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Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 29th, 2004, 11:30 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,613
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: New map by Tiltowait

Goody, goody - this looks exciting!

I've had alot of fun your Ring map Tiltowait - very cunning with the hub points connections. Very tough game when played with a sizeable number of impossible...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 26th, 2004, 10:12 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,868
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Your Favorite Nation/Theme

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Though I would seriously question describing Pangaea as an underdog.

My favourite...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 26th, 2004, 10:32 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 2,002
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Urgent. Host Cheating: Problem and Solution.

If you are worried about a game being seen to be fair I think the most practical solution suggested is shared hosting. Offer to host a game as long as one of the players in it hosts a pair game run...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 26th, 2004, 09:27 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,723
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Order +3 Luck -3 : still a no-brainer

What event frequency are people playing with?

I have been playing commen events for awhile now as its more balenced and I'm using a +-13% (mis)fortune mod which alters the chance that an event is...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 20th, 2004, 11:32 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,659
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Why doesn\'t Arco have Phalangites (Pikemen) ?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It is clear you are not from the WRG stable of games Jasper. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Slingshot is "The Offical...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 20th, 2004, 10:33 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,659
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Why doesn\'t Arco have Phalangites (Pikemen) ?

re Lance use

There are some very interesting articiles around on Lance use pre the invention of the Stirrups. One that I read in Slingshot (Wargaming mag) was by a guy who jousts etc - and does it...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 20th, 2004, 10:08 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 628
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: LotR Risk

The odd thing about the map is that I struggle to recognise it as a map of Middle Earth as the geography has been played with quite significantly for some reason - perhaps to fit everything they...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 20th, 2004, 03:39 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,853
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Dominions Ice Age Contest

If we are talking really Ice Age then I would have though Abysians and C'tis would need to be drastically different as its just too cold for them. Abysia could live underneath the surface perhaps...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 19th, 2004, 12:11 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 483
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: TC Spring & Autumn more Chariots mod

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I, like a number of other posters, was dissapointed that the Spring and Autumn theme got so few chariots and really struggles to use them....
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 19th, 2004, 10:00 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,576
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Brilliant Idea to make Indies More Interesting

Very interesting. As social structures don't necessarily change when conquered I see merit in your suggestion.

Another idea to spice up indies would be having indie's start with their troops in a...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 19th, 2004, 09:54 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 483
Posted By Keir Maxwell
TC Spring & Autumn more Chariots mod

I've been practising my skills at customising the unit graphics and I've modded T'ien C'hi Spring and Autumn replacing the lightly armed guy with a glaive with a lesser noble in a chariot.

The...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 11:13 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 2,375
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Equipment Stats List - For Modders

Items with numbers - Great stuff Saber!
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 11:02 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,025
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Barbarian Kingdom mod test

You are right Kristoffer. Oh well I guess the Lance stays for now.

Cheers

Keir
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 10:06 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 529
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Question on T\'ien

I second Zens' comments.

Early the Comp bow are your most effective unit with some heavily armoured Spear (a big shield is a must for this role) deployed on "hold and attack" in the starting spot...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 09:50 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,025
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Barbarian Kingdom mod test

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't think so - just Javelin at close range unless the graphics are confusing me. Certainly don't want them to be shooting with both. I'll have...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 08:21 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,025
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Barbarian Kingdom mod test

Giving the LC Spear, Composite Bow and Javelin worked a treat. The Lance is replaced and when the enemy gets into Javelin range the LC switch from bow to Javelin.

A Scimitar instead of the Spear...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 04:43 AM
Replies: 128
Views: 8,846
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Luck/Order scales after 2.06 Patch

Changing misfortune percent seems to work. I tried #misfortune 20 to make sure and ran a 50 turn test with no bad events. Best event was 1500gps, 10 fire gems, and a magic item. With the misfortune...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 04:04 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,541
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Zen\'s items

Excellent!
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 18th, 2004, 12:23 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,659
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Why doesn\'t Arco have Phalangites (Pikemen) ?

Good stuff PDF.

You can give a unit a two handed weapon and a shield - you just shouldn't normally.

Selucid (and Macedonian) pikes were very definitly two handed weapons of much greater length...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 17th, 2004, 11:04 PM
Replies: 128
Views: 8,846
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Luck/Order scales after 2.06 Patch

Here is some bits a bobs on luck from another post based on testing a T'ien Ch'i BK mod which has seen my use luck turmoil scales lot.

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When I tried using a pretender other...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 17th, 2004, 10:50 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,025
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Barbarian Kingdom mod test

Done a couple more tests with less success which proved as much about the problems with luck as mod balence issues.

I may have underdone it slightly in my 0.02 mod. Part of the idea coming in was...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 17th, 2004, 01:33 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,025
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Barbarian Kingdom mod test

ok ver 0.02.
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#modname "Conquering Horde"

#description "This mod is aimed at improving the Tien C'hi Barbarian Kings mounted troops and enabling them to be used as...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 17th, 2004, 12:06 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,025
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Barbarian Kingdom mod test

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Zen you seemed to have missed my comments that the fear is out for know as its to powerful combo'd with the Lance. Once the Lance can go I look at it...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 16th, 2004, 10:51 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 2,234
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Unit abstraction?

Another point on Feudal armies.

In many ways the only way to get a really good feel for the role of Knights on the battle field is there interaction with other cultures with more sane military...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars January 16th, 2004, 10:32 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 2,234
Posted By Keir Maxwell
Re: Unit abstraction?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Stationed full time? Sounds odd. Are you sure he's not talking about the total number of mounted in the border Themes? The Byzantines during this...
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