Conquerors of the Sea

Olive · #1 June 2nd, 2006, 09:37 AM

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In 2.79 CoS gets the old CoS leaders as well as the DF ones, that's a pretty original combo !
Maybe it's a temporary unfinished situation, who knows ...

If it's without forced turmoil, I want'em.

Nerfix · #2 June 2nd, 2006, 09:54 AM

Sounds quite �ber.

Sandman · #3 June 2nd, 2006, 02:58 PM

Fire/blood and astral/air, all at level 2 - that's very good indeed. Utterly superior to base Marignon, in any case.

I hope the developers don't take this three eras thing too far. CotS and DF are presumably alternate futures, should they really be mixed?

Nerfix · #4 June 2nd, 2006, 03:13 PM

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Fire/blood and astral/air, all at level 2 - that's very good indeed. Utterly superior to base Marignon, in any case.

I hope the developers don't take this three eras thing too far. CotS and DF are presumably alternate futures, should they really be mixed?

Propably not...it's a bit worrying. It's so...mishmash-ish.

Sandman · #5 June 3rd, 2006, 05:43 AM

I don't want any more Black Foresty themes - the poster child for mishmash nations.

Having said that, it might be fun to create 'unified' themes (all units from all eras) for special multiplayer games.

Nerfix · #6 June 3rd, 2006, 07:50 AM

One things that is also worrying me is that the Late era which was labeled as an era of advanced units and low magic slowly seems more and more like era of Death...

- Ashen Ermor
- Cthonic Dead of Agarta - whatever it is it doesn't sound promising
- Carrion Pangaea(?)
- Black Forest Ulm (?)

Now, I could be horribly wrong but this is quite worrying, mostly because having a pile of nations with death dominion and pile of nations relying on units is guaranteed to cause hair-tearing fury...

Agrajag · #7 June 3rd, 2006, 12:11 PM

Now that you mention it, there's kind of a flaw in the logic of Ashen Ermor in a low magic era, because Ashen Ermor is all about magic. Heck, it uses death gems instead of gold.

Sandman · #8 June 3rd, 2006, 05:44 PM

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One things that is also worrying me is that the Late era which was labeled as an era of advanced units and low magic slowly seems more and more like era of Death...

- Ashen Ermor
- Cthonic Dead of Agarta - whatever it is it doesn't sound promising
- Carrion Pangaea(?)
- Black Forest Ulm (?)

Now, I could be horribly wrong but this is quite worrying, mostly because having a pile of nations with death dominion and pile of nations relying on units is guaranteed to cause hair-tearing fury...

If dom2 is anything to go by, the 'advanced unit/low magic' thing isn't set in stone. After all, base Man is probably more magically powerful than Tuatha. Similarly, Niefelheim is magically weaker than the later Jotun themes.

Perhaps the main difference is in the specialisation of units. Early game commanders are likely to be warrior/mage/priest combinations, whilst the late game will have specialised leaders.