The 2011 Dominions 3 Thread

dfs · 2013-02-19T07:40:05.000Z

Kelan:

Heh, well do you have access to the Wyrm poison extracted from “The Sharpest Tooth” weapon? I bet if I put that in their food it will do the trick. The little monsters are eating me out of house and home right now and aren’t pulling their own weight!

Glad to hear that.

Buy some more!

Nothing Kills the Hydras!!!

Nate · 2013-02-19T10:41:14.000Z

dfs:

I’ve killed all the air-loving erui pony people that I’ve caught. I.Just.Don’t.Think.I’ve.Caught.ALL.of.them.

We’re standing right in front of you.

Kelan · 2013-02-19T13:39:37.000Z

Man, I really hate the Old Age mechanic they added. I even had 3 Growth scales in my cap last turn and half my mages got diseased… and they weren’t even the really old guys. They are only supposed to be 2 years into old age. Ugh!

Nate · 2013-02-19T17:24:41.000Z

Kelan:

Man, I really hate the Old Age mechanic they added. I even had 3 Growth scales in my cap last turn and half my mages got diseased… and they weren’t even the really old guys. They are only supposed to be 2 years into old age. Ugh!

Happy birthday!!!

dfs · 2013-02-19T20:06:01.000Z

Nate:

Happy birthday!!!

That’s Eriu in the game…Naet is there got. They don’t do anything but ride on sparkly ponies…Kelan…you should send him some Hydras as a birthday gift!

sharaleo · 2013-02-19T20:15:08.000Z

Playing with the Birds reminds me of this clip, except that the elephants are, well, woollier and more mammothy.

"Mammoths can’t fly!’ you might say. “Can’t they…” I might reply, “…are you absolutely sure?!”

Kelan · 2013-02-20T04:23:41.000Z

dfs:

That’s Eriu in the game…Naet is there got. They don’t do anything but ride on sparkly ponies…Kelan…you should send him some Hydras as a birthday gift!

Hmm, you may be onto something there! It sounds like the birthday party is at Naet’s place. I could have all my diseased mages come celebrate their last days with a communion and bring all the hydras along for good measure :). Either that or I will just throw em all at those scary undead apes between us!

Kelan · 2013-02-20T04:25:02.000Z

sharaleo:

"Mammoths can’t fly!’ you might say. “Can’t they…” I might reply, “…are you absolutely sure?!”

Eeep! That is a scary thought. I sure hope I don’t meet those anytime soon.

dfs · 2013-02-21T07:23:40.000Z

You know of Ashdod isn’t going to get any bigger than that, you can just give up. It’s Ok. We all understand. Look at the …snicker…giants…hehehe…

dfs · 2013-02-21T07:28:38.000Z

Lady of Furtune? Flying Mamoths? hmmmmm FAM stands for Freakin Air Magic. Way to much FAM on the map.

Nate · 2013-02-21T07:32:48.000Z

dfs:

Lady of Furtune? Flying Mamoths? hmmmmm FAM stands for Freakin Air Magic. Way to much FAM on the map.

I thought it was a FAMily oriented game.

dfs · 2013-02-21T08:51:07.000Z

You’re dieing first pony boy.

Nate · 2013-02-22T18:44:14.000Z

dfs:

You’re dieing first pony boy.

Somebody been reading the Outsiders?

dfs · 2013-02-23T18:59:43.000Z

Nate:

Somebody been reading the Outsiders?

We don’t read in the caves.

Bad Light.

Austen · 2013-02-23T23:36:00.000Z

pyrhic:

Austen: Thank you for teaching me something fantastic and new that i never knew before. No, I won’t tell you what. And no, I won’t tell you where. At least not yet :)

I guess I am waaay behind on this thread… I just saw this… can I know now? Is it something that happened in Azimuthal? I’m so curious now!

dfs · 2013-02-24T07:33:19.000Z

The tour

In the memory of so many quarter to three games that have ended by concession, I think we should just give up on the tour and let Pythia walk away with it.

Kelan · 2013-02-24T07:49:35.000Z

Uh, oh! I should probably say something here, but not sure what.

All we are doing is throwing some gladiator games in our newly built Coliseums. The fine nation of Agartha is welcome to attend as either a participant or a spectator.

Kelan · 2013-02-24T07:51:30.000Z

I have also been struggling with the map at times. Sometimes my guys can move right through mountains even though they don’t have the trait to do so.

I also noticed that the person that made the map appears to have pulled lots of the graphics from HOMM, probably HOMM3 it seems. I recognize the gold mines and probably even the windmills that mark the farms and the swamps look like those little gem fields they had.

dfs · 2013-02-24T08:40:38.000Z

Kelan:

Uh, oh! I should probably say something here, but not sure what.

All we are doing is throwing some gladiator games in our newly built Coliseums. The fine nation of Agartha is welcome to attend as either a participant or a spectator.

We are busy repelling armed invaders from Man.
Thanks for the invite.
I thought you needed to be…above the radar.

Calahan · 2013-02-24T13:52:52.000Z

Kelan:

Sometimes my guys can move right through mountains even though they don’t have the trait to do so.

Three possible reasons for this :-

1 - The province only looks lke a Mountain on the map, but it is not tagged as a Mountain province in the map file. Check the info box of the province in question to see if it has the little mountain icon in the low right corner.

2 - It is a Border Mountain rather than a Mountain. (again check the info box and mouse-over the litte mountain icon)

3 - There is other terrain in the province, namely either Swamp or Forest, and the troops you are moving through it have Swamp or Forest survival respectively.*

Survival traits allow units to ignore the movement penalties associated with the corresponding terrain type, which is well known to most players. But what is less well known is that if a province has more than one terrain tag, then a unit only needs to have one of the corresponding survival traits to be able to ignore the movement penalty of all the terrain in the province. For example a unit with swamp survival can pass through a province that is a Mountain, Swamp and Forest, even though it does not have Mountain or Forest survival.