6381

I’m in, pending rules. I don’t care what age, but I’d like to keep magic sites at their default, or at least under 50. I’m sure everyone can agree on allowing renaming, and not using exploits.

And since there’s been some controversy over it recently, I really, really, don’t want to play against someone that’s just copying a guide off the dom official forums.

Hopefully those rules are what everyone else wants too.

And I presume the pun is [new to slightly new] --> player skill level
which segues into [only slightly used] as if it were an ebay advertisement or whatever. I give it a b :D (but A for effort).

6382

Agreed, but I tend to prefer normal (MA) or more (EA) magic to less (LA).

How do you rename units, and what type of exploits do you mean?

Agreed (see my above posts :-) )

6383

and what type of exploits do you mean?

Well I’m hardly aware of an exhaustive list but as examples:

if you mind control some of bogus’ party members you can get access to extra ai scripts, among them “attack mage” which can be a fairly big deal depending on when you get them.

the earth9 +4 protections stacks if you equip a commander with armor and 2 bracers for +12 protection (3*4).

I think if you set a stealthy command to sneak out from a siege, and then assign non stealthy troops to him once he has the sneak command, those troops will sneak out with him.

there are others that I don’t know but that’s what I’m talking about. I think some of them allow you to move armies across the overland map faster than you should be able to, etc.

Like I said, I’m fairly sure no one wants to play like that.

you rename commanders by right clicking on them and pressing ‘r’

6384

I’m in for the new game. I would also prefer MA. I would also prefer renaming be enabled… though I’ll have to figure out what naming scheme to use for this game.

6385

I’m in, and I’ll go along with what you guys select.

6386

:

  1. Are those currently playing in Pacific Dreams allowed to join this game? Yes
  2. Will this be an EA, MA, or LA game? Was goign to have a vote of interested players, but maybe MA?
  3. Which map? Not sure, Players could Vote or I could pick one?
  4. Are any nations excluded? For middle? Nope.
  5. Will nations be assigned randomly from a pool created by each player choosing a nation? People pick their top 3 and I’ll givem the out in order or selections
  6. “September Rain: New to Almost New, only slightly Used.” Game is for newer players.

I’m going to say no private pre-game diplomacy. Posting here is fine but otherwise wait to till the game starts. I encourage folks to read through some of the guides, especially the general strategy on site searching etc.

Default conditions are a given unless players want otherwise.

Usually a game is set up here just by announcing it. Players can then vote on age and what conditions they want. I want to start a new game since there’s a wave of newer players here who want one.

So if this sounds good, just post your top 3 picks and I’ll start filling the game up.

  1. Thorn
  2. Benjamin
  3. Samurai
  4. Kid Socrates
  5. mysterio
  6. DFS

Probably shoot for a kick off before Oct 1. People need to get in pretender choices and countries will be assigned by mid next week. Then it’s pretender design time.

6387

Not a newbie, but don’t play well enough to play with the big boys here.
Would be willing to take a nation.
Would be willing to be left out.

Your call.

1 Jotunhiem
2 Pangea
3 Ermor

I’ve never fooled around with any of those.

6388

Arg…will power, failing…

Actually i’m probably too much an old hat to play, despite the fact that i suck.

6389

I already posted that I’m in if players in Pacific Dreams are allowed to play, but I’m not on the list. Must I bribe you? ;-)

6390

Pacific Dreams –

I will be on a business trip from Tuesday, September 22nd, returning Friday, September 25th. If we can adjust the timer for that, or just knock Vanheim to AI in the meantime, I’m cool. (I’m not entirely sure how that works.)

6391

Going AI is a permanent thing, there is no going back and actually requires me to take over your nation and manually submit a turn setting it to AI. It would also probably result in you attacking half your neighbors, spending all gems summonging Zizs, and recruiting a hoards of independent militia. So… thats not a good idea.

You also won’t be gone long enough to justify finding a temporary sub. Best option is to delay the timer. Send me a PM before you go reminding me to do the delay and try to get a turn in before you leave.

6392

…yeah, let’s, uh, not do that. I’ll try and get a turn in right before I leave, and then we’ll extend the timer. You’ll get a PM right before I head out.

6393

1.Man
2.C’tis
3.Whatever but not Aby or it’s going to look like I’m copying a guide.

6394

have played none of these before - but they sound immensely interesting.

1.R’lyeh
2.Agathara
3.Bandar

6395

It looks like I’m the first to stall a turn in dom3. I had already completed roughly half the turn, and was going to submit the last turn after finishing up a project in the evening, but that took longer than expected. Then I forget to submit my turn, or even extend the timer.

Ah, well, I hope it won’t happen again.

6396

Meanwhile, in Pacific Dreams, Ermor’s troops are never ending. Is it just me, or are Shadow Vestals vastly OPed: sacred, undead, stealthy, and ethereal? Seriously? No wonder it’s so easy for Ermor to snatch indy provinces: he can send 10 of them to take on 50 units, 'cause they can’t be hit with indy’s non-magical weapons!

6397

The ability to snatch indie provinces does not make a unit overpowered. There’s lots of units available to lots of nations that will steamroll normal indies.

6398

Man doesn’t have a capital unit that can fight indys at a 1:5 ratio and win. Being ethereal is a huge advantage when capturing indys.

6399

No, but several other nations do.

In the long run, the ability to beat on indies isn’t a huge deal. Unless the map is very sparsely populated the indie-fighting phase of the game ends pretty quick and the opponent-fighting, the real meat of the game, starts.

6400

What’s your research level? Get a group of about 6+ A2 casters, and an A3 next to 4 or 5 bards. The bards are scripted soothing song*5 spells, the A3 does storm, then whatever, one of the a2s does wind guide, and then the rest are all summon storm power thunderstrike.

Shouldn’t that work pretty well?

If you think that’s overkill, a similar group sans the bards casting orb lightning should work well too. Evocations I think are the go to for magic damage against ethereals.

Edit: For those who don’t know what the top group does, soothing song is a big aoe ~10 reinvigoration, which means a thunderstrike battery that doesn’t quit. In my game, after the script ran out, the air mages turned to 50/50 thunderstrikes and ghostwolves, and the bards went to a mix of vine arrow, soothing song, and protection. Not bad, particularly if you’ve got something to drag the battle out.