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Old September 1st, 2006, 12:09 AM
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Finished the second chapter. Since it is on the first page of the thread and i did not find a way to backlink to it from here i am simply posting the chapter again so that you do not have to search it in the first page of the thread.
Enjoy .

Also from now on i am linking the bigger screenshots instead simply via direct link, this way the thumbnails do not use bandwith in vain because you cannot recognize anything on them anyways.

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Thanks for the AAR Boron, I really enjoyed it....
Thanks, i hope you enjoy the now finished 2nd chapter as well .



I think this is now also a good opportunity to make some propaganda for the (almost) "official" dominions irc channel. Have you ever been there yet? Since we betas are now allowed to answer questions about Dominions 3 too and some of the betas are regular guests there. So you might come to the channel and chat about Dom3 and if there are enough people who have time there might also be spontaneous Dom2 blitzes (and in some weeks instead Dom3 blitzes) .

The permanent Dominions IRC community channel:

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Old September 1st, 2006, 12:36 AM
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Thank you for the links Boron!
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Old September 1st, 2006, 09:53 AM
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You have already quite the empire! I hope you can keep it against the AI!


So, how about those summons...
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wow, keep it up Boron. Nice long and detailed AAR.
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Old September 1st, 2006, 07:39 PM
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I like how you're explaining many new features in context! Thanks.

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Old September 2nd, 2006, 07:00 PM
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Hm turns are no longer shown in SP, so i will use season descriptions instead . Because i can only be sure about the turn if it is the begin of a new year, otherwise something like "summer in the year 2 of the ascension wars" can refer to 2-3 turns i think . Only in MP games the exact turn is still shown.

"Late summer in the year 2 of the ascension wars"

We conquered our first underwater province. It was only guarded by 9 shamblers, so our 40 fishies defeated them easily .
Site searching is progressing, we have researched conjuration 3 now too and can search for death provinces now too. Well only conjuration 2 is necessary for dark knowledge, but we wanted conjuration 3 for summon earthpower.

So currently we have thaumaturgy 2 and conjuration 3 researched, now we research evocation 6 (will take at least 10 more turns from now on). Evocation 6 has an absolute key spell for our nation with magma eruption then.

You old veterans might notice that the range of magma eruption is now shorter. This has been done for the other good no-gem damage spells too. This way they are more balanced because they are still as deadly as in Dom2, but because of the shorter range you will suffer more friendly fire casualities and archers counter artillery mages now somewhat because of this change .

"Early Fall in the year 2 of the ascension wars"

Hm seems the turn descriptions are more exact than i thought. Early fall, fall, late fall etc.. So i could use exact turn numbers too. But the Dom3 way sounds imho more stylish, so i will stick to this description now .

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We have encountered our first neighbor. It is Ermor .
Currently according to scoregraphs they are about half as large as we are. So i have to buy more temples and try to kill them asap .

On a side note our secret weapon, our super shooters do not as well as we hoped . We had 2-3 battles where 10-20 indy knights defeated large crossbow armies we sent. Probably their low precision is the problem. We will switch completely to blind fighters and necros now. Vs. archers the crossbows would anyways be not very useful. Now that we have 3-4 new castles we are reaching the stage anyways were gold income and not resources becomes the bottleneck.
At least our propagandaminister did a good job. So our people still believe that those far away battles were successes . And they are kept happy with drugs and psychedelic music anyways .

"Winter in the year 2 of the ascension wars"

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We border now Caelum and Abysia too. The ichtyids cost only 3 resources for the net ones and 7 for the better armored ones. With the castle there we can now recruit ca. 40 + an ichtyid commander per turn. We will buy hordes of them to conquer the seas now and to raid later the AIs on the other side of the sea there .

Hm an unexpected short update today from me. Turns are now getting bigger, so i need several hours in a row. But today there is unexpectedly a 6 player dom2 nostalgia blitz, so these several hours in a row are not available now . I hope you find it somewhat amusing if i use normally not fitting and occasionally well fitting music every now and then to loosen the AAR a bit .
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Old September 3rd, 2006, 11:59 AM
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Thank you for the links Boron!
Your welcome. And thanks for the idea, the links are better than the thumbnails i think .

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It's like coming back to the family after a long long vacation. OK, I'm ready despite knowing that I am and always will be a Dominion doormat.
Welcome back .

Don't worry, i tend to be always too lazy to do MM to the degree Arch, Turin or Yurri do it. So if i make the "fault" to try to MM in the next game with them as much as they eventually i will stop Micromanaging so much and get soundly beaten by them again .

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Glad that you like it .

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wow, keep it up Boron. Nice long and detailed AAR.
Thanks again DominionsFAN .

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You have already quite the empire! I hope you can keep it against the AI!


So, how about those summons...
Yeah it is starting to get big .
Some of the summons might soon get summoned, i got a strong incentive to research conjuration.
I found the ultimate gateway this turn !!!!!
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Ultimate Gateway, isn't that the 40% bonus to Conjuration site? Wow! Talk about luck!
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Ultimate Gateway, isn't that the 40% bonus to Conjuration site? Wow! Talk about luck!
Even 50% .
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Old September 3rd, 2006, 01:08 PM
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Oooooh. Even better.
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