Favorite nations so far?

NTJedi · #1 October 12th, 2006, 10:01 PM

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upstreamedge said:
I think LA ryleh and Ermor are actually overpowered, once I was playing against Ryleh and they got a Vastness on the third turn, needless to say I was down pretty quick

Overpowered is good for a few nations... if they were all balanced then SP gamers would have to resort to editing .map files much sooner to enjoy a challenging game.

Frostmourne27 · #2 October 12th, 2006, 10:13 PM

Yes but what if you want play AS one of the overpowered nations?

Zen · #3 October 12th, 2006, 10:16 PM

Most overpowered nations have a critical weakness or inherent flaw so that no matter how 'overpowered' a nation can be defeated with the application of solid strategy.

Even under the nature of luck in the game.

Frostmourne27 · #4 October 12th, 2006, 10:19 PM

True, and you can play in more fun/odd ways that aren't quite so good - turmoil and luck for example (instead of order). still, even from what I can see from my rather poor perch in the demo, a balance mod, or a lot of patches will be needed to balance things out, especially for multiplayer.

Zen · #5 October 12th, 2006, 10:30 PM

Everyone has their own opinion on balance in games such as these. However, it would be safe to say you should probably see the full game and the full length and breadth of what the game offers. It does have nation shifts, strategy shifts, and that doesn't even include the diplomatic play.

Gandalf Parker · #6 October 13th, 2006, 01:21 AM

Actually you will all be surprised to find out that the most overpowered nation in Dom3 is Oceania. Running multiple games with 79 nations on a fast burn (all AI and hosting continually) tended to show Ermor taking an early lead till about turn 20, then Oceania leads by turn 50. Of course eventually Arcos gains enough magic to make a strong showing and not enough games were run to the final win in order to make any guess at the actual most common winner in huge games.

So Id say Ermor on small maps, and Oceania on medium maps, and Arcos on large maps.

Fate · #7 October 13th, 2006, 01:49 AM

I like Jomon alot, though I found Yomi was a bit hard to play (I will need a bit to figure them out).

I also like MA Agartha because it has been the first nation I succesfully pursued a summoning strat with (from the manual,

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Finally, I am having fun with Pythium's Angel summons.

KissBlade · #8 October 13th, 2006, 02:26 AM

AI is retarded and not a good judge. Also Oceania isn't a LA era. Dreamlands you get uber mages that're recruitable everywhere, offensive dominion and the ability to just cluster your troops in one big block of attack closest to conquer the aters.

DominionsFan · #9 October 13th, 2006, 07:06 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:
Actually you will all be surprised to find out that the most overpowered nation in Dom3 is Oceania. Running multiple games with 79 nations on a fast burn (all AI and hosting continually) tended to show Ermor taking an early lead till about turn 20, then Oceania leads by turn 50. Of course eventually Arcos gains enough magic to make a strong showing and not enough games were run to the final win in order to make any guess at the actual most common winner in huge games.

So Id say Ermor on small maps, and Oceania on medium maps, and Arcos on large maps.

Hm...yesterday we had a chat with Boron about Oceania...we both agreed that Oceania isn't very good actually. Their best mage unit [capricorn] will loose -1 magic skill in all paths on land and their sacred troops's [trident knight] encumbrance is 8. Their regualr troops are pretty average. However the merman is pretty good, because he can throw a net.