MF_James posted:

Yes monkee is right (he's always right btw), do not waste A gems as a heim nation, A will get you angry thunder and air elementals and quills oh my. If you add some S gems you can get yourself some ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS


A nation that uses a lot of A, but it is OK to make corpse constructs? Caelum.

Nuclearmonkee posted:

A to corpse man as Caelum is cool and good as you have a shitton of tstrike and a distinct lack of passable line troops to keep your mages from getting poked to death with sharp sticks.

ereror posted:

After buying this game, reading up a bit, then dicking around a bit with the AI, this game seems like great fun. My layperson observations playing Shinuyama are that Bakemono Sorcerers seem really good because of how many different spells they have access to. At the same time, it's kind of annoying when you can't cast certain spells (banefiiiree) because none of your dudes rolled the correct paths, despite having a 1/4 chance of doing so. Oh well. I also ran into some awful luck since I went with that recommended erfsnek E6 pretender, only to have my starting position coincidentally spawn right next to the throne of winter. Which, as it turns out, makes everything so much colder my poor snake doesn't really want to move anymore.

One problem I kept running into is I would just straight up forget commanders or mages running around site searching/whatever for turns at a time, and this was without even taking days between turns like in multiplayer. Do you guys tend to keep notes on turns of any sort, or do you just kind of get better at keeping track of stuff? Actually, after asking that, I assume a lot of people probably still just forget lots of crap despite having played a lot. I think part of it is since it's a turn based game I thought playing on my laptop's lovely trackpad would be good enough, but Jesus, navigating this game's UI with a trackpad gets tedious fast, and I found myself hitting end turn probably prematurely a lot out of impatience. I guess learning the hotkeys and getting a mouse would probably help with that.

Oh, also I signed up for Goon Game Service with the same name.

Nuclearmonkee posted:

Mash "n" to cycle through all of the commanders without orders.

frankenfreak posted:

Speaking of "n": is there a way to mark commanders as some sort of busy so I don't have to cycle through a bunch of scouts that needn't move?

jBrereton posted:

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ereror posted:

After buying this game, reading up a bit, then dicking around a bit with the AI, this game seems like great fun. My layperson observations playing Shinuyama are that Bakemono Sorcerers seem really good because of how many different spells they have access to. At the same time, it's kind of annoying when you can't cast certain spells (banefiiiree) because none of your dudes rolled the correct paths, despite having a 1/4 chance of doing so. Oh well. I also ran into some awful luck since I went with that recommended erfsnek E6 pretender, only to have my starting position coincidentally spawn right next to the throne of winter. Which, as it turns out, makes everything so much colder my poor snake doesn't really want to move anymore.

One problem I kept running into is I would just straight up forget commanders or mages running around site searching/whatever for turns at a time, and this was without even taking days between turns like in multiplayer. Do you guys tend to keep notes on turns of any sort, or do you just kind of get better at keeping track of stuff? Actually, after asking that, I assume a lot of people probably still just forget lots of crap despite having played a lot. I think part of it is since it's a turn based game I thought playing on my laptop's lovely trackpad would be good enough, but Jesus, navigating this game's UI with a trackpad gets tedious fast, and I found myself hitting end turn probably prematurely a lot out of impatience. I guess learning the hotkeys and getting a mouse would probably help with that.

Oh, also I signed up for Goon Game Service with the same name.

frankenfreak posted:

Sloppy Milkshake posted:

i'm pretty sure there's an option to warn you if you have commanders without orders when you end turn

Fat Samurai posted:

Next turn I'm going to get sieged by a force from Ur paying as EA Pangaea (I know, I know). Can I seduce commanders from inside my castle? I don't think he's guarding his commanders, so I can just Howl them to death, hopefully. I'm at Alt 5 and Conj 2

Sloppy Milkshake posted:

yes and actually don't use howl in assassinations, just use swarm it's faster. also why don't you just kill the ur mans with centaur?

Culka posted:

I updated my indy randomizer tool( https://github.com/culka/randominions4 ), it can now read nation mod files and create independents from them.



There's also a MA game in the private games thread if someone wants to test it out!

Azram Legion posted:

This is really cool - I like the dom4 nation gen a whole lot, and it sounds like this will go great with it!

Which reminds me: How did the awful nations mod game(s?) play out? I've been curious to hear about that particular brand of crazy, but forgot all about it.

Fat Samurai posted:

Another thing: stuff that is patrolling and retreats from a Castle battle will move into the castle, right? And stuff that I recruit that turn will join the PD before the attacking army moves into the province and thus will join the battle. I'm thinking about using my pretender to buff the army and then retreat, but I don't want to lose it in a retreat because I don't understand the mechanics involved.

MF_James posted:

As expected, very awfully, I think badnationsv1 is still going (maybe?) but it used moo's mod thrones and decrepus got a throne that allows him to recruit a thing for 300gp that is basically a BFG and will wipe out armies solo because it regens 50hp+ a turn and poops gas, also it has mm3 or something dumb.

Azram Legion posted:

Which reminds me: How did the awful nations mod game(s?) play out? I've been curious to hear about that particular brand of crazy, but forgot all about it.

Enjoy posted:

The badgame.net Awful Nations game I played as Iram, got to turn 60 before realising the futility of existence and going AI

http://badgame.net/index.php?topic=41196.0

Final map

Fat Samurai posted:

Thanks.

I'm starting to think this siege is not going to work as I want.

Fat Samurai posted:

Highlights from last turn:

Had 2 one on one seduction/assassination attempts where both participants cast Swarm 3 times.
Killed a Shedu using only ants.
My castle was assaulted by 6 mages because I killed all his real commanders. I still managed to lose 40 troops due to Swarm spam and having summoned lovely poison troops that killed all my dudes

At this point he has no commanders on the army sieging my castle (in fact, I'm repairing the walls with basically no one inside). He has a commander in the next province, which I'm assuming he's moving to my castle so I don't melt all his troops by breaking siege. What would happen exactly if:

- I order a seduce attempt in my castle
- I order to break siege
- He moves his commander to my cap.

Ideally, I want to seduce his only commander and then rout his commander-less army with a single dude. I'm hopefully encircling my castle this turn, so his army should disappear completely, but I'm not sure of the timing.

Enjoy posted:

destroy the enemy with your superior spirit.

Great Gray Shrike posted:

It used to be possible to register your Desura purchase on Steam and get your Dom4 downloads + patches on Steam - it's what I did, I bought Dominions 4 on Desura initially but haven't really interacted with Desura other than to use the Dominions 4 forum ever since.

The instructions on Desura for doing so were the following:


If Desura is really, truly, finally dead, I would personally try the key in the file 'dom4key' file in your present Dom4 install.

The instructions on Desura for doing so were the following: posted:

Google's cache of a Desura thread posted:

Here are instructions on how to activate your Illwinter Desura keys on Steam.

Go to your Desura Collection
Check the keys for your Illwinter games (Dominions 3, Dominions 4, Conquest of Elysium 3)
Write them down
Open Steam (download, install, register an account etc if you don't already have it)
Open the Games menu (from the very top, in tiny print, not the large print)
Select the Activate Product on Steam option
Enter your Illwinter keys and activate
Done

For Illwinter games that are not on Steam (Dominions - Priests, Prophets & Pretenders and Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars), download the standalone installers for those and write down your serial keys, then make sure you have as many copies as you need backed up so you don't lose them.If you have any questions NOT related to Steam activation, please post them in the Desura Shutting Down? thread.

Fauxbot posted:

Do the various Dome spells, like Dome of Solid Air, prevent your own spells from entering a province you've cast it in? Like if you tried casting Trade Wind or Cloud Trapeze on it...