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April 19th, 2008, 01:09 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
make it so cleve
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April 19th, 2008, 04:06 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
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-Starting PD>=50, to discourage immediate capital capture.
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Well, at least in monkeys' case that would be for no profit.
And 10 provinces - do you mean that all provinces are capitals? If so, it would be just rush for whoever could pull it from the start... Not a lot of fun in my opinion. And I don't understand what guardians you mean in such a case.
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April 20th, 2008, 09:16 AM
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Re: Astral Duel
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Wrana said:
do you mean that all provinces are capitals?
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No, it would be designed for only 2 nations to "duel" each other at one time. Sure, it would make a rush ridiculously easy against an unwary opponent, but of course he'd be expecting that...
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Wrana said:
And I don't understand what guardians you mean in such a case.
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Test out the Conj6 spell Ether Gate. It gives you an Ether Lord (an Astral+Death) mage, and a bunch of ethereal troops; their description claims they come from the Astral Plane or some such nonsense, so it would be thematic to have them guard the "provinces."
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April 20th, 2008, 02:42 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
The Astral Duel makes me recall an idea that QM had a while back. A game of only capitals where all were interconnected. So you would come out of your gates and immediately be fighting massive capital defense and seige battles. Game would only last 12-18 turns I bet.
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April 20th, 2008, 02:44 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
And if you are just polling for ideas, I ran a game towards the end of the Dom2 era called, unsurprisingly, The Artifact Game. In this game I handed out all the artifacts in the game to each nation at start. It turned out to be really cool to see how each artifact influenced that nation. Also the capture and trading of artifacts was pretty cool.
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April 20th, 2008, 04:12 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
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Ironhawk said:
The Astral Duel makes me recall an idea that QM had a while back. A game of only capitals where all were interconnected. So you would come out of your gates and immediately be fighting massive capital defense and seige battles. Game would only last 12-18 turns I bet.
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I like the idea of games that only last 12-18 turns. Might be nice for a blitz... except for the amount of planning each turn might need. Or just a 1-2 week game. The artifact game seems like a fun twist too.
I've been thinking about balanced map designs lately. Here's an typical symmetrical map from Wesnoth that I've been thinking of imitating:
http://forum.wesnoth.org/download/fi...496c20f9d83e5f
http://forum.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3483
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April 20th, 2008, 04:31 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
Lands of Darkness
Start the game with the Utterdark up at 999 gems, and make every home province have like 300K population. Basically, this is game for summons, SCs, and blood hunting.
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April 20th, 2008, 05:41 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
Ironhawk I think it would last longer since starting armies don't break walls that fast
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April 20th, 2008, 05:47 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
Only one way to know for sure
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April 23rd, 2008, 10:15 PM
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Re: Astral Duel
Speaking of planescapes, I believe the [url=http://dom3maps.wikidot.com/system:eightgates]Eight Gates[/i] map qualifies as an unusual setting.
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