Did you know that? (Dominions trivia)

[Ewierl]

Yeah, it was quite a shocker for me in MP when all my longbowmen charged straight into melee. I looked at the replays, and in the first battle they'd fired bows as normal, so their commands were all correct. The only explanation I can see is that they were out of arrows from round 1.

P.S:

Taqwus said:...that not even national heroes (or Hinnom commanders...) are guaranteed to peacefully coexist?

What does that mean?

[Taqwus]

OM NOM NOM, in the case of Hinnom's cannibalism.

Sauromatia has a couple of national heroes who have a certain history and shouldn't remain in the same province if you want to keep 'em both. I don't recall if other nations have similar situations.

[Tifone]

I think Bandar Log with the fallen four-harmed thing hero (Devasura). But I don't really remember.

I'm very surprised by the non-healing-nor-reloading thing too. A big advantage to the counterpart without any doubt.

[MaxWilson]

No healing is not a surprise, since healing takes place in a later phase. What surprises me is the notion that ammunition is explicitly tracked, and reloaded during the healing phase. I need to verify this because it's just plain weird--PD regenerates between battles, mages go down to zero fatigue, but archer arrows are still expended? Maybe it's done on purpose to be thematic, though.

-Max

[Nikelaos]

i believe eriu or tir nan og (can't remember which) has two heros which won't live together in the same province, the 1 with the spear always kills the other according to the little description i read on one of the heros.

[MaxWilson]

... you can have climate effects during an Arena match? E.g. cold-blooded creature creature in cold climate takes extra +1 encumbrance. Dominion effects on morale don't seem to apply, though.

-Max

[chrispedersen]

I have never gone to a deathmatch - is there a way to know in advance what the climate is likely to be like.. or is it random arena?

It would be cool if the annoucement said...

Territory X is hosting a deathmatch...

[MaxWilson]

NTJedi thinks it will always be in the province which has the Arena site. I'm confused though because I think I may have seen multiple Arena sites in some games. Also, sometimes it doesn't zoom in on the province (although that may be only when score graphs are turned off or you haven't discovered the province in question, I'm not sure).

Basically, no there's no way to tell.

-Max

[Edratman]

I can confirm that multiple arenas do occur. (One of my current games even has 2 arenas in the same province.)

When there are multiple arenas the arena that is chosen seems to be the one closest to the center of the map. In the cases whee I know there are multiple arenas, I have never seen the match change from the initial site. Nor have I seen it change provinces at any time.

I have never seen it fail to zoom in on the province.

[MaxWilson]

I just posted a trn in the Fear Mechanics thread showing that units in melee can recover Morale. In that trn, the arena does not zoom in on a province before fights.

-Max