Angry Lobster posted:

Nice, Dominions LP's are great. One question, isn't dom 6 a little bit low if you intend to rely on sacreds for a while though? Recruiting only six capital-only sacreds per turn seems a bit of a waste with a double bless but I haven't played a single game of Dom4 yet, so I don't know poo poo.

Gridlocked posted:

You should move to Discord. IIRC you can get IRC bots that function on discord servers and anyone can create the server.

Angry Lobster posted:

This, as far as I know, being a magnificient bastard in the diplomatic game can carry you through a game, even if you understanding of game mechanics isn't great.

Mr Toes posted:

I think I'm another for the 'love watching games play out, but would almost certainly hate playing it'. It seems like a particularly punishing 4X, and I have a horrible feeling that Id get to a certain point and discover that my god is poo poo / my scales are bollocks / I've forgotten to build an army, at which point I'd be utterly steamrolled.

Still, respect for you guys who can hold all that information (including the bugs) in your head!

my dad posted:

Another overly complicated game is that fun as hell to watch, but I'd never play even if I could afford to.

Will be following this LP.

How are u posted:

Conan music is amazing and, no joke, I actually used to put that track on while reading Dominion 3 LPs years and years ago haha. Official thread soundtrack!

Shady Amish Terror posted:

I'm probably posting way too much, but it's been a rough day, so one more for the road.


You cannot increase your Dominion score in-game outside of MAYBE some extremely rare events like claiming certain thrones (I'm not familiar with the effects of them all); like the bless effects, it's set in stone at the start. However, you can in practice bolster most of the effects Dominion has by building more temples. More temples means more successful temple checks regardless of your Dominion score, and temples even have the side benefit of raising the cap on how many Sacred units you can recruit in a turn just like higher domscore would. However, I don't think there's any normal way of increasing your innate Domscore or gaining the innate awe effect of 9 or 10 domscore if you don't already have it. Even Wishing for 'Dominion' just gives you candles, and similarly I believe that Wishing for magic paths can raise your Pretender's innate magic paths but will not improve their bless from the start of the game, nor can losing magic paths harm your bless from the start of the game (unless Dom4 has changed this, but I see no sources claiming as much).

Angry Lobster posted:

It also decreases enemy income and boosts yours for every dominion point, but it can be a double edged sword if you try to push it too agresively because you can give someone an excuse to form a coalition against you.

Lord Koth posted:

Nah, aside from summoning in a bunch of large demonic locusts with Heretic, it doesn't look like Blood has any means via spells to reduce candles. They're not stealthy and it's not a particularly good attack spell either as they're pretty lovely units. It does cost 88 slaves though, so maybe that's what you're thinking of?

tankfish posted:

Well just had my EA game end with string of bad luck events . Then through other events became king of the goats which now I know causes dragon attacks. Said dragon kills my pretender and torches my cap. Rest in piece Billy the Gruff Snake king of goats.

How are u posted:

If there was a emoji but for Dominions this is where I'd use it.

tankfish posted:

I'm the one who got torched by a dragon as far I can figure it the goat dragon event happens when you got too many of the buggers in one place. Maybe it works like horror marks? No idea about goats one shotting trolls but it would be a neat easter egg. Also please gift of reason the goats the world needs to suffer the iron hoof of goat supremacy.

goatface posted:

That was just a horde from hell casting wasn't it?

my dad posted:

I mean, there's other reasons to stick to the end.

Applebee123 posted:

I wonder if it was possible to edit your turn file to add that script to commanders even without having bogus and co, assuming you know how the turn file is encoded of course. My guess is that it was possible, I doubt there would be a check that checks if you have bogus before accepting a turn file with that script.

Would people consider that cheating? I remember a lot of people didn't consider using the script to be against the rules if you have bogus. You're not technically hacking the game, you would be submitting a turn file the game accepts.

Gridlocked posted:

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Gridlocked posted:

Uhhhh I have a troll riding a giant moose. Check fuckin' mate.

Voyager I posted:

If we give the chaff real armor, how are they supposed to trigger blood vengeance???

Crazycryodude posted:

I'm pretty sure you'd have to pay me to bash my head against this game.

Libluini posted:

Once I also started recruiting researchers on a province like that. Ten turns later my first mage there died and when I read that message, I was quite surprised. Then I went back to look at the province he died in and all nine other researchers were already diseased.

frankenfreak posted:

The first one is the game being a dick, the second is you being dumb, and I've been through both.

Mightypeon posted:

Imho such single sites can have value as deception operations. You just need 6 of them, paired with 5 other schmucks to occassionally generate spy reports of having 20 fiends or whatever.
This can be used both to appear stronger then you are, and to misdirect potential adversaries over what you are actually doing in terms of research choices.

Coolguye posted:

yeah half of the trick in every dominions LP ever has been sandbagging your overall strength for as long as possible because if you look big and tough you're way more liable to have an alliance of nations dogpile your rear end the way Man is about to have his rear end dogpiled in this game

How are u posted:

The Nation of Gath is Mankind's only hope!

Leperflesh posted:

All that said, I found out recently that the AI is at least capable of fielding and using communions. When you're not expecting it, that can be tremendously lovely to just run into randomly.

my dad posted:

Do events count as income for the graphs?

Because if they don't, uh...

Decrepus posted:

This guy gets it.

SIGSEGV posted:

If only it was like in conquest of elysium when having level 3 in a magic path allows you to cast 2 level 2 spells or 3 level 1 spells instead of a level 3 spell then it would be more easily doable.

Slifter posted:

If lines 1, 3, and 5 are actual games with a thread I be really interested in a link to them.

Nuclearmonkee posted:

Nuclearmonkee posted:

How are u posted:

Personally, I think that the Dominions "world" is full of unlimited potential as an awesome setting for an RPG. There could be epic adventures traversing the world of Dominions; from the depths of the Smoldercone to the Hall of Firey Justice in Marignon, to the frozen spires of Caelum and the dark, flooded cavern cities of Xibalba.

Cerebral Bore posted:

The problem with Liches is esssentially that if you're a big D nation you're probably going to have recruitable D4 casters (or at least D3 and enough D income to empower one to D4), so why would you need them? On the other hand, if you're not a big D nation it doesn't really make sense to research all the way up to Ench 8 just for Liches.

They can be useful if you're planning on going deep into Enchantment anyway as they let you bootstrap yourself to D6 casters from recruitable D2 casters, but that's more of a bonus than anything else.

Voyager I posted:

This is probably less effective in a MoMoney game where you can just put 60 wolves on patrol in every province to go along with the obligatory Fort/Lab/Temple.

Cathode Raymond posted:

This sounds like propaganda and I can't be fooled by your propaganda because I've already bought in to the vampire horde propaganda

One day the vampire hordes will get elected and bring back all the coal mining jobs to my town or so is my understanding.

Cathode Raymond posted:

So if I am understanding this right, Gath is a nation with a ruling class dominated by literal giants, a soldiery dominated by vampires and demons, and a police force made up almost exclusively of wolves? Like, feral wolves? And their economy is completely dependent on - and centered around - the execution of ordinary humans?

Giants and vampires and wolves seem like an unlikely coalition, and I can't imagine why you would stay in Gath if you were just a farmer or something. But I guess the wolves probably make pretty effective emigration police too if there are enough of them.