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IMHO empoisoner looks like best assassin in game since it’s the only assassin that is spellcaster (death and nature). Since he’s nature, he can cast all neat protections on himself and, since he’s death as well, he can overpower victim raising undead.

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Yes, instead of a single assasin you'll have a single assasin and something like 20 Longdead against a single commander.

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A side-note for the lizard-debate: the new theme Desert Sun is available to all nations, including C'tis. It spreads heat even beyond your Dominion, meaning that map will warm up like Atlanta in July. Those poor Caelum are left just standing around with their armor and weaponry dripping all over the furniture.

Well, unles they counter with the Heart of Winter dominion, which has the effect of spreading cold instead of heat . . . http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Legend? lol, no labels pls. Besides, many players can kick my arse, Jacques included.

I remember Arhyper & Jacqnew fondly, they were my two first games (they were simultaneous). My Ermorian design proved to be non optimal at that time (or at least I have done better afterwards with some changes in scales & candles as discussed in the newsgroup).

That was like 2 years ago. Funny that at the time Caelum was considered the weakest nation. Then Jacques published his Jacqstorm tactics in the CGOnline forum (no longer existing) and proceeded to nail us with them in the Jacqnew game. Perception of Caelum changed a bit after that.

Arthyper was also a pretty interesting game. My initial expansion sucked horribly but a pact with Arco allowed me to make up for it in the long term, the close quarters however limited my reanimation a lot, as I could not push up my Dominion without hurting my ally.
Dealing with Jacques soul slaying Squigheads was a headache for half the players in this game. Eventually I cast GoR on a unholy Knight & got a mindless (!) commander supposedly immune to Soul Slay (and with 25 undead leadership because of being undead, so he could supposedly hold an horde of skeletons if every other commander perished), but I never got to field him as the game was declared over before that as Jacques had some RL trouble to keep playing & it made little sense to go on without him at that stage.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">we will just say then that you have an optimized set of opening moves for Ermor, to the point that the nation move as a well greased doom machine...

By the way Pepe, my profound apologies to have acted as a bad a... in this Cimmeria game (I was Abysia, you were Ermor). Hope you wont mind playing with me, if it happens we play in the same pbem in the future.

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Is Jaques still playing PBEM games?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As often as I can, but free time seems to be an increasingly rarer resource.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No worries, I also said some words I am not particularly proud of. RL stress & a short temper sometimes combine awfully.

I will gladly join you in a future game if our respective schedules allow it.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Sorry Pepe. Legend in your reputation associated with Ermor. I have always been curious in how Ermor can become playable and I have never met a vet being able to claim proficiency with the Ashen Empire, except for you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif .

I heard of the blood-summon tricks but I can't figured out how to maintain a robust supply of Blood Slaves and keep up the research speed.

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Legend...lol http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Its kinda funny, since the playerbase of Doms I. is very small.

Hopefully Doms II. will have a lot bigger playerbase, with lot more good players.