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Excellent victories and great commentary explaining your ideas. Thanks for posting. Please turn on the coloured squares for underwater battles at least, water elementals are particularly hard to see who they belong to.

Deploying your sacreds without a H3 to divine blessing is a major oversight, they also need mage support. You have over emphasised the use of N gems for bramble forts in newly converted forests, the H3 carrion lords are more important at this stage. My self imposed rule is don't put sacred troops in an army without a H3

Always sad with Paecacia without a coast and island 😢

Wow, awesome battle! Thanks for sharing!

Huh, now that was odd. Guess he truly was fated to die.

I wonder if the larger independent troop counts and stronger archery, combined with the piercing damage nerf mean that the heavy infantry are better expanders into most of the poptypes you're facing here. Wolf tribe matchups in particular are very armor dependent.

Awesome battle! Did all sultans have simulacrum?

And then it turns out after next dune its nice big gathering of Bone tribe 😂

Fuck that specific Army Regeneration caster in particular apparently. Also, surely we're worth it :O

Thanks awkward one even in single player for a less good player like me when the sea has several capitals on it. I found the logistics very risky on incarnate and early water such a diversion that it is a show stopper. Used a dormant Titan to keep dominions tethered and also to block likely amphibious nation or fight water one whilst crossing a land bridge- e.g. neter of crafts. In theory if home sea had no water nation could make a dent in the underwater with backfilling once 2 colonies started and sites/economy - sending undead back to do temple dominion, but they just nerfed Lich queen.

If you had a blood slave for every battlefield wide regen caster sniped by an offscript pillar of fire.

I'm always disappointed by morale plays. Just not much one can do against it.

Who wins on the new patch?

Cool late game fight! I do love how summer Fairy Queens have very low morale as an interesting in game puzzle to solve. it seems like the typical answer taken is to put them to sleep for the whole fight after putting up Legions Demise to prevent routs, but it can be hard with Relief up to do that.

Would love a part two with the replay post LD nerf

Cool video. Army Regen is also great on the anzus. You can press tab on the commander list to show load outs and affections, very helpful.

Very cool fight! Thanks for sharing. I cant help but wonder about Ur's tactics though. They could have cast growing fury and I think that would have made a big deal. Maybe they were going to but lost the N caster to pillar of fire. Not having backup casters and forward positioned evocation bait hurt Ur a lot. The biggest question I have is why were the anzu set to fly? Their breath attacks are their strength, not their melee. I would have had a line of mechanical men meet the ghuls, with a line of anzu behind them firing cold breath. I guess armchair generals will always have shit to talk 😂

Evo 2 is worth getting early. Alt for spamming ethereal and mistform will help if enemy lacks mwep. I think players underestimate the utility of monsters outside of expansion. They're barely worse in combat than titans, if at all (if you point buff)...the tradeoff is mostly between magic phase utility vs immediately capable of taking provinces. For monsters like drakon, I like their chances even against geared titans if you give point buffs until the mid-late game gear. Unfortunately, the island start makes a lot of them questionable, aside from earth serpent and dracolich. Quickness + mist form + ethereal is pretty good, though the serpent would still like regeneration point buffed that's hard for Phaecea. Some hell blesses can hammer through this, but it's not common for hell blesses to BOTH resist lightning bolts AND have hard hitting mwep to hack through an ethereal sack of 30ish prot. It's also your best try to contest water (more time to get indies/set up PD, if you can get enough breathing items for mages to join your stuff UW). Either way, it will be quite some time before full scales catches up to expander income just because expander can hit the UW right away while troops can't. I don't think scales or a bless can contribute as much to defeating a rush or rapidly getting material to use offensively in 1st war for this nation. The sacred can't do that much lifting, and the scales body count, while eventually higher, is slower to ramp up.

8k gold income on turn 40ish as a popkill nation; I guess getting ahead of your Dominion can be huge.

Didn't turn out too bad. My favorite sort of mistakes if I have to make them. Thanks for sharing!

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It's here :P

Interesting pretender design. I love GSE for the project self into gifts spam. You've got the SE paths for astral, the GE paths for glamor, you can do rune smashers, and got an nice early focused scales layout. Do you feel like the titan chassis and its benefits were worth it considering you had to pay so much to break into new paths? Yeah, expansion seems too cautious now, but it was so long ago back in mid February. Very understandable

I wonder if you had enough resources to make an all archers expansion party to kill barbarians and wild tribe... 400 or so buys 55 Phaecian Archers... I think that's not quite enough, but certainly that plus the Markata should have expanded. The Throne and farm in your cap circle seems like it probably impacted expansion significantly... I'm used to order 3/prod 3 being a lot more resources in MA, once the cap circle is clear.

Yay a Phaecia video! I've been looking for a solid guide.

I don't envy you having to attack that entire underwater world. Yikes!

Note to self I am never using the command attack closest again just because of the spell howl. It is infuriating haha

Is Agartha the last nation on the surface other than you at this point?

I know there is some time after the release of dominions 6 but i gonna ask. Have any of you opened dominions without knowing that they put a new magic path looked at it and ask themselves "WTF is with the dildo".

I'd even go so far to say that Mistform/defense based thugs are better in Dominions 6, because of the new fluffable buffs and Evocations the magic weapons bless is no longer ubiquitous.

another nice overview with a great thumbnail

Fire Flies, Storm Wind, Body Ethereal all seem overtuned, and Lightning Bolt, Shatter, and smites all seem undertuned from my experience so far with vanilla ai casting I hope you pull off a great Phaecia experience soon :) Yeah, my personal bar for a national overview is I typically like to experience that nation's late game as well. Very understandable

Time to upload that game now Kirbs :P Also sign up for the WH game.

never stop, kirby. Please upload more.

Land nations are murdering each other and deep sea clans are somewhat working together. Things might go bad soon.

looking forward to seeing how you tackle Ind. Should be interesting. I wonder if Agartha has some statues to bring to the table as well yet

Wow, that was some incredible luck with that iron order mercenary!

You probably need to be coalitioned soon haha. Feels like you're still in expansion except it involves other player's caps.

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Ok so 1) this didn't need to be 10 minutes but 2) I'm going to wildly speculate about archer behavior. The spellcasting AI includes the chance to hit friendly squares as a negative to the spellscore to be subtracted from the positive value of the likelyhood of doing damage to the enemy square. In this case IF archers follow similar rules (and I have zero proof that this is the case), their hypothetical archercalc might be returning a very low score for the hard to damage thug but with a negative for potentially hitting the hawks that outweighs it. If this is the case then the archers resume firing once there are few enough hawks to trip it the other way. This is wildly speculative and I'm definitely guessing somewhat, but its the only thing that neatly explains the results. Oh and as demonsthenes pointed out, fire and keep distance keeps them from getting close enough for the fire to be a "guaranteed" hit in whatever calc they're using

I've seen the "archers not shooting while enemy thug is surrounded by friendlies" behavior consistently with illusory army vs thugs. My hunch is that this is from the archers calculating likely friendly damage (inclusive of dispersion). Once enough friendlies die so that there are more empty squares near the target, they start shooting.

The eye shield, while useful in subsequent fights with the units it blinds, doesn't actually end up doing much to stop damage from going through in melee, because the akerbeltz is very rapidly harassed down to 0 defense, so only having like 3 attack skill isn't actually much of a disadvantage.

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I think the cause is the fire and keep distance order. Usually archers will advance to point blank range when friendly fire concerns agents a single surrounded thug make it inadvisable to shoot from a distance... But I think the order to keep distance prevented them doing so.

If you don't want to move something on top of ongoing siege to secure it, you can garisson one trash troop, so even if you lose and retreat that one trash troop stays and continues the siege

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Mobility is really showing its power in this game; you can just lock down an entire vulnerable nation in a couple turns.

The series returns! Snowballing like crazy here

You'll have to find a fun way to fluff those titans!