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Author Topic: Dom3 Round 11: Endymion as Agartha Won - Link to Playlist of my Videos  (Read 49640 times)

Karlito

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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #285 on: January 26, 2013, 08:29:17 pm »

*edit* I'm not going to come after - or near - you Karlito, even if you hate me for it, I wouldn't mind getting comfy on my side of the stalemate for a few turns longer... maybe I'll magically catch up?

Was that you with the four monster boars? Geez 195 unrest in my capital...
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Endymion

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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #286 on: January 26, 2013, 08:35:29 pm »

I told you misfortune/order was inferior to fortune/turmoil. I mean 4 random bad events, that is just some horribly bad luck there Karlito, brought on by your misfortune scales.

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Karlito

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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #287 on: January 26, 2013, 08:39:09 pm »

Yes, clearly. What else could it be?
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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #288 on: January 26, 2013, 09:41:16 pm »

Well, turns out I don't actually know how to play this game. Also, at this rate Endymion you'll have won the game in the next 10-15 turns.
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The moment the lever was pulled, somebody's pet kitten stepped onto the bridge. I read somewhere that if a cat falls more than 11 stories, it instinctively flares its legs out to increase air resistance. This slows it down enough to stick the landing with relatively minor injuries. In Dwarf Fortress, apparently, cats don't do that.

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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #289 on: January 26, 2013, 09:43:09 pm »

Must be a wandering herd of boars, yes yes...

And yeah, I fully gave myself to gurrilla/terrorist warefare. If you patrol with your über-army, it'll be gone anyway... - but for that you have to walk it back to your Capital~
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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #290 on: January 27, 2013, 09:53:51 am »

So wait guys I'm a bit confused.  Are we just resubmitting the last turn (20 I believe) instead of the current one?
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ThtblovesDF

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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #291 on: January 27, 2013, 10:13:19 am »

Use the last email you got, should look like this:
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Endymion

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« Reply #292 on: January 27, 2013, 06:53:13 pm »

Alright, here goes nothing. The battle of turn 21: (Warning, many images and whatnot within)

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Alright, hopefully that all went well. Tis my first time presenting LP-ish stuff for people, even if it is only likely the seven of you reading. Have mercy. Oh, and may I encourage discussion as to tactics and strategy here? I'm no expert myself, but I'd volunteer the question as to whether the lobo guard army should have been on hold and attack instead of attack. However, all discussion of placement and orders seems short of the important subject here: How do you deal with Earth Elementals. Their mindlessness made them immune to R'lyeh's artillery, and they are otherwise basically elephants without most of the downsides elephants have.
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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #293 on: January 27, 2013, 07:09:52 pm »

More mage artillery is my answer to most difficult enemies.  That said, I don't know the paths R'lyeh has besides astral and water not to mention spell options are much more limited when fighting under water.  Maybe mixed "crushing pressure" and "encase in ice" along with whatever mind control abilities the aboleth's were using?  Also, I've never played an astral nation before where I didn't use communions.  It's one of the main reasons why I initially wanted to play as Ermor before realizing it was already taken.  So yeah, mass enslave is definitely an option long term or if you rushed it.
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Karlito

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« Reply #294 on: January 27, 2013, 08:04:05 pm »

Opposition/Unraveling is a good counter to earth elementals, that R'lyeh is well suited to employ, though overcoming the 18 magic resistance of a full sized elemental might prove difficult. With a spell focus, power of the spheres, and light of the northern star cast on the field, every single mind lord will have at least an 11% chance of beating a 18MR check and then they can cast opposition probably 6 or 7 times (though scripting them to do so is another matter). With four communion slaves and an eye of the void that chance goes up to 24%. Obviously requires an investment in equipment and mages beforehand, but once one has that it'll be hard for any magical being to be effectively employed against them.

For the rest of us without Astral powerhouses, blasting with evocations (as mentioned above), or massed archers with flaming arrows should prove effective against earth elementals.

Of course, both of these tactics require you to have trample-proof or sufficiently expendable troops to hold the line while the back rank blasts away at the threat. If you can't manage that, targeting the mages leading the elementals is an acceptable alternative.
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ThtblovesDF

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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #295 on: January 28, 2013, 02:18:34 am »

If one has the gems, some sea serpant and kraken spam might help, both are pertty low on conj. research and hit hard enough to shrink those elementals.

Argartha basically couldn't lose, since one side used magic gems and the other side basically nearly didn't - same reason why I won my little counter-attack, a few turns back.

**Edit - only waiting for karlito now, next turn, yaaaaaay
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Bluerobin

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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #296 on: January 28, 2013, 10:37:05 am »

Well, the problem is that most of the counters rely on you knowing far enough ahead of time to research them or to have a broad enough knowledgebase to have it researched. I got neither of those, plus my mages are not only useful in combat, but actually necessary to lead most of my troops, so my research has suffered a bit. We'll see if I can rally at all.
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« Reply #297 on: January 28, 2013, 03:16:46 pm »

Good Lord Karlito...

Animal Awe + Fear Spam
+Archers out the bazu
+Blessed holy units everywhere


You keep focus-coutering me that hard, I'll just have to keep running : I
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Karlito

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« Reply #298 on: January 28, 2013, 03:26:11 pm »

Did you notice the Rat Tail causes fear when it strikes too? :D It was going really great until I shot my own units full of poison arrows. Witch King 2.0 will have to include some poison resistance.

Just so everyone knows, that message about the gold doesn't necessarily mean Ermor is cheating. I've done a bit of poking around, and it seems like it could be caused by a few things. Were you doing anything funny with recruitment queues last turn Ermor?
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Re: Dom3 Round 11: Game in Progress
« Reply #299 on: January 28, 2013, 03:32:14 pm »

Did you notice the Rat Tail causes fear when it strikes too? :D It was going really great until I shot my own units full of poison arrows. Witch King 2.0 will have to include some poison resistance.

Just so everyone knows, that message about the gold doesn't necessarily mean Ermor is cheating. I've done a bit of poking around, and it seems like it could be caused by a few things. Were you doing anything funny with recruitment queues last turn Ermor?
What message about gold are you talking about ?
Actually I am recruiting a lot of cheap units ( gladiators ), with a bunch of principe each turns. I had to reset the recruitement queues several times if it what you're asking, because I always tried to recruit the max principes/gladiators.
P.S: I've just seen the message... well it's rather strange because it's not like I actually have more gold or income ( the only province with a "large" income that I have is 430 and is my capital, is it normal ? ). And just to clear out things, no I haven't cheated  :P .
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