Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

Oh dang, Abysia and Fomoria or me and Caelum. This'll be difficult. :(

Considering we've been nothing but stalemated in the east (Abysia won't fight me in the open, and I can't siege his fortresses without starvation issues), Fomoria's going to roll us in that case.

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

I think you overestimate our power o.O I don't see myself as such a power at the moment. I am lagging behind.

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

Well, you do have water blessed morrigans now, which are Fomorias most powerful weapon.

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

Any sort of attack from the west will be enough to break this stalemate, really. Abysia still won't fight me, so there's not much I can do in that department.

Quick question on dom kills. Can't you just stack priests (or priestesses) in a province (or a couple of provinces) and just preach your heart out to save yourself, and combine that with copious amounts of temples everywhere? Or does that not work as a strategy (gold constraints etc.)? It seems to me Arco can do that just fine since you're already rolling everyone with everything from your grotesque research, so you may as well have enough mages.

Just asking, I have no idea how you'd defend yourself from a dom-kill (I don't need to worry about this with my position and inquisitor priests that are my most cost-effective researchers (minus really fortune tellers, but wolfherds are awesome).

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

Yea I don't think Arco is going to die from the domkill at first place. About the morrigans yea they are scarry, but they need a lot of fnesse to be handled properly:)

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

Well, H3 national priests can make you fairly immune to domkill since they can preach up to Dom 8 regardless of initial Dom, but the problem with weak priests is H1 priests have almost no chance of reducing -4 Dom to -3 and no chance to reduce higher levels so with a lucky round of domspread you might see bloodsaccing pop a province with enemy dom up above where their priests parked in that province can affect it. This has already happened in a few provinces where Arco has summoned a bunch of H2 telematic animates.

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

well we just have to finish you off sooner then:)

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Hm. Couldn't Stone Idols work as a means of diminishing enemy dominion? It's the effective equivalent of an H3 priest preaching in reducing dominion, and it's a pretty common set of paths for MA Arco (I believe). Just curious how that would work.

Also, what about The Ark (I know Arco can forge that in a turn or two)?

EDIT: Just realized his pretender has no astral, that explains it.

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

Yea I was wondering about how effective would stone idols if you place loads of commanders holding them at your borthers to the blood sacrificing nation has to fill the dominion again and agian at those borther province.

Re: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs (Running)
 

Stone idols don't prevent Dom spread, they just reduce Dom to 0 in their current province. It just takes 1 temple check to pop Dom up to 1 and then future Dom spread to that province will take it higher or spread from there. Since preaching happens before random Dom spread it will likely reduce the Dom to 0 and then get pumped back up by random spread every turn.