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[Karlito]

He was my starting commander who managed to survive most the game (so, a tribal king). His heroic trait is "Unequaled Obesity" which gives him a bonus to both hp and strength, and since he's been in the hall of fame since like turn 3, he's had plenty of time to get really fat.

Disco Inferno should have listened to his mother.

EDIT: Ok, here's the current state of the world:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The map, centered on my empire. Keep in mind that it wraps around in both directions, so the provinces on the very right are also the provinces on the very left, and similarly the provinces at the very top are the provinces at the very bottom. We both control roughly half of each big continent. Man's former lands are in the top left, north and west of the island, and Midgard's former lands are in the bottom left. Mictlan itself is the fort in the bottom right of the picture.


This is the same picture, but centered on Patala's Empire. The Jeweled City is the fort near the center of the image, just north of a territory that R'lyeh managed to conquer somehow (though I don't imagine they'll be holding onto it for long). Other than that, the fishheads are only holding onto their Capital province, though their dominion is still significant enough in other places that they might hang on a few more turns. I'll have to see what blood sacrifices can do about that; the seas belong to me now (or they would, if most of my useful aquatic commanders weren't stark raving mad).


Here are the currently active globals, there used to be five but a spot opened up a few turns ago when I killed the Lord of the Hunt and no one's seen to fill it. Part of Major Tom's high HP in his last appearance comes from the not insignificant boost given by GoH.


Lastly, here is the other thug that's been pestering me, besides the late Disco Inferno and Elvis Presley. This is after he spent five turns buffing himself, and I must say, he kills province defense like none other. Those are the Druid's boots by the way, so he recovers like 10 fatigue per turn. You can see that he can fly around the world in a month, but unless it's also magical travel, I definitely can catch the Gingerbread Man.

[Neonivek]

Just for the people who don't know (namely me) what are those globals?

[Shadowgandor]

Gift of health improves the health of all creatures in all regions (under influence of the dominion of the caster?). Basically, units get more HP, live longer and population growth increases.
The looming hell, I'm not sure off. I think it increases unrest in enemy regions but again, I'm not sure.
Eternal Pyre gives fire gems each month, I think and Well of Misery decreases death in the entire world and distills this into death gems.

[Il Palazzo]

Just for the people who don't know (namely me) what are those globals?

The wiki is back online, so here are the descriptions:

http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Gift_of_Health
http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/The_Looming_Hell
http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Eternal_Pyre
http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Well_of_Misery

(note: the actual ritual costs and numerical effects might be a bit different in this version of the mod they're using. The qualitative descriptions are the same, I believe.)

[Karlito]

"Run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!" the four-armed freak taunted, as it butchered the last of the province's brave defenders. However, the cookie-thing's victory was short lived. A shadow passed across the sun and the ground shook. He could not get away. He could not get out. From a distance he could hear the sound of his swiftly approaching death. Drums in the deep.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The initial confrontation.

And two rounds later.


Beware Patala, they are coming.

[Il Palazzo]

Heh, you even gave him the Ember.

[Karlito]

I'm pretty pleased with the Ember, but the rest of his gear is kind of a mess. Crystal Heart and the Aegis are overkill, and he lost his reinvigoration when I gave him the Teleporty Boots. Plus I thought I'd be able to heal the chest wound, but apparently afflictions can't be healed at all if they're caused by items. He'll need some revising if he's going to be the King.

[Bluerobin]

You can heal it if you get rid of the crystal heart first. I don't remember how to do that part, but y'know.

[Boksi]

OK, so I'm a little late in turning my turn in. As it turns out, I discovered a Civ4 mod called Caveman2Cosmos and tried it out. I took a few turns, and a few turns more, and then it was suddenly morning. I figured it was pointless to go to sleep in the morning, so I took a few more turns. And now I'm almost asleep because I've been playing the game for, uh, a long time, not exactly sure how long, although I did take breaks to eat and drink and such. I'm probably too sleepy to strategize properly now. At the very least, I'm too tired to spell properly, not that you'd notice because spellchecker function is great.

Quad duskdaggers...

[Karlito]

Strategize? I don't know the meaning of the word. (Seriously, I probably haven't thought more than two turns ahead since the conquest of Ulm). Maybe that's why you're winning.

I'm not really sure quad duskdaggers would be worth it. An armor piercing firebrand would probably be more effective, unless of course your opponent had some 27 protection monstrosity flying around .

[Karlito]

I'm sure the double post will be forgiven, since I have an actual update.

Spoiler: A Grand Patalan Victory (click to show/hide)

A massive army of monkeys menaces the walls of a Mictlan Citadel, threatening our very way of life. Can we allow our slaves to be carried off into freedom and our virgin blood sacrifices defiled by these apes? I say no! But who among us is brave enough to save the people of Mictlan from the lack of atrocities that surely await them?


Born from the ashes of occupied Ulm, it's the Vampire Defense Force! Consisting solely of Ulmensch "volunteers" these brave and loyal soldiers will defend the homeland and its people from any potential liberators.


Let by the dashing Captain Probably-Is-Going-To-Get-A-Better-Name-Soon, the VDF will fly into an enemy army, die valiantly on their sticks, and then rise again to fight another day. Let's see them in action, folks.


The vampires close with the small stupid monkeys. These rascals are pretty hard to hit, so it's possible that even the brave soldiers of the VDF would have had trouble killing them all. Fortunately, the Patalan communion artillery lends a helping hand.


Oh, and the cloud of death spam from our Dashing Captain probably helped a bit too.

Sadly the VDF, cut to pieces by Patalan artillery, were unable to break the Vanara line at the end of the day, and the siege continues.


Yes, this certainly was a Grand Patalan victory that even King Pyrrhus would be proud of.

[Boksi]

Don't forget that I staled out and didn't refresh their gems, so I'm pretty sure some key buffs didn't go off.

[Karlito]

Well really the fact that I didn't get any of your mages (not even a lousy communion slave!) makes it a lot less significant than my propaganda piece might indicate.

[Boksi]

So I'll be leaving soon and won't return until sunday evening, and I don't think I'll be able to finish my turn before that. Still, I wanted to post this.

This gmae will end eventually, and perhaps we'll play another one. I'd like to play an early era game. If we go with CBM, I'd like to play Ermor. I'd have actually decent troops rather than monkeys, as well as awesome mages.

But CBM isn't the only mod on the market. There's also:

• The Awesome Mods: AwesomeGods, AwesomeItems, AwesomeEndgame. These don't do anything to nations, so there's a lot of imbalance there still, but each mod makes major changes to whatever it changes. Its goal is to make everything interesting and worthwhile.
• Dominions Enhanced: Another mod that does major changes. Haven't played it much, but it seems interesting. It's a fairly recent mod, and so far it only covers early and middle era nations.
• Forbidden Friendship: Some sort of horrible chimeraic beast composed of CBM, AwesomeGods and AwesomeEndgame.

Notably, I've been playing around with EA Agartha in Dominions Enhanced and having a lot of fun with it. Thy've got mindblasting olms as troops and the Risen Oracle is a semi-rainbow.

[Bluerobin]

I'd totally be up to try out some of the goon mods. Dominions Enhanced looks like it could be a lot of fun if people want something a bit removed from CBM, but if we wanted to stay a bit closer to comfortable I'd be up for Forbidden Friendship or AwesomeGods/Endgame.

Edit: Hmm, Dominions Enhanced isn't as different as I thought, but I really like the feel of MA Caelum now. It was the first nation I played and got a handle on, but Dominions Enhanced makes me actually feel like it's worth making all of the recruitable units instead of having clouds of gnats, archers, and mammoths.