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Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars April 1st, 2004, 11:41 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I am not arguing against that, and I am certainly not suggesting that people invest heavily in equipment to boost weak astral mages to give them...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars April 1st, 2004, 07:56 AM
Replies: 98
Views: 12,663
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Big Problem - Unbalanced random events

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I could not disagree more.

For me, a Vampire Queen is THE early-game Super Combatant as the only item she needs to make her a nearly unstoppable...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars April 1st, 2004, 07:48 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

Yes, velk, not surviving but NOT surviving. Glaring typo fixed.

As to your calculations, you are wrong.

5+1d6 being less than 2+1d6 happens for (1 5) (1 6) (2 6) which is 3 instances for a...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 31st, 2004, 11:44 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 4,789
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Spell Effects Database?

Very nice work, Sunray!


I have a few problems with the wording of the FotA entry, though
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">FotA gives +1 level in each path for purposes of...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 31st, 2004, 09:54 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 6,203
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Scenario: Orania Nasty Edition

Indeed, Slogan, Mictlan should not be underestimated on this map. Their three important provinces are all rather well guarded. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

As for your...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 31st, 2004, 09:25 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I *really* hope this is true, or as I said there is no defence against Mind Duel.
[/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 31st, 2004, 03:49 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If I knew my enemy had an astral 5 Wyrm, you can damn well believe that I would attack the army where the Wyrm was with an astral squad of death....
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 31st, 2004, 10:48 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Astral 5 vs astral 1 is a near guarantee that the wyrm will win every duel. [/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 31st, 2004, 08:26 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 6,203
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Scenario: Orania Nasty Edition

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Leave Ermor in. They usually run into some problems with Marignon, C'tis, and Pangaea. Often enough that they are not an automatic candidate for...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 09:38 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 6,203
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Scenario: Orania Nasty Edition

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">For MP, I am a bit more concerned with the special spell bonuses from sites. I have tried to balance strength in spell sites with less gems, fewer (or...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 09:30 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, I do not. It was a super-boosted Moloch in all respects. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 09:02 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Tell that to one of my friends' super Molochs with exceptional equipment who lost an arm to my crossbowmen - in melee. He swooped directly into the...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 08:32 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Fine in SP, less fine in MP where one of the astal nations will have a lineup of 6-10+ cheap L1 astral units all with orders to mind duel.

Apart...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 07:24 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,238
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: "A Special Event occurred in Province Q; tax losses were 100 pounds of gold"

I would like it even better if I did not lose 40 gold from trade losses due to a blizzard - in a province that has 0 population and no income to start with. ...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 07:17 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,927
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Death Match Questions

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Why wouldn't it? You gotta think outside the box when you play Dominions. [/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 03:12 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,425
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Countdown to death

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You are wrong. It costs NNNS, 20 nature gems and 5 astral, not SSSN.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 10:08 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,927
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Death Match Questions

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Okay, that one is nasty. I had no idea that ritual of returning worked in Deathmatches http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 08:04 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 6,203
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Scenario: Orania Nasty Edition

Officially, I never finish tweaking any of my projects, Stormbinder http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

That said, I surely hope that I receive feedback from those of you who...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 07:57 AM
Replies: 98
Views: 12,663
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Big Problem - Unbalanced random events

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I have had the unrest in my capital go from 0 to 58 in my capital in turn 3 due to the "Young raging rebels" random event in a luck 3/turmoil 3...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 12:33 AM
Replies: 98
Views: 12,663
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Big Problem - Unbalanced random events

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Oh, it certainly does. Having good scales in general AND a good luck scale will regularly give you some VERY good events. It is just that the way it...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 12:11 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 6,203
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Scenario: Orania Nasty Edition

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Too much bother to maintain strict Version control and cohesion of for a hobby project as I cannot use compiler-directives in the .map files.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 30th, 2004, 12:09 AM
Replies: 98
Views: 12,663
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Big Problem - Unbalanced random events

The most important point as I see it is that the real level of luck, what the player will feel as lucky or not is not really determined by the luck scale at all.

With +3 luck and other negative...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 29th, 2004, 11:49 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,655
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Void Gate Question

Use the move-0 void critters that you occasionally get as bodyguards. They are tough, and you have nothing else to use them for.

And remember to either cast return or use ritual of returning - or...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 29th, 2004, 09:44 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,107
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: Do you get magic items from commanders you kill?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Dropped magic items have a chance of being picked up by the victorious commanders present - assuming that the commanders are able to carry them. They...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 29th, 2004, 07:49 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 8,029
Posted By Peter Ebbesen
Re: On the effective early use of Pretenders in combat

Immobile pretenders certainly have their uses. The are typically cheap and have high starting paths and dominion while having low path costs, which means you can get either stronger ritual magic,...
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