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[Delta Foxtrot]

Is there a military use for The Ark?

Seems like a useful thing for nations with priest-mages and some sacreds. Alternatively it might be a nasty thing to give your flying SC. This is just conjecture but I doubt spammable sacreds are really a requirement. You could just have a secondary army that's full of mostly sacreds and give The Ark to them. Cap-only recruitment could be enough for that sort of thing. Really the important bit here I think is the access to mage-priests. Mages are a big force-multiplier and you don't want to get them diseased and blinded.

Now I wonder if pretenders and shroud wearers are immune to the ark since neither is sacred as such I think.

[Shadowlord]

Mind you, obesity still works pretty well

Huh? What? OBJECTION!

[Frumple]

No objections allowed

It's a fairly huge chunk of HP* in exchange for 3 encumbrance, now that I've noticed the enc isn't scaling. That's actually pretty decent if you've got the means to offset the extra fatigue. It's no quickness or +MR, but it's still one of the better heroic abilities.

*E: Yes, there's a strength boost, too. Strength is almost entirely useless on a SC. Doesn't help them do much of anything they tend to be built for. And most SC chassis have plenty, anyway...

[E. Albright]

Everyone always talks about Heroic Obesity, but plain ol' Heroic Toughness is certainly worth appreciating, too. It depends a bit on what unit gets it, but if the right one does...

Spoiler: Round 401: Etimmu (click to show/hide)

(That... thing is much worse now, of course, since it's been over 30 turns since that screenshot, but it's a prophet, and has been operating in hostile dominion for quite a while now, so I don't have any more recent shots that really underscore the "ick" factor as well...)

[MoLAoS]

What's heroic toughness do? I can't tell from that screenshot.

[Frumple]

Simple +HP. Less than obesity, and without the strength component, but also without the additional encumbrance.

[Delta Foxtrot]

The resident guide writer over at Desura wrote a piece on pretender creation just now:
Pretender Design
I thought some here might find it useful.

[Mindmaker]

Very useful.

Anybody knows if a list of events exist and their requirements to happen?

[Delta Foxtrot]

There's a downloadable list found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vu97o3t2mb3d2c2/Dom4events.html
And here's the thread I found the link in the first place:
http://www.moddb.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/thread/event-list

I don't know how accurate it is or where it's originally from, but I glanced through it a few days ago and it seemed pretty legit.

[E. Albright]

IIRC, it dates back to 4.03 - possibly even 4.02. So while it gives you a good idea of a lot of the events in the game, it's not up to date, and ofc doesn't have the new story events.

[E. Albright]

Duhn-duhn-DUHN:

2014-04-20 18:52:54 +0200
Turan units (part placeholder graphics)
Airyan units
Many Ragha Descriptions

Edit: for context Apr 16 2014, 1:23pm:

EA Caelum is almost finished.
MA Likewise.
LA needs some more fixing.
A couple of pretenders are made.

Three more pretenders are on the todo-list.
National summons are on the todo-list.
1-3 new nations depending on how much I want to wait with a release. I suspect it is better if I wait until they are finished. Otherwise they are likely not to appear in the near future. If they are included in the patch I have to work to finish them before the patch takes too long.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I'll do my best to wait for the next patch quietly then. But improvements to Caelum and a handful of new nations is going to make that hard.

Mind you I have no idea how they're fixing the Caelums. LA Caelum in particular is absolutely terrible (have you seen their Harab Serpahs?), while the other two are better. Hopefully we'll see something like they did for LA Agathra and add in a mage that's actually pretty useful.

[lijacote]

Spoiler: Some of what Caelum's getting (subject to change) (click to show/hide)

Some units
Some bigwings

[USEC_OFFICER]

Sacred archers and new pretenders? I can dig that. Unless the archers were recruit anywhere I probably wouldn't use them though. Their other sacred is the heaviest infantry they can recruit, and their regular archers are almost identical to those sacred ones. But again, the patch isn't out so hopefully their stats will be altered slightly to make them more useful.

[lijacote]

They're currently not marked as cap-only, so that's great. The game didn't really have that many sacred archers.