Dominions 3: Unofficial All-Purpose Megathread

Jonathan_Crane · 2006-12-13T09:20:42.000Z

ron_debry:

The .2h files generally are not very big. You could try emailing it from home to yourself at work. I usually carry my current turns around with me on a flash drive.

That’s a great idea. I’ll have to try that.

Clark · 2006-12-13T09:57:33.000Z

Jonathan_Crane:

. For some reason it doesn’t seem to be helping them much against Jake the Fat Happy Buddha. It’s too bad, as I had hoped that The Bleeding Time would be able to wake up from his slumber…

Well, to be honest, Fat Happy Budda hasn’t actually killed anyone himself. I am little afraid to put him close to the action since your jaguars get 2 or 3 flame-blessed attacks, and Fat as he is, a couple rounds of that and he’s dead.

The Tien Chi sacreds look really nice, but Chick went with zero bless effects, so it’s indie archers FTW!

Rollory · 2006-12-13T20:03:43.000Z

Qt3-Lictor:

Dear R’lyeh,

Jomon is being annoying. If he keeps being annoying, will you help me punch him in the face and then take his toys away? We can split them between us.

Your friend,

Ulm

Dear Jomon,

Finders keepers. It’s mine. Stop being annoying, or I’ll punch you in the face, and then I’ll get my friend to come punch you in the face, and then you’ll be sorry.

Your friend,

Ulm

Stormbinder · 2006-12-13T20:29:34.000Z

Nick_Walter:

I should add that any such attempt would be unwise since I do have this stockpile of strategic nuclear death gems and if I’m cornered I might just have to launch this Burden of Time spell I’ve been keeping in reserve. I didn’t want to use it out of respect for my living neighbors, but if they aren’t going to respect me . . . well the world is a horrible place without respect.

LOL!

That’s a good one Nick. :)

Rollory · 2006-12-13T22:19:36.000Z

Dawn of Dominions - well, I’m out. I threw everything I had on one roll of the dice and lost. Mainly because those damn blade winds killed ALL THREE of my druids in the first few turns.

The plan was for them to cast Communion Master - I had a battery of eight 1-astral stargazers to be Communion Slaves in the back - and then cast lots of Earth Meld to immobilize the Vanir. Also, the plan was for the blade winds to shoot at the scattered groups out front, exhaust the dwarves to not much effect, and then have my main groups move in. That didn’t work either. Note to self; next time, have big groups of slingers out front - not sure what exactly the dwarves were shooting at - biggest group? Archers? Well, anyway, I should’ve moved my troop concentrations away from my casters. Also, I think I misjudged the distances involved - it might be because the Vanir were doing a “hold and attack”, same as my infantry? Anyway, they never came as close to my casters as I expected them too.

Mr. Marvernibane dines on steak tonight. My pretender’s luck amulet wasn’t enough to keep him from getting surrounded and killed.

I still think my basic plan was sound, but I had never actually done anything like this before; the implementation was off. I’ll have to practice against the AI.

Nick_Walter · 2006-12-13T22:23:47.000Z

Don’t feel bad Rollory, I lost the bulk of my once glorious lizard army this turn so I suspect I’ll be out in a few turns as well.

Soapyfrog · 2006-12-13T23:19:55.000Z

Serves you right you cold-blooded heathen!!

;)

Hetzer · 2006-12-14T04:46:39.000Z

From Yngvar Mavernibane, Prophet of Sven Vanson to his troops,

Victory! We got him, the big cow is dead, tonight we feast my friends we have beaten the best that the ulmish and the maverni could throw at us. We mourn our fallen comrades, they will be remembered. Our allies the dwarves brought us the victory this day. A complete barrage of bladewinds killed the fighting spirit of the mavernis right away. We even found the troops that they tried to sneak around us to wreak havoc in our hinterlands, but NO one is as good as me in getting to the backward provinces and start to pillage and plunder.

We have a mighty sorry to our northern brothers the helheims, your battle supervisor was caught from our troops and put to the sword before he could declare himself.

Onward my friends, sven vanson expects new sacriefices…

Yngvar

Nick_Walter · 2006-12-14T06:31:15.000Z

Soapyfrog:

Serves you right you cold-blooded heathen!!

;)

Heh, it looks like you might outlast me after all. Who’d have thought that 7 turns ago?

Soapyfrog · 2006-12-14T09:40:42.000Z

Well I was expecting you to be able to break down my walls a bit quicker tbh, so I did think it might end before the cavalry arrived…

Nick_Walter · 2006-12-14T09:42:48.000Z

Soapyfrog:

Well I was expecting you to be able to break down my walls a bit quicker tbh, so I did think it might end before the cavalry arrived…

I wasn’t making a serious attempt to break your walls quickly, I thought I had time on my side so I was going to preach you out while regrouping, site searching, and generally building up before starting another war. It turned out all my neighbors ganged up on me instead. Them’ the breaks in MP dom3.

Jonathan_Crane · 2006-12-14T17:58:48.000Z

HOPLITE

You can check the updated Hoplite post here. Era will be Early.

I’m still awaiting email addresses from Deepruntramp and Mike O’Malley, and nation choices from these guys and Matt Perkins.

As for Map - with 13 players, Dawn isn’t going to work, and many people are playing nations that aren’t part of the whole Dawn scenario. Cradle might be a nice map for a new game… but it is up to you - so try a few test games and see which map is to your liking.

If we don’t hear from the above guys by the weekend, I think we should get this party started anyway - does that sound reasonable?

Quaro · 2006-12-14T18:01:22.000Z

By any chance, are both Shirley AND Dawn down? It seems pretty unlikely, but I can’t seem to find anything wrong on my end and I can’t connect.

Mind_Elemental · 2006-12-14T18:04:10.000Z

Hoplite:

Hmm. In that case, I’ll switch my vote to Cradle, if we can use a fixed version that corrects stuff like the land-province-that-should-be-sea.

Did I vote for Victory Points earlier? If not, I’d like to switch my vote from Standard to VPs – otherwise it’ll take too long, with 220 provinces.

TheRock · 2006-12-14T18:07:12.000Z

Shirley’s down cause my office is out of power from this 2nd fooking storm we’ve had BEFORE winter. Summer…please hurry.

Hopefully it will come back on tonight and I can get the server up tomorrow at work…sorry.

Soapyfrog · 2006-12-14T18:08:51.000Z

My servers (Dawn incl.) were down for about 15 minutes due to a brief scheduled power outage.

I really have to get myself a UPS…

Matt_Perkins · 2006-12-15T07:07:49.000Z

I’ll pick my Early nation tonight for Hoplite.

TheRock · 2006-12-15T08:31:40.000Z

Shirley’s back up…Quaro still has to play so I will set the autohost for 8 hours from now as it would have autohosted yesterday at 4pm if not for the power outage.

Game on.

Jonathan_Crane · 2006-12-15T10:22:14.000Z

Rollory:

Dawn of Dominions - well, I’m out. I threw everything I had on one roll of the dice and lost. Mainly because those damn blade winds killed ALL THREE of my druids in the first few turns.

Marvernibane dines on steak tonight. My pretender’s luck amulet wasn’t enough to keep him from getting surrounded and killed.

I happened to have a scout in this province, and the minions of Sven Vanson were kind enough to kill him off AFTER the big battle, so I had a ring side seat for this one.

Rollory - did your Sacred Bull actually trample anyone? He seemed to charge into the middle of the vans without actually killing anyone, or even taking away their glamour. It was sort of sad to see him charge into battle, and then just take hit after hit - 290 hps didn’t last very long at all, even with the 30+ regeneration per turn. And that’s with the luck amulet, so he was only taking 50% of the possible hits. Which was surprising, because before the battle, I would have thought he would have done some mighty damage before going down. How many troops did you lose to those blade winds? 100? 150? That was quite a sight.

Hetzer · 2006-12-15T12:42:24.000Z

Jonathan_Crane:

I happened to have a scout in this province, and the minions of Sven Vanson were kind enough to kill him off AFTER the big battle, so I had a ring side seat for this one.

Rollory - did your Sacred Bull actually trample anyone? He seemed to charge into the middle of the vans without actually killing anyone, or even taking away their glamour. It was sort of sad to see him charge into battle, and then just take hit after hit - 290 hps didn’t last very long at all, even with the 30+ regeneration per turn. And that’s with the luck amulet, so he was only taking 50% of the possible hits. Which was surprising, because before the battle, I would have thought he would have done some mighty damage before going down. How many troops did you lose to those blade winds? 100? 150? That was quite a sight.

Hohohoho Army meet blade wind, blade wind meet uhm hello?