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).
Well if you'll kindly sit still, I'll be happy to kill your god and put an end to your shenanigans.
Although, really, if anyone else wants to go be competent at Nazca's thrones that'd be nice too.
Jacob Cox
Yeah I'm kind of stunned that only you and xibalba are even attempting to stop me.
Oh well, it will end soon, one way or another.
Bentley Ortiz
>Mercenaries are units who are willing to fight for gold. They sell their services to the highest bidder. They are hired for a period of three months (turns). Clicking on the Mercenaries button will display the mercenaries available for hire, as well as currently hired mercenaries, their employer (indicated by the national flag) and the time of service remaining. When a mercenary band’s contract runs out, it will again become available for hire, except on that turn only, the previous employer’s bid counts double. It is only good for that turn, and if the mercenaries are hired by someone else, the bonus is lost and instead that nation will gain the bonus when those mercenaries complete their contract.
Do you get your money back if your bid on a mercenary fails?
Josiah Stewart
Saying that doesnt really give me much ideas of how to go about it you know? At least UW fuckers have to move slowly through the water instead of flying over it like sonic the nautical hedgehog.
Ryder Evans
Yes
Anthony Reed
I don't know how to make a webm of this, but the commander was killed by being tramped by *all three* of the chariots as they retreated in sequence.
Also, all of Uruk's mages are priests too, so it's possible that some critical mages got eaten en route
Owen Perez
I'm pretty much dead at this point and just raiding with garbage, he's not actually fighting fiery armies
Sure is, the only other threat is Berytos but for whatever reason, Hinnom and Bery aren't fighting as far as I know.
James Parker
I've taken over after this cool domg style 5x staler that I'm replacing decided to opt out of a sweet game because he was too retarded to live. Any other players around and want to talk?
>playing a game that has Lemuria in it lmao why even
Jaxon Ward
all of my guys have magic weapons and all of my mages are priests and death paths and mictlan is raping the shit out of lemuria single handedly right now it appears (although this may be untrue what with immortality, but lemuria isn't managing well against the huge bless and partially demonic aztec assault
>playing Pythium >someone names his prophet "Mother Hydra" Um.
Josiah Rogers
cucked
Leo Foster
What units does reanimator bonus work on? Literally just the three types (longdead, soulless, ghoul) mentioned in the description?
Evan Rivera
Yes, C'tis. Let's talk.
Cameron Butler
Hi Agartha how are you?
Jaxon Carter
Suddenly being attacked by horses and naked ladies, apparently.
Was eating two nations hand having most of the planet to yourself not enough? Machaka isn't even fully eaten yet.
Noah Wood
LA Atlantis has a hero called Mother Hydra. Shes the last remaining basalt queen.
Jacob Martinez
I just want the planet, I would let you keep the fort on the planet even like I've done for C'tis, but it's a choke point.
Andrew Allen
It's a chokepoint that leads to my moon, so you're not getting it.
Jaxson King
You can move back one tile and fort up there, I just need that tile to move troops through the eastern side of the planet.
Bentley Sanders
Not going to happen. You're already the biggest player in the game by far game, I'm not just going to give you more free land and sit back as you win the game.
Brandon Clark
Is there any way to boost the Summon Vine Ogre Spell outside of the helmets?
Juan Cox
The vine staff or whatever it's called. The +2 Nature booster item.
Matthew Moore
Some units are innate Vine Lords and get a bonus
I think the trees, ivy kings, animists, and master druid pretenders
John Price
Treelord's Staff, I mean.
Luis Sanders
there's an artifact version of the helmet too
Isaiah Rodriguez
The prime reason for using it is usually longdead hosemen or tomb chariots. Both counts as longdead for the purpose of the bonus.
Alexander Rivera
Longdead ichtyids
Isaiah Morris
I'm interested in mapmaking. Is it possible to randomly generate a map and then draw over it to make it look nice? The map making manual seems to imply that's possible but I don't know how to separate the actual image from the .map file.
Asher Stewart
>I'm interested in mapmaking. Is it possible to randomly generate a map and then draw over it to make it look nice? Yes. >The map making manual seems to imply that's possible but I don't know how to separate the actual image from the .map file. You don't need to separate it. Generating a map creates one .map file and two .rgb files. The .rgb files are the images you need to edit (one regular and one winter version).
contacted llamabeast, my turns should be getting sent to the user who said he'd sub now.
Brody Walker
Had a mutual agreement with the former player that we'd just ignore eachother, you leave me alone and I leave you alone. Up to you if you want to keep that deal up, quite sure cataclysm is soon anyway.
Dominic Gray
What is a good thug shield? No Blood/Fire access.
Also, what are good 'thug' items for dealing with chaff shit, such as Maenads, aside from Frost Brand?
>Also, what are good 'thug' items for dealing with chaff shit, such as Maenads, aside from Frost Brand? Extra attacks work better now, so you could try one or more from dancing trident/stone bird/horned helmet plus sword of quickness.
Quickness will obviously help a lot, if you can take the extra fatigue.
If there's enough chaff, though, you'll probably want something AoE. The death item which gives Soul Vortex can be good if you can provide iron face/stone boots/buffs to mitigate its lack of protection.
Easton Peterson
Well my bad, looks like we're in for the long haul then.
Requesting a 4-day extension on the next turns of MANoStalesPls and ModalVerbs.
t. going on vacation
Jace Hernandez
ModalVerbs is at turn 7, you should feel bad.
Luis Wood
Granted
William Thompson
Is vampire spam viable as a main strategy for any nation? Xib is well suited to it with everything flying and a wide variety of paths to buff the vamps, but they are expensive and relatively easily countered. Fire evocations, something REALLY easy to get, pretty much hardcounter them and they have little access to water for fire resistance/rain. In addition Xib has no healer which would be great for vamps who pretty much always have afflictions due to dying repeatedly.
On the other hand once you pay 11 slaves they're yours forever since they're full immortal and not dom-immortal, making them effectively free after the initial investment. I guess constant harassment of everything undefended would be a use for them, but xib has shit national units for pitched battles, and your slaves are already in use at this point so summoning demons is sort of out of the question. Thoughts?
Wyatt Harris
Xib is just better off summoning a metric fuckton of ozelotls, which are stupidly good with the right bless. Xibala can already easily harass enemy territory anyway with all the flying units they have, and if you lose a raiding party of bats it's no great loss to you
Tyler Richardson
What sort of bless? They have 33 hp so regen might not be so bad, but I can't remember how much you need for that. You need a pretty high blood for the tier 2 ozelotls so having a blood 4 or 5 pretender would be useful.
Blood surge (maybe blood vengeance if you want to be really annoying), quickness, attack skill up gives you the paths needed to cast rain of jaguars and also turns ozzies into even better murdercats than they already were before. Xib has the buff paths to cover the only significant weakness that ozzies have in their low protection, and you will be getting a lot of them, so the expensive bless is worth it
Kayden Powell
>turbo blessing Heart Companions >playing MA/LA Arco without scales terrible
Michael Nguyen
Very innovative
Ethan Foster
I think you confused Arco with Ermor.
Cameron Clark
DRYADS ARE LOVELY
Gavin Richardson
I'm not sure what era this is for.
EA Xib can go a pretty big bless as long as it has some order for scorpions so it can expand. It doesn't, however, need rain of jaguar paths because it can recruit Onaquis who can cast it. You're pretty versatile in your bless options as a result, though blood and fire might be useful anyways just because you do like +att and +str. It's just not mandatory for your sacreds like in LA.
LA Xib kinda can't expand with one turn of its bat sacreds, because you simply don't have enough of them to beat harder provinces and supplemental bats often are borderline useless (or worse than useless for not dealing damage and triggering an hp rout when they get poked). To recruit significant numbers of frog sacreds, if you still want to use a big bless, you need a lot of resources. You also do need or at least want a rain of jags caster so that you don't need to burn hella slaves and big B turns on onaquis until you get an F random, and you don't have any recruitable retail summoners unless you find the right amazons. Personally, I've found that an awake F5B7 Hun Balam brings what you need in that it can expand into not-crossbow heavy infantry provinces and gives you +att, +str, +FR, and blood surge while still leaving reasonable scales.
Since you don't have native deathcat summoners, there's honestly no point in taking a gigabless, since you won't get ozelotls in decent quantity until way late in blood and your recruitables aren't worth it.
The alternative would be straight up ignoring ozelotls and playing it as a flying swarm / fiend of darkness / demon knight nation that makes vamp lords before it even makes anything national. Not actually sure which is better, but the scales with the big cat are decent enough that I'm not sure what you'd get with the tradeoff
Jason Stewart
I was assuming he was talking about EA Xib since that does have all flying commanders Even if you didn't take a big bless I'd still be tempted to use ozzies mixed up with some other demons since rain of jags gets 14 per cast for 40 slaves
Luis Campbell
yeah, EA Xib would always take a big bless for sure. It's LA Xib that's been making me question
Xavier Diaz
Why quickness if they already fly?
Luke Johnson
Double the amount of attacks per turn on a unit with good attack density, extra defense and attack doesn't hurt either
William Peterson
double the attacks
Christian Nguyen
Got it mixed up with swiftness
Jack Torres
What's the trait that allows wraith lords to return to your capital in 1 month of time instead of 3 months if they're killed?
Chase Diaz
Distance from where they were summoned.
Also that's where tehy spawn now, not yourcap
James Brooks
Send gold for upkeep please. My army will dissolve without it and it will be in everyone's late game interests if Niefelheim has to fight for my capital.
Camden Bell
>sending gold for garbage firbolg upkeep rather than buying useful troops of your own lol
Nathan Nelson
I don't have that many fir bolgs I just don't have any income.
Justin Gomez
done
Grayson Roberts
Different guy, but if I lose the province they were summoned then retake it does the immortality still work?
Brandon Barnes
My gem carrier got eaten and my mages blew all their gems on PD. Twice. With conserve gems on.
There were supposed to be Foul Vapors and Howl and shit cast, but no, 20 hoplites is apparently enough to shit yourself over.
Christopher Jones
no
Evan Evans
Man, I hadn't even known you two were fucking with each other. I just figured you were both nations who might have earth gems, who would be amenable to trading them. But if it leads to a bidding war I'll take it. What'd you be willing to make me as far as offers go?
Nicholas Miller
Earth gems are an important source of troops for me right now, so I won't be able to trade you any as long as Pan is attacking me.
Though of course if you'd help me out with Pan, I'd certainly be open to trading with you. And considering the current state of Pan, I would suggest that helping me out also helps yourself. After all, if Pan manages to kill me you're likely to be the next target. And would you really want to face someone with four capitals on your own?
Jackson Wood
>irish asking for handouts
Ryan Johnson
Dammit man, and you couldn't at least have pretended to make me a really good offer so I can rip Pan off?
Owen Davis
I'm pretty bad at being subtle.
Blake Murphy
OR SO YOU'D LIKE ME TO THINK, WOULDN'T YOU, PAN? BUT I'M ON TO YOU.
