which fort?
The one nearest the former Rus borders. Huge number of troops appeared that turn, like damn. I thought I had a chance, but now I donāt know.
Not sure why you want that one, it leads no where, and no iām not abandoning it.
Hmmmā¦that gives me an idea.
Curse you and your ideas. Now you know Iām not going to sleep tonight.
That fort does lead to your capital though. It exerts a particular sort of land control that puts me in easy reach should an astral mage open a gateway from point A that leads to point B you see.
Or maybe this is all a bluff and really Iām diverting your attention from what might be happening elsewhere? Likeā¦ ?
My turn is in.
General query, if anyone wants to add their own 2 cents. Is it worth turning off quickhost?
Also, if I win this game, Iām seriously gonna buy myself a bottle of gin to celebrate. While I live in a town renown for its rum, thereās this other distillery around the corner pretty much (literally leave street, round-about, round-about) that makes gin.
Reading through that reddit thread. Can I just say that a no-magic strat would make the game absolutely boring.
I was pleasantly happy when casting the hidden in sands spell by the way :)
I do like these wild ride games. One thing Iāve always struggled with in default settings is the gem cost of summons vs using them. Some summons are easy, like the elemental royalty. But even a fire drake which costs 6 fire gems to bring to life. Like theyāre good (even killing my sacreds that Evil_Steve warned about) but are they six fire gems good? Having the increased gem sites really helps reduce the mental overhead about summoning such a unit that can be easily killed.
In short, gems are just too rare in default dominions, and thatās a hill Iām happy to die on.
Hidden in sands and snow are two of those spells where theyāre so expensive and such a damn diceroll that i rarely ever cast them.
When you lose this game, you should buy yourself that gin and then drink and think about why you ever thought attacking caelum was a good idea :)
Because if he didnāt attack you, you were going to attack him?
As Iāve said before, I was never planning on attacking ermor. Iāve actually only attacked one nation in this game, so iām not sure why iām being made to be the big bad aggressor.
The turn is coming shortly - my thoughts have crystalized around one route, but i need to investigate a few things.
so iām not sure why iām being made to be the big bad aggressor.
Well, speaking from the sidelines, when one has most of the elemental royalty, it says something. That person is either a target to be attacked, or a person to ally with.
Of course, when one has all the arch devils, some of the ice devils, all the Heliophagi, and is working on all the Demon Lordsā¦perhaps I should not be drawing attention to myself.
Nah, Iād rather think about the mistakes on a clearer head
Lots to process this turn!
(badly cropped) Scenes from the turn:
The second is probably all soulless - I cant imagine many of them survived. The first is a bit of wow though - I havenāt ever cast that spell before, and at 40 gems I didnāt know what exactly I was going to get, but I can say that iām not disappointed(wow, what an awfully complicated sentence construction). That was probably half that army. Now I just need to work on the golems, wraiths, and yay, someone is hitting me with ashen angels too!
No idea how ubar is staying in the game - about 20 turns ago i was hoping to dom-kill you, and put some pieces in play to do that and youāve still got dominion somewhereā¦
Ah you have not located my secret underground base at the south pole. Itās from a rare national spell.
Very national.
Yeah roughly. I guess the problem now is that I have to rely on a different means of fighting. This is Ermorās problem, big spells like that are gonna hurt when thereās a lack of late game options. The good news for me is that I didnāt lose too many valuable units. Sacreds are fine! But where thereās ice, thereās fire.
man, it takes me an hour to just get through the message log now.
So many golems, and wraithsā¦oh, and i got a horror now - iām guessing akaoni sent that? And it looks like Panās in a knife fight for survival against a literal horde of demons. So ermor, while youāre busy tackling me, please realize xib has all the thrones it needs within reach.
Eh, the Horror was one of those " I wonder what this does" and it did some damage to PD. I dont think its worth it for big armies, maybe smaller groups.
That Purgatory is impressive, though.
I do have to admit I am surprised that no comments have been made in the last day or so. I mulled over saying something about how my Russians had to defensively attack @Evil_Steve 's aggressively defensive Ukrainians, but I couldnāt really word it in a way that would be funny.
Oh, and in other news, I lost an Arch Devil to militia. MILITIA. Like a dozen spears, some of them not even pointing in the right direction.
Truly my dominions acumen is at dizzying heights.
I must say I was genuinely surprised, as i thought you were going northā¦ my heart sank a few turns ago when i did something insanely stupid which has gimped me in a profound wayā¦ but Iāll try to make your invasion as painful as possible :)