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[Karlito]

Last turn I invested into (about [alot] of gold worth of) Mercs - so I have some non-animal troops.
They didn't show this turn - AND they are removed from the list of mercs and there is a utter lack of fight that killed them.
I got my money back, but this was a big part of my tactics, so I'm a bit bummed out right now....

You didn't have them ordered to the province I captured, did you? That's about the only thing I can think of.

Also: still in the game. This is a bit surprising.

[gman8181]

Animal units get a reduction to siegeing castles which is quite annoying for nations like Pangea and Lanka.  I find that mercenaries are a good quick solution and undead and demons (or cross breeding) work nicely long term.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   At least I figured out how to kill earth elementals. Get a swarm of hard hitting units who can be trampled so the earth elementals use their turn to get surround by said units then watch as they shrink at an astonishing rate and not even get another turn.

[Il Palazzo]

Animal units get a reduction to siegeing castles which is quite annoying for nations like Pangea and Lanka.

This is not true, even though the manual says so.
Only hawks and shikigami(Tien Chi's hawk familiars) get a malus, but they also get a bonus for flying.
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showpost.php?p=685786&postcount=30

[gman8181]

Wow all this time and I've been going out of my way to not use animals for sieges...  Thanks a lot for that information, it might actually change up my plans considerably.

[ThtblovesDF]

Hey, I was suprised to surive, too : )

On a totally unreleated sidenote: Still buying up any nature gems, offers pm'd or here, don't care. I can pay in astral, 2 astral for 1 nature.

[gman8181]

Normally I hate those little monkeys but since I got them for free in an event anyway, I decided I would try and mix them in with high morale demons.  Should be rather interesting to see if that noticeably improves their combat effectiveness so that they don't flee at the first sign of enemy resistance.

[ThtblovesDF]

I just imagine ti-chi and agartha dueling it out infront of a complex chess-board with more monsters then pawns (they both still need to send there turn in and both are close to winning/losing a big war)

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Ah, I see my turn is not in. I will try to get it in sometime today. As for the battle I have lost it basically and my hope is that all the other people taking advantage of Agartha will cause them to turn aside so I can take back my lands. I personally want my capital back so I can actually make some national mages again. My biggest problem this game is the lack of air mages. I have a good chance to hire one from my cap and its not like I stopped hiring the mages with the possibility of double air but in all the game I have only gotten something like 1 which is quite annoying.

Edit: Looks like I won't be getting my turn in tonight, will try for tomorrow.

[ThtblovesDF]

Roger that, maybe make it a double turn if you can : )


My bad events to good events amount is still pretty silly, seeing how every province i own has luck 3.

[Endymion]

Ah, now R'yleh's attack makes perfect sense. He attacked me in order to claim land so that he could steal Dagan from me.

Mayor Mare has now taken the top of the Hall of Fame, racking up 158 kills thus-far. Because nothing says fame and power like blade-spam. I will reveal to you all that she has heroic precision... the +2 bonus from that on top of the +2 bonus from her experience has given her a total precision stat of 11. Yeah.... there is a reason I rely on a spell that shoots 40 projectiles.... my entire nation lacks depth perception.

On the subject of blades of wind spam, it turns out that in the army clash I just had with R'yleh my glorious mages decided that Polypal Spawn are not worthy targets of blade-spam, even when it is hundreds of them tightly clumped up. And I really need to manage my troop layouts better. I lost all those earth elementals horribly inefficiently to shamblers and now a turn later I'm fighting Polypal Spawn and I don't have a single one with the army.

So, who wants bet on who gets raided by the admiral first?

[ThtblovesDF]

I tend to get lucky with those events, seeing how I also have a "metric shitton" of costal provinces.
I noticed you had some amazone archers charging into melee in that fight, too?

And my peaceful ways just cost Sauromatia at least 30 units without even a single fight, go pacifists!


I shall also admit that I have harpys, like, fucking everywhere. Got a good overview, mostly to ensure I don't get a nasty suprise in my peaceloving forests. Seems niefel is getting steam rolled by lanka, much like emror did by niefel, but niefels efforts, with Ry'leh, gave ti-chi a fighting chance. Ry'leh seems to be coming back a bit, even if he did just lose one big army. However Argarthas big army keeps rolling over any big fight - but still takes some loses.

In other news, I just noticed that sleepers have 25 banner bonus, holy hell. If I ever have magic gems to spare again, I'm making a dozen.

[gman8181]

Is the admiral global changed much from vanilla dominions?  If not, then I can't help but question the purpose of casting it other than annoying other players.  (Who cast it anyway?)

Also, I've only been fighting Niefel for a few turns so calling it a steam roll might be a slight exaggeration.  Additionally his castle walls aren't breaking down yet so it looks like I have to bring in the reserves which is a bit of a set back.  The undead castle crusher army isn't quite as ready as I would have hoped either, so demons and monkeys may have to suffice.

[Kebooo]

I cast it to annoy other players. lol

I also had no idea what it did. I thought maybe I would have control over some kind of armada. I'm on my way to destruction after my failed invasion of Agartha, so I figured I might as well start spending all these gems I have sitting around. I feel it would be wrong of me to give them to another player, unless they want to come attack Lanka for me...

[gman8181]

It's a rather useless (in my opinion) global.  Basically one coastal province is chosen every turn and attacked by a group of long dead and if the commander of this army is killed, the global is dispelled.  It's pretty easy to end this and almost all of my provinces are protected enough to defend against it.

Also, who are you hoping will attack me?  Tienchi has their plate full as it is.  Agartha obviously isn't going to attack me.  Ryleh is also pretty busy.  No one else shares a border with me besides you.  Even if you did kill me off, you would still have Agartha to deal with.  Not to mention I'm a blood economy and have done very little site searching which means barely any gem income should someone take my land.  Oh and I get to summon armies on any border that has a lab and a couple mages (and almost every province of mine has a mage capable of summoning demons in it.