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).
Does the Barkskin blessing give the same fire weakness as the Barkskin spell?
Caleb Ward
Yep. So it's pretty good on Abysia.
Ryan Mitchell
Need a sub for Hinnom, turn 1 has not staled yet, in mint condition.
Caleb Fisher
If it's turn 1, just restart the game without him.
Matthew Turner
Means you either blow loads of points or skip Unaging, though. Abysia always has at least one of your best mages extremely overaged.
Brayden Williams
Just wanted to not have to shuffle everyone's positions, but if nobody wants to sub I'll do so.
Anthony Garcia
I think the ea awe/barkskin lion meme is pretty good even with old mages.
Colton Ward
Just let him stale and restart if he does.
I'd happily join if there's an open slot, but I'd rather not sub someone's terrible pretender build.
Aiden Torres
If I'm breaking into blood with pretender, what's the best stuff I can get from blood without starting whole economy around it?
Gavin Collins
Blood stones, unique summons, send horror
Andrew Green
if you're using LotNS to boost s2 mages to S3, and your facing a bunch of 10 HP stuff, is there any reason to use soul slay over mind burn?
Austin Jones
Well user start making a pretender, I'll wait an hour or so but then I gotta go to sleep so if nobody has offered to sub, I'll unstart and you can send in yours, because I just realized I won't be home until tomorrow afternoon.
Connor Collins
rus what the fuck Did you just demolish your cap, move your stack onto an enemy fort and die to a scout moving onto your capital?
Dylan Green
I'm free now.
Christian Martin
I'd be willing to sub, I like random builds
Caleb Reyes
Mind Burn might not kill on a low roll but I think the spammability makes up for it
Matthew Martin
Gimme your email user. Tell me if you prefer I jump into vanheim chat or something if you don't want to post it here.
Gabriel Reyes
Cascades is probably better than either, but if you're fighting a mass of weak units, isn't Star Fires better than Mind Burn/Soul Slay? x2 irresistible 7AN that'll often kill outright and land most hits on big groups, for even less fatigue.
Charles Murphy
let's hop in the chat
Eli Morris
Sorry was away a few minutes, I'm in there now.
Dominic Morgan
>enemy has Vafur Flames up >turn off my swarm casters because insects will never pass the flames >wait 3 turns for a water mage to arrive to attack for mass fire resistance >I missed that one of my swarm casters carrying gems wasnt on conservative gem use >he casts wooden warriors YOU GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING STUPID PIECE OF SHIT very nearly cost me the battle, the Deives died about 2 turns before a total rout
on an aside my god was also erroneously set to attack
oh and defenders on the walls cause pathing issues that make units loiter in the flames, making Vafur Flames a pretty solid spell these days (but kinda bug exploity)
Hudson Young
>oh and defenders on the walls cause pathing issues god I hate this so much good fucking luck getting into forts full of archers/evo mages when your entire army stops to spend 20 turns inspecting the staircase and battlements and maybe slapping the dude up top, while your own archers and mages aren't in range of their enemy's and instead pile on the friend fire trying to help clear the walls
Dylan Young
Last time I'll post about this, currently seeking one more player for Solium Infernum, a game in the same vein of Dominions, but with a greater focus on diplomacy and adaptability. Reply with email or discord if interested.
Are we far enough into dom5's life to do absurd meme games?
Pretender lottery or random X games could be fun.
Joseph Wilson
I'd sure be up for it, please do host one.
Jayden Thompson
if yall play another game after this one, post again. i can't commit to anything else atm but i played a game of SI years ago and it was very good times
Connor Garcia
How about: >Each player picks nation >Players make a pretender for every nation but their own, double-checked to not be /completely/ awful, and send it to the admin >Admin randomly selects the pretender for each nation
Nicholas Moore
>double-checked to not be /completely/ awful what's the point
Juan Morris
Hey Ragha, you wanna call this? We're effectively the only 2 humans remaining, but we could duke it out if you think you can handle a turbo mictlan who ate half a dozen people. While Astral Corruption is up.
Wyatt Nguyen
It's no fun if it's just a domscore 1, all scales dumped, wizard imprisoned with no design points spent.
It's tons of fun if it's I N N O V A T I V E meme builds.
Nathan Sullivan
I need 24h because of a big exam tomorrow. Sorry for delaying the game.
Hunter White
Oh shit I actually have a copy of. This and can want to play, I'm out of town though, I hope it gets posted again
Grayson Jenkins
xrd for Asphodel needs to make their fucking turn in the FewGoodMen game.
Daniel Sanders
That sounds stupid. I'd rather just play a nation with random pretend/scales/paths.
Jeremiah Walker
any games open?
Luis Thompson
Only a Solium Infernium one
Brayden Ward
Should I be saving most of my gems in LA for casting? Even with some decent site searching I just have such a low income, forging expensive boosters and going for big rituals and summons doesn't seem feasible.
Nathaniel Jenkins
That was predictable.
Wyatt Cooper
Exam in January? Wth is this?
Aaron Scott
It doesn't have to be a final.
Henry Rivera
In case the admin for the_LAtest_innovations is around... we really should TC and Caelum AI.
Dominic Perez
Please tell me at least a quarter of your assassins are dead.
Nolan Morales
>34 sacred giants >1832 resources >3910 gold >some auxillaries >and some priests >vs some bone-boys >bone boys win also pretty sure Hinnoms god just died cause last time I fought them their sacreds had regen top kek
Nathaniel Young
Like, a quarter of the assassins in that particular province?
Josiah Jones
what's his bless?
Julian Ward
>I didn't take any of the multitude of ways to counter undead in a battle against undead >Why did my much smaller elite army eventually route against never ending hordes of skeletons that don't route? wahhh! wahh!
Why do people post shit like this? Retardation? Jealousy? Attention whoring?
Carter Stewart
berserkers dont rout every single sacred in his army fought to the end, it just wasnt enough
all his commanders and militia routed though
Chase Rodriguez
lbr tho Ashdod with E[big]N7 bless active would not have lost that fight or, indeed, suffered any sacred casualties
Oliver Powell
based on previous battles it would've been the same losses on the ashdod side to 240 losses on my side, Ermor dont rout and I'm casting Power of the Sepulchre
Also all those longdead have swords and not spears so they overcome protection consistently and the 14 lictors that didn't die never made it to the front, the 9 dead lictors have 18 kills between them
I still would've won with their bless up, it just would've been a lot closer and pyrrhic
Alexander Morris
He didn't run the physical resistance bless?
Jace Hughes
nope, more fool him
no proper use of casters in his armies either, just thousands of gold of sacreds
Sebastian Jackson
Well, that's 18% dead, I wasn't too far off. It's clever, but not unbeatable. Apparently it's something to see for yourself, but it might be a little underwhelming with all the hype.
Jeremiah Collins
Where can I get it?
Daniel Lopez
Make it so all points need to be spent.
Brandon Thompson
So, with the new fort mechanic you get a garrison there instead of the shooting towers you could build in Dom4. I understood it only now, after finding a water gem giving fortress, but the number of garrisoned troops there depends on the quality of the construction and not on the province's PD, right?
Thomas Martin
Marveni, if you are in this thread, I must thank you, you lost your Heroic Mercenary on that throne, right? I don't know how many dudes you killed there but thank you anyway. I greatly appreciate what you did.
Benjamin Ramirez
>Host resolving battle :round 3 Please help
Benjamin Scott
You mean Agartha. I did my turn like 20 hours ago.
Ayden Gonzalez
Also please please do a double turn this time Earthworm Jim.
Elijah Clark
Bad news everybody we may have to restart the game. I blind expanded on year 1 and am now staling. I'm sorry you all have to suffer for my mistakes.
Not really. C'tis if you stale a second time I'm going to restart and replace you with somebody who doesn't stale twice within the first 4 turns.
Can Ulms armor still be hit with Rust effects or does the magic trait make it resistant to that too?
Isaac Jenkins
So what determines when a commander can make formations with his troops or not?
Lucas Edwards
How high his leadership is. I think they can do it with Leadership 80 and higher.
Joseph King
Base LD 80 can do any formation, under 80 can only use box and skirmish
Samuel Campbell
what nation i can win with just spamming racial units that arent sacred
Ethan Morales
Unless it has changed since dom4, I think bird men, skeletons, or bats
Eli Davis
Many nations have non-sacred troops that are worth recruiting. You'll always want to recruit mages, though. You can't spam basic troops with no mage support and expect to get anywhere.
Daniel Bennett
Usefulness of sacreds generally tapers off the longer the game goes. They're generally superior to regular troops, cost less upkeep and some specifically provide aspects the nation can't get otherwise, but compared with taking more scales and buffing your regular troops up to near-sacred abilities with mages in later game, you'd usually pick the stronger overall nation that doesn't lean of sacreds. Their main strength is in having a lot of buffs right off the bat that everyone else will have to research, or that you have no natural access to, or that can't be provided by mage buffs at all. You generally only *need* to take a significant bless when your other units are dogshit. Obviously nations without sacred troops should be good at this. MA Ulm, Shinuyama, Mekone (in descending order of nation viability). Also if your sacreds are shit, like for every age of Man.
Gabriel Walker
Pale Riders
Eli Cox
>attacking a heavily fortified position full of ranged troops and mages >the walls make it much harder for the attacker
It´s not a bug, it´s a feature.
Adrian Foster
The "see by yourself" is mostly that I didn´t want to spoil it and easy the building of counters.
It´s nothing ultra fancy, it just does a good work.
>imprisoned vine dragon pretender >MA Ermor scales >Dominion 10 >F10 B10 >on a resource and gold hungry nation without blood hunters
That rule wouldn´t fix the issue.
Caleb Jones
Oceania
Jordan Rivera
How to improve MAtlantis? People call it the shittiest Atlantis when it's supposed to be their golden age. Besides undoing the massive nerf they just got in their only okay size 2 infantry costing 21 fucking rec points, I think making their human mages all UW recruit and emphasizing their astral would make MAtlantis viable. >Initiate of the Deep from W1 to W1/S1 sacred >Witness of the Deep from W2/S1 to W2/S2 >keep Deep Seers W3/S2 because they're still the best in that they can take a water bracelet+lens, summon a water ele and still have room for spamming cascades or whatever Water on its own isn't enough if you aren't fighting dead nations. Now they have strong astral to back it up and access to fire and earth.
Asher Gonzalez
How do I actually play this game and why is there no how to our manual available
Jordan Scott
Just in case you´re actually that lost, it takes a couple games to understand how to play, and there IS a huge manual which you can download from the developer´s website.
In fact, there´s two links to it in the first post of this thread.
James Ortiz
B-bully!
Nolan Nguyen
ALL BIRDS MUST DIE FEATHERS FOR THE FEATHER BED EGGS FOR THE OMELETTE
Austin Rodriguez
The bless actually makes a lot of sense really if you really break down what an assassin with a poisoned dagger would like to have on hand early game.
Caleb Sanchez
Can one of you fags just post the fucking bless? Jesus everyone's going to be incredibly disappointed by this point.
Justin Gutierrez
Luck? Swiftness + Attack Skill?
Andrew Richardson
only the fort level matters, PD is separate for battles outside the fort.
Leo Wright
Very likely, yes, but it´s not about building hype, but about trying to get everyone to dogpile the dangerous guy instead of preparing a couple hopeful countermeasures and calling it a day.
But the few who actually wanted to launch a preemptive strike against Abysia got attacked by someone else first, so in the end no one even tried.
My walls are going down next turn. That´ll another Abysian army ready to go chew at someone else. I´d put my money on them.
Angel Ward
Not bad, Abysia. *sheathes wakizashi* But we all know who has the strongest Assassin.
Wyatt Turner
Blood Bond + Reforming Flesh?
Ian Ward
>being this much of a fag
I'd post it if I were in that game, but sadly I am not.
Charles Gonzalez
Pretty disgusting assassin tbqhf t. Pan
Brody Johnson
>you will never be as autistic as Bloax on Discord
Samuel Perry
So what happened, here? did the ninja just get bullshit rolls on his shurikens or something?
Carter Adams
Come on, I was genuine. I bet your badass dudes killed half of the Throne PD, I understood that there was a fight only because I saw some of your troops spawn in an adjacent-to-the-throne province and because your Heroic Mercenary got a grave sign in the Hall of Fame.
Carter Sanders
could be geared up with a good heroic I tend to pull back my assassins for gearing if they get into the hall of fame and roll a good ability
Jason Martinez
Prophet assassinating a Prophet. Ninja has been decked out because he turned from something funny to do at the start of the game into one of maybe 3 reasons I am not dead right now