree that blood surge isn't that useful.
Mother Oak casted of pretender in the 2nd year is the plan I'd like to do.
moonvine is way too deep a tech when my aim is to rush mother oak early.
Overall interesting ideas so far but Dormant is as late as I want to go. Would any of the weapon blesses be worth taking? I was also thinking maybe cold aura might be strong with boars trampling through lines to spread fatigue through units?
Blake Torres
DESU even if you had a massive hard-on for Mother Oak and didn't want to research contruction 4 first, you can get near-even scales with a dormant rainbow and just research straight for it, with bretty gud Boar Warriors for initial expansion and decent Great Boar bless for fighting 3+ and having mitigaters for all magics (10 shock res for widespread EA T-bolt spam; cold res for cold scales/cold auras; MR; you can already cast rain vs fire magic; poison resistance that also lets you put some boosters on a N1/W1 and cast Foul Vapors behind a wall of poison-proof boars) though personally I'd probably just take imprisoned with good scales and not worry about an early mother oak, your innate income + site searching will build up plenty of carnutes on their own
Christopher Myers
gonna REALLY slow down you're boar spam to go mother oak first anyways
Jeremiah Scott
If you're taking that much pleasure in fighting PD while Pan loses your battles for you, you're more than welcome to not follow my advice.
Adrian Baker
Is this OC? if so I have a new "smug" picture for my reaction folder. Thanks user.
Benjamin Roberts
>though personally I'd probably just take imprisoned with good scales The wise man's choice. You people just don't understand what makes Marverni great. With a super bless you're bound to die to any kind of bless/rushers. Good scales lets you survive year 1. Then you worry about boars or whatever. Almost as if fucking innate GfH or stellar cascades is not good enough for you noobs.
Alexander Roberts
const 4 for thistle mace is fine, just pointing out moonvine is const 6 and thats super deep and something I'd prefer to avoid. I like your heavy rainbow bless and agree its solid, and I think its a nice fall back option but I'm looking to explore other fun ideas.
Getting up a big free spawn factory is a nice way to free up gold for more mages/forts, Thats why I want to explore out a build idea.
Charles Allen
This may be hard to believe, but my dai oni and chaff weren't part of my research corps to begin with. I'll get to shikome exactly as quickly if I try my luck at your capital as if I didn't. And Pan will also not stop being my neighbor if I stop attacking you. So far he's been entirely amenable and we each have multiple other potential targets once we're done with you. From my perspective, there's no need to throw out a good working relationship in exchange for literally no benefit.
I copied the smug stone head from last thread, but this diplomatic thing just happened, yes.
Adrian Cook
I've seen smug stone head before, but the diplomatic thing looks fun to post with.
Jordan Peterson
ignore this stupid faggot when this comes online you'll instantly teleport behind Pan's cap
Blake Cooper
Assuming you aren't domkilled by turn eight, you mean?
Zachary Anderson
HARAM
Carson Bennett
>blood vengeance Do people do this just because of the Cruxador AAR? This stops you from being able to use Gifts from Heaven.
Camden Morris
>3 year wait for all those incarnates
Am I being memed?
Nathan Cooper
Yes, very obviously so.
Adam White
Are those scales viable for LA R'yleh and MA Emor?
Ryan Myers
no
Jonathan Cruz
Kinda, but I would recommend luck and magic normally. Luck is the only way you're likely to get gold, which you do need for infrastructure, and magic is just really good whoever you are.
Easton Nguyen
For what it's worth, I've enjoyed losing battles to birdmagic
Brandon Martinez
Nothing is viable for R'lyeh. Except in MA.
Bentley Torres
>tfw half the game is AI and you're stuck between two big nations that aren't
Levi Mitchell
Being a Lemuria Disciple is viable for LA.
Jonathan Peterson
You've been bleeding Dai Onis in every battle that's been against anything but PD with no results in any of them, what makes you think pissing away your StR 500g cap-only mages without any troops that can actually fight a battle is a good plan? I'm aware that Dai Oni only have 9 research, but I'm also aware that you got down to 2 provinces with the exact same strategy you're using now before your buddy bailed you out.
I've enjoyed the battles too, took some prep work to get the thunderstrike timing just right to hit your centaurs in my first successful fight against you. Seriously fucked up in my first defense expecting attack->rear to actually hit your undefended hierophants, but now that we've had a real battle after all this dancing around I'm glad.
Luis Butler
Attack them while they're busy taking free land from the AI.
In a game with many AIs, it doesn't pay to focus on the AIs since they're not a threat anyway. Better to take out a rival now than grow stronger and fight them later, because they'll be growing stronger as well and all you're doing is giving away the initiative.
Dominic Perez
At least try to hide your asshurt.
John Gomez
Where's the fun in that?
This general wouldn't be half as fun without the diplomancy and the butthurt.
Jace Allen
ded tred
ded gam
Brayden Campbell
Christmas nation when? In the spirit of the holidays it would be the first dlc in dominions history that actually cost money.
Bentley Powell
Now that war elephants are ass, what troops do you actually expand with as Berytos? Their cavalry, even though they only have one attack?
Ryan Gutierrez
War Elephants are mad killers flanking on Attack Rear broseph. Elephants running round your back lines are some bad juju.
Thomas Parker
>what troops do you actually expand with as Berytos? War Elephants
Michael Barnes
Their cavalry might actually be usable since they're so massable. 19 pierce damage lance charge should kill most indies outright on the first hit and could start a rout. Might be especially good against barbs. Their defense is quite high, too. Your elite soldiers are also pretty good and not terribly res-intensive, either.
Wyatt Cooper
I'm just disappointed that your seraphs have been so resistant to goatbutte. I'd really like the air mages.
Carson Ramirez
What's wrong with Colossi Warriors and an imprisoned rainbow bless?
Robert Miller
Heavy spearmen to hold while elephants do some ass to commander action.
Mason Taylor
>Abysian blood hunter gets bumped by a handful of raiders >blood mage has gorillions of qt slaves on his dick >paltry raiding party getting rekt ez pz >but mr mage has heat aura in a hot province >watch his entire harem catch fire and die around him
Matthew Brown
FUCK
Jackson Sullivan
Can we stop this war, Ragha? Other players are running away with the game and I don't think the investment required to crack my capital is worth even 9 death gems per turn.
Adam Clark
More importantly, Caelum and Atlantis are Staling, and I want my turns faster.
Come help me kill the birds. And Atlantis, but I have 0 clue where they are sadly.
Benjamin Lewis
Two to a square, mediocre stats, one attack each, limited numbers.
Adam Scott
link seems broken for me, any other new games recruiting?
Noah Thompson
More importantly, why did four (4) different nations all decide that Jomon is the threat that must be dogpiled and eradicated above all else
Gabriel Nguyen
Worried about them convalescing coastal crabs
Ethan Price
Honestly, I have no idea. To be fair, TC is AI though, so who knows their thought process.
I figured it must be because you looked more vulnerable or something. I can understand not wanting to fight 200+ memeblessed Mictlan Turbo sacreds.
James Rodriguez
>AI immediately gives you a much harder time than the player ever did
Joseph Smith
Yeah I really want to join an EA game too.
Anthony Thomas
Deleted the game due to the lack of players.
Dylan Hill
Clearly the only thing to make Colossi Warriors usable is the Enlarge blessing.
