Undertow - Winner: Micah as Shinuyama!

Shovah32 · #1 February 25th, 2007, 04:00 PM

What im trying to say is that itis fun and that it does require alot of thinking and planning to make good SCs and even then, none are invincible(although a fairly survivable SC with amazing reinvig and phoenix pyre can seem like it)

Micah · #2 February 25th, 2007, 05:58 PM

You've also got blood magic..spam a few Life for a Life spells at it.

FAJ · #3 February 25th, 2007, 07:30 PM

I am only blood 7. Even if I could manage blood 8, My mages burn my slaves to death, and the mages themeselves dont last longer than a round or two :/.

Shovah, i am not saying that it isnt fun for others to make an SC, but in all seriousness, it doesnt require as much thought as you say. What I am saying is that I wish Dominions was more about troops and tactics, and less about spell/item combinations. I tried wishing for that, and it didn't work. Worst 100 pearls ever spent

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Micah · #4 February 26th, 2007, 10:16 AM

Life for a life is range 100 though, so neither the slaves or the mages need to last longer than 1 round to get that to work.

Anyhow, even if you can't pull it off this game, it is a viable counter to an SC, which I'm assuming is at least a conjuration 8 chassis, likely with construction 6 or 8 items on top of it, so there's research parity there, to address the more general concern of SCs killing the game. They're powerful, even nearly unstoppable, but so are a lot of other, easier tactics earlier in the game...a few hundred archers with flaming arrows is pretty brutal, and ask any Ulm player what it's like to start next to a nation with elephants. As I said to one of my friends regarding elephant rushing: "Recruiting units and telling them to attack is not a 'tactic'"

Maybe I'll change my mind on the balance issue once I run into whatever Caelum's tossing around though, we'll see.

FAJ · #5 February 26th, 2007, 11:50 AM

Hehe, I woke up this morning and realized that I had made a terrible mistake. So i jumped on my computer as quickly as possible to try and fix it before the host. The dreaded downloading turn bar showed up and I knew it was over.

So I am now out of the game completely. I will probably go AI in a turn or two, after I use up the rest of my blood slaves harassing caelum.

FAJ · #6 February 28th, 2007, 10:41 PM

Caelum, how did you get youre water queen to have such high regen?

It says she should have UnderWater regen of 70. But she seems to be getting this on land. Is this a bug? She has 90% regen, on land, as far as I can see.

Folket · #7 March 1st, 2007, 02:34 PM

I'm pretty certain that two out of three water queens comes with 90% regen.