MP: The Good, the Bad intermediates and the Ugly noobs // Team BAD (Bbz - Bullock) WIN !!

[Legendary League]

Originally Posted by bbz

I think you overestimate our power o.O I don't see myself as such a power at the moment. I am lagging behind.

Any sort of attack from the west will be enough to break this stalemate, really. Abysia still won't fight me, so there's not much I can do in that department.

Quick question on dom kills. Can't you just stack priests (or priestesses) in a province (or a couple of provinces) and just preach your heart out to save yourself, and combine that with copious amounts of temples everywhere? Or does that not work as a strategy (gold constraints etc.)? It seems to me Arco can do that just fine since you're already rolling everyone with everything from your grotesque research, so you may as well have enough mages.

Just asking, I have no idea how you'd defend yourself from a dom-kill (I don't need to worry about this with my position and inquisitor priests that are my most cost-effective researchers (minus really fortune tellers, but wolfherds are awesome).

[Excist]

Well, H3 national priests can make you fairly immune to domkill since they can preach up to Dom 8 regardless of initial Dom, but the problem with weak priests is H1 priests have almost no chance of reducing -4 Dom to -3 and no chance to reduce higher levels so with a lucky round of domspread you might see bloodsaccing pop a province with enemy dom up above where their priests parked in that province can affect it. This has already happened in a few provinces where Arco has summoned a bunch of H2 telematic animates.

[bbz]

Yea I don't think Arco is going to die from the domkill at first place. About the morrigans yea they are scarry, but they need a lot of fnesse to be handled properly

[bbz]

well we just have to finish you off sooner then

[Legendary League]

Hm. Couldn't Stone Idols work as a means of diminishing enemy dominion? It's the effective equivalent of an H3 priest preaching in reducing dominion, and it's a pretty common set of paths for MA Arco (I believe). Just curious how that would work.

Also, what about The Ark (I know Arco can forge that in a turn or two)?

EDIT: Just realized his pretender has no astral, that explains it.

[Excist]

Stone idols don't prevent Dom spread, they just reduce Dom to 0 in their current province. It just takes 1 temple check to pop Dom up to 1 and then future Dom spread to that province will take it higher or spread from there. Since preaching happens before random Dom spread it will likely reduce the Dom to 0 and then get pumped back up by random spread every turn.

[bbz]

Yea I was wondering about how effective would stone idols if you place loads of commanders holding them at your borthers to the blood sacrificing nation has to fill the dominion again and agian at those borther province.

[bbz]

yea but that uses up dominion checks right? so if you have say 2 lanes of this your blood sacrificing will be filling up those provinces instead of invading enemy ones right?
Meaning more checks done refilling that proinve= less checks done reducing enemy dominion in inner provinces.

[Legendary League]

Still, it seems like a good way of reducing high enemy dominion to a point where you can preach back your dominion. Priestesses are H2, which means they have a 60% chance at raising from a dominion of 0, and a temple puts them at H2, so 90%.

...jesus, how many blood slaves are you sacrificing a turn!?!?!?!

Also, note to self, remember the importance of dominion in my games, and don't try to survive with low dominion in MP games without inquisitors.

[Excist]

Well, I started blood sacking in earnest after nosantee violated his NAP and I currently am generating 33 temple checks/ turn. My peak was 44 when I had temples in the countryside and a 5th fort to sac out of.