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JaydedOne said:
Okay, Endo and Co., with the game shipping, I say you put together a fun final set of Screenies.
Perhaps a Top Ten Screenshots To Make You Check Your Mailbox Every Hour. Or a My Top Ten Favorite New Things in Dom 3. Or a "My Top Ten Favorite Pretenders Designed In Beta." Or something similarly delicious.
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... but you'll see those any way, in just a few days! Well, more like a week. Or more.
OK, I see why you want to see something new. What about a short story?
A random Early AGe game, on a small map, with default settings. My random nation happened to be Kailasa. I decided to do something you might try one of the first times you play: an extreme bless with Imprisoned pretender. Fire 9 Water 9 with a Mother of Rivers, IIRC.
I got to the map, which was small. Maybe 10 land provinces, and few seas in the south end of the map. I started in the north-western corner. I bought Yavatas, proceeded to advance two-three provinces, and found out my enemy. EA Ulm. His forces seemed small enough, and I decided to try and finish him quickly. I sent in reinforcements and recruited a mercenary group with a H2 Inquisitor leading them, to help against enemy dominion.
I attacked, beat him, saw his capital, and attacked. I beat the defenders. I also saw that he had conquered most of the provinces next to his capital.
Time went by, nothing much happened. He took provinces, I beat his forces with some losses, etc. At some point, I was freaked out by a small squad of his experienced, two-handed sword wielding, att/def 14 prot 16 or something sacred units all having at least 2 affliction, but I never found out what had happened. With his bless of Fire 6, Air 7, Nature 6 or something.
I proceeded to start advancing with another force in my capital, but it was expensive due to my Kailasa's cheapest priest being 360 gp. H1 and 5 paths of magic, granted, but still a priest for 360 gp. I couldn't tackle one of my starting neighbourd due to it being Earth Mother defended special one, so I had to waste a turn moving south. After that turn, I realized Ulm had advanced westwards, because he now owned the province I had wanted to conquer. His forces were mostly archers, the bane of Yavatas. I attacked another province of his, and bought some other mercs.
He kicked my second army's butt. Archers hurt.
Well, no biggie. I'll burst into his capital. And hey, I just reached Conjuration 3, I'll summon some of these celestial dancers! They are essentially unarmed Yavata with higher Awe, they should work fine!
I did succeed in conquering Ulm's capital, but his damn Phoenix cast damn annoying Suplhur Haze straight on my main squad, not hitting any of his own guys, when my guys were bundled on to the small gate leading inside their Fortified City! I won the battle, but lost all but one of my Yavatas, and only got one mage and some MI and archers of his (the Phoenix escaped).
The next turn, I was of course besieged in his capital, but could summon some Fall Bears with a Yakhsa that had brought reinforcements. I kept him from reaching my capital with other forces, but his army outnumbered mine in there. I bought mercs (horde of ghouls and crystal amazons) and sent another force to re-claim his capital, while my scout discovered that he had made another fort.
It seemed to be going well, I forgot to re-bid one of the mercs, he bid them, and succeeded in conquering few of my provinces. I might be able to keep him off, but he has bigger armies, can recruit faster, and my upper hand in magic doens't work as well as I expected. I was researching Construction, but that wouldn't have helped me against everything he had to throw against me.
Do you realize what this was? A blitz versus the AI, on a random map! I enjoyed it! See the attached picture for proof.
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