Agesilaus
Antiquity Studio
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- Aug 24, 2013
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I enjoyed it. I feel the AI is a little more difficult. How do I play online with you lot so I can rack up some easy victories?
I liked the Thrones of Ascension addition to Dominions 4, and now I like the cataclysm ending. The random map generation was good, gave me an interesting map with a river separating two continents. The new fort mechanics didn't change much, it was a small map with a 5 players so there were already enough forts and I never tried to build any new ones. Is the only difference to forts that you first have to build a palisade?
I played as MA Arcoscephale, picked Athena as my pretender and decked her out in low/mid tier gear, leading a massive horde of chariots and hoplites. I found her to be pretty much invincible after casting ethereal and air shield on herself, combined with items that gave her luck, twist fate, fatigue regen, and displacement. Smashed the other faction that was on my small continent, then hit a wall until I could cross the river to the other side. Huge pain in the arse, but once I got across I built a temple and gateway'd my pretender over with a trillion chariots and knocked out another faction.
The last faction facing me was pretty big (stacks of 400+ units), so I dug in and just started building tonnes of temples. Then, cataclysm occurred.
Basically, massive horrors suddenly appeared at the Thrones of Power and just started destroying everything. Also, if you cast a ritual you get attacked by a horror. I could see my opponent got hit by something big and green, and I initially got hit by what looked like a big grey bedbug. Maker of Ruins. Anyway it obliterated the army I had defending the Throne of Ascension, then after a little while it destroyed the Throne, and then it started walking around and destroying everything else.
In the meantime, my pretender seemed able to kill the "Defiler of Dreams" that was appearing whenever a ritual was cast, so I let her continuously summon Abominations. However, after the third summon a big pink slime appeared and killed her with some sort of reflect-damage effect (OBVIOUSLY A BUG, Athena would be wise enough to stop hitting it). It was a Slave to Unreason or something. Anyway I stacked all my units on my last Throne and won a short while later because my dominion encompassed the final territory, or my opponent lost his last Throne, whatever. Athena is the Pantokrator, all hail the victor.
I didn't use blesses at all. How do you get a lot of bless units? You can only build them in your capital city, and they're expensive. What if your capital is in a shit spot or something happens to it, are you just screwed?
Useless addition, I never retreat from battle.
I liked the Thrones of Ascension addition to Dominions 4, and now I like the cataclysm ending. The random map generation was good, gave me an interesting map with a river separating two continents. The new fort mechanics didn't change much, it was a small map with a 5 players so there were already enough forts and I never tried to build any new ones. Is the only difference to forts that you first have to build a palisade?
I played as MA Arcoscephale, picked Athena as my pretender and decked her out in low/mid tier gear, leading a massive horde of chariots and hoplites. I found her to be pretty much invincible after casting ethereal and air shield on herself, combined with items that gave her luck, twist fate, fatigue regen, and displacement. Smashed the other faction that was on my small continent, then hit a wall until I could cross the river to the other side. Huge pain in the arse, but once I got across I built a temple and gateway'd my pretender over with a trillion chariots and knocked out another faction.
The last faction facing me was pretty big (stacks of 400+ units), so I dug in and just started building tonnes of temples. Then, cataclysm occurred.
Basically, massive horrors suddenly appeared at the Thrones of Power and just started destroying everything. Also, if you cast a ritual you get attacked by a horror. I could see my opponent got hit by something big and green, and I initially got hit by what looked like a big grey bedbug. Maker of Ruins. Anyway it obliterated the army I had defending the Throne of Ascension, then after a little while it destroyed the Throne, and then it started walking around and destroying everything else.
In the meantime, my pretender seemed able to kill the "Defiler of Dreams" that was appearing whenever a ritual was cast, so I let her continuously summon Abominations. However, after the third summon a big pink slime appeared and killed her with some sort of reflect-damage effect (OBVIOUSLY A BUG, Athena would be wise enough to stop hitting it). It was a Slave to Unreason or something. Anyway I stacked all my units on my last Throne and won a short while later because my dominion encompassed the final territory, or my opponent lost his last Throne, whatever. Athena is the Pantokrator, all hail the victor.
I didn't use blesses at all. How do you get a lot of bless units? You can only build them in your capital city, and they're expensive. What if your capital is in a shit spot or something happens to it, are you just screwed?
New retreat rules. Try losing a battle, you get a nice retreat report.
Useless addition, I never retreat from battle.
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