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Originally Posted by earcaraxe
on domkilling: i didnt use dragons in all my forts (and im not referring here to Baal Chozron  ), in half of them only salamanders and demonbreds. I decided i cant afford that much of them. in retrospect it would have been a good idea. So i was blodsaccing from the second half of the mictlan war (because i thought it was much easier to domkill him out of his fort, than kill all those defending sacreds), and the bloodsaccing got to full speed when i saw ermor's 50 behemoths, which handily flattened my sacreds. I like to make an anathemant dragon my prophet, but my first one died the first winter So i didnt stealth-preach, because i didnt have any. Just bloodsaccing and the 8-10 idols (12 at the end). |
That's very interesting. So at the end of the game you only had six blood sacrificers, half of them H2, half H3, and nobody preaching and were able to pull off a dom kill. Btw, I didn't mean that you were stealth preaching - I was just wondering if you had mages preaching from your forts in addition to the blood sacrificer at each one. My dominion defenses weren't great but in my cap and one other province I had 6+ H2s preaching. Maybe the stone idols were the key - clearing my dominion out of provinces and then your stronger dominion took over?
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Maybe u are right about the possible success of that alternate, not-domkilling strategy, perhaps i will try that next time in a similar situation. I chose domkilling, partly because I felt totally helpless versus ur thugs.
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Don't get me wrong - the dom kill strategy worked just fine. I was just saying that I was in bad shape and other strategies could have also worked quite well - but you didn't necessarily know that I was in bad shape so sticking with your plan (which had been quite successful so far) made complete sense.
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So u say melancholy gets past the air dome? Does it also shatter it?
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No, it doesn't shatter it - it just ignores it. The dome is still there afterwards.
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I think u r more likely to bid high on mercenary's than other players. i tried a couple times to lure away the astral mercs, because i wanted them out of the way (mind hunt protection, Antimagic and luck amulets for thugs), but they were quite loyal.
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Hmm, that may be the case. I don't use them all that much so if I want them (usually for magic diversity) I'm willing to spend for them. This game was kind of different in that I used mercs a lot. I really liked those shamblers with their high strength. I never got outbid for them but eventually they just left despite me putting in a bid.
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how did that firbolg champion be so quick to catch my scout at ur capitol?
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I think that was just lucky. I had 40 militia patrolling there and I guess they uncovered the scout and then the firbolg champion killed him. I should have summoned some black hawks and added them to the patrolling forces.
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regarding the disease at my capitol: r u saying, that if u have two scouts and one of them gets mindhunted the other can pick up some of his items?
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No, nothing like that. It's just that I figured eventually the bane venom carrying sidhe champion would be killed and I figured I'd try to get the flying boots out of there before that happened so I had a scout waiting there to pick them up.