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Re: Hilarious R\'lyeh Dreamlands moment (SPOILER)

The Visitor is summoned! I thought it was a hero!

Re: Hilarious R\'lyeh Dreamlands moment (SPOILER)

I believe it is based on Flying Polyps from Lovecraft's works.

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Hm. I saw a Visitor once, but only when it sent one of my starspawn into the void... for a while, anyway.

Eyeballing... extra magic and holy compared to the Void Spectre, and FAR more speed -- but the latter has stealth and a full set of 'humanoid' slots other than feet, and appears to be a powerful income-reducer if you drive an enemy's home province insane.

Cthugul, alone of all the Starspawn, still has feet. Interesting.

Also, Illithid Lords do go insane. Hm, odd.

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Taqwus said:
Granted, an insane prophet that spends most of his time dreaming may not be a very valuable commodity, but still.

I just played my very first game of Dom3 as Dreamlands last night, and if I understand the rules correctly, it was amazingly helpful...

I set up a random small map game against three mighty AIs; I wasn't sure if dominion strength mattered, but I decided to try with 10 to see the effects. I took out Abysia with no trouble, and I was eventually able to grind down Patalia, but by that time Caelum held half the map and had fortressed off much of it. My armies were bigger, but Caelum's were much better, and I was trying desperately to find something that would work when I realized that my dominion was spreading incredibly rapidly through the map - I had been averaging maybe a prophet every other turn since the midgame, and by this point I probably had more temple checks each turn than there were provinces to build temples in. Four turns of just hitting "next turn" later and I ascended; Caelum just couldn't compete with that much spread. This wouldn't matter in a multiplayer game, but it was very funny to watch.

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freykin said:
In my game last night as Dreamlands my starspawn managed to summon this:

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/6849/visitorhm5.jpg

He came already as a commander, no gift of reason needed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

No heroic ability ! BoOoo !

Re: Hilarious R\'lyeh Dreamlands moment (SPOILER)

I tried R'lyeh for my first game and was SHOCKED how strong it is. I took a Dominion/Bless strategy and I had units coming out my ears. I was having serious trouble building enough leaders to command them all, and basically stopped building troops after a while. There was one small island with two provinces and in 15 turns it generated about 200 freespawn. It felt like playing Ermor with the AI unable to recruit priests - I had that much. I had about as many troops as 5 AI's put together.

My biggest problem was what to do with all the freespawned triton dreamers. I had a stack of about 150 wandering around - I was trying to get them killed off but they beat a Kracken/Sea Troll independents. I was maneuvering them to the last ocean independent and if that failed I guess I'd just have an ever-growing stack of them chewing up supplies (do they have upkeep). I couldn't figure any way to kill them.

Has anybody checked Gateway for functionality? I had a Starspawn put on a Crown of Command and try to gate all those island freespawns over. He went over but they stayed. No way to check the prior turn to make sure I'd cast "Gateway" but I'd swear that's what his icon said.

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Gateway style spells are broken at the moment. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/Sick.gif

Late R'lyeh is powerful and the pop death doesn't seem to be that bad to me. I also had leadership problems, and then freespawns would stack on huge piles and starve.