New Dom3 races! Post suggestions here!

[deccan]

Drow swordsmen! Drow priestesses! Drow mages! Driders! (And not puny humans riding on spiders either!)

[Edi]

deccan said:
Drow swordsmen! Drow priestesses! Drow mages! Driders! (And not puny humans riding on spiders either!)

*kills deccan*

Infidel! The Drow are absolutely the Last thing EVER that I want to see in Dominions. They were cool in AD&D, but ever since the Icewind Dale and Dark Elf trilogies, everyone and their dog has felt it necessary to stick them in all fantasy, and I'm goddamn sick and tired of it. Machaka as a concept is much more interesting than the drow. Using them would be stale beyond words. Drow do not imnsho belong in Dominions.

Kristoffer, are the tiger riders something akin to the tigrans of AoW2 or the tigermen seen briefly in Raymond E. Feist's Magician books? I was thinking that a felinoid nation would be cool, and seems I'm not to be disappointed...

Edi

[deccan]

Edi said:
*kills deccan*

[Cohen]

I'd like to see a Tibetan Monk race with warrior monks, and ascets, and they can call in aid the powerful mystical tapyrs (that once they were bigger and gifted with uber intelligence and magical powers).

[Kristoffer O]

Uberintelligent TAPYRS of vast magical powers is a must in any good fantasygame. . They are not yet implemented. Until it is you'll have to do with the Catoblepas.

Tibetans never were warrior monks and tapyrs live in South America unless I'm mistaken .

BTW, have you ever seen the burial of a tibetan monk. Carrion birds eat the dead monk while the other monks sit and watch. It's a rather ghastly show, even on film.

[Hakko]

Warrior traditions in Tibet stem from the pre-Buddhist Bon religion. There is a strong strain of shamanistic demon worship in Tibet even today.

A Kabbalistic nation might work: strong astral and earth (golem construction) and a strong line in angelology, good research and priests, weak conventional troops. Flavor troops might be beefed up slingers, zealots, spearmen, rabbis, Masters of the Zohar, Anointed Champion, etc.

[Gandalf Parker]

There is another direction we could come at this from. Im trying to come up with a missing "Category" and drawing a blank. What niche would a new nation fill? Or what niche is abit light in its coverage? We seem to have adequate options for:....
flying
undead
high defense
high research
high offense
heat
cold
water
reptile
avian
amphibian
religious power
swarm tactics
barbarian horde tactics
stealth tactics

OK a 3rd water nation will be good. That will provide some variety to games.

The only one I can come up with would be one trying to make more use of mounted troops.

[Kristoffer O]

Hmm, interesting. I've never heard of the Bon religion. Is it prehistoric? Oral tradition? Connections with Shambala myth?

Do you know any good sources?

[Pocus]

a pre-renaissance gnomish nation, with muskets, black power bombs, zeppelins, steam catapults, etc.
?

[tka]

As someone else has also suggested: I would love to see somekind of Arabian Nights nation. And of course Ashikaga Shogunate -style nation too.

Orcs and other typical fantasy races are a bit boring IMHO.
Mythological/semi-historical races are much more interesting.