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Dominions 3: The Awakening. Killing our way to godhood turn by turn!
TheOtherHorseman
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Dominions 3: The Awakening
Ages ago, in a time steeped in legends, the Pantokrator battled others to ascend to godhood. Ever since, he has jealously guarded that power. He has struck down any brave and foolish enough to seek the mantle of godhood. Those pretenders who were not slain were scattered, in hiding and in slumber, waiting for a day of opportunity. Their wait is over.
The Pantokrator has fallen, and pretenders once more battle for the right to ascend.
A turn-based strategy, Dominions 3 is the third game in the Dominions series by Illwinter Game Design in which people pretend to be people pretending to be gods. It is one of the most complex games I've ever encountered.
There are over fifty nations spread throughout the three eras in which a game can be set. You can research and utilize more than 600 spells spread throughout the eight paths of magic. More than 300 distinct magical items to be found and made. There are over 1500 units to command and destroy.
Okay, now that I'm done copying features verbatim from the game's site, this is a game of incredible depth. All of those features combine to create a mind-boggling number of possibilities.
You can find the demo here and the main site is easily accessed through the power of clicking.
If we have enough PA'rs that own Dominions 3, it'd be cool to get a game going. Elsewise, I guess it would be approximately as cool to try to convince people to buy it, I guess.
This is a very lackluster post because there is simply too much that can be said. sry. More things will be added to this anemic post as they are suggested by folks.
Ages ago, in a time steeped in legends, the Pantokrator battled others to ascend to godhood. Ever since, he has jealously guarded that power. He has struck down any brave and foolish enough to seek the mantle of godhood. Those pretenders who were not slain were scattered, in hiding and in slumber, waiting for a day of opportunity. Their wait is over.
The Pantokrator has fallen, and pretenders once more battle for the right to ascend.
A turn-based strategy, Dominions 3 is the third game in the Dominions series by Illwinter Game Design in which people pretend to be people pretending to be gods. It is one of the most complex games I've ever encountered.
There are over fifty nations spread throughout the three eras in which a game can be set. You can research and utilize more than 600 spells spread throughout the eight paths of magic. More than 300 distinct magical items to be found and made. There are over 1500 units to command and destroy.
Okay, now that I'm done copying features verbatim from the game's site, this is a game of incredible depth. All of those features combine to create a mind-boggling number of possibilities.
You can find the demo here and the main site is easily accessed through the power of clicking.
If we have enough PA'rs that own Dominions 3, it'd be cool to get a game going. Elsewise, I guess it would be approximately as cool to try to convince people to buy it, I guess.
This is a very lackluster post because there is simply too much that can be said. sry. More things will be added to this anemic post as they are suggested by folks.
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Oh, and for anyone wondering, the game plays more like Total War than HoMM/Age of Wonders, except you only build 3 "buildings" and there are almost zero in-game diplomacy options. So it plays like a game of Diplomacy when you're playing with other people. With dragons, Norse gods, naked crazy chicks, lava people, skeletons, crazy six armed Hindu gods, and those apes from Planet of the Apes.
Oh, and don't forget the Cthulhu guys. Can't forget about those crazy Cthulhu guys.
Being R'yleh is interesting. Your lands become swamped with insane cultists. In single player games, I devote a little bundle of money every so often to get a pack of commanders to round them up and march them off to bloody, doomed battle against my enemies.
also, I have like 6 prophets already in my latest game because my Deep One cultists have very high opinions of themselves
Fuck. If the demo's good I'll have to buy this and I suck at these games.
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Their capital beneath the waves has a void gate which can be entered in order to call forth sacred abominations from beyond the stars. Sometimes, the erstwhile summoner gets lost in time and space.
Don't worry, though! They occasionally come back.
For example, earlier one of my summoners returned to the world. He was insane, which meant that he would occasionally do whatever he felt like and to hell with you, and he was feebleminded, meaning that he was magically neutered.
Also, he returned to the world in a heavily defended enemy province all by himself.
So, regardless, I no longer had to worry about his shortcomings as a loyal mage.
edit: Oh, and it is worth noting that the demo will only give you a tiny hint of the incredible amount of options and depth available in a real big-boy game. So judge it based on the style of play and the tantalizing hints of what may yet be.
it'd be totally cool to kill your mans and have my mans killed in turn
All the factions are different from one another, I mean, sure you got infantry and stuff, but their armor, weapon, and their species all matters oh so much. Not to mention what their Pretender can be, or what spells their mages can cast, or what their national spells are.
Examples from the demo:
Arcoscephale, bronze age greeks with myrmidons, chariots, dudes riding on pegasusesesss(bleh) and dudes with wax icarus-esque wings. They get a priest that can heal, which is pretty fucken rare, and some mages with air, earth, astral, nature, or randomly rolled magical paths. They get Greek mythology Pretenders, titans, cyclops, etc.
Agartha, undergroud giant naked expensive troglodytes that kinda suck. But they get Umbrals which are uber ethereal stealthy life draining undead mans they can summon. Oh and most of their troops can fight underwater without outside help. They can get water, earth, death, or fire magics with their mages. They get some Greek gods, with Agartha only Risen Orcale and an Ageloss Olm which is a worm.. furry, thing.
Marverni, Celtic Gaul inspired nation. All their units are split up into different tribes with the "nobles" getting chain mail armor while not nobles fight without. Marverni mages get earth, astral, and nature paths while their Pretender choices are from Greek mythos with a hint of Celtic. Oh and most of their mages are also priests.
Kailasa, monkeys n' apes. Albino chimp yogis for magical needs, walking Apes for infantry, and shitty tiny monkeys for cannon fodder. Their mages get astral, earth, water and nature paths. The Kailasa get Hindu styled Pretenders, you know, giant six armed naked chicks drooling blood on their tits.
Oh and let's not forget their nation spells.
Agartha get the already mentioned Umbrals along with a spells that summons lava men and earth elementals.
Arcoscephale can summon a Monster boar which attacks the province it is summoned in, and Sirrushs, wingless dragons.
Marverni get summon (Great) Boars, contact Boar of Carnutes, the king of boars which spawns more boars on whatever land he is in, and the Monster Boar.
And then there are the monkeys, who can summon nymphs, tigers, Yakshas, Yakshini, Gandharvas, Kinnaras, Siddhas, Devatas, Devalas, and Rudras, the last of which is a mini Shiva.
I still suck a fair amount, though.
I swore I wouldn't buy any more games until I cleared out some of my backlog, but if the game features turn based combat I might have to get it anyway.
On the bright side, combat is turn based. On the downside, you don't control it. This is a strategic and not a tactical game. Combat is done behind the scenes, allowing you to watch replays. However, you have control before battles. You can set orders and set formations. This is theoretically optional but it is recommended you tell your squads and leaders to do clever things. Mages seem to glory in casting the most stupid crap unless you tell them specifically to protect themselves and lay waste to your enemies.
Well shit, guess I'll have to play it then.
Sure. We'll need to pick an Age to play in, and also nations for ourselves. Since you're getting started, you can pick the former and have first picks for the latter. Once you've gotten that out of the way, create the pretender you want and save it. Send me the file for it (located in dominions3/savedgames/newlords or somesuch). I just made an e-mail address for it (dom3pbem at gmail dot com).
When you have an age and a nation decided on, let me know and I'll pick out a nation and give you a heads up so we know vaguely what we're up against. I'll also give a step by step process on how to participate in a Dominions 3 PBeM game, lovingly transcribed from the manual, unless you have the manual, in which case pfff.
It sounds less ridiculous when it is put in front of an eagle flying majestically before a rippling American flag.
Right?
Now, there is a relatively publically available server called llamaserver, but it wasn't my plan to use that for a quick test game as you'd need to ask the person running it to set the game up for you. Although, thereafter it can be directly managed by the person running the game.
If someone else wants to set up a server and run a game., I'd certainly be fine with that.
Why, it does at that. I'll have to knock the dust off of Hamachi and update it. It has been a while.
edit: I want to try one of the guys I haven't played as yet, I've done Mictlian, Ermor, Ryleth, Marverni, Pangea, and Kailasa
I'm making a network called PADOM3 password wangs
I reinstalled like twice. It just remembers my hamachi ip. I have no idea where it stores the thing, but I'll be damned if it is going to let go of it without a fight.
Edit: Haha, I tricked it and I win.
Edit2: okay, this better work