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[Darkwind3]

As several games seem to be winding down, and spring is in the air, I think there is time for a new round of Dominions. This one, though comes with a twist - since I've seen demand for it (albeit far in the past), we will be using NationGen.

General Game Information
Name - Bay12GamesRound13
Hosting Schedule - 26 hours, increases by request
Age - see below

All game settings default, but renaming on.

Nation Selection - see below
Map - See Note 2.
Mods - Other Peoples' Mods + NationGen (see Note 2)

Victory Conditions - 50%+1 Capitals, or by agreement
Diplomacy - Machiavellian, i.e. anything goes (see "How does MP work?" for the details)

Player List
1. Darkwind3 - Ettles
2. Il Palazzo - Nefurt
3. Boksi - Maelmar
4. Karlito - Burburg
5. Bluerobin - Sardarm
6. Akhier the Dragon hearted - Udostria

Note: if you happen to find a nation you look better than the one you signed up for, you are welcome to post the new number and seed. However, your previous nation will be open - anyone else can claim it, if they care to.

Note 2: The map and mod used can be downloaded from this link right here.
IMPORTANT: We are using the 30th of August 2012 version, linked right back there. The version number you ought to see is "Filter updates vol 1(30th of August 2012)".

This game will use NationGen to randomly generate new nations for each player to play as. every player must use a nation randomly created with NationGen - so nobody can play, say, Caelum. The Middle Era will be used, since that's the default with the mod so there's no need to fiddle with it. This means independents and initial gem income will be appropriate for the Middle Era, so keep that in mind.

How will nations be chosen?
Using the EXACT AND TOTALLY UNMODIFIED version of UnitGen linked above you may generate as many nations as you wish. Once you find a suitably batshit insanely overpowered nation you wish to play, open the .dm file. There along the first lines you should find something like

Code: [Select]

-- Nation 72: Honmito generated with seed 472730085

Do also make sure there's a line exactly like:

Code: [Select]

-- Generated with version Filter updates vol 1(30th of August 2012).
above the line you need to paste.

Paste that to the thread. If you use a modified version of UnitGen chances are your seeds will generate different nations on my computer so don't. You should also probably tell some basic details about your nation so I can make sure the seed system (still) works correctly.

For example - I would post,

-- Nation 76: Ettles generated with seed 1165198899

 Ettles is a nation of humans with Caelian sacreds and S/B recruit-everywhere mages.

If I, while compiling the mod, instead found this to be a nation of Vanir with crippled, fat hoburg sacreds, 600 gold temples and old W/A/N mages, I would know something was up (rather than wondering what the hell I was on when I decided to take it). I encourage you all to search for the craziest nation you can find, since ridiculous things are NationGen's bread and butter.
Previous rounds: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7&7.5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Spoiler: Standard info on Dominions 3 for the uninitiated (click to show/hide)

Dominions 3 is a turn-based fantasy war game of epic proportions.

The player assumes the role of a pretender god, rising from slumber to take up the recently vacated throne of the Pantokrator(or All-Ruler). This invariably involves climbing there over the dead bodies of other wannabe gods and their countless followers.

The nations of the world each support one of the pretenders as their One and True God that shall no doubt lead them to glory everlasting. They are highly varied and defy the typical fantasy cliches. Instead they had been designed after some of the many myths and fables from the history of mankind.
Shambling Atlanteans, undead legions of Ermor, frozen giants of Niefelheim, bloodthirsty demons of Lanka, steelclad armies of Ulm, Sauromatian amazons and their hydras, flying hosts of Caelum - over 60 nations to choose from.

The beings claiming the godly mantle are diverse themselves. Crooked crones and divine giants, sages and mages, liches and vampires, dragons and krakens. Apart from the physical form, the players can design their gods' magical powers, the blessings that they can bestow upon the chosen few, and the qualities that believing in them inspires in the common folk.
Would you have your god bring good fortune and bountiful crops to the faithful, but be magically weak? Or would you rather make your god into a killing machine able to take on armies, but inspiring little awe?
The pretender design system is excellent, and together with the multitude of nation choices is able to accommodate a wide range of strategies.

The game sports a very robust magic system, with literally hundreds of spells, ranging from in-battle lightning bolts to world altering doom bringers.
Only in Dominions can you flaunt your divine destiny by hanging a second sun in the sky, draping the world in perpetual storms, or sending devils to incite enemy soldiers against their commanders.

Every unit in the sometimes hundreds-strong armies has got individual, and evolving stats, including age, battle wounds and experience. They can starve and fall victim to disease. They can be cursed and hunted by trans-dimensional horrors. Lots of things can happen to each individual unit, most of them unpleasant.

From the strategic map, commanders, mages, heroes, priests, magical beasts and pretender gods can be equipped with magical items and sent to do battle in person, assassinate or seduce enemy commanders, spy and instigate unrest, enchant armies in battle or wreak havoc among enemy ranks. Or, they can be kept at home and work on improving magical knowledge, build fortifications, summon magic beings, raise undead, forge items imbued with arcane forces, scour provinces in the search of blood slaves, preach god's glory, patrol provinces for troublemakers, search for magic sites hidden in the wild, and more.

The turns happen simultaneously, so the battles are resolved automatically, according to the preselected orders for troop formations and commanders.
Here's a youtube video of a large-ish battle to pique your interest. Courtesy of Lorak.

Should you desire to know more about the game, go and visit the website. You'll notice that the price tag is seriously hefty, but as many of us can attest, the game is well worth it.

Spoiler: How does MP work? (click to show/hide)

First of all, you need to download the map and the mod(links will be provided after we decide on which one to use), and put the files into the map and mod folders of your dom3 installation respectively.
Then go to the options menu and enable the mod.
Next use the pretender creation tool in the game tools menu to create a pretender and send the file(to be found in your /dominions3/savedgames/newlords; named <your_nation_era_number.2h>, where number is most likely "0" if it's the only pretender you've created so far for this nation.) to "pretenders [at ] llamaserver [dot ] net" with the game name as the subject.
Game name will most likely be "Bay12GamesRound13".

You'll be receiving .trn files from llama server, which you shoud put into a {dom3dir}/savedgames/{whatevernameyouwant}/
After finishing your moves, a new .2h file will appear in that folder, which you should send to the same address from which you've received your .trn file.

Regarding the rules of conduct:
- no exploits please. Examples of exploits are besieging a fort infinitely with a string of scouts; sending other players crap items to fill their magic item pool and make them waste gems; anything else you can think of that doesn't feel like it was meant to be a feature. If not sure, ask.
- trade agreements are sacred. Once you decided to exchange some gems/items/gold, you MUST fulfill your side of the agreement.
- no constrains on diplomacy. You can attack anyone you want, with or without warning. It would be, however, in good taste not to rush another player at the very beginning of the game. We're all trying to have a good time playing this.
- use forum PMs for diplomacy. The in-game messaging system is seriously flawed(unacceptably slow, and parts of messages tend to disappear)
- if you want to boast/moan about your progress(or lack thereof) in game, feel free to use this thread to post your screenshots, stories and whatnot.

Spoiler: Useful links (click to show/hide)

The wiki, with loads of useful information, including strategy guides. Keep in mind that as a unit/spell/item reference might not be compatible with modded game data.
Dom3 on Shrapnel Forums, on Desura, and Dom3mods.

Llama Server, which is the automatic hosting server for our game.
Llama Server's map and mod browser

Spoiler: shamelessly spoilering attributions for space (click to show/hide)

Shamelessly stolen from^{v Akhier who stole it from ScriptWolf who stole it from} Palazzo ( with his say so* )

*referring to the originator known as Palazzo in reference to the original theft by the one known as ScriptWolf, The OP does not claim any legality to his theft until approval is or is not given in the future.**

**thievery shamelessly stolen from Akhier

Thanks to Calahan on Desura for the general template, and Elmokki for UnitGen and Tengugeddon, which I took the guide to submitting nations from.

[Karlito]

Hmmm... can I handle 3 games at once?

[moghopper]

Sign me up. I'll send a nation tonight!

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Its nice to see a new round not started by me though I won't be joining in on this as I want to get better at the base games nation list before trying something like this. That and I need to make a MA game myself so I can have played all of Tien Chi which I apparently have a fetish for or something. Anyway good luck with this thing.

[Darkwind3]

Hmmm... can I handle 3 games at once?

Well, there's no rush to begin the game To be honest, I'm not sure there are enough players for four games at once, even if two are in the winding-down stage. I'd be glad to have you on board if you can find the time, though.

Sign me up. I'll send a nation tonight!

Again, there's no need to rush! Take your time finding the perfect ethereal, awe +2, fear, defense-22 van recruit-everywhere sacreds with explosive spears. (Or don't do that because I'm pretty sure NationGen would never generate those unless they cost 200+ gold, and they would be capital-only anyways).

[moghopper]

Hmmm... can I handle 3 games at once?

Well, there's no rush to begin the game To be honest, I'm not sure there are enough players for four games at once, even if two are in the winding-down stage. I'd be glad to have you on board if you can find the time, though.

Sign me up. I'll send a nation tonight!

Again, there's no need to rush! Take your time finding the perfect ethereal, awe +2, fear, defense-22 van recruit-everywhere sacreds with explosive spears. (Or don't do that because I'm pretty sure NationGen would never generate those unless they cost 200+ gold, and they would be capital-only anyways).

How about NO. I'll pick the dumbest/awesomest combo i can find!

[Karlito]

Again, there's no need to rush! Take your time finding the perfect ethereal, awe +2, fear, defense-22 van recruit-everywhere sacreds with explosive spears. (Or don't do that because I'm pretty sure NationGen would never generate those unless they cost 200+ gold, and they would be capital-only anyways).

I got recruit-everywhere, flying, sacred, berserker human heavy infantry with 14 magic resistance and a werewolf second form on my first nation. Oh and they somehow carry both a long spear (with halt sacred) and a shield.

[moghopper]

Again, there's no need to rush! Take your time finding the perfect ethereal, awe +2, fear, defense-22 van recruit-everywhere sacreds with explosive spears. (Or don't do that because I'm pretty sure NationGen would never generate those unless they cost 200+ gold, and they would be capital-only anyways).

I got recruit-everywhere, flying, sacred, berserker human heavy infantry with 14 magic resistance and a werewolf second form on my first nation. Oh and they somehow carry both a long spear (with halt sacred) and a shield.

I got wyvern riding cavelry in full plate, magic weapons and awe. This is nuts...

[Darkwind3]

I got recruit-everywhere, flying, sacred, berserker human heavy infantry with 14 magic resistance and a werewolf second form on my first nation. Oh and they somehow carry both a long spear (with halt sacred) and a shield.

I got wyvern riding cavelry in full plate, magic weapons and awe. This is nuts...

If you'll notice, my sacred Caelians are actually awe +1, ethereal heavy infantry (and obviously fly). They have a poisonous spear and punch things with their sacred fists. One of my first nations was actually defense-22, awe+0, ethereal sacred van horsemen with lances that exploded. Nuts is the name of the game. That's why nationgen is so much fun!

Don't forget to make sure your mages are half-decent! You don't want to have crazy sacreds but be stuck with crappy mages who can't do anything.

e: not that I expect anyone to be putting forth the effort to peek at others' nations until we're all done.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Edit: If I keep editing this I might make up my mind. First I am in and second how do I use NationGen?

[Waterplouf]

this looks awesome, count me in !
First nation was a bunch of fish throwing atlantaians  .

[Stworca]

As long as the map will be either very big, or balanced - Sign me in. This should be crazy enough!

Go sacred bear cataphract archers! (who also make blood sacrifices)

With this being said, if someone (cough Akhier, cough) wants to start Round 14 without Unitgen, I'm also (more) interested in that :O

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I personally try to stay away from having multiple games inbound at any one time. While we can apparently support a number of games trying to get multiple ones off the ground at once doesn't seem like a hopeful proposition.
   Also how does one use nationgen, I assume I am missing something obvious because everyone else seems to be able to use it just fine. Note my brain is somewhat deep fried from a ton of studying so keep it simple.

[Karlito]

Run the program.
Generate a batch of nations.
Move them from the Unitgen Mod folder to your Dominions Mod folder.
Check the descriptions.txt file in the mod folder for nations that look interesting.
Start a new game with that nation and see what they got going on.

[moghopper]

I'm going to have to withdraw from this one. I'm not really liking the insanity that going to be going on with Nationgen.

However, I am more than willing to start round 14 if anyone is interested.