Completed Dominions 6: ProfessionalThroneSitters III: Late Age Edition (Hag Victory!)

[Trash Player]

Ahem,

Chayots SUCK

Fyi, for the same investment as 2 Chayot SCs, you can get a golem wish engine running. Golem, being mindless, is immune to horror marks and attacks from AC and Cataclysm. 4 empowerments, coin, skullcap, and ring of sorcery combined is 350 pearls and 10 E gems. Nexus Gate is 40 pearls. Wish is 80 with the Nexus discount. Totaling at most 480+10, compared to 444 of 2 Chayot chassis alone. Each cast of Wish will give a profit of 65 non-pearls, which is enough for a kitted Tart or an immortal chassis.

Chayot is pretty much a larp summon, yep.

 

[Hag]

Ahem,

Chayots SUCK

Yeah, wtf happened ? Why did it retreat from a victorious fight ?

 

[Hag]

Also good job on the Wrath of God smiting my unique mage hero in my cap.

 

[Malakal]

Seraph is so much better honestly. At least can use all magic paths and crosspaths he has...

 

[Dayyālu]

FUUUUCKING HOBBITSES

Wrath of God doesn't work underwater or in caves. Agartha's proven Vault Tech labs prove their worth.

IT'S STILL KILLING STUFF FUCKING HOBBITSES

 

[Optimist]

Ahem,

Chayots SUCK

Fyi, for the same investment as 2 Chayot SCs, you can get a golem wish engine running. Golem, being mindless, is immune to horror marks and attacks from AC and Cataclysm. 4 empowerments, coin, skullcap, and ring of sorcery combined is 350 pearls and 10 E gems. Nexus Gate is 40 pearls. Wish is 80 with the Nexus discount. Totaling at most 480+10, compared to 444 of 2 Chayot chassis alone. Each cast of Wish will give a profit of 65 non-pearls, which is enough for a kitted Tart or an immortal chassis.

Chayot is pretty much a larp summon, yep.

Golems are not MAGNIFICENT enough.

The advice is solid, though, thanks.

 

[Dayyālu]

*nervous laugh*

Did you know that they added new Doom Horrors in Dominions 6? I didn't!

 

[Andnjord]

Ulm, Gath and other blood nations rejoice I guess!

 

[Dayyālu]

Meanwhile

AT LEAST NO ONE IS CHAINCASTING ARMAGEDDON WITH WISH

 

[Hag]

Current mood :

 

[Dayyālu]

Look! It's the magnificent and cute Scabiel running around!

I wonder if people have prepared Throne defenses!

I GUESS NOT

 

[Malakal]

I, for one, welcome our doom horror overlords. IA IA Scabiel fhtagn!

 

[Hoodoo]

Lmao this sounds hectic

 

[Beastro]

Look! It's the magnificent and cute Scabiel running around!

I wonder if people have prepared Throne defenses!

I GUESS NOT

Dominions has giant tardigrades now?

 

[Luka-boy]

It DOES look kinda cute.

 

[EruDaan]

But HOW are you supposed to defend against THAT monstrosity? Hundreds of chaff and some super combatants? What would your arm them with? And a fort won't stop that particular beast.

I once managed to murder one of the Broken Seal Legion of Gods with an setup of a few hundred chaffs and some super combtants and even then I was crossing my fingers.

 

[Optimist]

But HOW are you supposed to defend against THAT monstrosity? Hundreds of chaff and some super combatants? What would your arm them with? And a fort won't stop that particular beast.

I once managed to murder one of the Broken Seal Legion of Gods with an setup of a few hundred chaffs and some super combtants and even then I was crossing my fingers.

You're not. Cataclysm is supposed to be an end-game countdown.

 

[Dayyālu]

But HOW are you supposed to defend against THAT monstrosity? Hundreds of chaff and some super combatants? What would your arm them with? And a fort won't stop that particular beast.

I do not think Scabiel is particularly impossible for a lategame army. He is a monster but again there are worse Doom Horrors and his resistances are kind of mediocre. 20+ mages spamming Frozen Heart could technically kill him (CR5!) but who knows with Dominions schizo casting AI.

Not that it would work with our version, it's Blind with two Eyes of Innocense (+80 stealth with no base stealth) and a Heart of Quickness. We're lucky it's blind (halves movement) because this little cute giant thingie would combat move 28 in standard combat and like 44 in high magic, and strikes twice per turn with its incredibly cute 25/50 area attack (undodgeable) and 4 50+ damage Horror Claws. Yeah, bring mage support and I don't think my armies are kitted to deal with this fuck, the quickness means it will melt through chaff instantly.

It DOES like kinda cute.

Spoiler

It's an age-old shitpost and it's terrible but it still makes me laugh.

"Astral Corruption was a mistake." Kurgi, Slave to Unreason

 

[Hoodoo]

Hope you don't mind me asking in your thread but if any of you are or know some dom6 noobs who interested in trying out MP, need 1-2 more for an EA game

 

[Trash Player]

Scabiel landed on my 2-pointer and is seemingly moving toward another 2-pointer. Kurgi also landed near my 3-pointer this turn. Either will end the game if they reach their goals. Premature congratulations to Piconye/Optimist. My special thanks to Gath/Malakal for suffering the game.
The doomies are beatable but the problem is their appearance is random. Unless someone have a legion of moon blade wielding golems ready, it is very costly to deal with them with super AC in the background.

 

[Dayyālu]

Scabiel landed on my 2-pointer and is seemingly moving toward another 2-pointer.

I'm not entirely sure my army is up to fight a Quickness Scabiel but that's not going to stop me trying. Also those 200+ Soultorns were amusing

Agartha is uniquely equipped for that fight, the masses of mindless chaff joined by non-MR high-dameg bursts like Evocations worked like a charm with limited losses.

The doomies are beatable but the problem is their appearance is random. Unless someone have a legion of moon blade wielding golems ready, it is very costly to deal with them with super AC in the background.

I'm at peace so I had several turns of planning. Basic problems of Cataclysm:

- Forget resupply of any kind of high-powered summon or item. Forging or casting 10 Gems rituals is a one-way trip in most cases, and you must plan to do so (for example, Carrion Reanimation now requires at least 20 gems and two Reanimators, one for forging the D booster and one for the Reanimation and both can get Horror'ed)
- You need to have spammed everything you needed beforehand and hope.
- Doom Horrors are complete RNG. There isn't a defensive configuration that works reliably on all of them and some require different builds. So it's complete RNG.

What I did not expect:

- The constant random horror marks and ++magic scales event, that one I forgot about. I have a Drain dominion so I expected a reprieve, but the constant event is skyrocketing everything to Magic 3 (making horrors even more powerful) and I lose 4-5 mages every turn to random Horror Marking. Piconye's awful globals do not strike me as much having transferred all my research corps underground, but I legit wonder what kind of insane grind is mauling everyone else above.

The fact that some of you guys are keeping up offensive operations in such an environment is nothing short of praise-worthy.

 

[Optimist]

Scabiel landed on my 2-pointer and is seemingly moving toward another 2-pointer. Kurgi also landed near my 3-pointer this turn. Either will end the game if they reach their goals. Premature congratulations to Piconye/Optimist. My special thanks to Gath/Malakal for suffering the game.
The doomies are beatable but the problem is their appearance is random. Unless someone have a legion of moon blade wielding golems ready, it is very costly to deal with them with super AC in the background.

I'm in the lead, but my position is not 100% yet! I'm being sieged by both Ulm (as I gave up one the defence a bit for the few critical attacks) and horrors (that dissipate my thrones). I am hoping to win this, but this is Dominions, babe

Thrones being nommed never happened to me, BTW, so I'm interested to see what being exposed to a horror eating your throne looks like. This turn I received a warning that a throne in a province with a fort that was taken over by an Abomination of Desolation is starting to dissipate. I'm wondering if it will get destroyed in one or two turns. I'm hoping for the latter, as the entire tactic on my end is to win in a turn or two via some random attack succeeding, or horrors eating up enough other thrones for the total to lower enough.

 

[Hag]

Aaand Hruvur eats one of Piconye lvl 1 thrones through a fort, keeping the race going !

And btw :

That's some tense shit.

 

[Optimist]

Oh really, Hag ? Are you proud of yourself? Are your honorable Ulmish ancestors really proud of you preventing world-wide peace? Are you really fine with sending tormented ghosts to do your dirty work underwater, where the usual spilling of blood doesn't suffice?

 

[Hag]

Oh really, Hag ? Are you proud of yourself? Are your honorable Ulmish ancestors really proud of you preventing world-wide peace? Are you really fine with sending tormented ghosts to do your dirty work underwater, where the usual spilling of blood doesn't suffice?

MY MIGHT WILL SPREAD TO THE DEEPEST OCEANLAKE AND I WILL SPARE NO EFFORT AND LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED AND I SHALL CONQUER ALL in particular barely defended provinces because hell this is getting complicated.