Silent Seas AAR

[BigJMoney]

I was wondering that too, but I had to ask myself, "when in Dominions have I ever seen units fighting each other on a north/south plane?" Of course, the answer is "never", so I have to doubt that you can defend or attack that cool looking tower. Maybe we can request that for Dom 4, though! Some castles with multiple sections and specialized defenses you have to conquer. Man, that would make sieges interesting, now wouldn't it?

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[st.patrik]

Turn 54
My researchers have discovered the means to summon a powerful hero from the celestial sphere: a Devata. Devasura was a Devata before he fell; now I have discovered the means to summon unfallen Devatas. Unfortunately the cost in magical resources is high: 45 astral pearls. This is in fact higher than I can afford right now. I will have to wait before enacting this ritual.

One of my Yakshas was casting a routine spell attempting to find sites of magical power, and found a fortification: The Jervellan Wall. This is all to the better since the province in which it is located is a province I recently took from T'ien Ch'i, so it is on the new frontier. Having said this, it is not a particularly good fortification, but better than nothing.



Devasura, having secured T'ien Ch'i's Swamp Fort, are moving on to attack some Forest Ramparts held by T'ien Ch'i but besieged by Vanheim.

Bishen and the army he is leading are continuing to move south into T'ien Ch'i's territory. If I can hold the pass over the mountains to the west I can move south down a fairly narrow path. I need one more commander who can bless all my troops. Either I recall Dhritiman from site searching, which is tough because I need a greater income in gems, or I wait until I can recruit a Devata, which will probably be a couple more turns. I think I will probably do the latter.

[Nerfix]

Well, at least your troops won't be starving near the Jervellan Wall.

Can we perhaps get a shot of your conquests?

[Kristoffer O]

Supply storage is only in sieges. Supply distribution is admin dependent IIRC

[Nerfix]

Kristoffer O said:
Supply storage is only in sieges. Supply distribution is admin dependent IIRC

Oh. I see.

[BigJMoney]

That's still not bad. If the euqations I've seen on these forums are correct, you could have:

1000 supply turn 1
500 supply turn 2
333 supply turn 3
250 supply turn 4
200 supply turn 5
166 supply turn 6...

1000 castle supply really is useful. Question about that...when you're seiging, is there any way at all to see what the supply factor for the troops on the inside is?

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[st.patrik]

Turn 55
Success on every front: Devasura kicked Vanheim's sieging force off T'ien Ch'i's fort, but the defenders of the Ramparts were dismayed to find that these new troops merely resumed the siege where the Vanheim army left off.

Bishen took T'ien Ch'i's province with only 2 losses. Below is a shot of the melee which shows one of my Yavanas aging particularly rapidly due to one of T'ien Ch'i's mages casting a spell to Decay his flesh. Of course, this spell was much less effective on a celestial being than on a fully mortal being: the individual aged 60 years over the course of the battle due to this enchantment, but celestials are long-lived, so this attack merely took him from young manhood (114) to maturity (174), which is well short of old age (300).



Vanheim's god is on the move - a massive titan with a huge golden shield. Balakrit witnessed him putting T'ien Ch'i's forces to flight. Unfortunately he is in an adjacent province to the forest ramparts I just attacked, so I may be a potential target next turn. For this reason I will hold off of storming the fort for a month, until I see what his movements will be.

Bishen is advancing towards the T'ien Ch'i capital; one of the Yakshas is bringing up a defensive force to protect the border in case of counter-attacks.

I think next month I will alchemize gems to produce more astral pearls, so that I can perform this ritual to call a Devata. I had to forge a Starshine Skullcap for myself, to increase my ability in astral magic, because the ritual involves a high degree of familiarity with astral magic (level 5).

[Nerfix]

Hmmm, it seems Decay has lost a lot of it's charm. I kinda wish there was a higher level spell with same effect as the old Decay. It was great killing off Iron Dragons etc. which would be just dominating without it. =/

Bu nevertheless, good going. Let's hope that the Vanheimian pretender won't be too troublesome.

And Devata!

[st.patrik]

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I really like the integration of Decay with the aging system a lot. I think it's way cooler than the old Decay!

Kailasa's Yaksha troops are kinda an exception to its effectiveness, given they are so long-lived. Most regular commanders would be dead, or so old that they would be racking up afflictions that would make them kinda useless. I'm not sure what kind of age Iron Dragons get, so I don't know how effective it'll be against them (however I thought the spell most useful against constructs was Disintegrate).

The old age thing really alters the game, partly because most of the powerful mages are old, and they tend to get diseases and die off, so there is incentive to buy some less powerful mages, as they tend to be more youthful and therefore last a bit longer. Then to have spells that mess with this... I think it's really cool.

[Nerfix]

Well, it is cooler now, and I admit that Decay was a crazy powerful spell for it's level. But it was a good counter versus low MR targets.

EDIt: And one thing is that it is no longer a viable counter for most of summons since I bet they live for a long time...