The 2011 Dominions 3 Thread

tenuki · 2012-08-13T03:31:10.000Z

Dave Perkins:

I wasn’t able to quickly submit another, so please leave the timer off. I’d say 75% chance that I can submit within 48 hours, though!

I need 12 hours more. Will be able to do turn tonight (Europe). Pur-leeze.

Maerlande · 2012-08-13T05:29:59.000Z

Nate:

Any of you guys fought or played Pangaea in EA? I’m playing as Niefelheim with a heavy EN bless and going up against them around turn 40/45. I’ve seen the hordes of Maenads being buffed with Iron Warriors, but I’m worried that he’ll pull out some tricky stuff.

What would you use to defeat my small armies of big blue giants backed up with skratti in the usual kit (blood thorn/flesheater axe/ice brand, horror helm, shroud, boots of the messenger, amulet of antimagic, pendant/ring of regen)? And how would you counter?

The number one way for Pan to deal with elites, thugs and sc’s are manikins. The sleep vines eat those. The cold aura is a problem so Pan will need some trick to manage that. Possibly diversity into water with the pretender for cold resistance and perhaps manikin thugs using carrion centaurs with rings of frost.

The other technique is vine attack spam. Tangle vines can devastate elites. In addition to those, swarm is quite deadly against elites.

Your best response is likely something as simple as imp spam. Or add some ranged combat in some form. If you are very concerned, I’d set up a test game with you running Neif and Pan and try things out.

Pan can also use destruction and earth meld to mess up the popsicles (neif giants). It won’t work on the forged geared thugs.

pyrhic · 2012-08-13T17:09:11.000Z

fyi, i’ll be traveling for about the next two weeks. I SHOULD have reasonable network access(weekends might be iffy), but appreciate if we can have long timers (i cant imagine you want to babysit this dfs). Next week should be the worst, and after that I’m back in civilization again (more or less), i’ll send a note when I’m more stable, and maybe I’ll be even able to do a normal interval…
tx!

dfs · 2012-08-14T06:47:48.000Z

Crooked Trunk has been set to a 96 hours timer till pyrhic returns.

Note that this doesn’t mean you have to use 96 hours for your turn.

Till Pyrhic leaves, there is no reason we shouldn’t be able to maintain a 48 hour pace (or faster) C’mon folks this game is getting interesting. Let’s not lose steam.

Nate · 2012-08-14T18:50:25.000Z

Thanks, maerlande. I’m about to pop up out of the ocean in Pan’s lands. Should be interesting. He’s also sent a ton of Maenads backed up with indie archers into my territory. He’s also got Castle Arcanum or some other magic site that allows him to hire wizards. Wizards he’s sent in with crystal shields :(. Also Pans buffing like crazy. And Obscuro for some strange reason.

And sorry for finishing you off so slowly in Crooked. ;) I like your move where your 8 dudes are besieging my castle and managing to take down the walls. Time to scrape up a few troops.

Maerlande · 2012-08-14T19:48:52.000Z

Hah. I’m not dead yet. I’m just biding my time to spring my great surprise.

Nate · 2012-08-14T19:51:19.000Z

Maerlande:

Hah. I’m not dead yet. I’m just biding my time to spring my great surprise.

Hell. I hope you’re not already summoning tarts or something.

Maerlande · 2012-08-14T19:52:34.000Z

I think a quick look at the charts will prove that’s NOT happening.

tenuki · 2012-08-15T01:31:17.000Z

Nice to have a good turn mixed in among all the bad ones.

Nate · 2012-08-15T19:49:51.000Z

tenuki:

Nice to have a good turn mixed in among all the bad ones.

I haven’t had a good turn since we restarted.

dfs · 2012-08-15T19:59:33.000Z

Nate:

I haven’t had a good turn since we restarted.

Could you send some more wings our way?

Nate · 2012-08-15T20:04:58.000Z

dfs:

Could you send some more wings our way?

The kitchens are closed. We’re plumb out of wings. You win, sir.

Want to call off the war? We can’t hurt you much in your territory, but we can defend that choke fairly well.

dfs · 2012-08-15T20:36:55.000Z

Nate:

The kitchens are closed. We’re plumb out of wings. You win, sir.

Want to call off the war? We can’t hurt you much in your territory, but we can defend that choke fairly well.

I get my land back to the choke point? Sure. I get my land back, you get stability. Sure.

Nate · 2012-08-17T05:01:18.000Z

dfs:

I get my land back to the choke point? Sure. I get my land back, you get stability. Sure.

That’ll do, Jaguar.

dfs · 2012-08-17T09:13:54.000Z

Crooked Trunk
Pyrhic has submitted. We are all waiting on Bandor.

c’mon Dave.

Dave_Perkins · 2012-08-17T12:41:11.000Z

I have very important diplomatic issues.

Nate · 2012-08-17T19:05:17.000Z

Dave Perkins:

I have very important diplomatic issues.

Who are you about to kill?

Dave_Perkins · 2012-08-17T19:28:23.000Z

“They were all bad.”

Nate · 2012-08-17T19:45:29.000Z

“They’re all nice guys” -Clay Pigeons

Dave_Perkins · 2012-08-18T05:07:27.000Z

How is Machaka’s army larger than mine?