_Really_ easy question.

Iblis · #1 January 13th, 2007, 05:11 AM

Hello, I apologize if my English is bad as I picked up this game while visiting friends of mine family in Washington State. I was wondering for your game, is there anyway to make battle controlled by myself? It is a small annoyance to have to hope things turn out best for you automatically. :[

Thank you all!

Meglobob · #2 January 13th, 2007, 05:31 AM

No.

You get to place your troops, give them orders and script your mages. Then, just like Napoleon you get to sit back, watch and hope...

Agrajag · #3 January 13th, 2007, 05:44 AM

The only control you can have over battles is the "scripting" of units before the battle.

Iblis · #4 January 13th, 2007, 06:24 AM

Aaaaah, okay thank you. I am simply very confused because I am not able to win battles very easily, or with an always same strategy, even against almost-same armies. :\

I don't understand how to 'bless', or how to get/find better units than the units you can make at start of the game.

Makes me wish Josh had not spilled Coke on the manual. ;]

Thank you all!

calmon · #5 January 13th, 2007, 06:41 AM

To bless you need commanders with priest level. You can script them in the army menu with 'Cast a specific spell'. Choose 'Blessing' and some of your sacred troops will be blessed. Priests with priest level 3 and higher are able to cast 'Devine Blessing' which bless all your sacred units on the battlefield.

The starting units are very good in most cases. You normally get better troops trough better spells. Try to research 'Conjuration'. Your mages will be able to cast some mighty summons if you research one of the higher levels.

Meglobob · #6 January 13th, 2007, 09:01 AM

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Iblis said:
how to get/find better units than the units you can make at start of the game.

I think virtually every nation starts with good to excellent units of 1 type or another. Indeed the usual drawback is that the best national units are usually capital only.

You only get better units from higher level spells, special sites or the odd rare indie province.

Playing SP, it is very rare for me to lose more than a dozen units in a battle. Most of the time I do not lose any, its just a matter of gaining experience with the game. Eventually even impossible AI's are just mostly harmless.

PDF · #7 January 13th, 2007, 09:47 AM

Huh, how did you "pick the game" on a trip ? Sorry to look suspicious but the game is only sold online, and your second post about loss of manual makes the situation even more strange...

Meglobob · #8 January 13th, 2007, 10:28 AM

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PDF said:
Huh, how did you "pick the game" on a trip ? Sorry to look suspicious but the game is only sold online, and your second post about loss of manual makes the situation even more strange...

I was suspicious as well. But I guess we should give people the benefit of the doubt.

Anyone who plays a copied version of Dom3 and does not buy the original, is a lowlife thief in my opinion. Ripping off the big software houses is one thing, they can perhaps stand the loss and future software production is not affected but small indies like Illwinter are very, very vulnerable to software piracy. Every Dom3 sale will make a Dom4 more likely and mean more money can be invested into making a Dom4, so we will have an even better game.

Gandalf Parker · #9 January 13th, 2007, 02:22 PM

Another "casually picked up the game" person with no manual.
At least he was more careful about how he asked a question.

Maybe we should make more effort to give answers as a page and paragraph of the manual.

Foodstamp · #10 January 13th, 2007, 02:56 PM

Iblis, even though Josh spilled coke on the manual, it is so thick that you did not miss the important part your looking for!

Flip to page 293 in the manual and the debug code to enable full control of battles is listed there, along with the other cheat codes for the game. I hope this helps, goodluck!