.com.unity Forums
  The Official e-Store of Shrapnel Games

This Month's Specials

BCT Commander- Save $8.00
winSPWW2- Save $5.00

   







Go Back   .com.unity Forums > Illwinter Game Design > Dominions 3: The Awakening

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #31  
Old April 3rd, 2010, 06:08 AM

Calahan Calahan is offline
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: San Francisco, nr Wales
Posts: 1,539
Thanks: 226
Thanked 296 Times in 136 Posts
Calahan is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Amonchakad View Post
Pray that Markata Swarm never *ever* gets implemented. No army of fully kitted tartarians could ever hope to defeat a throng of mighty Markatas.
Markata's own Tarts in vanilla. They don't need a swarm. No point wasting gems on a spell to summon 1,000 Markata's when 1 Markata can do the job just as well.

Maybe if the spell was made available to non monkey nations, then it could be useful as a way of balancing the game. All that would be needed then is a spell that converts any nations PD into Monkey PD. But guess that's too damaging to the game balance since it would make magic raiding almost impossible (unless you empowered a lot of Markata's in Air or Astral)
Reply With Quote
  #32  
Old April 3rd, 2010, 07:16 AM

Sombre Sombre is offline
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 5,463
Thanks: 165
Thanked 324 Times in 190 Posts
Sombre is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

What do you mean unless you empower them in astral? How else are you going to get a markata wish empowered to wish for more markata?
Reply With Quote
  #33  
Old April 3rd, 2010, 07:31 AM

Calahan Calahan is offline
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: San Francisco, nr Wales
Posts: 1,539
Thanks: 226
Thanked 296 Times in 136 Posts
Calahan is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

Well I think it'd be pretty stupid to risk your S5/S6 Markata's for raiding, since if you lose those you'll fall terminally behind in the wishing for Markata race. So for raiding, it's far better to take a newly wished for Markata, empower him to S1, then throw on Star Cap and Coin/Ring for an almost unbeatable magic phase raider.

Can't see any logic in raiding with your Wish casting Markata's, since the only possible niche use that would have is to cast Maser Enslave. But Markata's are immune to puny mind tricks, so you'd certainly lose him if the enemy has just one Markata in the province. (and only newbs don't have Markata's defending all their provinces)
Reply With Quote
  #34  
Old April 3rd, 2010, 07:43 AM

Sombre Sombre is offline
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 5,463
Thanks: 165
Thanked 324 Times in 190 Posts
Sombre is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

Ah but the opponent will send out his S7 empowered markata to drop some magic duel on your ***.

It's a classic rock paper markata situation.
Reply With Quote
  #35  
Old April 3rd, 2010, 08:05 AM

Calahan Calahan is offline
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: San Francisco, nr Wales
Posts: 1,539
Thanks: 226
Thanked 296 Times in 136 Posts
Calahan is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

Well, if my opponent wants to lose his Wish casting Markata's then that's all good by me Since Markata's are immune to magic duel, and if two Markata's magic duel the result is a draw.

But if you don't want to lose your newly empowered S1 Markata's to drawn Magic Duel's, then empower them in Air instead.
Reply With Quote
  #36  
Old April 3rd, 2010, 08:15 PM

Rookierookie Rookierookie is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 141
Thanks: 3
Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts
Rookierookie is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sombre View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by Belac View Post
That's another good idea.

To hijack this thread further, what about making the B9 bless more useful? It could grant bonus fatigue damage on each hit, like F9 and D9.
It could do literally anything and it would be more useful than it is now.
Not necessarily. Say, Berserk...
Reply With Quote
  #37  
Old April 3rd, 2010, 08:40 PM

Trumanator Trumanator is offline
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Tacoma WA, USA
Posts: 1,314
Thanks: 103
Thanked 72 Times in 50 Posts
Trumanator is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rookierookie View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sombre View Post
Quote:
Originally Posted by Belac View Post
That's another good idea.

To hijack this thread further, what about making the B9 bless more useful? It could grant bonus fatigue damage on each hit, like F9 and D9.
It could do literally anything and it would be more useful than it is now.
Not necessarily. Say, Berserk...
Berserk is useless?
Reply With Quote
  #38  
Old April 4th, 2010, 12:01 AM

rdonj rdonj is offline
General
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,007
Thanks: 171
Thanked 206 Times in 159 Posts
rdonj is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

Berserk certainly can be useful. It's not my favorite bless generally, but it has its uses. And is already taken with nature. Blood, on the other hand, is pretty much completely pointless. It could give 1 extra hp to the blessed unit and be better
__________________
"Easy-slay(TM) is a whole new way of marketing violence. It cuts down on all the red tape and just butchers people. As a long-time savagery enthusiast myself, I'm very excited about the synergies that the easy-slay(TM) approach brings to the entire enterprise." -Dr DrP
Reply With Quote
  #39  
Old April 4th, 2010, 09:55 AM

Sombre Sombre is offline
BANNED USER
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 5,463
Thanks: 165
Thanked 324 Times in 190 Posts
Sombre is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Patch v3.25 released!

I would take 1 extra hp over the current B9 effect for sure.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:31 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©1999 - 2024, Shrapnel Games, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.