In Progress Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator: The New Decline a.k.a ProfessionalThroneSitters MP Match (Ongoing!)

[InD_ImaginE]

Bloody hell me playing supply chain sim is out of my depth, I guess it's good I didn't register

 

[BING XI LAO]

I have a somewhat funky pg ready for sauro, we got anyone picking the elephant idol with reconstruction and F/A for invicble expansion and teleporting evocation spam memes?

 

[coldcrow]

I am thinking of switching to Yomi. The caves are not a welcoming place Seriously, if one "lucks" into a cramped cave start with mostly shades or cynophilian (or whatever they are called) indies, GL!
Maybe a magic weapon bless would be mandatory, but that limits to awake. I don't know...

 

[BING XI LAO]

Dracolich can probably handle cave expansion fine. with some care!

 

[coldcrow]

Well that's not the issue. I can think of other expanders (Myrmecoleon, maybe Man-Eater or Scorpion dude) which should have no problems. But if you roll a cave start with bad indies and have no awake pretender, the initial expansion would be very slow.

 

[sqeecoo]

You know what, screw the elves, I don't know what to do with them. I'll take Mekone when it's my turn, always wanted to play as the Fedorachads.

 

[Catacombs]

EA Vanheim

 

[Dayyālu]

panzertoter Johannes Malakal

We're not in a hurry, it's simply as a reminder. I'm playing around with maps, let's see if I can find some agreeable setups.

 

[Andnjord]

I WILL NOT BREAK THE SEAL

I WILL NOT LIVE IN THE SURFACE

I WILL RESPECT MY OLM ELDERS AND BE HAPPY

Go for maximum larp and pick the Golden Pillar. Your honour demands it.

 

[Malakal]

panzertoter Johannes Malakal

We're not in a hurry, it's simply as a reminder. I'm playing around with maps, let's see if I can find some agreeable setups.

I narrowed it to three nations basically just can't decide. Seems like people didn't go for toppest picks (other than ubar) so I won't either.

 

[Damned Registrations]

If there's still room for one more, I'll join up as R'lyeh.

 

[Hag]

I narrowed it to three nations basically just can't decide. Seems like people didn't go for toppest picks (other than ubar) so I won't either.

Is Ubar really that good ? It seemed to me (but I'm a noob) that its slower expansion, few sacreds and easy to counter SC would balance its overall strong units.

 

[Malakal]

I narrowed it to three nations basically just can't decide. Seems like people didn't go for toppest picks (other than ubar) so I won't either.

Is Ubar really that good ? It seemed to me (but I'm a noob) that its slower expansion, few sacreds and easy to counter SC would balance its overall strong units.

Ubar is about as powerful as a non balling-out-of-control blood nation can be with insanely mobile super strong SC chassis and troops and summons.

They are very difficult to fight for non prepared nations what with bullshit invisibility, ethereal out the ass and flying.

 

[sqeecoo]

Seems we got a water nation after all!

I gotta say I'm digging the new bless system, and that you can't really do statblesses anymore (I mean, you can, but you get way less than you would in dom5). That's part of the reason I gave up on TNN, I just didn't have a clear idea what I'd want from the pretender, although the nation is clearly very strong. On the other hand, stuff like Mictlan is probably stronger than ever despite the statbless nerfs, making massively increased numbers jaguar warriors with the increased economy, even if their bless is weaker (I used to run +10 str, resistances, attack skill, and hp on them, now you're lucky to get to 60% of that). Part of why I didn't pick Mictlan although it's probably my favorite nation - I feel people should gang up on them if playing properly.
Ubar is not far from that category I think - there's more money now, but Ubar's troops are so superior to other nations' regulars that are supposed to be the bulk of your forces now that I think they are even more of a target than they were, since your normal troops can barely touch them.

 

[Malakal]

Seems we got a water nation after all!

I gotta say I'm digging the new bless system, and that you can't really do statblesses anymore (I mean, you can, but you get way less than you would in dom5). That's part of the reason I gave up on TNN, I just didn't have a clear idea what I'd want from the pretender, although the nation is clearly very strong. On the other hand, stuff like Mictlan is probably stronger than ever despite the statbless nerfs, making massively increased numbers jaguar warriors with the increased economy, even if their bless is weaker (I used to run +10 str, resistances, attack skill, and hp on them, now you're lucky to get to 60% of that). Part of why I didn't pick Mictlan although it's probably my favorite nation - I feel people should gang up on them if playing properly.
Ubar is not far from that category I think - there's more money now, but Ubar's troops are so superior to other nations' regulars that are supposed to be the bulk of your forces now that I think they are even more of a target than they were, since your normal troops can barely touch them.

Blood was finally and successfully nerfed with more expensive summons including national summons. Itd take way more intensive blood hunting to achieve previous results.

Summoning armies remains strong tho, as far as I can tell. We'll see how that works out.

 

[Hag]

Ok, I don't want to be that guy, nor spend my first MP game ganked by the whole map, so if you think Ubar it too overpowered I'll switch.

 

[Malakal]

Ok, I don't want to be that guy, nor spend my first MP game ganked by the whole map, so if you think Ubar it too overpowered I'll switch.

Nah I think its fine, I wouldn't pick Ubar because it would be bad manners if I did (in my opinion, especially if we aren't picking particularly strong nations) but if you are a new player then its perfectly fine.

 

[Catacombs]

Are we playing with llamaserver?

 

[Trash Player]

The bless system changes favor PD raiders imo. It is easier to stack effective defense and reinvigoration now. Some chassis can be fatigue neutral with quickness even. There is also stealth on sacred. It is incarnate but it isn't relevant in expansion so it can be taken by a dormant rainbow along with the forementioned goodies.
Otherwise, yes, bless is much less powerful in general.

 

[Berekän]

Are we playing with llamaserver?

I think we're going with Illwinter's server, llamaserver isn't updated to Dom6 yet in any case.

 

[Catacombs]

I think we're going with Illwinter's server

For the noobs, what does this entail?

 

[Berekän]

Should be easier than ever, if you've only used Llama before, you just get into the multiplayer lobby, search for the game when it's created and connect to it to upload your pretender. Once the game has started you just do your turns on it and they're automatically sent, no need to fiddle by importing turns or having to send them by email when finished.

What I don't know is if there's any way to get notifications of when a turn is ready to play, either by email like with Llama or via Discord like with the clockwork server, might require the players to check from time to time, which would suck.

 

[Dayyālu]

Yes, I'd like to test Ilwinter's systems.

I'd like to start at the end of this week, even sooner if I manage. We're going to run a generated map if no one has better options ( or maybe I can generate a few and choose the least shitty one, with good caves and horrible UW starts). Apparently there are a shitton of small options, I'll need to run some tests and checks.

 

[Malakal]

I'm taking EA Ulm. The NO SUMMONS has really been holding me back but whatever let's have "fun".

Been also thinking of EA Ermor or Kailasa but... I prefer Ulm over that.

 

[Johannes]

I haven't gotten to play the game yet, but I'll tentatively pick EA Ermor