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Is Abysia still abysmally lovely?Konec Hry posted:Read this as MLP LP and got very angry very quickly. SA's very own master LPer Quovak already did an MLP LP. I'd watch a MLP conversion Dom4 LP if only for the massive, endless, impossibly sweet goon tears. TheDemon posted:Of course, this is only a gemgen if you have a disease first. Not sure if anything has synergy with it, maybe Bane Venom Charm if that's still in? Can't you just get a low-supply province and fill it with lovely troops? Disease will start to set in after 2 turns of low supply.
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builds character posted:We tried to do this for the five(ish) worst nations in each age - making them not terrible. Not making them good, just making them playable. It's way more difficult than you would think to make a nation just OK vs making them OP. A lot of the worst nations weren't really bad on the level of cost and efficiency, but on conceptual levels. Sometimes i can think of things that would really help without being absurd (EA Agartha's oracles should have more than 1 in their loving relevant paths), but i'm really at a loss to think of what would make Abysia or MA Oceania good while still being recognizable.
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WYA posted:Why are people saying MA Abysia is unplayable in dom3? Because i'm particularly bad at fire nations and also i was too lazy to specify that MA is better than EA or LA and just said "Abysia" because i wanted an example of a conceptually poor nation other than MA Oceania. And conceptually bad doesn't mean unplayable - it just means that making them good would make them very, very different.
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Decrepus posted:As long as you don't play a blood nation you can't go wrong. Unless you pick Agartha. So I guess you can go wrong two ways. Oh yeah and LA Ermor like you said so three ways I guess. It's in the OP.
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So is Astral still 1 free nohit and how does that interact with blood vengeance?
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Pierzak posted:Cattebloops I'm pretty sure TheDemon has a picture from when Catorjekla;jf had AOE attacks but i can't find it in the old threads.
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Flavahbeast posted:These are probably the images you're thinking of, iirc they're from a mod game where a lot of the summon spells were made more efficient (catoblepi being a rare case of the unit actually being sort of worth the gems to begin with) PRECISELY! I dug through the last two threads filtering for both you and Diabl0, didn't see them. Was i just a moron or did the host die?
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amuayse posted:Wow, tri blesses are pretty scary. We could try to resurrect SADASS and see if a draft group fucks up so bad that somebody gets Divine Throne + Jaguar Warriors. e: Again. I just wanted to double check that that is what Fleur Bleu did. F9A9W9E9S9 was a truly excessive bless. Tulip fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Sep 22, 2013 |
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LordLeckie posted:I think it was 4 major bless' F9W9A9E9 and then N4 maybe? And got lucky and found a flame shield from a random event turning one of the ponymen into a butchering machine. NOPE 
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AfroSquirrel posted:With the Cookie Clicker fad going on, I'm wondering how long it will be before someone makes a Grandmatriarch pretender chassis. I think you mean The Cookie Crone  jBrereton posted:I dunno, 12 Jaguar Warriors would probably've done the same, assuming they had a bless that was befitting of their Being Jags? So they're probably 50% more powerful than they should be 
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WYA posted:Order is way too good now, everyone takes it. They need to spice it up a bit. "Now"? I'm pretty sure people only touched negative order in mod games.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Don't even need BoT for that. Warlocks are so old they may as well start diseased. Speaking of, did they fix aging for Atlanteans? The whole goddamn lore of the race is based on Atlanteans not "aging" but "continuously growing" (same with Aboleths, iirc) so they should at least be immune to aging if not get like neg-age.
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Slaan posted:Getting through that would be bad enough, but oh god the trumpeting! Doctor Zero in BOATMURDERED posted:"What kind of emergencies?"
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Oct 5, 2013 09:53
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I'd think the question would really come down to "are MA nations better equipped to fight tons of corporeal undead than LA nations are to fight some uncorporeal undead."
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Oct 15, 2013 09:56
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Is it possible to create an item that is a reverse Air Barrel? Or a global that makes all your aquatic dudes amphibious? Or a spell that converts land provinces into water?
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Oct 16, 2013 01:14
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jBrereton posted:I believe Hypnotise is a Confusion effect upon the target. This is the ultimate domkill strategy. Have any Dom4 games actually gotten to "late game" or is it all just theory atm?
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Re: Yomi, could you add some Turmoil-based nation-specific random events to make up for the income hit a little bit?
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Oct 20, 2013 23:45
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Kenlon posted:I've been playing around with modding ideas, and one of the things I've been considering is adding a communion spell to fire. F2, probably conjuration, probably with a higher fatigue than the base communion spells. Fire definitely needs something - and this would add some interesting flavor, too. I've been going through the janky spreadsheet of mages I'm putting together and looking to see if this expands the power of any nations too far - most of the nations that seem to benefit aren't exactly powerhouses already. Is there any spell other than Curse of Stones that adds encumbrance to units? Maybe something with medium range, high precision, small AoE that's earlier in the tech trees? That kind of makes some sort of sense as a fire spell and would add another tool for trying to counter early game elite units/thugging.
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Oct 29, 2013 04:03
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Kenlon posted:The other thing that the game needs is more ritual magic with actual teeth. That could be helpful for the weaker combat magic lines. Wasn't this one of the selling points for Fire? Maybe it could use a dissent-raising ritual (as well as a higher end 'blow up troops' spell).
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jsoh posted:There is a unrest raising ritual, burning hearts gently caress i'm inattentive to things that don't make a big splash in LPs. Give them a better one then i guess.
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Dom4 meta comes down to C'tis vs. Mictlan.
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Ataxerxes posted:Could you give a commander 2 brass arms and have him use four shields? Give a four armed commander a brass arm and have him use five
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amuayse posted:Just for curiosity's sake: A quickened crone with flaming arrows and three bows of war. This rules and should be in the OP. The only thing i'd want more would be a monolith with two bronze arms and a Trident of the Champion.
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amuayse posted:
I was actually thinking Serpent Dancers. The Sharmat posted:Seriously, why did the devs feel that it made sense to give Mictlan BUFFS? Any balance mod that doesn't approach this issue is not a balance mod.
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Flavahbeast posted:imo new bv isn't really a buff to mictlan because s9f9w9 is still better What's the logic? I'd think archers+battlefield evo is a bigger overall threat to jagspam than...master enslave?
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Asehujiko posted:Inverted old age penalties that make them stronger to go with their "never die of old age" theme? The fact that they don't already do this for Agartha and Atlantis is shameful as hell. I thought Agartha also had the problem of incredibly poo poo path diversity and incredibly poo poo noncap mages? It's pretty loving hard to compensate for "lovely magic" with any nation.
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Victor Vermis posted:Given enough arrows, B9N9E4-blessed giants CAN be killed. Dominions 4: Everything Counts in Large Amounts.
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Neruz posted:The stupid part was that the free points weren't accounted for at all, so Niefelheim got an entire scale dump worth of free points which they definitely needed because they're clearly one of the weaker factions. I just want to reiterate how out of sync the designers were with actual game balance: they listed Niefelheim's militia as one of their greatest strengths as a nation.
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