DOM III Speculation

[Nerfix]

I think there will be more money, supplies and resources floating around compared to Dominions II.

EDIT:

Vampires are no longer ethereal. I think they were quite popular summons in Dominions II. Hmmm'e.

[WraithLord]

I don't recall vampires being that impressive in DOM-II. Wonder why they got nerfed...

[Endoperez]

WraithLord said:
I don't recall vampires being that impressive in DOM-II. Wonder why they got nerfed...

Vampire Queen was pretty impressive. I'm not that sure about the regular vampires, but the change also makes Black Forest Vampire Counts less abusable.

[Graeme Dice]

Endoperez said:
Vampire Queen was pretty impressive. I'm not that sure about the regular vampires, but the change also makes Black Forest Vampire Counts less abusable.

There was nothing to abuse there, since they don't start with any armour, don't have the stats to avoid being hit, and black forest Ulm can't give them enough armour to keep them from dying in two turns to light infantry.

[Endoperez]

Graeme Dice said:
There was nothing to abuse there, since they don't start with any armour, don't have the stats to avoid being hit, and black forest Ulm can't give them enough armour to keep them from dying in two turns to light infantry.

Interesting. I had thought they were what raised Black Forest above base/Iron Faith themes in usefulness. I didn't think Astral, Blood and Nature would be more powerful than Earth 2 Fire 1 and a forge bonus, and the units were worse except for the stealthy crossbowmen (Rangers?).

What makes Black Forest better than base Ulm? Or, lets put it this way, what makes base Ulm even worse than Black Forest?

[WraithLord]

After the VQ price had been steeply raised it was no longer that impressive. As to the vamps usefulness I second Graeme's opinion.

Oh, I found this new bit:
"'r' and Backspace works on OSX."
I wonder, could it be that its actually possible to rewind battle replays?

[Graeme Dice]

Endoperez said:
What makes Black Forest better than base Ulm? Or, lets put it this way, what makes base Ulm even worse than Black Forest?

Base Ulm doesn't have access to death magic or blood magic without empowerment or your pretender. Base Ulm also doesn't have high precision archers for early expansion. Being able to forge things cheaply doesn't help very much when all you can make is earth items, unless you were lucky enough to find independent mages to summon things to put those items on.