Decline 23: NATIONGEN Edition

[coldcrow]

The more I look at my pick the shittier it becomes.

 

[Dayyālu]

The more I look at my pick the shittier it becomes.

When you go nationGen, you always pick "Crazy Sacred Power".

Makes for interestingly retarded games.

This batch is meh, but we did the picking already.... about the map, choose a good 10 players one and host. Valanis is crap but pretty, Pelywir maybe?

 

[Infinitum]

The more I look at my pick the shittier it becomes.

THEN DON'T LOOK. Awake Demilich. Quadbless. Recruit 2 sailing amphibious expansion parties per turn with Sloth-3. Shrouded Assassins for everyone. You'll die the moment someone marches on your capital with real troops but until then it'll be all glory all the time.

EDIT: I can go for Valanis. It's purty.

 

[coldcrow]

I am not sure which nation you had in mind, but Eriseleis this is not.

 

[Infinitum]

I thought you went with Ceassidigh? No-one did? Huh. Well, nevermind then.

 

[Isiloon]

I thought you went with Ceassidigh? No-one did? Huh. Well, nevermind then.

I picked Caessedigh ... i made a post earlier saying I change to them from Qurgya

 

[Isiloon]

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Decline23

Llama was giving me a bit of shit, seems to be working now.

Spoiler

EDIT - errr why u do this llama

mmkay... game isnt there, but it says it clahses names if i rm...

so i make a new dif one...

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Decline23_v2


aaaaand it kills that one as well... okay okay, i'll try a different map.

http://www.llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=Decline23_v3


and it doesnt like a different map either... okay is it the mod? lets try...

Fuck sake, now all of the games appear. wtf... they appear, disappear then reappear

 

[Infinitum]

V1 seems to work for me.

 

[Isiloon]

When you go nationGen, you always pick "Crazy Sacred Power".

Makes for interestingly retarded games.

This batch is meh, but we did the picking already.... about the map, choose a good 10 players one and host. Valanis is crap but pretty, Pelywir maybe?

I didnt know how crazy it was on a spectrum of balanced to slav

 

[Trash Player]

The more I look at my pick the shittier it becomes.

Stiller better than mine.

 

[Isiloon]

Submit pretenders you bastards

 

[Grif]

Making pretender now. I'm quite sure I'll regret this.

 

[Infinitum]

I'll get to it tonight. Still torn between reasonable rainbow bless and lolquickness awake fountain..

 

[Grimwulf]

Is this game still a thing? I believe current player-nation list looks like this:

Dayyalu- Dushalpaknia
coldcrow- Eriseleis
Grimwulf- Pareldocia
mondblut- Comhich
Muty- Zris
Infinitum- Rithki
Isiloon- Ceassidigh
Grif- Shela
Trash Player- Neuges

That is 9 players, not 11. Isiloon, fix dat on llama and maybe this game will start during my lifetime.

Dayyālu Muty Trash Player send your doomed-ass Pretenders - there is no point overthinking your strategy, mondblut will rape us all anyway.

 

[mondblut]

there is no point overthinking your strategy, mondblut will rape us all anyway.

Not when I get to recruit like 2 non-sacred units per castle per turn even under order and growth 3, as the test game proves. Fucken recpoints. Maybe we set them at 300%?

 

[mondblut]

Speaking of test game, maybe you'll be amused by its results (turn 119, the Cataclysm is in full swing, my Comhich owns quarter of the Glory of the Gods map, all 30 nations in):

Dushalpaknia - doing reasonably ok
Eriseleis - just got domkilled after a few turns worth of being jointly pwned by Dushalpaknia and myself
Pareldocia - killed by the AIs
Zris - doing reasonably ok, took and held Kadales cap despite them ruling the seas until domkilled
Rithki - killed by the AIs
Ceassidigh - doing reasonably ok
Shela - killed by the AIs
Neuges - alive, that's all I know

I personally killed Siasa, Nofu and Lansise, also inherited Qurgya from Lansise and Oarp from Eriseleis (note that I played with homecom/homemon changed to reccom/recmon, because fuck being stuck with the same 3 units for 100 turns in SP).

 

[Isiloon]

damn when I did testing it was only like first 2ish years... but I tested maybe 6 times different builds to optimize it... in most of my games if my expansion party lost against something it shouldnt have lost against, I would restart and try something else.

I tried making a giant-hydra build, didnt work well.. tried max scales... couldnt make full utilization of all of them anyway, tried huge bless - didnt make much difference to expansion power... try try try again... I basically ended up going with a pretty unusual build that also seems quite strong - but I wont disclose it :D

 

[mondblut]

Well, what I call "test game" for convenience actually means "just playing Dominions without these annoying meatbags ruining my fun"

Oh, and a bunch of A1/W1 mages with some screen eat up Eater of Rims or Maker of Ruins for breakfast with lightning or frozen heart spam. So, unless Hruvor or Kurgi show up, I am mildly secure about throne defenses.

Helpful tips:

1) most doom horrors kill PD, besiege a castle for a turn, then melt the throne without ever having to attack the castle. If you want to intercept them and count as a defender, your doom horror welcoming committee should patrol the province. If you don't, you'll still have one more turn to break the siege and charge them as an attacker before the throne goes poof.

2) however, Maker of Ruins destroys the castle instantly. And a temple too. First, he kills the PD, then the castle disappears, then whoever was in your castle attacks him, all within the same turn's resolution. So script accordingly.

Also, never saw Kurgi or Hunter of Heroes or Eater of Dogs (not 100% sure about this one) doing the throne eating. Only Eater of Rims, Maker of Craps and the Abo' seem to be involved in the cataclysm, out of which only the Abo is truly bad news.

 

[Isiloon]

Well, what I call "test game" for convenience actually means "just playing Dominions without these annoying meatbags ruining my fun"

my bad

 

[Trash Player]

Just submitted, so now I can bully Muty too.

 

[Grif]

My nation does only one thing and only one thing well. And I'll just ride hard on it to see how far I can get.

 

[KoolNoodles]

Changed my mind as other games are slow/dead. I'll join as Oarp if that is COOL.

 

[Dayyālu]

Who is missing?

We miss a player, methinks. Can't check properly, no viable player list.

I'd suggest to start in 1-2 days in any case before this dies off. No offense intended.

 

[Grimwulf]

Who is missing?

Muty.

I'd suggest to start in 1-2 days in any case before this dies off. No offense intended.

I suggest we start now.

 

[KoolNoodles]

The sooner I can run Oarp into the ground the better! Turmoil3 Misfortune3 baby! ROLL THEM DICE