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Torrannor posted:Lol, the most unworthy arena winner ever. or the most worthy arena winner ever
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It is a pretty funny mental image of a huge dude decked out in more magic items then a dnd adventurer screaming in terror at a naked lady covered in blood and hopping into the vast astral to be lost forever
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May 12, 2019 17:29
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Participating in the arena should be mandatory imo because it is funny
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May 12, 2019 19:15
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Incredible.....the deep power of these thugs...... *brutally murdered by a bunch of random mermen* *terrified to death by a spell that costs a single gem to cast*
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May 12, 2019 20:36
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I like lammashtas and nobody ever casts them so i'm glad someone did  I am also glad that it ended hilariously badly fwiw i think "summon lammashta" got a buff recently since now they enter from the edges of the battlefield as opposed to starting right next to you and immediately cutting your head off with their swords
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May 12, 2019 20:37
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FilthIncarnate posted:Incredible.....the deep power of these thugs...... The horse equivalant of Domionions. Rip Thug, thought of ghosts and died.
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May 12, 2019 20:48
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good thugs are fairly scary but bad ones are incredibly hilarious gently caress vine shields
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Kitfox88 posted:good thugs are fairly scary but bad ones are incredibly hilarious IM DELETING YOU, VINE SHIELD!😭👋 ██]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 10% complete..... ████]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 35% complete.... ███████]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] 60% complete.... ███████████] 99% complete..... 🚫ERROR!🚫 💯True💯 Vine shields are irreplaceable 💖I could never delete you vine shield!💖 Send this to ten other 🍀Vine Shields🍀 who give you 🌿entangles🌿 Or never get called ☁️a thug☁️ again❌❌😬😬❌❌ If you get 0 Back: no entangles for you 🚫🚫👿 3 back: you're a thug☁️🌿 5 back: you're vine shield's super combatant 😤👼🌿
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This is some truly inspired poo poo. I'm disappointed that it's apparently so difficult to mod blesses. Perhaps we have to wait for Dominions 6. I do like how much the series progressed from it's Dom 3 days. You now have cool things like Sun Awe, which is an awe effect if the sun is shining on the units. So it doesn't work underwater and in cave provinces, while storm and rain make the morale check to resist the awe effect easier. And some of EA Xibalba's units have theft-of-the-sun-awe, which is only active if you've cast the national spell to actually steal the sun. I like how creative the devs have become with unit abilities.
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May 12, 2019 21:46
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Don't forget that if they steal the sun there's a global to make a new one.
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May 12, 2019 21:53
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Lol if u ain’t second sun every game as abyss
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This LP has been incredible 
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Specineff posted:This game is incredible
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Turn 50 Here we go. Some minor unimportant screenshots got lost here but lets figure out what we can.  I summon some of these dudes for the Nazca attack. I just took another picture of terra cotta dudes. The lost shot is easily overcome.  C'tis overwrote my GoH with his own GoH and Phaecia gave him N gems for it it sounds. Phaecia!  I lost the image of the text from when it is cast, alas. The screen grabs lost were pretty much all underwater C'tis terrorism and me kicking Eriu out of the lake so nothing much of importance. Also all of my wizards fled the fort Eriu was taking from me and all but 2 made it back into the sea so not so bad. Where the screenshots pick back up though...  Some more undersea skelespam.   Another undersea snake army this could be annoying to deal with all together.  I'm forgetting PD. I am getting sloppy here.  I don't think the temple was actually razed. I am now seiging the 0 PD Nazcan palisade as noone was patrolling so dudes are pinned there until I am knocked off.   Phelegra attacks my UW throne I didnt even notice these guys by the lake. 5 thugs is kind of a lot.  But I do have an army here.  Soul vortex could be a problem though I guess.  We manage to focus one down but the soul vortex is taking its toll on my vanilla line troops.  Cowards!  I check my prophet to see if I think he can kill them once they get to him or if he can pull this ou-  NO YOU COWARD COME BACK  MOTHERFUCKER  FUCKIN A AUUUUGHHHH Could I have prevented this? Yes, maybe? But oh my gosh I should have like cleared out the adjacent lake or something or or or or or or or  This is me casting baleful star from last turn. I'm in 'control' so I get the message.   The event for claiming the element throne hits the province, kicking me off the Nazca siege and replacing it with these dudes. The elements throne has this weird event chain that fires if you just claim it without jumping through a lot of hoops.  Shouldn't it be warlock master?  Marxism takes root.  The overview  im fukken howling   Counterstriking.  I can't lunge a win anymore so I am slinking back into the goddamn sea.  The escaped wizards from the Eriu siege are going to forts to study.  I am going to Gift of Reason a shrimp soldier to turn it into a commander. Shut up I need this.  aaaand final orders. god dammmmmitttt fuuuuuuuuck
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"It's okay! It's okay! I'm gonna lunge for a wi-- FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"
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Amazing plot twist!
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I don't understand what happened. Or what's happening.
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shrimp prophet
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Yikes. That's a huge blow.Bloodly posted:I don't understand what happened. Or what's happening. Ramc had "control" of 3 Thrones of Ascension, and he needs 4 to win the game. He was preparing to conquer Nazca's heavily defended throne to end this, gathering a big army adjacent to it. At the same time, his second main army held one throne that was far away from his own ocean. His enemies conquered every adjacent province to that faraway throne. Then the 5 thugs attacked that throne province, and managed to rout the army. Since they had no friendly adjacent province to retreat to, they were wiped out to the last man. Including his prophet, who was a national hero (heroes are unique units that cannot be replaced), who was also his prophet. That's a huge loss of both troops and mages, and it will take Ramc a long time to both assemble another such army, and slowly trudge north to the throne again, since underwater movement is so slow. Interesting distribution of globals. I expect somebody to backstab C'tis soon, because those are pretty good globals. +10 nature gems per turn from Mother Oak, +21 death gems from Well of Misery (as C'tis, one of the premier death magic nations!), +health for all friendly troops in his dominion from Gift of Health, and total spying of the whole world from Eyes of God. Eyes of God alone is something that usually makes other players very unhappy, the information gained from that enchantment can be very powerful. Only Perpetual Storm is still up, and it's the only global that doesn't give it's caster any special benefits, it the effects on each province are the same regardless who put the spell up.
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Bloodly posted:I don't understand what happened. Or what's happening. So if an army gets defeated, the survivors retreat into the nearest province owned by the army owner. But if there's no friendly province for them to retreat to, those units just die. Last turn, Ramc noted that this big old "I'm gonna try and grab a throne" army - representing a not-insubstantial investment of resources, gold, time, and probably gems, plus the new prophet he's been waiting a while to make - had had its line of retreat, which is to say the friendly province behind them, cut off. "But that's okay," he said, "I'm gonna use them to grab this throne and I'm sure they can handle whatever comes their way anyway." They did not handle whatever came their way. So now that big fuckoff army is gone. The dudes that retreated without ever actually fighting? Gone. The gems they were carrying? Gone. The equipment they'd been outfitted with? Gone. So that's fun.
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Well it was going to be a rather anticlimactic LP ending if you just won so full points for entertainment value.
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Is this a Cataclysm game? If so, how far away is it?
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Are there any "equaliser" style globals? The kind that you only cast when your armies all got murdered or you're just generally behind on resources? I loosely assumed Burden of Time is like that, but wondered if there's a more "rocks fall everyone dies" style thing?
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tarbrush posted:Are there any "equaliser" style globals? The kind that you only cast when your armies all got murdered or you're just generally behind on resources? I loosely assumed Burden of Time is like that, but wondered if there's a more "rocks fall everyone dies" style thing? utterdark lowers income in all provinces by 80%.
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Ah, there it is. I was waiting for the other foot to drop since a straightforward march to victory would not make for an entertaining LP (at least of the gameplay, this thread has been very entertaining). It seems like losing "immediate threat to win" status could be a bit of a diplomatic opening to try and turn some of the heat towards CT who now has four out of five globals.
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Second Sun drastically increases heat in the whole world (unless the Xibalbans have stolen the real sun, then it's just a replacement), but a lot of nations take heat scales. And Foul Air will basically spread disease over the whole world. Edit: By the way, there's a spell that can only be cast when Eyes of God is up, called Fate of Oedipus. It burns out the eyes of the EoG caster, ending the global. It's super expensive at 75 fire gems, but it's a guaranteed way to end Eyes of God, no matter how many astral pearls were pumped into the spell. Torrannor fucked around with this message at 14:09 on May 13, 2019 |
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tarbrush posted:Are there any "equaliser" style globals? The kind that you only cast when your armies all got murdered or you're just generally behind on resources? I loosely assumed Burden of Time is like that, but wondered if there's a more "rocks fall everyone dies" style thing? Aside from Utterdark, there's also there's also Astral Corruption - though Pelagia can't cast that due to the high Blood requirements. Or, since Ramc's playing Pelagia with their utterly stupid pearl income, casting Wish to cause the apocalypse (repeatedly) is another "fun" spell to be casting. It just flat out kills 1/4 of the world's population, along with the chance of a decently powerful hit on every unit in the game, every time it's cast.
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This is the part of the lp where the coalition collapses on itself and spite rules the day right
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Incidentally this is about when I finally started the LP. I discussed with a wartime consigliere about starting it in media res with this terrible self own and a freeze frame record scratch you are probably wondering how we got here talking heads this is not my beautiful house how did i get here flashback to turn 1 thing so you can imagine I did if that makes everything funnier for you.
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May 13, 2019 14:35
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C'tis is playing a diplo blinder or will be if he can keep Ramc as the big bad after this
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May 13, 2019 14:37
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who's laughing at thugs now, ramc? WHO
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Istvun posted:who's laughing at thugs now, ramc? WHO In retrospect I really appreciate that until this very moment when they started casting soul vortex these tyrants have been a complete joke.
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it was this battle that made me realize that I should have been making skull staffs for the D2 tyrants this whole time
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There are a lot of gently caress-the-world globals, but none of them really function as an equalizer. In Dominions, gold dominant in the first half of the game. You use it to buy mages, armies, and fortresses which give you territories, gem sites, and research. You need a large amount of research to cast a global, you usually need more gem income than your opponents, and it paints a giant kick-me sign on your back. On top of that stronger nations are usually better equipped to adapt to the changed conditions. Diplomacy tends to be the equalizer, under the don't-be-the-hitler rule. If you're too far behind though there's no catching up because nations have to scale research exponentially and at a certain point people will see you as a free lunch. If you're in that position the best thing you can do is try your hardest to gently caress over the person who hosed you. Mages can do a lot of damage if you don't care about survival, and what you might consider trinkets or pitiful amounts of gems/slaves could be vital to their rival breaking into schools.
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The central rule of dominions is that you will lose, you just exist to spite the guy who kills you off by taking him with you and then laughing together at the poor suckers who remain in the game with 80 min hell turns.
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What does Soul Vortex do?
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Tevery Best posted:What does Soul Vortex do? A Soul Vortex sucks out the life of every (living) being around the caster, replenishing the caster's HP and reducing his fatigue.
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It is possible to combo this with phoenix pyre, a fire spell that explodes you and revives you on a random place on the battlefield if you die with less than 100 fatigue. Earth magic also works well with this combo since it can give you a lot of reinvigoration and damage resistance. You generally also want something to keep your morale high since getting repeatedly killed isn't exactly a pleasant experience. But seriously, what are the odds of someone having berserking fire/earth/death mages who can actually fight? Preposterous. 
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my dad posted:It is possible to combo this with phoenix pyre, a fire spell that explodes you and revives you on a random place on the battlefield if you die with less than 100 fatigue. Earth magic also works well with this combo since it can give you a lot of reinvigoration and damage resistance. You generally also want something to keep your morale high since getting repeatedly killed isn't exactly a pleasant experience. This is very cool and I like this idea for the game I am playing Phlegra in.
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Does Phoenix Pyre work underwater though?
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