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Ramc posted:I was involved in a dominions 4 game that was all mod nations and one of the mod nations was a dorf fortress themed nation and I think it specifically was broken in such a way the game broke by the end of the first year and simply could not work anymore.
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Turn 55 Ok ok oh god we gotta solve things  Construction 7  ha ha ha yes  I shift the economy into gems.  poo poo I gotta think long and hard about the strategic ramifications of my prop-  haha psyche i don't even hesitate  C'tis pings this throne again I am pretty sure he is BVCing it, trying to disease the defenders to soften it up.  My army takes back some underwater stuff that Tyrant had run through.  I suicide some diseased priests into indies because there is no saving them and they cost money.  Some armistice! quote:how are u I send guys to go get it back. At least he apologized.   He sends a single 0 astral saurowraith to get some stuff near my throne fort. Well ok Speaking of forts, C'tis is sending storming our fort. I am braced for a bad time between the catoblepas, the trolls and the saurowraiths. Here is my set up-  and the lizard wizards have...  "Just" the saurowraiths huh. I guess soul vortex and poison cloud would not have played well with other troops. Well 6 is a lot of these fuckers.  Looking them over its mostly the same sort of tech as before. snake bladders, rat whips, lead shields that sort of thing.  I have living water now however. How many water elementals can they kill???  I cast Shark Attack which is kind of like Howl but underwater.  My astral mages communion up to spam paralyze and soul slay. One of the saurowraiths eats a paralyze. That number is the number of turns they can't act. Soul Vortex will still work while paralyzed however. That said, his defense is reduced to 0 making him easier to hit. Still that 75% hit negation chance with ethereal...   They begin to get mobbed up on. They are regenerating too, though, so it isn't fast.  Shark attack kicks in and, uh, those guys look pretty big.  Howl but howl summons 45 hp size 6 megalodons with a 22 damage bite hell yes. I love that he has the stealth tag. You never see the bus-sized shark coming.  Also small sharks. size 1. So cute. Yet it, too, delights in the taste of blood.  Uh... that is a lot of huge loving sharks.  hahah welcome to the sea!!!! More saurowraiths get paralyzed. I think 5 of the 6 can't move now.  My two mages who are supporting the communion are being killed by it but that's life in the big ocean.  The saurowraith gets a bunch of afflictions between getting hurt, healing, and getting more hurt. Some might heal when he resurrects in a few months but it is still cathartic.  More paralysis. None of these seem to be the load bearing global saurowraiths but none die to soul slay that I can tell so it wouldn't matter much if they were.  Yes!  yES!!  I lost a chunk of line troops but a bunch of saurowraiths just got kicked out of the sea. That's great. Also a bunch of free garbage.  PS: the kelp fortress spawned a real fort underwater instead of the weird kelp forts and even has people on the walls. Who have no ranged weapons. Who just stood there doing nothing like dorks the entire time. Good. Great. Events!  This could be Baleful Star but honestly it is just business as usual for Pelagia. It's a pretty random province.  An extremely valid fear. This is in the province we just retook from Phlegra.  A BVC under my throne. Almost certainly jsoh. He probably set it up from the lab on the island.  Nazca! quote:Ramc Note to self- get a scout over there what is Shinuyama even doing in this game?  Even with the sauros defeated he still has a pile of trolls and stuff. He could storm with it and who knows. With the right mage support he could totally win so we will brace for round two. We will need a new champion. For a new age...  Prince Eric's memory chip is brought to the labs...  The overview. Things looking a bit more stable with armistices  The next season attack hits the elements throne.  I don't see where the tyrant went. Dead or inland.  Ulm continues to oppress AI TC  I blast some mind hunts off at the Sauro and also my own province to maybe kill the BVC scout.  We reload and brace as a relief army advances on the fort  Orders overview. Going for Conjuration 8 now to summon some crazy poo poo if I can. Advancing armies toward C'tis. If people pressure him on land we can probably kick him out of the sea. We will see if they actually do though. I can't play the game for them!
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May 18, 2019 15:15
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Ramc posted:PS: the kelp fortress spawned a real fort underwater instead of the weird kelp forts and even has people on the walls. Who have no ranged weapons. Who just stood there doing nothing like dorks the entire time. Good. Great. lol
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May 18, 2019 17:05
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If nothing else I guess they help to prevent a HP rout???? ????? i love the sharks though
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May 18, 2019 17:08
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I'm surprised they are not just generic land dwelling archers drowning immediately.
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May 18, 2019 18:00
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Why didn't he send in everything and cast his own shark attack, he would've killed everything easily if he had.
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May 18, 2019 18:11
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Washout posted:Why didn't he send in everything and cast his own shark attack, he would've killed everything easily if he had. Remember that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
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May 18, 2019 18:21
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Ramc posted:
I bet its like the shark from Banjo-Kazooie, which just spawns in when you get into the water. They aren't stealthed, they just haven't loaded in.
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May 18, 2019 19:28
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I'm entertained that the Saurowraiths met their match in such an anticlimactic way. Did they even get to do anything other than getting off Soul Vortexes and then spending 50 rounds or however much paralyzed?
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May 18, 2019 20:54
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PurpleXVI posted:I'm entertained that the Saurowraiths met their match in such an anticlimactic way. Did they even get to do anything other than getting off Soul Vortexes and then spending 50 rounds or however much paralyzed? That's how it works with SCs and Thugs anymore. They're excellent, terrifying even when you don't have counters. But there's really no way to build a thug that won't be weak to something, and when you can exploit the weakness they fall apart pretty fast. Note that none of those wraithes are actually dead, though.
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May 18, 2019 21:27
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PurpleXVI posted:I'm entertained that the Saurowraiths met their match in such an anticlimactic way. Did they even get to do anything other than getting off Soul Vortexes and then spending 50 rounds or however much paralyzed? Don't forget that they're immortal, and didn't even have very much gear on them - looks like just 8 nature gems for two bladders forged with a hammer. So they'll be back sooner or later, it's usually 3 turns and then travel time.
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May 18, 2019 21:27
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gonadic io posted:Don't forget that they're immortal, and didn't even have very much gear on them - looks like just 8 nature gems for two bladders forged with a hammer. 5-6 turns of peace is not nothing. Plus if C'tis becomes the new tag team target his sauros might get busy somewhere else.
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May 18, 2019 22:16
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I mean by that logic it might actually be beneficial for them to have died, because it takes them less time to respawn than it likely would to actually move them out of the ocean and back to core territories.
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May 18, 2019 23:08
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the ideal outcome for any war youre not in is to be as costly as possible to the winning side
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May 18, 2019 23:24
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Soul Vortex saurowraiths still killed all my line troops passively. My assumption for why C'tis didn't go all-in on that was that he was not expecting that level of resistance. Saurowraiths are pretty insanely deadly as-is and if he sent them in with other troops their soul vortices might have straight murdered all of his own trolls and catoblepas.
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saurowraiths have really good mobility and can walk two water provs a turn, but also they are copied from wraith lords and thus have INSTANT REFORM. they come back the turn after they die unless i lose the province they were born in or they get soul slayed or eaten by the lazer dog. also im dumb and didnt think through this attack very much.
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May 19, 2019 02:58
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violent sex idiot posted:saurowraiths have really good mobility and can walk two water provs a turn, but also they are copied from wraith lords and thus have INSTANT REFORM. they come back the turn after they die unless i lose the province they were born in or they get soul slayed or eaten by the lazer dog. also im dumb and didnt think through this attack very much. I'm gonna need an explanation here.
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May 19, 2019 09:06
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catoblepas Gaze of Death might have similar rules to Soul Slay
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May 19, 2019 10:20
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PurpleXVI posted:I'm gonna need an explanation here.
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May 19, 2019 10:27
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This only raises further questions
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Once the Devourer of Souls sat at the foot of the Pantokrator's throne. The Beast would attend the Court of Eternal Judgment and wait for his masters' words as He revealed the names of sinners and the beast would hunt them down and devour their hearts and souls. Now with the Pantokrator gone, the Beast of Judgment is free to roam the world. Once the Devourer bites, the unlucky target's soul is gone. This attack cannot be resisted. this dog crocodile thing has a laser in his mouth. he has one attack that instantly kills anything (that isnt mindless) that doesnt beat its attack roll.
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May 19, 2019 10:34
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May 19, 2019 11:49
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it's just repurposed egyptian mythology. papyruspunk
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:it's just repurposed egyptian mythology. papyruspunk Yeah, it's the croc from the "weigh your heart against this here feather" story. Which is pretty lame to worship as a god. It's a glorified pet/garbage disposal, isn't it ?
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May 19, 2019 12:26
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Considerably more practically useful than your average god then.
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One of the pretenders chasis is the previous Pantokrator's pet ape who got hungry after his owner went missing and started munching on some scrolls in the library. He happened to eat the wrong/right scrolls, and is now immortal and intelligent. He reduces research in the province he's in because he can't stop stuffing his face with research papers.
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May 19, 2019 12:39
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Does he at least gain paths or points if he eats enough research points?
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May 19, 2019 14:37
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my dad posted:One of the pretenders chasis is the previous Pantokrator's pet ape who got hungry after his owner went missing and started munching on some scrolls in the library. He happened to eat the wrong/right scrolls, and is now immortal and intelligent. He reduces research in the province he's in because he can't stop stuffing his face with research papers. Does that work in sieges, too? By which I mean, if you park that ape on top of an enemy fort, will he reduce research for that nation, too?
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My favourite stupid pretender just from browsing the list is the Celestial Carp. Not because it's any good (I mean, I've never used it), but because it's, well...Celestial Carp posted:
T'ien Ch'i (in all ages), Yomi, Shinuyama, and Jomon get it. It has mastered the art of 'having feet', so you can give your carp shoes. Prism fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 19, 2019 |
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The running theme in all this seems to be that the previous Pantokrator was a bit of an arsehole.
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Turn 56 So this doesn't look too bad.  I am cultivating a high Earth caster via empowerment with gems. I probably should have been cultivating wizards better but I got tunnel vision on my mid game lunge and now here I am without a fully evolved late game strategy.  It's alive! It's alive!! (its not technically alive and also mindless meaning it sidesteps many bad spells that kill thugs dead like soul slay.)  Mind hunts did not kill the BVC.  A humble shrimp.... risen.... to great heights....   Pushing toward my fort to save it from C'tis' sea trolls.  I missed grabbing the battle report but these guys are hitting a UW province north of the sieged fortress.  I move a few guys to hit the island.  But, um, he has this guy there soooooo   RIP  Nazca takes its province back per peace discussion. Fine.  More C'tis forces heading onto the island. It looks like they are moving off the siege? Well okay!  Check out the 16 encumbrance on this lizard man. Coldblooded units have an extra 10 encumbrance in cold climes. It's wild.  2 sprites die to catoblepas poison gas aura. ON TO EVENTS  Treasure is nice.  I appreciate this happening while people discuss there there seems like a lot of these events circa me posting turn 11 in the LP thread.  More brigands. More ruins. Something something mandate of heaven   The BVC guy gets patrolled out but, flees.  The overview. C'tis pulled off the siege but shifted everyone north. They threaten the throne still. Noone else seems to be attacking me anymore though, so... progress?  Also I finally get a look at this lake and wow. Gross. This should be mine!  Also also I finally get eyes on C'tis' cap where the god is. A Neter of the Moon. I think jsoh posted his god in thread ages ago.  My god casts cure disease on one of my s2 mages because they are of value and I didn't have much else to do with him. I am a merciful god.  I also ARM THE GOLEM and teleport him closer to the front. I was going to rename him but forgot and will do so NEXT TURN. The sword of swiftness strikes twice a round, the herald spear deals triple damage to the undead, he has that hat to give him S3 so he can cast teleport to get closer to where he needs to be. The black steel plate is just... there for protection. It isn't fancy. The boots of quickness grant him quickness so he acts twice a turn (so he attacks 6 times per round) the storm spool shocks and stuns anyone who strikes him and the burning pearl grants some fire resistance and increased accuracy. Soon he will be rechristened with his new name and be READY.  The orders overview. I am moving dudes around as before, also lunging for that Phelegra nub in the TC zone. Maybe I can even keep the land with the advent of peace.
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Loxbourne posted:The running theme in all this seems to be that the previous Pantokrator was a bit of an arsehole. Yeah the previous being a huge rear end in a top hat is baked into the backstory of like probably at LEAST 75% of the pretender options.
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peneus became rock hard.
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Ramc posted:Yeah the previous being a huge rear end in a top hat is baked into the backstory of like probably at LEAST 75% of the pretender options.
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May 19, 2019 16:41
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Poil posted:Probably because they burned down half the world and covered the other with an undead plague to become the pancrakor. Exactly. Have you seen the sort of poo poo you have to do to become Pantokrator?
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Yeah I guess if in the previous cycle you were a maggot that attained divine power from eating ambrosia out of the pantokrators waste bin you'd have a chip on your shoulder too edit: It is hilarious how many pretenders have some variation on "Because they were actually nice and helped people out humans started to worship them, which pissed the pantokrator right the hell off" The Chad Jihad fucked around with this message at 17:00 on May 19, 2019 |
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Omnicrom posted:Exactly. Have you seen the sort of poo poo you have to do to become Pantokrator? I just have to send a few horrors after my enemies, and then I can fix everything. It'll be fine.
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wiegieman posted:I just have to send a few horrors after my enemies, and then I can fix everything. It'll be fine. 'But man do I seem to have a lot of enemies these days.'
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The Chad Jihad posted:
Amusingly, in the Ancient Testament all the messenger angels immediately clarify they're not God when the prophet of the era starts kneeling on general principles upon witnessing the supernatural display.
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