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Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 16th, 2004, 05:11 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 5,532
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Most difficult nation

Starting position can make a lot of difference. If you mean conquer the World in the World Map scenario, for example, then Mictlan has a very good starting position, while Ulm's is really awful. In...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 16th, 2004, 01:52 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,453
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: What are Arch Devils good for?

Take an Archdevil, give him 75 devil to lead (that's its limit), and just watch your flying army from hell tear into just about anything. Making your archdevil a SC is just icing on the cake at that...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 14th, 2004, 02:51 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,364
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Question on magic duel

On the other hand, to mind duel your pretender, they would have to be storming your capital. Which mean you either made a big strategic mistake, or you are losing anyway.

So, don't leave your...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 11th, 2004, 01:02 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,220
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Tips for finding blood slaves appreciated here

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, the pool thing works with blood sacrifice, provided you leave enough slaves in the pool at the end of the turn to resplenish your...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 11th, 2004, 10:26 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,905
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Battle: coloured lines under unit icon

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, I've seen it myself, it does not die instantly. It does lose hit points. Of course, it will eventually die from it ...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 11th, 2004, 02:48 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,134
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Where did my Horror go?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Correct would be "Where has my horror gone?", or "My horror went where?"

'Gone' is an adjective. 'Went' is a verb. You do not end a sentence with a...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 11th, 2004, 02:13 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,921
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Weirdest glitch ever recorded in the history of glitches

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't forget to format your drive, or the problem won't go away http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Actually the problem is...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 11th, 2004, 02:06 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 2,905
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Battle: coloured lines under unit icon

The red line is for hit points loss; when it is all the way to the right, you have lost all your hit points and you die.
The blue line is for fatigue. I don't know if there is a limit, but at 100...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 10th, 2004, 06:12 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,134
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Where did my Horror go?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Which is why I didn't even try to say it in English. I learned half of these rules in French, half of them in English, and don't remember half the...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 10th, 2004, 03:42 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,134
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Where did my Horror go?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This is why English is such a hard language for non-natives to learn. Gone is an adjective. Look it up in the MW Online dictionary. The context makes...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 10th, 2004, 01:58 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,431
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: The funniest thing in Dominions 2

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I didn't want to say it out loud, since I couldn't find a mention of money in the message, but it does smell funny.
If you really want strange...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 10th, 2004, 01:53 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,134
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Where did my Horror go?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, it's not right.

But not being a native English speaker, I can't explain the rule in English, since I lack the technical vocabulary.

In...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 9th, 2004, 03:57 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,407
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Magic Questions

You need Air 3 and Con 4 to build the first air boosting items (Winged Helmet, Bag of Winds). The Tome of high Power is Air 2 but Con 8. Other possibilities : Staff of Elemental mastery (Earth 3 and...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 6th, 2004, 10:25 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,307
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Jotun Gode overpriced?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Angels and Harbingers are a good way along the research tree, by the time you get them you probably don't need them as much. One way or another, by...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 6th, 2004, 10:20 AM
Replies: 68
Views: 9,203
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: A Tale of Fire and Blood

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not to steal Tacitus's thunder, but if I were to do a R'lyeh AAR, would anyone mind? [/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif,...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 5th, 2004, 05:24 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,195
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: I love this game

But you can reason with the AI ! Usually on the lines of : "Look what a huge army I have on our common border, why don't you go beat up someone else for a while ?". The AI is fairly good at picking...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 5th, 2004, 05:19 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,480
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: all of a sudden keeps crashing upon host !?

200 vs 800 is only 1000. My Ermor was REALLY running Amok. Going by the graphs, it had around 10000 troops at the time of the crash...

I don't think I kept the save, or I would have sent it; I was...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 5th, 2004, 04:03 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,480
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: all of a sudden keeps crashing upon host !?

I have had games crashing upon hosting too... Most notably, a World War game playing Ulm, on turn 41. I put it to "too many units" (Ermor had been accumulating a LOT of units, according to the score...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 5th, 2004, 12:08 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,307
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Jotun Gode overpriced?

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">You're thinking about "Sacred". Sacred units have 1/2 upkeep. Holy is a simply the priest level, and doesn't affect upkeep. Both the Gode and Jarl are...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 5th, 2004, 10:08 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 4,550
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Fighting For and Against Ulm -Expert Advice, Please

Well, some advice for Ulm now...

- Once you are encountering high hp and/or heavy armored troops, don't forget your trusty crossbows. That Hydra might take out 80 morningstar with its poison, but...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 4th, 2004, 02:49 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,260
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Unit matchups

When you have infantry facing heavy cavalry, repelling is a real advantage, since heavy cavalry usually have the attack and damage rating to overcome defense and protection. Any longer weapon will...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 4th, 2004, 02:40 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 4,662
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Which nation is the best?

Mictlan is the funniest one I think, and I voted for them.
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 4th, 2004, 02:31 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,198
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Rainbow Pretender Mod

It may surprise some people, but not all of us send their pretender in battle. In fact, I play 40% of my games with an immobile pretender, and 40% with a rainbow site searcher/researcher who avoids...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 4th, 2004, 02:24 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 3,386
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Question on Blood Sacrifice (and Mictlan)

As Norfleet said, each blood slave sacrificed gives you the equivalent of a temple check in the province where it is sacrificed. Multiple sacrifices, even by the same priest, give multiple checks. A...
Forum: Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars February 3rd, 2004, 05:40 PM
Replies: 114
Views: 13,201
Posted By General Tacticus
Re: Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">On the other hand, that makes the one that get the really cool bonus such a pleasant surprise : valor or awe on your main troop leader for example, or...
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