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Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars September 26th, 2005, 03:50 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 3,582
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: What do you think of my prophet?

I notice he's in the HoF, what's his heroic ability? Surprised nobody's asked... But really, that's just an insane stack of injuries (and an insult to boot re the lost head!)
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars September 26th, 2005, 03:42 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 11,266
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: caelum

One small quibble about this build item-wise: Rime Hauberk vs. Ermor? Jade (more speed) or Rainbow (reinvigoration) or even Hydraskin (regeneration) Armor would have been a better choice as undead...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars August 13th, 2005, 02:40 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,226
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Casting spells on another player anonymously..

Rain of Toads can also cause units in the province to get diseased...
Black Death (THAU8 D5) should be added to the above list. Kills 50% of the population, adds some unrest.
Spell manual doesn't...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars July 23rd, 2005, 02:56 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 4,536
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Best sacred units?

I'd be more likely to figure he's telling the truth, since he's been there after all.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
And as to another (closer to topic) point raised...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars May 16th, 2005, 03:07 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 928
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Order of Magical Battles: Specials or Nationals?

Scenario: A and B are attacking a province held by C. A sends Ghost Riders, while B tries to Teleport a conventional(ish) army.
Both of these attacks would be resolved in the Magical Battles...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars May 14th, 2005, 03:46 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,875
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Glamour

For the longest time I thought the term the devs were looking for was glamer but I just looked in a couple of the dictionaries I have lying around... and it wasn't there. (whoa how weird is that......
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 29th, 2005, 04:30 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 3,646
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Cost/Benefit for Castle types

Answering the last two posts here...
Saber: you mean the "have an ally splash a GR onto your Charm Offensive province where your Nature mages mind-control the attackers" stunt? (...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars March 14th, 2005, 06:06 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,363
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Province List issue

Edi: Unfortunately some maps (Orania in particular because the list to choose from is too short) have multiple provinces with the same name... and suppose you control two provinces of identical...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 9th, 2005, 05:14 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 2,619
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: THE List of Dominions2 Questions

Since no-one has gone after original question 3):
If the sieging nation casts, it hits the defenders. If the defenders cast, it hits the siege force. Not sure what happens if a third nation...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 9th, 2005, 04:55 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,210
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Why does the ai EVER choose Fire Flies?

Fire Flies has 6 shots. Fire Darts is 3+ (so an F1 would send 3). The AI assumes (I guess) that "hey, I have twice as many chances to hit!" without noticing that the Darts are bigger hits and...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars December 18th, 2004, 04:08 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,461
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Academy of War question

I understand there is another site like this called the Ancient Master (this one an Astral 1 site). The Site Reference indicates that this one gives 8 XP per turn. Any idea on the effectiveness of...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 20th, 2004, 06:59 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,497
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Items lost when a comamnder dies in a fort w/l

And are you quite sure you want the item back when its recent owner was killed by the item or at least as a result of it? E.G. Items that give a horror mark. In this case the horror shows up, zaps...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 15th, 2004, 01:15 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,042
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Do Fortune Tellers stack the misfortune avoida

And I imagine that that kind of bad event can't be averted by anything but domes if caused by another nation specifically throwing it at you...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars November 4th, 2004, 03:03 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 2,893
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: gateway

Repeating Yossar's question: Check the province(s) your Arch Theurgs were in before Gateway-ing. If the troops aren't there either then you have a real problem.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars September 3rd, 2004, 01:52 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,657
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Void Beasts Dissapear

That is strange considering you had magical leadership (the starspawn guys) and plenty of it. Sounds buggy to me but R'lyeh is not a nation I have much experience with so what do I know...
Edit to...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars September 2nd, 2004, 07:24 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,689
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Dominion condition win? What\'s up?

In which case what if the victory threshold for amount of dominion necessary was set higher than (20* number of provinces on the map)? I know, I know, that's hideously unlikely (except by accident,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars August 7th, 2004, 08:49 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 911
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Upgrade to v2.12 on Mac OS X?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Try dragging the top-level .app (the one with the Moloch for an icon). Be sure to unlock it first (under "Ownership and Permissions" in the Command-i...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars May 27th, 2004, 08:36 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 3,385
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: TRUE effectiveness of VQ/castling/clam-hoarding

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And that's highly unlikely, since the regrouping will be all those troops built at all those other castles that aren't under siege... You end up with...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars May 8th, 2004, 05:28 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 4,562
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Arcoscophile

I figure, now that it's been all day and no-one's mentioned it, that a "spread" Mystic (the 3 ?s not matching) is not as useless as Blitz says. It just takes longer. Consider:
1. Find a duo of...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars May 4th, 2004, 12:53 AM
Replies: 63
Views: 6,127
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Possible way out of the V.Q. Problem

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I LIKE this one. It's better (and shorter, and more directly self-policing) than the "Double-Header Switcheroo" idea I was working on this morning......
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars May 3rd, 2004, 07:27 PM
Replies: 63
Views: 6,127
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Possible way out of the V.Q. Problem

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Also I haven't been around long enough to really get all that deep into things, but I see there's been quite a run of response in 12 hours, I'll have...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars May 3rd, 2004, 07:09 AM
Replies: 63
Views: 6,127
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Possible way out of the V.Q. Problem

I've been watching the Boards and a lot of posters have concluded that the Vampire Queen pretender is overpowered, to the level that one poster reported multiple nations picking that chassis. Since...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars April 27th, 2004, 08:47 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,628
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Need Help in getting Aura-Emitters to stay put

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This may be completely backwards, but once you have enough spells for him to be useful, bring only archers and put him in the FRONT set to casting...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars April 20th, 2004, 10:25 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 49,749
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Dominions II T-Shirt Contest

Oh this is fun just reading these...
These are pretty rough, but if anyone out there wants to sharpen them up...

1. If a god falls in the forest and nobody's left to believe in him, does he get...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars April 19th, 2004, 04:07 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,618
Posted By Etaoin Shrdlu
Re: Does Fire Resistance protect from Flambeau?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The problem is that Flambeau does triple damage (total 39) vs undead, which the V.Q. is. (Note: Haven't used this pretender design yet so I might...
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