Bogarus Rises! Dominions 3.14 Now Available!

MKDELTA · #1 January 28th, 2008, 04:34 PM

The graphics are nice, albeit different from the general Dominions 3 style. The bit "stretched" horse graphics are my only quibble too. I haven't compared units pixel to pixel, but Bogarussians also look slightly taller than ordinary humans in Dominions.

Taqwus · #2 January 28th, 2008, 04:49 PM

Oh, spiffy. Sounds inteeeerresting.

Been distracted quite a bit by an (unfortunately quite buggy, currently) computer port of EiA, but will have to check this out -- and the changes to Touch of Madness sound very nice. Once had a minor caster cast it on my pretender, heh.

VedalkenBear · #3 January 28th, 2008, 05:04 PM

Taqwus: EiA... Empires in Arms? There's a port of it?

Re: Bogarus:

1) Their national troops are quite bad, especially for late era. Luckily for them, that isn't their focus.

2) Incredible magic for LE. Cheap site-searcher in the Occultist (I think his name is), a good versatile capital-only mage, and a researcher. Plus varied other stuff.

3) Lady of Springs is quite an interesting pretender for them, since she gives them Water and Nature magic, and the gems to use their water summons. I actually was playing a Water-4, Earth-2, Death-1, Nature-4 AWAKE Lady of Springs for a bit. Bought the capital-only Mage first turn, prophetized my original commander, and could immediately search for every site possible between those 3.

4) Summons are quite interesting.

a) Dog: It's armed with a Falchion? Is this a bug? OTOH, it flies and has a patrol bonus of 20. IOW, it can catch most anything.

b) Firebird: Pretty much one-shot wonder, given the lack of defense. Other stuff is more likely better.

c) Lady Midday: Looks really good. Flying, Ethereal, _not Undead_, Fear(0), and armed with a disease-carrying Scythe. Oh, and troop. I can imagine getting 20 of these together will cause havoc.

d) Sirin: Interesting Seductress, but can't kill anything if she doesn't actually seduce the target.

e) Next Harpy: Holy-3, Standard(20), Flying Leader. Looks good to me.

Haven't really seen the others yet.

5) Heroes:

I got one that might be a multihero. Basically, a Holy-1 Leadership 120 Standard(20) beater. (Cavalry)

Aaaaand... Baba Yaga showed up. She's Air-3, Water-1, Death-4, and Nature-2. And she flies (as she should). Note she has many paths (Water, Death, and Nature) that you generally can't get otherwise. Also, she is by far the best Leader I've seen for Bogarus to command their magical/demon flying troops. (Lady Midday, Devils, and Storm Demons.)

More when I find it.

MKDELTA · #4 January 28th, 2008, 05:16 PM

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VedalkenBear said:
d) Sirin: Interesting Seductress, but can't kill anything if she doesn't actually seduce the target.

Give them those skeleton summoning amulets (I forgot the name :/). That'll kill a lot of regular commanders.

Taqwus · #5 January 28th, 2008, 05:48 PM

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VedalkenBear said:
Taqwus: EiA... Empires in Arms? There's a port of it?

Yep. Not really on-topic here, but there's one published by Matrix Games. Just beware the bugs, as some of them can be extremely nasty (like, oh, human-controlled nations being spontaneously taken over by the less-than-brilliant AI; or nations surrendering to France instead of someone else, even if they're not at war with France).

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Aaaaand... Baba Yaga showed up. She's Air-3, Water-1, Death-4, and Nature-2. And she flies (as she should). Note she has many paths (Water, Death, and Nature) that you generally can't get otherwise. Also, she is by far the best Leader I've seen for Bogarus to command their magical/demon flying troops. (Lady Midday, Devils, and Storm Demons.)

Sounds tasty. Offers a path towards Spectres and Lamia Queens, and some more options if one can get the water up.

Edi · #6 January 28th, 2008, 06:00 PM

While we're on the subject of the new patch, I'm looking forward to taking a look at it, but any DB updates are currently postponed for the near future. Once I do get to it, it won't take long to add the new units, though any new specialties will just be tacked on to the end instead of new columns inserted between existing ones.

I've made some promises regarding some HoMM5 maps (translations), so I need to keep those. Then you lot can conveniently blame Kaljamaha for getting me The Witcher for a Christmas present, so that's put other things on backburner. And after eleven months of being constantly around the forums and riding herd on the shortlist, I do need a bit of a break from Dominions, so The Witcher is precisely what the doctor ordered. While I will be around, it won't be with the kind of intensity many here are used to. I'll keep checking the bug discussion and jotting down notes on what needs to be added, but I'm going to have to cut things back unless I want to burn out.

Edi · #7 January 28th, 2008, 06:02 PM

Oh, ands this needs to be stickified asap!

lch · #8 January 28th, 2008, 06:00 PM

One of the players in one of my MP games reports a problem. I patched the server to 3.14, I think he didn't yet. He wants to upload his turn orders and the server just keeps sending him the current turn again, over and over and over.

I haven't heard from the others yet, did anybody else experience anomalies like this?

Saxon · #9 January 29th, 2008, 10:07 AM

For the name, the "rus" part shows a clear link to Russia, which the Baba Yaga is part of. Not sure about the rest.

thejeff · #10 January 29th, 2008, 10:19 AM

I believe Bog is a Russian word for God.