In Progress Decline 20: Dominions 5: Defenders of the Faith

[sqeecoo]

Yeah, for the extreme price the drop in usefulness as soon as spells are online is not really worth it, I think. Still, any decent sacred will be basically immortal against normal troops with it. I mean the naked Scelerian vestals are extremely powerful because of it, putting it on something like a centaur is insane. But fireballs melt you just the same.

 

[Isiloon]

I played around with Pangea and decided to submit my pretender for Machaka - Dayyālu FYI

Bugs > Mammals

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Pbem manager works. Just had to change 4 to 5 in file paths in preferences.

Muty

 

[Isiloon]

Pbem manager works. Just had to change 4 to 5 in file paths in preferences.

Muty

Yea I just started using it, I get some 'authenticated but not connected' exceptions - but it's done everything it needed to...

Muty NAP3 is yours

 

[sqeecoo]

We've started already?? Ulm seems to be a swamp in the mountains. Don't even know how that's possible.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

We've started already?? Ulm seems to be a swamp in the mountains. Don't even know how that's possible.

Names of terrain have been changed from Dom4
mountains -> highlands
border mountains -> mountains

 

[Infinitum]

Nice, flat start position, throne close by without being adjacent, 5 connections. Praise her!

 

[coldcrow]

Berekän This is turn 1, wtf.

 

[Agesilaus]

Berekän This is turn 1, wtf.

Abysia is living up to its evil reputation

 

[Chef_Hathaway]

Drown him. Send a tidal wave turn one, please, someone.

 

[Matalarata]

Drown him

Immediately changed research from Thaum to Evo to do exactly that.

 

[Berekän]

Wait what, I didn't get the turn file. Requested it again.

 

[Isiloon]

does everyone except sqeecoo think their position is awesome? we are probably all really close :D

 

[Lizzurd]

does everyone except sqeecoo think their position is awesome? we are probably all really close :D

Then I could be at least happy that I am far from you all and I will have some time to expand despite all those numerous obstacles around!

 

[Johannes]

Yeah, for the extreme price the drop in usefulness as soon as spells are online is not really worth it, I think. Still, any decent sacred will be basically immortal against normal troops with it. I mean the naked Scelerian vestals are extremely powerful because of it, putting it on something like a centaur is insane. But fireballs melt you just the same.

Nah, ethereal is trash. You can get a close enough effect with Stygian Skin, for a high-prot (but low natural prot) sacred it can be just as valuable as ethereal vs basic chaff. Against higher strength attacks ethereal is ofc much better, but then you factor in the cost... Ethereal is trash though an S10 caster can be very nice obviously. Twist Fate is p. easily the most cost-effective S Incarnate bless, most of the non-incarnate S blesses are very nice too.

 

[Infinitum]

2 trash provinces full of undead, 2 50-odd tribes and a heavy cav trap. Fuck me. Praise rescinded.

 

[KoolNoodles]

2 trash provinces full of undead, 2 50-odd tribes and a heavy cav trap. Fuck me. Praise rescinded.

Good thing I "recruited" slaves on turn 1 to take care of get in the way of those silly heavy cav next to me.

 

[KoolNoodles]

Does anyone know of a way to change dominion border color or province name color? Because on this map, I hate both. Really hard to see dominion around/on plains/farms(dominion candles w/ income box helps a little, but I generally like to play with that off...too much clutter), and the grey province text might as well not be there for most of the map, especially when zoomed out.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Does anyone know of a way to change dominion border color or province name color? Because on this map, I hate both. Really hard to see dominion around/on plains/farms(dominion candles w/ income box helps a little, but I generally like to play with that off...too much clutter), and the grey province text might as well not be there for most of the map, especially when zoomed out.

For those two there's probably no way, but you can change the bitmap files (tga) to be darker (just don't touch the white pixels).

 

[KoolNoodles]

Does anyone know of a way to change dominion border color or province name color? Because on this map, I hate both. Really hard to see dominion around/on plains/farms(dominion candles w/ income box helps a little, but I generally like to play with that off...too much clutter), and the grey province text might as well not be there for most of the map, especially when zoomed out.

For those two there's probably no way, but you can change the bitmap files (tga) to be darker (just don't touch the white pixels).

Yeah, I thought about running it through a photoshop filter, and just might.

 

[Infinitum]

So, whilst waiting for Tien I actually played my test games. Allow me to show you what you won't be up against this time around

Decent scales on a dormant Super Commander chassis! Flying! Awe! Recuperation! Tits! Smack a Vine shield and some light armour on her and she's at neutral encumbrance after a summon earthpower. Gets Personal Regeneration and Flying Shield at Ench 2. She even gets freespawn and combat casting to fuck with enemy scripting ffs. Also gets respawned indefinetly at the cost of some 120 research points and 20-ish gems for minimal effective equipment. And to top it off I just realized Uruk can not realistically get Earth 2 mages for boots without her! And, if this is not ludicrous enough she can be empowered further ingame without risk of pathloss. All this in a stylish nekkid wymen package flipping the twin birds to the world because why the fuck not. She even gets the faction discount oh my god. I knew I should've sperged more pregame..

 

[Agesilaus]

Sorry, it went to my spam folder for some reason. Anyway, turn submitted.



Also, the absolute state of independent militaries:

Not quite ready for this lot, though:

 

[Isiloon]

Not quite ready for this lot, though:

Agesilaus - I have enhanced, zoomed, reflected off the bonnet from 150m away used satellite triangulation technology to determine your IP address.

Now I'm going to build a GUI in visual basic and fuk u up m8

Spoiler

You can't escape

 

[Dayyālu]

Hey guys, I killed some Militia.

Yay me.

Good to know where Tien is, though, and that they went for a Sacred-heavy build.

Tits! All this in a stylish nekkid wymen package flipping the twin birds to the world because why the fuck not. She even gets the faction discount oh my god.

You already show much promise in the field of Dominions priorities. It's a nice build, and again Uruk can risk combat SC Pretenders while others cannot.

It would be kinda hard to kill on turn 12, yeh.

 

[mondblut]

I played a test game and something feels unhealthy about dominion spread in Dom5. By simply spamming temples everywhere my armies go, I managed to domkill several large and healthy nations whose capitals were quite far from my borders. By now everything is under my dominion except for a small 10-province patch where Pelagia still holds. Just in past turn the other remaining nation was snuffed out after a couple more temples were built and a couple of targeted attacks at their unprotected temples, and 2 turns before that, 2 nations expired at once, including the third strongest.

Never noticed dominion spread being that aggressive in previous games, short of spamming wishes for dominion.