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An awesome game you seem to have had! Downloaded the turnfiles and unzipped them. Now could somebody give me a hint on how I can check the turns to see the battles? Thank's in advance http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Unzip them into a new directory in your dom2 folder... then start dom2 and go to "play existing game". The game should appear on the list with the name of the folder you put it in.

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For some reason I don't get to choose a nation from the list (I get the "Select nation" with only Exit as only choice). If I set up a MP server with the save I can then join the game, but get the you-don't-have-a-pretender-for-this-nation -message. Obviously I am doing something wrong, but as I am too stupid to figure out what, I would like to have some more hints http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Should I possibly have some other file first available, or a mod or something?

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Each "turn" is a seperate game, does that help? You should be able to put all the files from one turn in one directory in your dom2 folder, and then play that game...

Anyone else having problems?

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The first turn on the website is missing the fatherland file and a few turns. I know the Last two turns work so try those.

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You just need to use more. 3 wouldn't be nearly enough. Sometimes it does take a while to kill one. Without a magic bonus site, it's probably an inefficient spell to use against mass bane lords, though. Unless you're pretty sure you can capture all the neighboring provinces and kill them when they rout. Otherwise you'll just kill one or two and they all rout. 30+ death gems probably isn't worth it to kill one bane lord with at most 40 gems worth of equipment.

Edit: Something else that works well is teleporting in a bunch of mages with water boots, ring of tamed lightning, and 1 staff of storms, then spamming false horrors, air elementals, and soul slay/enslave mind. I got about 4 bane lords in one fight. They lose their commander status but they're still decent troops.

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Thank's, that worked. Too bad I didn't get to see the massive battle between Mictlan and Machaka, I would really have wanted to see that too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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That was in turn 65. Wonder why that zip file doesn't contain all the necessary files? Any idea Soapyfrog?

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Does it not? It should! I'll check on it...

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Alright I fixed it. That was the turn I started the savegame utiltity, and I actually saved most of the game files manually in a different location so they didnt make it into the archive.

Turn65 is re-uploaded, and should now work properly.

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Once I get home from work I'll certainly take a look at it then http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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Took a look at some of the late turns.. A few comments...

Golems dualwielding swords of swiftness and wearing Hydra Armour... Why? Being lifeless, they do not get regeneration, and with their already low attack stat dualwielding long swords brings their attack value to 5. That is hardly value for money. They would have been better off trampling (boots of the behemoth or Stymphlian armour)

Tartarians BLOODHUNTING? Why? With T'ien Ch'i's many Tartarians, they should be battering down the gates of the opponents home castles instead.

With so many people liking Vine Ogres and with Ivy Kings fairly cheap to get, why (excepting T'ien C'hi) so few Ivy Kings?

I will from now on respect Celestial Soldiers with an N9 blessing http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif Seing some of them have 4 experience stars was a bit of an eyeopener as regards their longevity.

Many important provinces with 10-40 mages in were protected by 0 or 1 domes - didn't other people hit those research and forging centres with artillery spells - or is it exactly because they did get hit and wardings went down that so few domes appear when looking at the save file? I would have expected, as the very least, a Dome of Arcane Warding over every important castle with a high concentration of fragile mages.

...Anyhow, looks like you had a good game. Did anybody feel that other factions were particularly overpowered, or how did that aspect work out?

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They were waiting for their equipment to be forged, bloodhunting seemed like a good use of their time (the 5B tartarian was doing some forging as well).

I am perhaps over obesesive about equipping my commanders as well as possible...


Oh yes they were truly excellent. I lost less than 10 all game I am quite sure. I probably should have been making more of them too, but I always worry about making investments in expensive troops once the game really goes over to ritual/battlefield magic and SCs. The Sea Kings with hydra armour and rings of regen really rocked as well... excellent stats, and 18hp/turn regen!

I have to admit I am quite reactive when it comes to domes... and really thats very bad esp. playing Tien Chi when flames from the sky can really ruin your caster's day. However, no one ever targetted my mage concentrations so it worked out ok in the end http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

It seemed good to me. Certainly one of the more fun games I have played in a long time... was actually very sad to see it end! I daresay I will run another game using this scenario in the near future, probably along with the balance mod I am using for the Faerun Mod Test game.

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At one time I had 4 domes over my main 3 territories and 1-2 domes over most other castle spaces. For awhile I was getting hit with a ton of artillery spells as shown by the few domes still up.

On that note, one of my favorite moments of that game after getting hit turn after turn after turn with wind ride and that summon earth elemental spell was to cast wind ride of my own and see his arch druid show up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Also, one thing to remember is that this was a noob game. I know that there was at least one other person other than myself that this was their first MP game. Most of the players had been in 1-3 games before with Yossar being the exception I believe.