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[Knave]

Heads up folks, new turn is up!

Due: Sunday 18:00 GMT

Also to note: Ermor now has 16 provinces! 

[ScriptWolf]

Also to note: Ermor now has 16 provinces! 

what the fuck ?! O.o

[Darkwind3]

That's pretty ballsy, I've got to say. I imagine Ermor's banking on being able to get an unassailable advantage before anyone else is ready, because that sort of expansion tends to start dogpile wars of containment.

Wonderful T'ien Ch'i, on the other hand, is ensuring a nice, steady pace that is perfect, truly a demonstration of our glorious superiority.

[Boksi]

Yeah, Ermor hasn't done any research yet. Clearly banking on being able to get an unstoppable undead horde out early. Good thing I have recruit-anywhere death mages and can easily spam dust to dust and wither bones. Well, once I research it.

[Burnt Pies]

Just lost my entire army after a Barbarian invasion took out the province they retreated to. I have 3 provinces, and every single surrounding province has 50+ units in them. Due to that stupid luck with plague+famine in the same turn, my income is 116. I can't even recruit a Mammoth every turn.

Almost ready to call this one, I now dread opening Dominions just to see how the game's screwed me today.

[Darkwind3]

Just lost my entire army after a Barbarian invasion took out the province they retreated to. I have 3 provinces, and every single surrounding province has 50+ units in them. Due to that stupid luck with plague+famine in the same turn, my income is 116. I can't even recruit a Mammoth every turn.

Almost ready to call this one, I now dread opening Dominions just to see how the game's screwed me today.

What Misfortune and Death scales did you take? Have you considered ignoring the Mammoths (and, since your income is so low, your commanders as well for a while) and attacking provinces not adjacent to your own? Caelum's ability to fly gives them pretty good maneuverability; Mammoths are amazing for expansion, but when you can't use them (like, say, every surrounding province having 50+ troops and having not even enough income to recruit just one per turn), don't. Caelum's infantry are bad, but not so terrible that you can't even take a weakly-defended province, which doesn't even have to be next to one of your own, or even close to it (mapmove 3 and flying is a wonderful thing). Though, whether you have provinces nearby lightly defended enough to fall to Caelum's infantry, in the numbers you can produce with that income in 2-3 turns, is good question.

[Burnt Pies]

Every single nearby province has at the very least 30 indies sat in it, and there's no way I can build up a force of Caelians powerful enough to beat that with my current income. Mammoths provide better survivability and a few of them will roll over any indy force, though, making them much better value for money.

My Misfortune and Death are fairly high, I know, but I've played through the expansion phase several times in SP, and never had the constant barrage of bad luck, loss of income and general fuck-yous the game's hurled at me so far.

Gonna keep playing, though. Just needed to bitch about it.

[Boksi]

Haha, oh wow. It looks like Abysia got that random event where some dude preaches the word of another pretender god because I got two candles in his territory. At least now I know where he is.

[Ghazkull]

hah i recovered...somewhat...

[ScriptWolf]

Big new turn, and I'm finally back on track after a crushing defeat thank fuck for my pretender SC

[Knave]

Woah, check out the big Dominions 3 news!

From the Illwinter Website:

19th November 2012 - Dominions 3 no longer sold by Shrapnel Games
Dominions 3 is no longer sold by Shrapnel Games, so it is difficult to buy right now. However we intend to sell Dominions 3 on Desura as soon as possible, hopefully December 1st.

Looks like they finally got tired of Shrapnel's pricing policies. I imagine CoE3 sold well enough on Desura to make them think twice about continuing to sell it with Shrapnel. I suspect the price point will be in the 25 to 30 dollar range, but who knows!

[EuchreJack]

Woah, check out the big Dominions 3 news!

From the Illwinter Website:

19th November 2012 - Dominions 3 no longer sold by Shrapnel Games
Dominions 3 is no longer sold by Shrapnel Games, so it is difficult to buy right now. However we intend to sell Dominions 3 on Desura as soon as possible, hopefully December 1st.

Looks like they finally got tired of Shrapnel's pricing policies. I imagine CoE3 sold well enough on Desura to make them think twice about continuing to sell it with Shrapnel. I suspect the price point will be in the 25 to 30 dollar range, but who knows!

Does make one wonder about their current forums, which are Shrapnel.  While the Shrapnel Dominions 3 forums aren't terribly conductive to the free exchange of ideas, there is a treasure trove of info on Dominions 3 that Shrapnel will delete if Illwinter and Shrapnel part company.

[Shadowgandor]

I'd like to request a 12 hour extension. I won't be able to make it otherwise

Edit: Nope. Missed my turn. Ah well!

[Karlito]

Wow, this is a fairly ridiculous distribution of provinces.

[Darkwind3]

I seriously have half a dozen Celestial Masters with air randoms. It's ridiculous. I have a grand total of one celestial master who didn't get an air random, and he's got Nature instead. How useful! (It's not, since he's only got N1 and I can recruit mages with N2 out of the box, and a chance of N3.) Well, at least I won't be lacking for air gems.

Say, whatever happened to BlueRobin's AAR idea? I realize it's a lot of work, but he stopped halfway through the nation summaries. I've been on the edge of my seat waiting for that summary of T'ien Ch'i!