More newbie questions....

HJ · #1 October 2nd, 2003, 10:17 PM

Thanks for the replies. I've been dilligently playing for the Last couple of days, and I'm starting to figure things out now.

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I once saw one of my group of 10 heavy infantry rout because one was *wounded* by a single barbarian chief. Thats talk about critical morale failure!

Yes, I noticed this as well. I think that the random dices are a bit too liberal, since the difference of having 10 def or 11 def matters little when there is a 2d6 to add to that. I know this is so that all units have a chance to hurt some tough guys, but it makes units far too similar in capability to each other, and the number of soldiers is the only thing that counts pretty much. This detracts from the individual flavour of the units, and it's also something why I didn't like AoW - too much randomness make units too similar in what they can do.

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in fact no... dominions is so vast that even a big manual would not give more 5% of its mechanisms. You will have either to discuss with others, or to find them yourself. This is one of the joy of the game.

Well, I usually appreciate the game more when I know the intricate mechanics of it. Otherwise, it's more like a frustration than a mystery feeling I get when playing, and I just see the sets of numbers and attributes that don't make any sense. I would prefer to have a manual compenduum that would explain formulas and similar things, than the spell manual which is useless since all the spell descriptions are already listed in the game.

That's why, and also because of the lack of any semblance of control over what's happening on the battlefield, I'm still kinda deciding on this one right now, after the inital awe I had when I saw the diversity of features.

HJ · #2 October 2nd, 2003, 10:24 PM

Oh, and I have another question. I seem to have noticed that the battle replays don't always happen in the same way. Is that supposed to be that way? I mean, I watched the same replay, and the pretender didn't get killed, although the message stated that it did, and then when I saw it again it did, then the third time around it survived again. Huh? How am I supposed to know which one to trust with reagrd to afflictions, kills, etc.?

johan osterman · #3 October 2nd, 2003, 10:35 PM

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Originally posted by HJ:
Oh, and I have another question. I seem to have noticed that the battle replays don't always happen in the same way. Is that supposed to be that way? I mean, I watched the same replay, and the pretender didn't get killed, although the message stated that it did, and then when I saw it again it did, then the third time around it survived again. Huh? How am I supposed to know which one to trust with reagrd to afflictions, kills, etc.?

It is not supposed to be that way, what Version of the demo are you using? Is it in multi or single player?

[ October 02, 2003, 21:35: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

HJ · #4 October 2nd, 2003, 10:46 PM

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Originally posted by johan osterman:
It is not supposed to be that way, what Version of the demo are you using? Is it in multi or single player?

I am using demo 1.15 Version of Dominions I. It was in single player. I was fighting the Ctissan Sphynx, my first combat against the pretender. I got the message from Ctis that I killed their god after the message about the battle, but when I watched the replay, the Sphynx survived the assault. It had about 600hp left of the initial 1300+, it had a curse and all sorts of afflictions, but my armies were routed by a watchtower before they managed to take her out. The battle message said that I failed to take the province, and at the same time it said that the enemy commander was killed. I watched the replay again, and it got killed. Then, the third time was similar to the first one, although I think it got far fewer afflictions this time around. In any case, the fort was still under siege, I didn't take it as far as the overall map goes, so I stormed the castle again, and took it without resistance - the Sphynx wasn't there.

LordArioch · #5 October 2nd, 2003, 11:15 PM

I know it certainly happens if you play a turn with a user added unit and then edit the unit stats, go back, and watch the replay again, but I didn't know it could change with standard units.