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Author Topic: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension  (Read 542952 times)

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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2520 on: August 28, 2016, 08:04:14 pm »

Clearly this means the devs need to implement an item that steals the arms (and weapons) of non-commander troops. Kinda' like with corpse eaters except attacks instead of HP :V
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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2521 on: August 28, 2016, 08:30:48 pm »

Clearly this means the devs need to implement an item that steals the arms (and weapons) of non-commander troops. Kinda' like with corpse eaters except attacks instead of HP :V
Send Super Combatant against Ashen Ermor= over 9000 attacks
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« Reply #2522 on: August 29, 2016, 12:20:10 am »

Clearly this means the devs need to implement an item that steals the arms (and weapons) of non-commander troops. Kinda' like with corpse eaters except attacks instead of HP :V
Send Super Combatant against Ashen Ermor= over 9000 attacks
Send the eater of dead.
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« Reply #2523 on: August 29, 2016, 04:42:49 am »

Im suprised that there is no Item version of the Eater of Dead, a sword or something that grows stronger with kills, but is cursed and takes over the commander after a while (rand. number of kills/Battles).

We need more "desperate times, desperate measures" kinds of spells and options anyway.
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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2524 on: August 29, 2016, 06:10:44 am »

The "eater of dead" trait doesn't seem that useful to me. The ones that use it already have high hit points and it would take so many turns of constant feeding to make a difference.
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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2525 on: August 29, 2016, 08:46:12 am »

Eh, it takes a while and fairly careful management (particularly if you're pumping on of the pretender ones instead of the bone pile) to ramp up, and even once it reaches critical mass it's kinda' niche. Plenty of ways to ruin the day of a pile of HP, heh. It really isn't that useful, it's just pretty neat. Fun to build something up and then let it loose to wreck havoc, ehehe.
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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2526 on: August 29, 2016, 05:08:02 pm »

Was a bit more fun when the Raven didn't have a max cap for how many bonus HP it could accumulate... Still though, not exactly game-changing.


Y'know what bugs me about this game? The little inconsistencies.  Ashdod has a couple anakite commanders who get 3 misc slots because they "Adorn themselves with jewelry and practice the cosmetic arts taught by the Watchers like most anakim". First off, if you GoR one of the anakite soldiers, they won't have that extra slot... Apparently they're not of high enough status or something. Alright, I can get that.

However, despite apparently having learned the trick of wearing three rings from Azazel, none of the EA rephaim or nephilim can do that, despite having a closer tie to the original teachers and also being perhaps even more vain. Heck, Azazel himself can't even equip 3 misc slots!

Also kind of weird that you can have a nephil pretender whose texts states he hunted down and devoured all of his kin, but Hinnom can still end up getting Nephilim hero units.

Like, uh... Oops. Guess he missed a couple.


Also I just saw that Xibalba is still having weird minor issues, in the form of its Ah Ha priests wielding "bronze spears", when they're clearly holding nothing more than a dagger... Also the Muuch Batab does not carry an axe, despite the title "Batab" apparently having connotations of axe-wielding.

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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2527 on: August 29, 2016, 07:02:24 pm »

... look, when you're as short as the bat dudes sometimes what looks like dagger to bigger jerks is what your people call a spear.
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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2528 on: August 30, 2016, 12:42:51 am »

I'm having trouble as Marignon vs Mictlan. They have hundreds of units inside a fortress I need to siege and the supply points are low. I'm guessing they have a ton of supply items/units but I don't have access to any whatsoever. How do I take this fort?
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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2529 on: August 30, 2016, 02:56:51 am »

Four possible suggestions:

You can always recruit indie nature mages and have them make you some supply items, either with converted pearls or after site-searching for nature gem sites.

Or if you have wet ones somewhere in your empire, they're cheap, don't cost many resources, and don't need to eat.

Flames from the sky might work to thin out their numbers - getting a grand master to F5 is relatively easy. I haven't tried that myself, though, so I don't know for sure that it will hit troops defending castles, or whether it will be able to do enough damage to actually kill anyone. You can make a test game to test it, though, if you don't want to blow 30 gems on something that might not work.

Or lots of assassins to try to take out their commanders, but if they can't climb walls, you'd have to stop sieging to use them.
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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2530 on: August 30, 2016, 07:32:51 am »

Any earth random grand masters will also be able to cast Terracotta Army. A bit expensive, but with path boosting it's not that bad for padding out your forces a bit. Just depends on if you want to burn fire gems (hah) on summoning NNE units or on fires from afar/flames from the sky.¨

Also, I presume this is MA Marignon vs. Mictlan, and not LA? Because that changes things up a bit if it's LA.

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Re: Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
« Reply #2531 on: August 30, 2016, 07:54:24 am »

If there's any friendly death nations about, trading for a few BVCs could also work, hehehe...
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« Reply #2532 on: August 30, 2016, 09:48:04 am »

DomKill is usually the most economic solution.
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« Reply #2533 on: August 30, 2016, 11:44:27 am »

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« Reply #2534 on: August 31, 2016, 02:37:23 pm »

Yeah I've been trying to work on those solutions but the problem is this fortress is currently one they are staging all their attacks from and I sort of need to take it out. I can't get around it and I have no source of nature gems and only access to level one nature mages. My earth gems are too low to make a significant force out of them, and falling fires spells don't do much against their army. I basically have fire gems, air gems, and astral gems, their respective mages, and a horde of level one nature mages without gems. I don't see myself being able to do much.
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