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[Torak]

Ill try that out tomorrow, sounds like a fun game.

[Janne Joensuu]

I happen to own all three iterations of Dominions. It's amazing how people can be happy with a demo of the first one... I remember some people complained when Shrapnel Games decided that the demo should have a time limit. Now I know why...

Have you tried Conquest of Elysiun II? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/CoE2/6.htm
It's an earlier game from Illwinter, it's free now, and it was done before they really got the hang of this "commercial" business. Games aren't supposed to have
that direct references...

I mean, I've seen a group like this:
a Wizard with a Ring of Fire, an elf, three hobbits(!), a dwarf, an unexpected hero and a hero. One of the heroes has a Sword of Sharpness. I started wondering, and poked at the empty bits... and found an invisible, fourth hobbit, with a sword named Sting, Mithril Chain Mail and The One Ring!

They wander around the world, and I think I got a message of the one ring being destroyed once...

There are some problems with the game model (defender always attacks first, so if both armies are equal before battle attacker's army is cut in half before it can act), and with the engine (if you lose, the AI keeps on playing against itself), but if you're happy with demo of Dom:PPP that shouldn't matter.

[Kagus]

Heh heh, yeas, I've played CoEII.  Not only that, I played the demo of CoEII.   I hadn't heard that they released the full version for free.

Ahh, yes...  Elysium.   Getting together a massive collection faithful worshipers for El, and having huge armies spawning automatically around your territory...  That was fun.

[Tommy2U]

My favourite choice in Elysium was a necromancer in fallen empire era. Walking around battlefields, raising an undead army, eventually turning into a lich - loads of fun.
Speaking of strange encounters, I once found God in that game.
No, really, he was sitting alone at a mountain site. I was to wussy to attack him though, I wonder what his powers were.

[Cthulhu]

I just tried the demo.

I haven't even done anything, except made a god and started a game, and I can already say this... WANT.  This is possibly the most epic thing ever.  I just wish there were more races for the demo(I'm playing the Dom3 demo, and it only has one playable race)

[Kagus]

What?  No it doesn't.  It's got Atlantis, Agartha, an old Arcosephale, Kailasa, and a few other thingies which I forget...

[Cthulhu]

I noticed that a few minutes after I posted, and never bothered to edit.  Soz.

[Kagus]

Too busy playing, eh?

Make sure to try out Kailasa.  Nothing says fun like an army of a hundred rhesus macaques with bows.

[Torak]

It's a damn shame I suck at drawing with small pictures/sprites.

[DuncanFrost]

I'm gonna buy Dom3 as soon as I get another £10. Gotta wait a month.    
(damn delivery fee for overseas)

[ March 15, 2008: Message edited by: DuncanFrost ]

[Cthulhu]

I found CoE to be much better than Dominions.  The leaders are so unique and awesome.  It's a lot of fun to play an eight-player hotseat game alone.  Everything is completely under your control and allows for some epic solo-RP.

[Helmaroc]

I always lose big time in any Dominions game. I just don't plan right or something.

[Torak]

Anyone other than me notice how time flies whenever you're playing?

[Kagus]

Heh heh heh...  No, I don't think we notice.  At least not while it's happening.

And yeah, Dominions is not exactly my strong suit.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's obviously something bad enough to count.  Two thousand iron constructs, wooden constructs, slingers, priests, minotaurs, and spearmen showing up at the door of my second castle said so.

Ermor seems to be the only thing I can win with.  Except maybe for Atlantis in a water-dominated map, but even then I have to work fast in order to overpower the enemy before they get too powerful.  Ermor, on the other hand, plays almost every turn into my favor, as regardless of what I do I get hundreds of free soldiers to die for my cause.  Still, I can't go on for two long, as without a bit of pressure the AI seems to amass a rather nasty set of spells...

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by Kagus:
<STRONG>Heh heh heh...  No, I don't think we notice.  At least not while it's happening.

And yeah, Dominions is not exactly my strong suit.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's obviously something bad enough to count.  Two thousand iron constructs, wooden constructs, slingers, priests, minotaurs, and spearmen showing up at the door of my second castle said so.

Ermor seems to be the only thing I can win with.  Except maybe for Atlantis in a water-dominated map, but even then I have to work fast in order to overpower the enemy before they get too powerful.  Ermor, on the other hand, plays almost every turn into my favor, as regardless of what I do I get hundreds of free soldiers to die for my cause.  Still, I can't go on for two long, as without a bit of pressure the AI seems to amass a rather nasty set of spells...</STRONG>

The AI masses the easiest to make infantry, along with 1 or 2 elites, and about 5-6 commanders to hold all those troops, and other than that, it's all mages/anything with research. They go for enchantment and thaumatology or however you spell that. Then they cast world enchantments, and then I cast Oedipus' Fate every round to blind the guys that keep casting Eyes of the God.