It seems the Dom5 Inspector is now more or less complete, before it was missing some categories like spells or events. Time to do a summary of what we have, including Dom4 to do the comparison:
Dom 5 Items: 407, 17 national. Dom 4: 371, 9 national.
Dom 5 Spells: 966, 875 not counting the Holy path. Dom4: 909, 855 not counting H.
Dom 5 Units: 3286, 2270 national. Dom 4: 3114, 2167 national.
Dom 5 sites: 1157. Dom 4: 1028.
Dom 5 mercs: 76. Dom 4: 68.
Dom 5 events: 3220. Dom 4: 3193.
Dom 5 weapons: 721. Dom 4: 678.
Dom 5 armors: 235. Dom 4: 215.
two that weren’t working fine in the Inspector:
Herd of Buffalos (Ur, Uruk, maybe more)
Mirror of Earths Memories (remote site search for Agharta in caves)
Nice. End of Culture I have used before, but the rest look new. Same with the Jade Mask; that was there before, but maybe it didn’t used to have the national flag.
I don’t see that mentioned in the manual under bless or dominion effects. Is it still true that sacred units are auto blessed if in the same army as the pretender? I don’t see that mentioned in the manual either. The manual does say that pretenders are not sacred and can’t be blessed, so I’m confused.
It will be! Manual is still being updated. When it is ready, it will be available for printing on Lulu with all the unit stats and spells, etc.
Sacred units should be blessed on the same battlefield as the pretender, regardless of whether or not they are in the same army or even came from the same province. EDIT: This must be in their own dominion, however, just like the pretender.
Is there a way to highlight where all commanders on the map? I see little troop icons in various provinces, but I can’t tell which provinces contain commanders and which don’t. I know I can right-click on a province to see the commanders there, or use the N key to cycle through commanders, or look at a list of commanders using F1 – but I’d like a “big picture” view of which commanders are where. Maybe I’m missing something?
One thing I didn’t realize until right now is that in the army setup screen you no longer need to exit out of a squad’s battle position to select a different squad - just right-click on the red box of the squad you want to select.
I won my first game! OK, it was one-on-one vs the easy AI, and the map setup unfairly favored me. I was Machaka against R’yleh, and all the thrones were above-ground, while R’yleh’s territory was all underwater at first. Still, it was a good learning game for me. I experimented with spells, crafting, summoning, battle formations, etc. I enjoyed watching the ebb and flow of my “heat” scale, especially as the thrones I occupied all seemed to induce cold. Anyway, I won in early spring of year 4.
So, time to increase the AI difficulty. I might still spring for a small map one-vs-one. Also, I used east-west wraparound, but that feature annoyed me the whole game; on a tiny map, east and west duplicated themselves on either side of my screen. I think this time I’ll try not wrapping around.
Mekone (EA) - Phlegra (MA) - Phlegra (LA): Greek giants with increased monstrosity. EA large heroic hoplites, MA more bestial lestrigones, LA huge horrible serpentlegged gigantes.
I find interesting they become more monstrous as ages happens, it’s a nice inversion from how Dominions work usually: in EA magic and monsters are common and as time happens magic fades and humans dominate.