Happiness in Darkness -An Argatha Ktonian Dead AAR

[Agrajag]

Are you sure its a wise plan to attack Caelum with X-Bows and necroes? Wouldn't they just fly over and eliminate your weak X-Bowers in melee?

(Hehe, apparently XBow and Xbox aren't that far away on the keyboard )

[Nerfix]

I found the update interesting. How soon it will be untill we will be seeing more summons?

[JaydedOne]

*smile* I really like the map, by the way. I think the possibilities of playing a water nation on it look like a lot of fun.

And thank you for the detailed write-up of strategy. I'm personally happy to see that much insight into how you're playing the game.

[Boron]

The comments are this time almost an update also.

Agrajag said:
Are you sure its a wise plan to attack Caelum with X-Bows and necroes? Wouldn't they just fly over and eliminate your weak X-Bowers in melee?

(Hehe, apparently XBow and Xbox aren't that far away on the keyboard )

Hehe that might be true .

If Caelum had many fliers on my border . They AI is playing a ground based Caelum though on my border.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4531/1ah9.jpg

So there are only a few fliers mentioned in the spy reports. The 2 fliertypes in the caelum castle are only mediocre.



So my X-bows should have 2-3 times higher numbers and should defeat them hopefully. At least i am taking this risk .

JaydedOne said:
*smile* I really like the map, by the way. I think the possibilities of playing a water nation on it look like a lot of fun.

And thank you for the detailed write-up of strategy. I'm personally happy to see that much insight into how you're playing the game.

Yeah the map is done by Jason Lutes. He did some excellent Maps for Dom2 already, but this map he did for Dom3 is imho even better. It is fair and beautiful .

Glad that you and Nerfix liked my strategy chapter .

Nerfix said:
I found the update interesting. How soon it will be untill we will be seeing more summons?

I am right now researching conjuration and have gathered ~15 Necros already in the gateway province, so in a few turns i should be able to summon umbrals .
And quite a horde . I have currently 195 deathgem, one umbral costs 2 deathgems, so 1 deathgem thanks to the gateway, so i can summon about 200 umbrals soon .

[Nerfix]

Interesting, Raptors are actually around in middle Caelum too?

Good luck. 200 Umbrals sounds like a force to be reckoned with!

[Boron]

Nerfix said:
Interesting, Raptors are actually around in middle Caelum too?

Good luck. 200 Umbrals sounds like a force to be reckoned with!

No Raptors in middle era for Caelum.
In early era the raptors are around though.
Somehow it makes sense, since in dom2 the caelum theme was called return of raptors.
So in early era the raptors are there, in middle era gone, and in late era they are returned again .

Hm yeah, but i will only use them in emergencies since i want to wait till i have buffs (=battlefield enchancements) for the umbrals .

[Endoperez]

Nerfix said:
Interesting, Raptors are actually around in middle Caelum too?

Good luck. 200 Umbrals sounds like a force to be reckoned with!

Firest, this is Late Age game.

Second, Umbrals are summoned one at a time, so I doubt Boron actually fields all of them at once.

[Nerfix]

Oh, sorry, I forgot this is LA.

[Boron]

"Late fall in the year 3 of the ascension wars"

Lots of stuff happened:


4 indy attacks: Tritons, they did of course win because as land nation you cannot buy underwater province defense, Barbarians and Villains, they were both defeated, and a Vampire Count.

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8537/5ge4.jpg
A rather big battle in Talito, ~200 caelian troops vs. ~ 50 argatha defenders + ca. 50 PD troops (PD strength of 25).
The caelian fliers luckily killed a necro.

It was a tough battle, but occasional lucky magma eruption hits from our surviving necro forced the caelian hordes finally to retreat after our pd troops have fled already.
The caelian troops look so strange because one of their mages casted arrow fend.

Not many casualities, but if caelum had had about 100-150 more troops i think they would have slaughtered my force.

Caleum has a few more troops on the front than i thought. I will need to wait for reinforcements.

[Boron]

Endoperez said:
Second, Umbrals are summoned one at a time, so I doubt Boron actually fields all of them at once.

I plan to simply set about 20 Necros to monthly summon and once i have battlefield buffs + teleporters i use them then to take down large AI armies. Maybe i move them via stygian paths, maybe with some lucky tartarians which can astral travel. I have not yet summoned a tartarian in Dom3, so i dunno which randoms they can get. I hope they still have linked randoms like in Dom2 and that i can this way get some that can astral travel .