Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: 13 signed up so far, and room for more
 

I'd use the elephants to expand against indies at the very least, they're pretty great for that. From what I've heard the serpent creatures (Naga) aren't very good and looking at them I'm inclined to agree. They're quite expensive but and also slow, use tiny shields and have less hp then you'd think something that pricy would.

Just looking at the nagarishi makes me think you could make a pretty cool linebacker communion.

Have the nagarishi cast:
communion master, summon earthpower, invulnerability, quickness, whatever

then have a yogi cast:
communion master, body ethereal, personal luck, resist magic, whatever

have someone bless the communion (since all your mages are sacred, I'd reccomend a minor earth bless at the very least) and have a bunch of yogis armed with frost brands cast communion slave and then attack.

Later on you can have a Kinnara add:
communion master, mistform, mirror image, flight, air shield

I have no idea how practical this would be but it's fun to think about.

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: 18 signed up
 

see, i'm at the point where i know how to do normal shhhhhtuff and thats all. I have sought after the effect of communion slave/master spells. does it say it on there? i thought i checked, but i didn't see it. all i know is how its done. WHAT THE HELL DOES IT DO!

I hope you didn't inconvience yourself getting all of that for me. like, hopefully you didn't look all that up from the time i posted that post you quoted from until now. I'd feel like an a**hole for switching. I'm just more familiar with c'tis. although, I get the feeling its the same sort of idea in terms of troops, but with greater variation and undead and . . . well, not all that similiar. thank you though. I will most likely still use that combination or some variation of it, seeing as I have none of my own.

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: 18 signed up
 

Haha, don't worry about it. I've played Bandar Log single player so I'm familiar with their mages. And like I said I don't know if using that strategy would actually be a good idea.

The way communions work is that you have masters and slaves. One joins the communion by casting the astral 1/thaum 1 spell communion master or sommunion slave. Putting more slaves in the communion boosts the masters' magic skill in all paths as follows
+1 at 2 slaves
+2 at 4 slaves
+3 at 8 slaves
+4 at 16 slaves
and so on.
In addition, when the communion master casts a spell the fatigue generated from the spell is spread between all the members of the communion. Finally, any buffs applied to the masters are applied to all of the slaves.

There's a (long) guide here: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=37499

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: 18 signed up
 

Ludivico, you're down as C'tis now :)

Baalz wrote a nice guide to communions which might help you understand them better, by the way.

Unless people (including myself) find something wrong with the SpringRain map linked in my earlier post, we'll be using that.

I'll also be closing the game to new players at this point.

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: 18 signed up
 

i can live with that.

i hadn't played as ctis LA, only with that theme in dom 2 . . .

I miss my slaves haha but i can dig this map.

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: 18 signed up
 

Hokay. I've taken the map and after a bit of a struggle I've set some start points. The map's a little short on choke points, but never mind. Everyone should have 5 neighbours to their capital.

I've put the game on llamaserver, so feel free to submit your pretenders as soon as you like.

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: Submit pretenders
 

Gregstrom me old mate,

the link for the map down load appears to lead one to a post in the babylon 5 mod for space empires. Any chance you could ah, make the necessary adjustments please?

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: Submit pretenders
 

I can't adjust the link on llamaserver, sadly. Instead, I'll put the link here and in the top post.

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: Submit pretenders
 

Excellent! :up:

Re: Pyrothere - LA slowpace game: Submit pretenders
 

Yay! 50% of pretenders uploaded already. Good stuff, y'all :)