Completed Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator: The New Decline a.k.a ProfessionalThroneSitters MP Match (Polish Victory!)

[Hag]

With the kind permission of His Majesty the Maharaja of Kailasha, here are some views from his epic fight against T'ien Chi, taken by our scout that was quietly sitting on a nearby hill :

Kailasha army routed soon after.

The sheer number and variety of troops and mages fielded by T'ien Chi is a bit worrying, considering he is waging war on another front already.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

The biggest problem on my side in that battle was the fact my pretender spent the whole thing hitting waves on chafs, starting from summoned ones. She is basically stuck at that middle point killing chafs until the rest of the army died and she routed.

She is probably the only one in the whole nation that can deal with the Swordsmen and she spent the whole battle killing Flagellants, summoned chafs, and light infantries

Overall very bad formation on my side

 

[Dayyālu]

Next turn underground will be fascinating.

That's pretty much the entire army of Pyrene against my premiere doomstack (reinforced, not only the spoilers given by Popot ). I did miss the horrible feeling of RNG and planning. Will the Decisive Battle doctrine of Agartha and Pyrene both gain any result?

Next turn!

 

[Popot]

Do Mairu warriors suck? That stack seems mostly human infantry and I haven't seen Pyrene field any non-mage giant.

 

[sqeecoo]

A glimpse of your future Day:

 

[Malakal]

Next turn underground will be fascinating.

That's pretty much the entire army of Pyrene against my premiere doomstack (reinforced, not only the spoilers given by Popot ). I did miss the horrible feeling of RNG and planning. Will the Decisive Battle doctrine of Agartha and Pyrene both gain any result?

Next turn!

Did they change cave EQ effect or are we about to experience the biggest disappointment ever?

Do Mairu warriors suck? That stack seems mostly human infantry and I haven't seen Pyrene field any non-mage giant.

As far as I can tell only good thing about the nation is giants.

 

[Andnjord]

Next turn underground will be fascinating.

After the Underwater Knife-Fights, Dominions 6 is gifting us the Underground Knife-Fights.

There can only be one.

 

[Dayyālu]

Did they change cave EQ effect or are we about to experience the biggest disappointment ever?

Evocation 5 IS a possible target, but no spoilers. Or I followed a different research priority.

A glimpse of your future Day:

I WILL NOT BREAK THE SEAL
I WILL NOT MAKE THE MISTAKES OF THE KIN BREAKER
I WILL HEED THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS AND BE HAPPY

Do Mairu warriors suck? That stack seems mostly human infantry and I haven't seen Pyrene field any non-mage giant.

Pyrene went for an Hellbless. I won't divulge details because it ain't proper. I'm not entirely sure the build of human chassis hellbless sacred is good, but maybe the Jentil make for good thug/light SC chassis. We'll see next turn.

 

[sqeecoo]

Nono I was going for the Kinbreaker hero:

 

[Malakal]

Did they change cave EQ effect or are we about to experience the biggest disappointment ever?

Evocation 5 IS a possible target, but no spoilers. Or I followed a different research priority.

Eh they barely changed spells in 6 so your options are extremely limited.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Did they change cave EQ effect or are we about to experience the biggest disappointment ever?

Evocation 5 IS a possible target, but no spoilers. Or I followed a different research priority.

Eh they barely changed spells in 6 so your options are extremely limited.

Woah woah woah, that's not true at all. Now the sea serpents you can summon have a tail slap attack!

 

[Malakal]

Did they change cave EQ effect or are we about to experience the biggest disappointment ever?

Evocation 5 IS a possible target, but no spoilers. Or I followed a different research priority.

Eh they barely changed spells in 6 so your options are extremely limited.

Woah woah woah, that's not true at all. Now the sea serpents you can summon have a tail slap attack!

That one is weird since sea serpents were already kinda dominating water meta...

 

[Tanaka]

At least give us a screenshot of one of these fabled exploding death mushrooms I've heard about.

They are trippy mannn the cave grubs love them. Have you ever seen a cave grub dance? It's something mannn. Look at all the pretty colors...

 

[Tanaka]

Don't come in the caves, warfare is.... spiffy down there.

And you haven't seen Pyrene, he has at least double of my troops. Cave warfare, not even once.

Spiffy? Just eat the mushrooms man! Take some time to smell the fungus! We don't have to fight lets just cave in to love and blight and just share in the darkness!

 

[Dayyālu]

Spiffy? Just eat the mushrooms man! Take some time to smell the fungus! We don't have to fight lets just cave in and share the darkness!

"..... this is a fight to the death, for each side the only acceptable outcome is the complete annihilation of the other."

 

[Johannes]

Did they change cave EQ effect or are we about to experience the biggest disappointment ever?

Evocation 5 IS a possible target, but no spoilers. Or I followed a different research priority.

Eh they barely changed spells in 6 so your options are extremely limited.

Barely changed? Seems to me most things have been tuned in some way, evocations generally deal a lot more damage, buff AoE's are all changed up, and in rituals troop summons are cheaper. And all the glamor switchups. Haven't looked so closely to have solid opinions on what's best exactly, but it is different

 

[Andnjord]

Did they change cave EQ effect or are we about to experience the biggest disappointment ever?

Evocation 5 IS a possible target, but no spoilers. Or I followed a different research priority.

Eh they barely changed spells in 6 so your options are extremely limited.

Barely changed? Seems to me most things have been tuned in some way, evocations generally deal a lot more damage, buff AoE's are all changed up, and in rituals troop summons are cheaper. And all the glamor switchups. Haven't looked so closely to have solid opinions on what's best exactly, but it is different

Fireball went from 10++ fatigue damage around the central hit to 6 fire damage for example, in mass it can do some real damage. On the other hand most battlefield wide spells have been pushed back, Army of Mist is now lvl8 while army wide Flaming arrows in now lvl7, Foul Vapours is now N4 W1, so it's a bit less oppressive, all positive changes in my mind. On the other hand all the Item tiers have been also pushed back on level, which really sucks.

 

[coldcrow]

Reading messages: Hmm, where is - oh my main research farm.

How bad can it be

Fuck

 

[Trash Player]

Do Mairu warriors suck? That stack seems mostly human infantry and I haven't seen Pyrene field any non-mage giant.

They don't have dark vision. That is -3 to att/def/prec in caves. Even the small crappy pale one troops can trade effectively with them under such condition.

coldcrow:

Demons are disease immune, so it is more or less a good trade.

 

[coldcrow]

Do Mairu warriors suck? That stack seems mostly human infantry and I haven't seen Pyrene field any non-mage giant.

They don't have dark vision. That is -3 to att/def/prec in caves. Even the small crappy pale one troops can trade effectively with them under such condition.

coldcrow:

Demons are disease immune, so it is more or less a good trade.

Which demons does Abysia have at this stage of the game?

 

[Trash Player]

Oh, I was misled by the opening post. It shows Yomi still.
Tough luck then. This event is considered "good" internally because of the scales associated with freespawn nations.
Devs did not account for non-late Abysia taking those scales.

 

[Damned Registrations]

I believe someone in here was longing for some RNG? You can gladly have mine!

Ah yes, perfectly reasonable, we definitely couldn't have won against *checks notes* 7 archers and a light infantry with no commander.

Did summoned air units always default to landing on commanders? That's quite powerful. Was not expecting that out of a tier 1 conjuration spell.

Thankfully twist fate did it's job and the slingers took out the bird for me before anything bad happens.

Unfortunately, something bad happened immediately afterwards.

I lost like 70 lobo guard and 20 shamblers between these two battles because of this shit.

 

[Hag]

Year 3 is starting and I'm still alive ! What could go wrong ?

Shit.

 

[Hag]

Next turn underground will be fascinating.

So how did it go ? Can you post some screenshots for us burnt Sun-dwellers ?

 

[Dayyālu]

Next turn underground will be fascinating.

So how did it go ? Can you post some screenshots for us burnt Sun-dwellers ?

The Spaniards cravenly avoided conflict and rammed 300+ troops against three Zotz.

Typical of their kin.

I believe someone in here was longing for some RNG? You can gladly have mine!I lost like 70 lobo guard and 20 shamblers between these two battles because of this shit.

Indies have the best RNG. I lost an Earth Reader because a leaderless undead horse stubbornly refused to die, charged an entire line of Pale Ones and decked the Earth Reader buffer.