Dominions 5

You're right.. The two of us may have better luck some other time I suppose. Has anyone played it yet?

Spoiler: its shit, don't play it:^)

I feel like half the people in this thread have never played Dominions before are are here just to shitpost.

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Oh, good.

i would be glad, but i sucked so hard at fourth installment, it makes me dissapointed with myself.

I haven't. Can I shaoh not-Jews?

Hows the soundtrack? What album from Anna Rynefors have they used this time?

Too bad I already wasted money on a videogame this year. and ain't got anyone to play this with even if I did buy it.

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How many fucking dominions are there?

How are they all so expensive.

How hot is your head?

So far, it just isn't very different from Dominions 4. Bless effects are cool though.

It was merely to prove the veracity of my annoucement, public trackers haven't uploaded the game either.

Steam absolutely tracks user and anonymous traffic to see where hotspots are

I bet you run pages with JS on too

Are you the same faggot sperging in the DF thread right now? These grapes aren't sour, by the way. You're just inept.

ill look for torrent first, who knows how it stands vs dom4

Yes, there's a faction of man-eating giants based on judaism and ancient Israel.

Honestly, it's the same game with some added features. I'm playing Ur now. They've received some nice tweaks but I'm not seeing how the changes warranted a whole new game with a $40 price tag. Soundtrack isn't as good. Alfonso's cantigas are replaced with the kind of dramatic orchestral music you find in most 4x games.

Is it a good start for someone who never played a Dominions game

Where the warez at?

The changes to making the combat real time is well worth the price change, on top of the updates to the recruitment systems and the blessing system.

What would you do to make it better? As someone who plays it a lot I think it's visually appealing and functional. Any flaws it has are minor.

Mostly changes to the rules and more content. In Dominions 5 for example they completely reworked the recruitment and blessing systems. Where before you had a fixed bless according to your power in a sphere of magic (e.g. a fire god gfants to his followers extra attack at low levels and fire weapons at high levels) now you can customize if you want stuff like fire auras, fire resistance, or even combined blessings like solar weapons if you have both fire and astral.

I play it a lot in singleplayer

God DAMNIT. The music made Dominions great for chilling out.

Does it really make that much of a difference?

can you only buy it through steam? is there any advantage at all to a steam copy (easier multiplayer setup)?

Yes, it does. It completely changes the balance and tiers of a lot of different nations and how effective certain units and tactics are.

Nothing on GOG yet. And it doesn't use steamworks for multiplayer.

Checking the dev page it seems the only way to get it is steam. They used to sell boxed copies but it seems that digital distribution won out again.

I'm thinking of getting this, are we going to have a Holla Forums multiplayer match soon?

discord.gg/VvRqjKE

A discord been set up for dom5, for blizts, but there is also play by email and direct connect one turn a day games that happen on here.

If you guys are going to set up games through discord you should post it here too. That way you can include the anons who don't want to use that garbage program and circlejerk.

Yeah, we can do that for some of the one turn a day games.

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The manuals are on their website this time instead of coming with the game on steam.

illwinter.com/dom5/docs.html

illwinter.com/dom5/dom5manual.pdf

illwinter.com/dom5/dom5tables.pdf

Now this is cuckchan tier shilling.

he didn't hit the head

You will never fit in no matter how hard you try.

Torrent W H E N. As much as I love Dominions, I can't justify blowing 40 on it right now.

you used to have to fucking mail order copies. of course digital distribution wins. its like complaining that we use calculators instead of an abacus

He did.

this, shitting on OP for posting a steam link is fun and all, But the people that should be in this thread knew about today's release for a while.
Cheapass pretenderfags like myself need a discounted link. some private tracker must have the game at this point

this²
by the rule of the hive mind, I keep seeing this game,
it looks like ass, but if anons recommend it, anons gotta try it.
by the looks of it too, 4 seems to be better

Here's something cool. If you set a squad to guard commander, they don't count towards the max number of squads.

Fuck.

Redpill me on this game.

The problem with Dominions series is that all of its improvements per new title can be shoved into an expansion pack. The dev is milking his audience because they're already hooked on it. The guy is still using majority of his assets from the old iteration. I applaud him for being such a jew and getting rich off of people but I've already played one game of his and I ain't gonna be his whale.

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Can I finally play a 1000+ land/30+ civ map to completion without memory errors, or is still focused on short games and multiplayer?

Seems still focused on short games and multiplayer. There is now a cataclysm option that puts a hard turn limit on the game.

I love it already

If it makes you feel better, the new changes might just throw everyone for a loop

How's rus?
Are the skinchsngers good bless rushes?

With a good bless i held the line against a vastly more experienced player with skinshifters and bear summons, so yes.

Fucking finally.

Aye. I might buy it when it's on sale next year. Dominions 4 is still good.

who said anything about $40?

Blessed and sacreds got nerfed in general, but skinshifters are still fucking great, even unblessed.

Oh you're the retard complaining that df is bad because you cant play with a mouse, arent you

Mother of monsters

wud u monster mom?
I wud

Is it worth 35 doolerydoos? I liked the 4th a lot. Any chance of it going on sale?

Nice no-effort logo.

I'll no effort ur mom's logo if you know what I mean

So where is there a torrent already out?

t.poorfag

And? The government already knows everything you search up, what does it matter if its them or corporations? They have control over everything you brainlet

You mean to tell me that the government can see all of my sfm beastiality porn? Tell me it ain't so! They can masturbate with me for all i care

mah nigga

Sieg Heil

If it is somewhat like the last releases it uses custom triggers / serial key and those keys that leak will be blacklisted with updates.

Sacreds are better than before because there is more options.

Because different blesses exist to accommodate them, sacreds that weren't all that great with the "major" blesses of dom4 are now way more effective and less expensive point wise.

Llamaserver can host dom5 games already, so what age do you fags want to play?

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Late or Middle

Some sacreds are better now, and overall, the new blessing systems make the game more balanced. Before, a lot of nations had really broken op scareds that destroyed most units (White Centuars, MA Ermor Knights, LA Rag), so yeah, in general, shit got nerfed.

Where i can read difference?

Games up Middle age 8 players. get in here

llamaserver.net/getDom5GameDetails.cgi

The only thing I'd call OP was the LA Ragha Griffon rider, everything else was manageable for the most part

llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=8chMiddleagegame

messed up

Actually as long as you are using a custom browser on a decent O.S they cant, oOnly the ISP can check your traffic and most of them only hand that information under a investiagion order issued directly from the government unless you live in north korea or china, And again ISP outside of north korea or china only save ip connections as most communications are already encrypted you cuckchanner or /newpol/redditor refugee

BUT! Do the agencies really follow the rules?

archive.is/aW1Ck

I like it already

Are you particularly retarded that shit is irrelevant to obfuscation, we are talking about whatever the government can actually know everything you search up, like that retard claimed. Something that is completely false otherwise Northkorea woudnt need to run and force every citizen to install a custom OS in order to connect to the net and neither china would need force a particular modified browser to do a similar job, Like it or not the ISP can only record IPs and it's extremely easy to obfuscate this information by using Socks 5 proxy chains, The only information they have is the IP of the proxy i am currently using and i only need 1 non compromised node in the proxy chain in order to safely browse, Thats where the whole i am behind 7 proxies originated from you fucking tech illiterates newfags

all you know is how to run Tor in the end kiddo, how tech savvy you are

why are you talking about this in a dominions thread

Autism begets autism

Is this shitter friendly? I only had 30ish hours in 4 and a few multiplayer matches

implying you can setup proxy chains with merely using tor
Yes totally, that why i emphasized the importance of a custom browser and a decent O.S like BlackArch, Kali and TAILS distros in my first post instead of rambling about Tor when everyone tech savyy around sites like this knows that the government started to host their nodes to intercept their traffic

WHERE IS THE TORRENT

In my butt
Why don't you reach in there and try to find it?~

yeah shitter friendly. nothing stops you from having fun but yourself user

We archive for a reason, when newfags came and shit up the board making thread without even lurking or understanding the board culture it piss me off.

I just don't know how to play these games. All I end up doing is making a big army of guys and getting tired of managing it all or crippled by resources.

I can't join, email tells me "valid .2h file not found"

Nice, I'm still messing around with pretender creation and singleplayer for a bit, I might join in later if there is still room

How do you play Dominions?
Is it like Civ?

That's not 30 hours lad. You'll probably get rekt by big guys, but they think that it's the struggle that makes it good, so you better give it your best soyboy.

It's more like a war game, but remember there are no real alliances in this game so diplomacy is all based on a promise.

the battles are now in real time, before they were turn based so everything is pretty different and so even the 'veteran players' need to get used to it

I hear most guys who play will shit wreck you but at the same time teach you how to play

Oh yeah I got fuckin destroyed, but its fun

How do you play that email thing? Is there a way to do it realtimeish?

I'm waiting on a torrent to try it out and learn the systems which from what I've seen are pretty intricate.

Civ? Not really. Civ's babby tier compared to this. I think the closest mainstream analogue you can get to Dominions is Heroes, actually, except it isn't hex-based and has a far more complicated damage and magic system.

There's a set of instructions on the Llamaserver site itself, but essentially, you send in your pretender through email, in the game setup. Once the game starts, the server sends you the turn file (.trn), and you send your turn file (.2h) back.

I'd say it's closeish to Master of Magic

It's unfair to say that Civ is babby tier, it's not even in the same genre. Dominions doesn't have the (relatively) in depth city, research or culture management that Civ has. It really is closer to Heroes or a wargame than Civ

Yeah, with the large emphasis on magic and all. It really is its own beast though.

how to play Dominions for scrubs:
Step 1: pick a map - really just pick something that looks neat. there can be a huge variety between maps, but most of the time they function about the same

Step 2: pick an era - your choices are Early (lots of magic, low tech weapons, aka: bronze age tier stuff), Middle (slightly less magic, more advanced armor and weapons), or Late (least magic, best weapon and armor tech). if your starting out, i would suggest middle age, but really do whatever you want. just don't be surprised when you start a early age game and all your troops are spear chuckers in cloth.

Step 3: pick the number of players/ai in the game, and choose a nation - hovering over each nation will give you a some quick info on them. Nations vary wildly but the best thing to do is pick something that sounds FUKIN RAD M8. at least then if you're getting your shit slapped by all the other pretenders, you can take solace in knowing you actually liked your dudes.

Step 4: Create your PRETENDER GOD - So i probably should've mentioned this before, but the idea for the game is the big boss god is gone. and now all the little shitter gods are trying to take it's place as the boss. That's where you come in. Your nation choice and how you create your pretender is going to dictate how you play most of the game. i would argue this is the least newbie friendly part of the game, and i'm not really the best choice for advice here (also i don't have dom5 yet, so some of this may be incorrect). At any rate, here is some basic info:
- design points are similar to a army list system in table top war games if you are familiar to them. if not, think of it as god bux. as a general rule: everything costs design points. from various physical forms to altering your magic paths.
- select physical form: this is how you change what kind of being your pretender god is. some are better at fighting, some are better at spellcasting, and some can't move at all (things like statues). you can right click on the different choices when you click the "select physical form" menu to see that forms stats. generally for every unit in the game (with the exception of cost, encumbrance, and fatigue), higher numbers are better. each physical form will have different mage levels (the level of spellcasting they can do in that spell tree), research ability (the amount of spell research they can contribute to each turn), and any number of other abilities they may have. i hate to say it, but it's probably just a good idea to consult the manual to learn what these abilities may do if you really need to know. otherwise i'd just pick something that looks neat and worry about it later.
- magic paths: this is where my lack of knowledge of dom5 will come in. as i believe this has changed quite a bit. anyway in dom4, you can raise your pretender gods spellcasting levels in any of the 8 different spell paths. though putting points into paths the form you chose didn't already have costs extra. These points will also give you different bless effects (buffs your priests can cast onto sacred units), bless effects change and get better with higher levels in specific spell paths.
- dominion: these are effects that your god will spread across the land as it's influence (dominion) grows. you can spend god points to raise them, or lower them to give yourself a bit of a weakness to gain godbux that you can spend in other places. generally you want high resources and income in provinces you control so you can recruit more troops. not all nations have the same needs though, and the few exceptions (like MA Ermor) are pretty rare. so really just do whatever looks good to you.
- imprisonment: how early your pretender god will be active, and gives you extra godbux if you don't mind him being sleepy for a while.

Step 5: actually playing the damn game - so you made your dream team of zealous birdmen lead by a giant sexy naked bird/woman god. now you go out and destroy everything in your path. there really isn't any diplomacy other than what you and other players can make. how you win the game depends on your game settings. but default i believe is by controlling thrones of creation. of course you can always just kill all the other pretender gods and remove any trace of their dominion from the land.

i can go into more, or other folks can shit on this block of text and call out my mistakes. whatever happens happens newfriend.

There is the is a blitz mode, server hostin, once everyone has done their turn, server compiles the turns, and then it moves to the next turn, etc. I prefer email games because you can take your time to plan shit during the 24/48 hours in between turns and you can do your turn whenever you feel like, it's comfier, but that comes down to personal preferences.

It usually is

damn, how long do these games take?

Sounds like fun though, I'll probably give it a go. Lets see if I can figure out how to make it work.

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Alright, I might get in on this email game but I'm sure I'll get shit stomped, should be fun.

Can last a couple of weeks, depending how early you get raped, up to multiple months.
Biggest issue is that if you stall, it's gonna unbalance the game, since you nation will basically be sitting there doing nothing, which is going to profit people around you and is gonna help the ones that can grab your land versus those who can't. If you go AI (an ai takes over) it's shit because AIs are no fun, you don't get into multiplayer to play against retarded annoying AIs. Or you can just do everything you can do lose as soon as you can, which is also cunty.

So yeah, email games definitely are a commitment for multiple an extended period of time, and the fun of everyone is dependent on you not being a cunt. It's okay to stall sometimes, it's okay to ask for a short delay if you can't make it, but just like you should expect other people to respect the game, you should too.

I mean, its like 10 minutes out of my day for a turn, I think I can spare that. I would like to do one of these blitzes one day, sounds like fun

It told me my twohu file wasn't valid, whats the deal?

Same shit on my end, it seems 1 guy figured it out. Hopefully he shares his secrets with the rest of us.

same here

That guy is the host, worked just fine for him the usual way, we're all running in that issue.

all I did was submit my pretender through Turns@llamaserver after I copy pasted the name of the game into the email field.

that is all I did, Im not sure what the problem might be

The game updated a couple of times to fix some crash and stat bugs, so it might be version difference issues.

Clicking on a units Strength score while on a fort will show it's Siege damage and Siege defense.

Well I sent a mail to llamabeast, in case no one else did.

We sent our pretenders in a one hour window though, it would be surprising.

Wasted trips

Really, anything with more than one attack and/or high defense was a prime candidate for a bless in Dom 4. Vanheres, WOTFE, equites of the Shroud, white centaurs, you name it. I expect that to be the case still in Dom 5 but hopefully to a lesser extent.

That is pretty nice. I always appreciate the minor QoL additions they put in the sequels.
Now if only it was a bit cheaper for people who bought the previous games.

I just made another game page and still the same issue, this has to be something on llama's end.

Workshop Support when?

Crack when?

I'm still playing Dominions 3, what does Dominions 4 and 5 change/introduce to justify me upgrading?

Can you actually play the game this time, or do you just watch a movie of units fighting and pretend you're interacting like the last ones?

A new meta, new combat resolution, different balance, more nations, better maps, better random map generation, new victory conditions, better moddings, less focus on SC, etc etc.

You still cannot control combat directly. You must set up your armies beforehand, the game is focused on strategy, not tactics. If you want to control your units in combat, you want a different 4x game or something like an RTS or RTT.

Changes compared to D4? Look the same to me.

Battle like a Gates of Troy.

i dont think just shotgunning "board culture" phrases is a good argument.

Is there a change log to unit/spell balancing or do you just have to stumble over changes?

That's pretty neat

i dont know that sounds pretty scary

I'm really liking it from dom 4 tbh

is the game kino?

The game is 100% Kino

What happened to thegoodfilter?

I don't know if it's their fault or Shrapnel Games, their Games Workshop-tier publisher, but they really don't have an excuse after the first iteration since they only make relatively minor changes to the rules, are clearly still using the same shitty engine and haven't even fucking contracted any new music tracks, as good as the existing ones are. Fortunately they reduce in price quickly. I guess the kikey devs convince themselves that it's just like releasing new editions of a wargaming rulebook and that their pricing scheme is therefore totally justified.

Soundtrack is completely different in this one. I like the older one better though.

Yeah I just read that in the other linked post. Fucking orchestral shit, really? Wow.

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Is it an entirely new combat system?

It used to be turn based, now everything happens in real time; a lot of mechanics changed as a result.

It's similar but definitely it's own thing, strategies that took advantage of how turns played out (defender goes first as an example) no longer work and balanced army composition is a lot more necessary than before.

Yeah okay Schlomo Animeavatar, that totally excuses the last 3 iterations where they did nothing but add a few nations and a few programmer art tier sprites with a grand total of 2 frames. And you're really going to blame me for being skeptical? Get off your high horse. Even with those changes, it's still not worth another $40 price tag.

one thing I'm sadden by is the lack of new pretenders

who are you and why are there so many of you on Holla Forums lately?

You're not fitting in

More like why did we ever let weaboos run wild here? Anybody have that image of an upstanding aryan chainsawing weebs?

it's cuckchan rapeugees, we had a massive influx and the board is suffering due to the shitty posts and threads they producing

Time to post em

You mean the same shit people have been posting for over a decade?

Go away goons

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I wish

So you're going to ruin the thread about a game series you like because you are just that salty about being wrong. Not to mention that avatarfags were always obnoxious cunts much like yourself and were rightly mocked even in the cuckchan days.
Here's the deal. I have made several games in the past, before I realized in college that pursuing a career in game dev as a programmer is like choosing to work at McDonald's after going to a French culinary school. Two of those projects I worked on with 10 other people, including artists, sound engineers and a producer. The fact of the matter is I could have made the art assets for this game in Paint because I have made similar art. And those "major rule changes" you're talking about can be done by the programmer alone in a very reasonable time frame. It takes some code changes and some testing, that's it – relatively low effort when you consider that the engine is still the same. The effort does not match the price tag. To me this is like buying the new edition of D&D at a full price tag of $50 and getting a black and white PDF with no art. If you are going to rip me off, you could at least pretend that the money is going somewhere towards improving the game. Now will you please bow out of the thread gracefully instead of spamming your avatar folder?

you say he's the obnoxious cunt but from where I'm sitting you're giving off a right twat stink

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You already started ruining the thread when you got triggered at the anime girl. You clearly don't belong here.

Whatever you say champ, keep chucking $40 at these clowns and maybe some day they'll decide to abandon their quick profit turnaround for a high effort revamp. Oh wait no they won't because that's an awful business strategy. You understand that I write these posts because I actually like the game right?

This user gets it

Unlike your filthy and not real waifus, this skeleton is real.

Thanks for the new image.

Lay off the conspiracy theories freak, i wont believe that skeletons exist until i see one

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What are we even shilling

Paying full price for a game that should be priced at $20. Was that not obvious from my other posts? I really don't get why you and Shithead-kun over there seem to think that being a massive buyfag is the norm. Jesus, I feel like I'm in the Games Workshop forum.

They say if you slice open your flesh then the skeleton will be free and try to strangle you. Unsure if it's real or not but it's worth a shot. Even if you don't survive the encounter you could at least livestream it.

Who says you have to buy it you retard

dominions 4/3 is 80 percent off bringing them down to 5/2 squids rough, if you want cheap games there you go

Yes, which is the price range they should be at during launch. I'm not going to reiterate myself, you can scroll up to figure out what the argument was about.
I love the mythological representation in these games as well as the strategic magic system and the mechanical changes in 5 sound actually interesting, but I'll be damned if I'm buying that shit anywhere near launch.

why are you thinking about buying it at launch?

theres like 20 new pretenders

they've separated them and categorized them from each game, guess not every nation gets them

i thought that was years ago. it sure doesnt feel like weve been getting more users.

hot damn this new bless system is gonna lead to some glorious autism
I gotta assume they made it only apply to one form of shapeshifters or jags would be completely unstoppable
there's a good 6-8 effect choices for each magic type now, and I think a themed weapon enchantment for each instead of just fire/death weapons
magic level/variety also determines priest spells, one AoE damage vs undead and one smite with a chance of OHKO, with damage type/effects varying with magic type; blood is unique in that it only gets the smite, not the anti-undead move

there's been afew recent Exodus from there due to another sets of free speech getting shit canned in favor of nepotism as well as fuck wits trying to get us on the "lootbox" bandwagon but getting told that this is the future they brought as well as the seemingly endless amount of fucking political video game marketing bait threads, screen shot new video game "journalist" article haha I'm totally not shilling (1) and done threads, "hey Holla Forums I should I buy…I got this console what games should I get….recommend me some new headphones Holla Forums….please help me I'm stuck on x game…lol hack this dude for me Holla Forums… and fucking not really sneaky eceleb shilling threads.

shit's going down and I think I'm going insane because no one else is seeing it seemingly

That's how I felt when The Phantom Pain was being hyped up. You'd think a board that taught me cautious optimism and how to spy shit games ,open world, you can do anything, regenerating health, no boss fights, would be savy to a shitty game when they saw it but nooooo. Everyone got hyped and then fucked when it released. Fucking idiots I swear.

33 euros for a slight upgrade?

you realize that those things aren't red flags to a game being shitty it's if they're done poorly right?

In the years where those games saturated the market and 99% were shit? I think it's a good assumption that you shouldn't chimp out over the game before release. Look how it turned out.

it turned out to be disappointing to people who expected it to be more then it could ever be, me on the other hand enjoyed it for what it was while realizing it's faults and not taking it seriously tbh

Thta means you weren't hyped like a chimp like most of the board. Like how everyone should be with games.

I'm guessing it was the rejects from reddit mostly

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Sending your pretender to turns@llamaserver instead of pretenders@llamaserver seems to successfully add you to the game. I'm in now.

But im the true god, that's for predenders. Where do rightful gods get emailed to.

Why are you using 8gag at all if you care about privacy?

Well fuck me, that didn't work yesterday but it worked out today.

I guess it's time to have some fun
homm pic cause I don't have anything better

Thought it being released anew would spark enough interest for someone to crack it unlike previous updates of 4, guess I was wrong afterall.

What's the latest version of 4? 4.29 is the one floating at GGN.

It's a pretty huge upgrade since they changed over to the T&T engine. I'm actually surprised how fresh Dom5 is.

Auto-research and multi-turn movement queuing is the best feature.

How do I play MA Ermor right? Is the key to spam dusk elders?

Holy shit, someone saved it. And I thought I just wrote it for nothing, because I didn't get enough (you)s.

Thank you. I actually wrote another version of this some other time. I wasn't quite sure how to adapt the song to Dominions. I hoped someone would have picked it up and adapted it.

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Spam casters and protect them with skellies, works roughly 3/4 times

Also make your growth scale negative to deny resources to others

4.31 seems to be the latest

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the time has come and so have I

POSTED: 28 NOVEMBER

Is this game as complex as Distant Worlds?

That's the only shit UI and graphics game I could tolerate. It's actually one of the best games I ever played.

Don't do it for the (you)s, do it for the silent chuckles. or headpats, you can do it for headpats

UI-wise it's much less complicated, there aren't many tabs by strategy autism standards
the complexity of Dominions comes from trying to remember the stats of thousands of units and hundreds of spells/items

It's not complex in the same way Distant Worlds is.
The complexity comes from the way different spells and units work together. For example, if your enemy is using devils (which fly and radiate a strong heat that burns units) you might try to cast rain in order to reduce their heat and have priests on hand in order to banish the devils as well as regular troops in order to stall their advance.
Or you might counter with fire resistant units. Or use devils yourself.

You might teach an undead hero some earth magic so he can cast ironskin. Give him some items and now you have a tough to kill, tireless warrior that can take provinces all by himself.

You might cast a storm if your enemy is using lots of archers so that their aim suffers and the wind bats their arrows of course.

There's a LOT of units and spells. You just have to figure out how to use them effectively.

There are a LOT of possible tactics available. One I remember seeing is the concept of the "Doomstone" where you pick the obelisk as your pretender type, load it up with spells and teleport it directly onto the enemy forces. The obelisk takes a good effort to kill and wipes troops if they're not prepared to deal with a teleporting magic rock.

This only works defensively as teleporting requires a lab in the province, but it is still an incredibly powerful defensive tactic as the Monolith is impossible to kill without niche specialization, or preaching it to death.

Inanimate pretenders can't use Wind Ride/Cloud Trapeeze to move in provinces so teleportation is the only way

Well, making a faction isn't that hard. I made one.

You the disease, and I am the cure

tbh

почему ты сумасшедший?

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wouldn't a undead hating faction be more nature based

Marignon not good enough for you or something?

Гугол транслейт, невер аген.

нененененененене

Not sure what is going on in my game but suddenly I don't get summaries after battles.
I have spent over an hour looking through menus and trying to find an answer to why the game is doing this and how I can turn that shit off since its really annoying not to have any idea which heroes survived battles and who killed how many enemies.
Does anyone know how I can turn those reports back on in the game?

не вием што пише

I dunno user, what's the first thing?

Wait. I thought you could get a nation overview before choosing them. Now I have to confirm the choice before the overview.
What are some good cross breeding nations? I like the idea of making a shit load of monsters.

ANUUUU CHEEKI BREEKI. Go back to slavistani websites you fucking chode. Communism appreciation, even ironic, should be a hangable offense.

Anything with blood mages (and was it nature?). Mictlain is probably still good. Those Aztec ones with the batmen are probably excellent for it. Xzhuehuehuehotl or something. But late era Rlyeh does crossbreeding constantly and for fun (just not the blood magic version) and that's pretty dope. Plus they're the best anyway.

You want a nation that's good at blood magic and one that can afford to up it's luck scale.
Pangea, Berytos, Sauromatia, Vanheim, Abysia(?)
I've only done it with Pangea.

I've never actually played Sauromatia. What do their tattoos do and how do you activate them?

Just looked some stuff up again. You need to research Blood magic lvl3 in order to start breeding.
In order to start the ritual you need lvl 1 blood and nature magic on the particular mage. It cost 15 slaves.
The Luck scale does affect the outcome.
There's a unique artifact you can get which gives someone +20 cross-breeder.

Now from my own experience i can tell you that you are going to get mostly trash even if you build it optimally. It's only in really end-game where you can start thinking about replacing armies with succesful cross-bred units.

Mod your own nation, it's really easy. Hardest part is making sprites and the balancing.

Cross breeding's real effectiveness comes from generating a bunch of chaff units to help defend your mages which are expected to do most of the work.

Like in a siege, though in Abyssia's case they have some really good crossbreeds now that can doll out the harshness

Abyssia has mages with bonuses to crossbreeding

Dominions.5.Warriors.of.the.Faith.V5.03-REVOLT

You're thinking gateway, which takes the caster's army with them, and even that has a high-level version which ignores the lab destination req and can be gotten through an artifact.
Teleport itself is a fairly low-research spell that only takes 2 pearls and an S3 caster to bamf around a giant fucking rock, if your giant fucking rock can take on the target by itself.

I got chromium the other day but I found out it had some bullshit with its security.
I've heard of brave being good, but I've also read something bad about it having to do with advertising.
Any recommendations? I'd like something like Chrome or FF.

how typical of your kind

Is this ever going to start?

Yes, I guess some people haven't made up their mind on what to play yet.

The fact Llamaserver was bugged didn't help things.

I love EA/MA r'lyeh but until I gets me rituals the national units just get bullied so easily and if you want a big ritual machine pretender you can't afford a big stupid kraken

am I missing something on the specific usefulness of dudes? I know net rushes with the slaves are okay but they rarely actually kill anything. the trampling thralls are too expensive for anything short of full positive scale, lobos still just get slaughtered en masse. Meteorite guards are too expensive but actually decent but shite compared to the basic chaff of other nations in most cases, and EA doesn't even have that.

I mean if you run weird blesses in EA gibodai sacreds are aight but you can't recruit enough of them and chaff at the same time early game to safely expand against other people who know wtf they're doing. I feel like the leap between D5 and D4 has done something I don't understand that has fundamentally changed the strat for the slowest UW nation in a weird way. When you can make it to slave troll summon and mind vesseling into stuff on a coastal fort you're golden, but getting there you risk getting bumfucked by literally every other atlantian nation and especially thero with its fucking ethereals and berserkers

The time has come, and so have I.

I'll start the 8ch middleage game later tonight, just waiting for 1 more to join up and we're good to go.

a reminder if you feel like you're going to stale, if you feel like going AI please instead post here and request a time extension or find a replacement here we've had too many games ruined in the past by faggots who couldn't do this most simple task

Playing vs 4 AI on random map, one generated Pelagia in a landlocked lake tile and never left it.

post nation mods

Domkill it!

Well it's been something like 10 years since I've played Dominions in multiplayer, I do hope I won't fuck it up too badly.

Some from Dom4

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I wonder how many will stale first turn.

Alright 8chmiddleagegame is now officially started, thanks to everyone that joined up!

lets make it a good first game

I'm thinking about pirating it. I never played a Dominions game before, what am I in for?

Every mythology ripped into a single game about slaughtering those who do not bow down to the true pantokrator. This is done by various means depending on your civilization, could mean giant armies, casting world ending spells, or just making sure people believe in no other gods than you.

You can think of it as a 4X game (like Civ) if you remove the diplomacy and progression. But it's got a crazy amount of depth and strategic choices, insane amounts of spells, and more magic items then you'll ever need. Everything in the game is also split up into three Era's but you don't move from one to the other as the game progresses. If you start a early era game, you will be in early era for the entirety of that game.

Conquest of Elysium is pretty fun too and generally easier to grasp the first go around

Quick question, I've never bought a game on Steam before but might as well considering this is never going to be released on GOG and I can't be biffed waiting for it to go on Gamersgate. If I buy it on Steam, can I download the Linux game files on a wangblows rig and then move them to my Loonix machine? I don't want install Steam.

Alright lads, I'm gonna do it. Wish me luck.

i suck ass at the game but i want to play, was anyone planning on setting up a game?

also dom5 inspector when?

by the end of this weekend, it's supposedly like halfway done already

autism really is unstoppable

You don't need steam to run it if that is what you're asking, I have a friend that runs it on Linux but you'll need to figure that out on your own I guess.

Just won my first MP game with a few friends last night as Nazca; first with dom5 anyways. I used an exploding burd strategy with death explosions from fire, charged bodies from air, and fire/lighting resistance from earth. Worked remarkably well and backed it up with flaming arrow spam.

pics related

I had to run it through steam once for the key to register, but otherwise I've been running it from the executable without steam active since.

Glorious.

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So, how the hell am I meant to make Yomi work? Do I flood the enemy with shitty bandits and gobbos? Or am I meant to have a shitload of big-dick Oni commanders? help

Expansion is going to be a problem early on, you can either take the statue of war which auto recruits Barbarians which are OK for expanding with, or you can take a monster to expand with.

You'll definitely want to get end of culture asap so your Oni recruitment is up, as far as expanding goes Ko-Oni lead by the demon commander and hordes of Bakemono archers usually does the trick. Getting flame arrows is also essential, because you'll want to use your cheap massable bakemono archers a lot, including after you have a decent amount of temples generating oni for you.

How is new mitchlan? Any differences?

Don't you dare post catchy music without sauce.

Are other arxchers or crossbowmen okay? I tend to have better experiences with crossbowmen since they have more precision.

Everyone sucked ass at some point, user.
If any of you fags are thinking of setting up a Dom4 game I'd be happy to join.

You can mix and match, but crossbowmen tend to be better if they're guarded properly.

I sometimes use archers to pick off enemy crossbows though since they shoot twice as fast

Also forgot to mention later on you will definitely want to make Dai Oni SC's kitted out with gear that will compliment their self buffing.

Dai Oni are seriously tough

Vanarus player here. I fucked up bad and ended up being hospitalized. Soonest I can get back home to play vidya seems to be in monday. I apologise for the inconvenience. Sure fucking wish I had set up some remote desktop thing.

I'll extend it to monday then

How about longdead archers? That banefire decay seems pretty cool.

They're cheap and easy to make if you have an excess of Death gems (which is pretty easy to have) in a blitz I was playing recently I used them with Yomi since I was already spamming archers for flaming arrows and what not.

How does one rainbow properly?

Yeah those dai oni are pretty much the best recruitable thug chassis in the game and it's hard to argue otherwise. Their stats are fantastic, they have full slots, and they have perfect magic paths for phoenix pyre, summon earthpower for reinvigoration, and soul vortex which sends them into practically SC territory. Even when something finally manages to take him out, the crazy motherfucker comes back from the dead just to fuck shit up a second time. The only problem they have is their massive price tag; they cost nearly as much as a fort apiece.

First things first, set your scales to turmoil 3 luck 3; the turmoil makes your oni stronger, the luck helps cover for the fact that between the reduced patrol effectiveness and your freespawn oni raising unrest you won't get much tax income.
You may also want some good bless effects since your oni commanders are sacreds, but avoid going for a dom3 bless rush-tier bless, since you have zero other recruitable sacreds; affliction protection and reinvigoration from earth blesses are best, since they keep your oni commanders from becoming helpless in combat due to fatigue or afflictions
For your expansion phase, you want to rush thaumaturgy 1 for frighten spam on your demon generals; those guys are your best shepherds for freespawn oni, and having something for them to do is better than not.
Other important landmarks are alteration 4 and conjuration 3 so your dai oni can cast earthpower>ironskin>temper flesh, which is a fuckawesome buff cycle.
Construction levels are important for kitting them out, and at 4 you can make dragon scale mails, which are the best mix of low encumbrance and high prot you can get. There's also other good shit, but dragon scales are the main attraction.

I'll add to this. You don't actually need to forge armor for Dai Oni right away or at all since they have heavy samurai armor all they need is a weapon,shield,helmet to be effective. It's just a waste of gems until you can make something better. You should also focus on getting enchantment 5 and horde of skeletons as well as an additional lab in a forest as currently outside of your main fort you'll be stuck at 1cp a turn for your mages and the cheapest alternative are turning your witches into the 1st tier hannyas. You'll need skeleton spam to survive and also to help take a neighbor's fort

The 4 encumbrance from the heavy samurai armor is an absolute bitch though, and oni already get plenty of durability from their buff cycle; ditching 3 encumbrance is well worth the forgone armor prot, especially if you can stack enough reinvig on them to keep them going through the entire battle.

Also, red dragon scale only needs 2F and 10 fire gems, and it's not like there's that many uses for fire gems.

So, is there a mod already that lets me remplace the new soundtrack with Dom3 and 4 songs?

I'd waiting for the same thing.

Can anyone confirm if Air Shield/Arrow Fend affect friendly fire? AS descrip has:
while AF has
Here's all the new nation-specific bless bonuses. MA Marignon OP

For me I'd always go for the Fire Jars on Hannya's so they could spam fire elementals or something to that effect, however since Hannyas are so much more expensive now I don't feel like doing that too much.

There are some other nice weapons there now with Fire gems, there is a con 2 mace now that is basically a weaker fire brand; also having things like Fire Drakes around when all but 2 types of oni are resistant to fire helps carve holes in the enemy army which your Oni will fill in.

However generally speaking, I feel the new Yomi is worse off than before because of the new rules on how recruitment works and their lack of an ability to get 2 commander points a turn, even Pangea can summon forts in a forest to recruit mages at a normal rate like before, as far as I know Yomi is the only nation that is penalized this way and it definitely hurts them; Oni not costing upkeep is nice and I don't mind the freespawn mechanic (EA needs more free spawn nations) but it would be better off if they got the oni summoning spells later japanese nations get, also the Hannya is generally not worth it for the full 18 gem cost as they still cost upkeep on top of that, even if their paths are boosted from dom4 (1 more D). The Chia whatever witch form is Ok to get on the defense with guaranteed skeleton spammers and as far as I would go except for the 1 Hannya I need to follow my armies around and cast flaming arrows (until I get a combat caster Dai Oni to do so)

They both grant the "air shield" buff so they work identically; the only difference between them is Arrow Fend is battlefield-wide.
As far as I know, air shield protects against friendly projectiles as well, including certain projectile based spells, but I could be mistaken.

A good start for dom 5.

33 euros is way too much for what is essentially a minor upgrade.

Pirating for now, will buy once the price drops

Nice try Satan

I'm in the same boat, although i'm wondering if it would be better to wait for it to come out on gamergate?
I really don't like supporting steam, but if the price drops significantly i'll buy it for Steam, And i mean Significantly
It would have to be that >10 dolleridoos deal that they had in the beginning of the year

No you dummy.
The seperation is based on their base Dominion STAT & Category, not the game they are from.
Dominion 4 are Totem-types
Dominion 3 are Titan-types
Dominion 2 are Beast-types
Dominion 1 are Sorceror-types

They were already categorized in this order before, Dominions 5 just put borders between them.

Ok I pirated it and playe around 5-10 mins of it.
I have no idea what I'm doing.

o-oh……….

so where are the new pretenders?

Fuck around a bit in t he late ages to get the hang of basic shit like troops and land grabbing. Pick a combat pretender like a dragon or serpent so you dont have to worry too much about magic. A lot of the magic in this game you pretty much HAVE to know about before hand so steer clear until you're ready to look that shit up. Note about those blessing bonuses you see in creation, they only apply to sacred units marked by menorahs on their stat sheets.

In that screencap the sixth one in the dominion 3 category is new
You just have to have already known which ones were already in the Dom4 game, it looks like they mostly added titan types

Oh i think that first one in dom 1 category is new too

o-oh….

where's the new nations?

The new nations are Rus for the Early Age
Uruk for the Middle Age
Eraytha for the Late Age

some of the nations have been completely reworked though like the aformentioned Yomi

o-oh………

so where's the new units?

read the manual
It's on the illwinter website

Yomi gets one, a sacred oni freespawn covered head to toe in armour, too bad they spawn so rarely because they're the best free troops you could get.

A few new gods for the celt nations, the Morgana has an interesting gimmick because you get 3 of them with the paths split between them. The caveat is that you don't get autobless with them in a fight at least that I've seen and the titans lose paths if they aren't together.

Ur got some underwater enkidus that look outright absurd.

o-oh…….

what about new spells?

can you post what ea rus gets? pretty please

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EA rus gets
all you need to know it's a good nation

End of culture, a Yomi exclusive world enchantment that increases their freespawn rate and increases turmoil outside your domain which will screw with anyone who did the order/misfortune scale.
But I only know these because I played Yomi 3 times. Try asking someone who actually tried other factions. And stop typing like a fag.

End of culture was in dom 4, but it was a bit different.

Yeah, back then it was a beserking combat spell. I still miss it because I need beserking to stop these freespawn chaff from fleeing.

o-oh-hoooohhh-h-h……..

no

I set up a dom 4 match llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=8eamatch

Source on the song?

What kind of moron takes a screencap without highlighting the spoilers?

how do i join this?

nevermind, found the info
forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=529316&postcount=2

I know mages with one more point in a path than the requisite for the spell they're casting only spend half fatigue, but does fatigue decrease even more when the difference is greater than one?

How expensive/where do you recruit? I didn't think they even still existed, they're not shown on the unit roster during setup. I thought the 1D/1N 65g Namanari foreign mage had replaced them.

The clip sounds sort of self-contained. The video portion is more popularly associated with a self-contained clip that people always beg for sauce to when sauce doesn't exist, so this is probably just user being ebin.

Maybe they were off-topic parenthetical. A lot of people use spoilers that way. Because this place is reddit lite.

Concerning the Hannayas, the Namari can cast a ritual spell to partially transform themselves into Hannya for 6 gems, gaining 1D, i think. Then they can cast another one to fully transform into a Hannya for 12 gaining another 1D.
So now you pay the Namanari recruit costs and 18 gems on top of waiting 3 turns for a slightly better Hannaya.

Don't forget to download the map and the mods too.

MA kangz are looking pretty good to my novice eye.
The web spam alone should make up for the size difference.

That's fucking ridiculous, what the hell. No use beyond a cheap researcher.

i forgot my scurvy version of dom4 isn't up to date. so i can't play. good luck though

i have the song source somewhere, trying to find it for you. if only because it bugs me to know i have sauce but can't remember where it is.

there, at least now my 'tisim will be sated

Any good strats on EA Pangea? Currently trying to see if blood magic is worth the hassle.

I think it's a bit too much of a nerf too. The chances too the recruiting system kinda dealt with them already.
They can cast some more interesting magic now atleast.
Yomi has some new strats they can try now too. I've been trying to make freespawn better and more numerous and it's proving to be a bit tough. I did mess up on pretender creation and didn't really mess with the scales too much. I also fel that Yomi lacks a decent commander to make freespawn work better.

Honestly, i don't why the fuck i didn't though of something like that would happen.

I hate finding good vidya like this and then having to remember that I have no-one to play it with.
Might join one of the mail games some time but Im not really a fan of 1 turn per day games that take weeks to get somewhere.

i share your pain. wish there was a way to set up lobbies similar to any 4x or turn based strategy. hope they add something like this for 5.

I can't remember what it's called, but I have it somewhere on my computer man; it's been a long time since I made that.

the video is really wierd has like some girl belly dancing with a face mask on, and lots of girls jumping around with balaclavas on, and a dog with a tuxedo with some girl twerking next to it.

Well nevermind thanks for posting that song, I honestly could not for the life of me remember what it was called.

So I'll answer your questions on Blood Magic, and EA Pangay.

First lets cover Blood Magic; since there is more than one nation that utilizes it. Ok so first of all Blood magic is extremely powerful, but costly the reasons for it's power is because all of it's spells are contained to it's own school which includes attack/summons/globals meaning research is never wasted.

The importance of this becomes more obvious the more blood magic you have researched, up to the point you have people casting Leech which has been nerfed in dom5 slightly because of cast times but who fucking cares it's such a powerful spell because it hits 1 SQUARE for 25+ Unresistable damage for B1. The next important thing that makes blood so powerful are the summons, which are also again nerfed slightly for a couple reasons; it used to be in Dom 4 for certain types of demons and devils you could recruit multiple at a time per casting, but now all of them are 1 at a time per casting; again small nerf, but the actual summons themselves are so good that you'll want to dedicate a couple of mages each turn to summoning them. The third thing about blood magic is you need to manually gather your reagents (in this case virgins), which requires some investment but the returns are so high it doesn't matter you can get more blood slaves than gems in a short period of time that their value is cashed in immediately instead of fussing around with alchemy, or site searching.

Learning how to hunt blood slaves effectively is where most people fail but there are event specific commands to make it easier which are shift z and shift v. You'll want to hunt on provinces with high pop (above 5000) you'll need about 5-6 max b1 (or lets say 10-12 levels of blood magic combined per province without unrest getting too high) and a small army of patrollers to keep the unrest down, and any order scales you can spare as well as province defense to help keep unrest down. the next thing you'll need is scouts, and since commander points are a thing now it's ridiculously easy to afford them, so you can pool your slaves on them run them to the nearest lab and back, If you have some extra gold it can be worth it to buy a lab where your blood hunters are working but for the most part you'll want to save it for more mages and troops; because if you're a blood nation someone will take notice and anyone with a brain is going to want to punch you in the face before you get too strong.

You'll also want a minimum of Construction 4 to afford blood hunting sticks, these increase blood hunting as if your blood mages were 1 level higher than they actually were, don't skimp out it's only 5bitches each and you'll get your investment back immediately.

As for EA (and MA) Pangea they are widely regarded and feared for their ability to rush down nations because of their sacred unit, In Dom4 this was accomplished with an n9 w9 bless which gave them +4 Defense, Quickness, +4 HP, and Regeneration; they are still just as deadly and I would say they're actually even more deadly in Dom5 which I'll elaborate on.

But first lets talk about the nerfs to EA/MA Pan, first off all of your forts outside of forests are extremely expensive and you're still limited to making palisades. What this means to you is that your mages (dryads/centaurs) will take 2 turns to come and your big guys (Pans) will take 4, Obviously you don't need that but it doesn't fucking matter because all you need to do is build a lab in a forest and you can summon a proper fort which does have a high cost of 30n gems but trust me you'll be rolling in the N because Pangea always wants to get alt 5 and get Mother Oak up, + if you're smart you'll wait till someone else builds up a fort and take it.
which by the way scouts can now see if someone is building a fort in a province they're hiding in and guess who has flying scouts, yeah it's you pan

The other nerfs to Pangea include half points for taking turmoil scales, which honestly isn't that big of a deal it just means you have to dump something else to get more scales for bless, it still scales well with the Pans free spawn maenads which are good chaff; though in Dom4 Order Pangea was still a thing and powerful in it's own right.

Alright so if you've followed me so far I'll get into what gives Pangea and even better edge than before, and that is the new movement rules. Not only can White centaur (and other centaur/calvary in general mind you) move faster across the field and out flank and kill the enemies commanders, they can also move faster into enemy lands capture provinces and do guerilla tactics much easier.

This should be a worry for anyone fighting against Pan, because most of their units are stealthy; but deep strikes are extremely effective because of how the new retreat rules work; essentially you can cut off someone from behind with small groups of 3-4 guys, force them into confrontation with your larger army and again out flank them and blast them with fear spells so they rout and auto die from having no where to flee too.

or you can just brutalize them; as far as blood goes for EA pan though, you probably wont worry about it too much it's a better investment of your time and gems to get Alteration magic and Enchantment to buff your already strong guys further with spells like Regeneration, Iron Warriors, Mass Protection, and support spells like Swarm and Howl. Again another buff to Pan is at construction 4 you can make the Cornucopia for 15 gems and it will give you 2 nature gems EVERY BATTLE so you'll never not have gems for your battle buffs and support spells and that means your gems can be used for other things like building more forts, summoning Vine Ogres to help beef up your forces, or whatever.

Also there is a new spell at Thaumaturgy 6 which does not require a gem to cast but needs n5, it's a mass sleep spell the new sleep mechanic is easy for Pan to take advantage of which just makes an already strong army, stronger (also you can get Charm at Thaum 7, and Beckoning, and lots of other good N spells)

As for blesses Pic related is from an awake W10, (Quickness) B4 (Blood Surge) Blood fountain. I'd recommend trying it out to see how you like it, and then combining it with other things only Quickness requires Incarnate (god has to be on the map) so you could go dormant with Blood Surge if you wanted to add more, but I'd advise against Imprisoned, unless you just want to go for pure stat boosts on your WC which actually isn't a bad idea.

hope that helps.

But wait there's more!
On this part I'll break down Pangeas tactics and units more for you.
also I just double checked and I was wrong about turmoil scales being half points, I thought I had read that in the beta forum, but doing so still gives me 40 points each time

One of Pangeas main traits is that most of your units are undisciplined which leads to less morale on your leaders, but that doesn't reduce their effectiveness exactly it just means you have to cover your weakness. A good spell that is an easy cast for any Pan is Awaken Sleeper this spell require N4 Conjuration 5 and 10 Nature gems. The Sleeper is a very good commander with high Inspiration and high leadership values so he can lead many units at once.

You will also find that if you take turmoil scales your recruitment points are low, which is something you should be wary of when building your pretender. Recruitment points get a bonus from order scales, and a penalty in turmoil; however they're also based off population so taking growth may be a wise choice, Money isn't going to be the issue anymore because usually you'll take max luck to compliment your turmoil scales (by the way luck is nerfed too slightly instead of 90% good events it's closer to 70-80% just getting that out there for anyone who doesn't know) One of your better units the Reveler requires a decent amount of recruitment points, this guy can go berserk and has 2 attacks. he's the best of the Satyrs and will also cause unrest. Dumping some points into Sloth works out to your advantage as well as most of your units require very little resources outside of your sacreds and the armored variants of centaurs/minotaurs.

Ok as far as spells go something you'll want to try and take advantage of is Iron Bane, which is a spell that makes your enemies armor fall off leaving them easier to kill, another good offensive spell for you will be Maws of the Earth, which hits in a large AOE and earth grips all those who survive the damage. in both cases you'll need to boost a Pan's Earth magic to 3, sometimes you can get E2 pans and make them earth boots or you can simply just use Earth power ahead of time for an in combat boost. Early on if you need more chaff you can also summon animals which is a terrain based spell, and works out to your advantage as your Pans which should be the one casting it have animal leadership; you can also use unique spells on your animals that will make them go berserk and therefore fearless and fight to the death.

I'll also cover assassination and seduction since I forgot to mention that. Your Dryads are stealthy and can seduce, they also have good defenses and are sacred, but you should always be aiming to kill not seduce, this is really easy for dryads because of how swarm works. Swarm will summon 20+ bugs depending on your N magic for 1 n gem in 125% casting time, so in a round and 1/4 she will cast the spell during an assassination as long as she has N gems or the cornucopia I already mentioned, if she fails seduction that is. Using Dryads this way is them at their most effective as you already have centaur leaders that are sacred to buff your White centaurs for deep strikes and would move faster anyway. The Dryads have awe which means they'd be harder to kill, giving her a weapon is not entirely necessary, since you're probably already pursuing heavy alteration magic they should also have frozen heart which only requires w1 to cast so baring some misfortune they should always eliminate their targets, maybe give them some vine seeds so they have vine men bodyguards.

The last thing I'll talk about is Transformation and Gift of Health and their importance to Pangea (and Nature nations in general, remember it!)

The question is "why should I transform my mage" well the main reason you want to transform them is so they stop costing you upkeep, Transformation is a risky maneuver but high luck scales will usually ensure their survival, and that they don't get feeble minded in the case of the latter you'll want gift of health up to heal afflictions if possible (it should be because you want Mother Oak first which gives you extra N each turn) Transformation can also give you extra magical paths, in stuff you might be unable to get. Just remember as well that Transformation will also disable the use of a lot of item slots, so try not to transform Pans that you want to specialize in blood or earth too often. (if they have E2 already it's probably Ok; but never for blood)

HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

Why do people join and then not take their turn?

I don't know about Pythium but apparently Vanarus had an accident so he had to go to the hospital, turn was delayed to monday.

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*unsheathes Magic Duel*
*Flying Shoes behind you*
heh… nothin personnel, utterkid….

I said of r'lyeh you dumb batnigger

batposting was unrelated to BTFOing your sentient marble collection you squid fetishist

MORE LIKE GUANOPOSTING YOU LITERAL BATSHIT ENTHUISIAST

Been playing the pirated copy and the game is amazing, but I'm kinda iffy about the multiplayer as my experiences in most
RTS games for me usually have supreme autists that suck all of the resources on the map in minutes and spawn in strong units rapidly. Does it have unfun shit like that?

I lack the autism to properly play the game but from what I can understand in multiplayer you're basically just supposed to minmax expansion and say fuck all to building tall, so probably yes.

REMOVE BATS

How disappointing.

I'm not at my comp rn, byt is there anyway to disable the thrones/set the win condition to something else yet? iirc correctly like every round i was playing i was about to launch a giant offensive attack and NOPE LOL OTHER GOD CAPTURED THE LAST THRONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP

Resources grow as the game progresses, more population, more magic gems, more research points. Unless you have a popkill neighbor.

This user is wrong past the first year, only then is it all about going wide and placing down the first couple of forts. Forts can be upgraded and admin gives you lots of tax money/production if placed properly. Forts, labs, enchants, sites, magical research and temples are a huge deal. A single territory can make or break the game for you, one territory can be worth a thousand gold with amazing sites while others only a dozen gold with no magic sites.
Some nations don't even care about gold and use summons/sacreds/thugs for everything.

I see. I guess I'll try out the other eras before getting it then, but I'm still stuck on one thing. I'm still kinda confuse about forts and where to place them. Like do I just put them on all of the forests and farms or spread em by one providence.

Depends what you want from them. The more areas connected to a fort, the more gold they'll be worth. When I place my first two forts, I make one an economic choice and other a defensive one.

High population areas give you more gold and you'll want to defend them from pillagers and to safely cast rituals/crafting.
Magic sites and thrones, especially ones that produce magic users or gold mines are good places for forts.
Mountainous areas with decent populations(7k+~) can produce a lot of high production units.
Bottlenecks are obvious enough, but remember your enemy can turn those into forward bases so you might not want to fully upgrade them.

how do i not get rekted by normal ai? i always end up ai encircling me and when somehow my big army meets enemy big army i just get blown away

Mages, spells, buffs, troop scripting, experiment. The ai cheats, spamms so much shit units, let itself be encircled like retards, swarms provinces with shit troops. Basically it doesn't play like a human bean and you will not really learn much beyond how to expand properly by playing against it. You shouldn't have an issue against only one normal AI though.

well, you need to place them at natural chokepoints, like mountain passes or shores, provinces which when lost would fuck you over, and provinces which you need to hold for expansion
they shouldnt be idealy placed close to each other because they are taking resources from neighbouring provinces, so if you spam them in every province you will be able to recruit less troops in each castle.

get creative fam

There always has been. You're supposed to customize the amount of thrones/other 'I win' points for the number of players. Thrones are the least bullshit IMO. Not arduous like 100% annihilating every other player, not lame like everyone pursuing dom power/research, and someone who can say fuck you and just raid all of your unprotected provinces immediately (like Xibalba) can cheese province goal.
Thrones at least require people to clear strong indies, get a pretender/prophet/lv3 priest to it and hold onto it. The RNG effects and making random geographical locations critical are interesting. With a proper thrones-to-win requirement, it's usually the fairest way to go about things.

fuck this, this will be first and only game i buy from steam

I've been playing for a few days, and I feel like there's something major missing:
There needs to be a way for you to influence the paths mages and sacred units recruit with beyond the predefined ones. What I mean is, if your pretender god has a really high investment in blood path, maybe there could be a high-point-cost bless effect that could make every priest spawn with power in blood. This could allow for players to put "twists" on certain empires and change their focus - for example I could have R'lyeh but the mages can also crossbreed or whatever

obviously you could just empower but alchemy is expensive as fuck

I never fucking believed I would ever see a reference to an anti-Semitic parody of a Disney song combined with an obscure video game with 20 year old out of date graphics that only a true nerd could love.

I never thought I would ever see such a thing, let alone like it. God damn you guys.

Shit that makes more sense.

is this the issue? bots only cheats if there are more than 1 but if you 1vs1 you just win with finger in your ass?

I like the blood dragon story.

New LA game, pls join: llamaserver.net/gameinfo.cgi?game=LApleasekillme

Is this 4 or 5?

i literally don't get how the fuck I join a game, pls explain

The instructions are in

Post screenshot of your army setup and of battle results.

First turn is out. For whatever reason the map was misnamed, if you downloaded it you need to rename
to

awe fuck yee
I just finished a research paper too, I gave myself around 2.5 hours, so I'm hoping I didn't masively fuck it up. I'm confident though that I atleast did better than Tyrone or Jamal ( i got to community college) so that's atleast above a 75)

FUCK
anyone got a magnet for the lastest version? search ain't bringing up anything other than v5 03

How do you get more commander points in a province?

pop a fort in it then upgrade it.

First player here, D5. It took me 30 min to learn how to assign troops to a commander. Were do I learn to play?

I'm liking what I hear about this, macro strategy without the microbuilding of grand. Though I worry about the complications of stats and spells.

nigger you just doubleclick on troops and doubleclick on commander.
are you retarded?

But I can only get up to two points, while some commanders cost four.

Was trying to click on the bar to their side. Click unit in bar to select, click unit in commanders bar to drop.

That's the Dom5 version of slow-to-recruit. You can still recruit them, it will just more than one turn to fill the commander point cost.

I think it's time for bed.

It works just like the resource cost and I believe recruitment points work the same way. The unit/commander will just stay as "in progress," accumulating points until the point quota and any other resource quota has been met.

Fug, I thought it'd take longer to fill and was researching LA civs since I never play it.
How often have turns been in these last few games here?

Alt+click highlights every unit of that type in that row. Less misclicks than rapid double-clicking.

There are video tutorials on a main site.
also if you have any problem with anything just ask here

Pythium and Vanarus why did you stale?

I didn't know this game series even existed but thanks to you faggots I am now hooked. I reckon it'll end up as one of my favorites, but it's certainly flawed when it comes to its presentation. The graphics are easy to critizise, but I think the battles would leave a much better impression if the units had walk animations and moved from square to square instead of warping around. Is this something that the creators have in mind and is it even feasible to begin with?

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new thread because this one stopped bumping

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