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Speaking of cool global funfacts, I learned yesterday that gift of health can actually cure disease! I think someone at some point told me that it couldn't, or didn't in dominions 3, or something.
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garth ferengi posted:Speaking of cool global funfacts, I learned yesterday that gift of health can actually cure disease! I think someone at some point told me that it couldn't, or didn't in dominions 3, or something. GoH can cure literally anything on anything given enough time.
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Jul 11, 2014 20:36
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Nuclearmonkee posted:GoH can cure literally anything on anything given enough time. One of my commanders was diseased, limping and had lost both eyes before GoH healed him. I'm reluctant to send him back to the fray after walking that off like a champ. Bug Squash fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 21:18
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Is there some spell/global involving massive earthquakes? I'm asking because in one of my games I've been basically destroyed by earthquakes reducing my provinces down to about 10% of their former population. Edit: I spend some time looking the available spells up and down, but I could've missed something.
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Jul 11, 2014 21:40
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Libluini posted:Is there some spell/global involving massive earthquakes? I'm asking because in one of my games I've been basically destroyed by earthquakes reducing my provinces down to about 10% of their former population. Wishing for Armageddon causes what you see; is Pelagia in the game? If they are then the standard Pelagia endgame is to set up a wish engine and Armageddon the world into submission. Otherwise it's just some other nation with a strong Astral caster (probably pretender) being a dickbutt.
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Jul 12, 2014 01:18
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Even a single Armageddon is enough to badly damage blood economies. So it's worth it if you're facing that.
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Jul 12, 2014 01:23
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Neruz posted:Wishing for Armageddon causes what you see; is Pelagia in the game? If they are then the standard Pelagia endgame is to set up a wish engine and Armageddon the world into submission. Otherwise it's just some other nation with a strong Astral caster (probably pretender) being a dickbutt. No, but a certain someone bragged about making a wish every turn, so I know who is nuking the world now. It's not Pelagia, but there's something fishy going on here.
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Jul 12, 2014 11:31
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Libluini posted:No, but a certain someone bragged about making a wish every turn, so I know who is nuking the world now. It's not Pelagia, but there's something fishy going on here. Could have an alt site.
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Jul 12, 2014 15:20
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What does wishing for armageddon do again?
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Jul 12, 2014 15:48
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amuayse posted:What does wishing for armageddon do again? Kills 20% of every provinces population and i believe makes a global damage roll for every/a lot of units??? Not so sure on this 2nd bit.
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Jul 12, 2014 15:54
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Could have an alt site. Something fishy could be some other underwater nation with strong astral! Isn't there some earth spell that does earthquakes (to just one province of course)? Or am I just getting Crumble mixed up with something else in my head... E: Today I learned that the password signup thing on brainwrinkle doesn't handle punctuation well.
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Jul 12, 2014 16:31
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I Love You! posted:Yeah green dragon gets pasted early by skeles but is also a very safe battlecaster for actual army fights. Spamming sleep cloud with an N9 mage wrecks most sacred rushes or early armies with absolutely no risk and makes you really dangerous really fast. Doesn't the sleep gas hit your own troops as well? How do you avoid that?
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Jul 12, 2014 16:37
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Excelsiortothemax posted:Doesn't the sleep gas hit your own troops as well? How do you avoid that? Anyone with N9 has pretty easy access to at least two of those things. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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Jul 12, 2014 16:42
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Excelsiortothemax posted:Doesn't the sleep gas hit your own troops as well? How do you avoid that? Works better against some sacreds than others, mind, Ashdod's sacreds are vexing because they have high MR to start with, even before their mages start casually casting Antimagic.
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Jul 12, 2014 17:29
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So I take it you would deploy in the backfield and hold max until you have to advance and potentially deploy high MR or undead troops up front?
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Jul 12, 2014 17:41
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GenericOverusedName posted:Something fishy could be some other underwater nation with strong astral! Volcanic Eruption (aka Summon Volcano) is an F3E3 spell at Evo 9 for 15 fire gems that causes a Volcanic Eruption in the target province, killing 33% of the population. LordLeckie posted:Kills 20% of every provinces population and i believe makes a global damage roll for every/a lot of units??? Not so sure on this 2nd bit. Armageddon creates a Volcanic Eruption in every province, killing 33% of the current pop. It also randomly hits about half the units in play with a small amount of damage, I think it's like 5 + drn AP or AN damage.
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Jul 13, 2014 03:23
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They buffed Armageddon? It was only 10% pop kill and 10% of all units took 10 AN damage in Dom3.
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Jul 13, 2014 04:11
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dis astranagant posted:They buffed Armageddon? It was only 10% pop kill and 10% of all units took 10 AN damage in Dom3. I was told Armageddon was a Volcanic Eruption in every province + approx half units in play get hit with a small amount of damage, I havn't actually tested it myself so its possible I was lied to.
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Jul 13, 2014 04:24
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GenericOverusedName posted:Something fishy could be some other underwater nation with strong astral! Or it could be a fine gentleman with a magical carp wishing every turn for Armageddon! It could happen. 
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Jul 13, 2014 10:44
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Neruz posted:I was told Armageddon was a Volcanic Eruption in every province + approx half units in play get hit with a small amount of damage, I havn't actually tested it myself so its possible I was lied to. Volcanic Eruption part is for sure (20% popkill) and you can verify it easily in tests. I've heard people say it's 8ap, 20an and all kinds of things in between. Appears to be about 1/5 chance of the damage hitting any particular guy. Suppose it could be ironed out in test with debug enabled but 
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Jul 13, 2014 15:42
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Stupid newbie question: How do I counter air elementals? They're ethereal so normal weapons is a no-go, they're not undead nor demons and they're extremely fast and seemingly impossible to hit with ordinary spells. I was unlucky and a random stack spawned right on top of my army at the beginning stages of our last game and it completely and utterly destroyed me. I had to leave the province neutral for the entire game because I just couldn't figure out how to deal with them. I'm way dumb though, so I'm probably missing something perfectly obvious. Maybe you guys can help me figure it out?
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Jul 14, 2014 13:43
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:Stupid newbie question: Dudes with magic weapons, spells that affect magical creatures only, spells in general.
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Jul 14, 2014 13:56
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more air elementals.
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Jul 14, 2014 15:42
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:Stupid newbie question: Bane Lord with a Storm Spool, Van/Tuatha type guy with a Ring of Lightning Resistance out of the box, whatever. That's enough to take out Lesser Air Elemental spam. jBrereton fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Jul 14, 2014 15:50
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:Stupid newbie question: This is more or less the worst possible event you can get and you may as well give the province up for a loss. There are very few ways to cost-effectively fight air elementals and they are almost certainly not worth 1 province to fight.
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Jul 14, 2014 16:57
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Flaming Arrows will blap them with some losses.
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Jul 15, 2014 01:37
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Seeking arrow to take out the mages leading them?
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Jul 15, 2014 02:31
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fishhooked posted:Seeking arrow to take out the mages leading them? Aren't they illusionists and stealthed? If not yeah arrows or other remote assassin type stuff will work. Air eles are also mindless so if you can bring enough chaff to survive the first turn you should be able to mind burn/soul slay off the mage(s) if you have S. Nuclearmonkee fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 07:47
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That's a lot of good answers. Thanks!
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Jul 15, 2014 14:20
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How do I fight a bunch of N9 Garmhirdings (Giant wolfmans) as MA Marignon?
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Jul 15, 2014 15:35
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This looks cool, but i can't really commit to multiplayer games. Is this like civ, paradox games or total war where you can play singleplayer against the AI without missing any content or the true experience of the game?
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Jul 15, 2014 15:52
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Back To 99 posted:This looks cool, but i can't really commit to multiplayer games. Is this like civ, paradox games or total war where you can play singleplayer against the AI without missing any content or the true experience of the game? Not really. At least 90% of the stuff in the game is useless or pointless in single player
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Jul 15, 2014 15:54
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amuayse posted:How do I fight a bunch of N9 Garmhirdings (Giant wolfmans) as MA Marignon? Flaming arrows crossbows put the hurt on most things, otherwise high damage single target fire/astral battlemagic can work, attempt to assassinte their bless caster(s) or otherwise take them out with things like a flanking group of heavy cav. Back To 99 posted:This looks cool, but i can't really commit to multiplayer games. Is this like civ, paradox games or total war where you can play singleplayer against the AI without missing any content or the true experience of the game? Not at all unfortunately, the breadth and depth of the game is far beyond the AI. LordLeckie fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 15:56
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amuayse posted:How do I fight a bunch of N9 Garmhirdings (Giant wolfmans) as MA Marignon? Lots and lots and lots and lots of Flaming Arrows.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:02
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Back To 99 posted:This looks cool, but i can't really commit to multiplayer games. Is this like civ, paradox games or total war where you can play singleplayer against the AI without missing any content or the true experience of the game? This depends on personal preference. Plenty of people play this game singleplayer only. I would say if you can play civ singleplayer you can play this singleplayer as well. Personally I get bored of both real quick in singleplayer because AI are boring to play against whether you win or lose.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:13
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Back To 99 posted:This looks cool, but i can't really commit to multiplayer games. Is this like civ, paradox games or total war where you can play singleplayer against the AI without missing any content or the true experience of the game? It's a rather low commitment multiplayer game. Most turn take about from 2 to 20 minutes to play and you usually get only 1 a day.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:57
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Absum posted:This depends on personal preference. Plenty of people play this game singleplayer only. Well, the main issue with Dom over Civ singleplayer is that the "tech tree" in dom4 really has no use against an opponent that is also not teching (which the CPU doesn't know how to do intelligently and probably never could). On top of that since the CPU doesn't do much outside of mass basic troops and attack everywhere, you basically are forced into playing the game in a specific way that supercedes most of the fun stuff you actually might bother doing. The game is also hella not balanced for single player and most of the spells won't do ANYTHING to a computer one way or another.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:58
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Back To 99 posted:This looks cool, but i can't really commit to multiplayer games. Is this like civ, paradox games or total war where you can play singleplayer against the AI without missing any content or the true experience of the game? But it when the game is in offer (50%-75%), that's cheap enough to have it and have some fun playing against the AI (even if after the first 5 games, the AI is truly lacking). They game is cool as poo poo in the themes and the variety it has, so it can be enjoyable just playing it against some AI punching bags.
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Jul 15, 2014 17:27
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amuayse posted:It's a rather low commitment multiplayer game. Most turn take about from 2 to 20 minutes to play and you usually get only 1 a day. Yeah, i work and im studying at university as well as all the other stuff that goes with daily life and dominions takes no time at all, it can be done in less time than reading your emails early game and late game the most time consuming thing is just talking to the other players and fine tuning your movements rather than sweating over the art of war for 5 hours.
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Jul 15, 2014 18:01
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amuayse posted:It's a rather low commitment multiplayer game. Most turn take about from 2 to 20 minutes to play and you usually get only 1 a day. I just don't find this to be true at all. My first MP game after the first 25 turns I was taking an hour per turn easily, (two-thirds diplomacy one-third movement); and for the final 20 turns or so at least two and maybe three hours. For this reason I've not really been interested in playing another one, especially given that saxophone made it very clear quite how far removed I am from being even approximately good at the game. I don't know, maybe some decisions become more automatic with practice, but I certainly don't have anything like time to play the game regularly at the amount of effort it takes me.
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