Hilarious R'lyeh Dreamlands moment (SPOILER)

DominionsFan · #1 October 4th, 2006, 06:24 PM

Hm I never heard about Apocalyptica. However I prefer dance music, and as I see this is a metal band.

Taqwus · #2 October 4th, 2006, 07:15 PM

If you want thematic music, there's always the Cthulhu Carols sung by members of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society.

http://www.cthulhulives.org/solstice

I sent a copy of their "A Very Scary Solstice" to my sister one Christmas. It's possible that she's forgiven me for that by now, but my sending "Alien" for her birthday probably didn't help.

Mortibus · #3 October 4th, 2006, 07:41 PM

I just got D3 today, now I have to sit and work while looking at the desktop icon for 8 hours or so.

Of course I had to install it and start up a game to make sure it works... looks great, already have a Kraken (named C'Thulu, of course) slumbering in the deeps waiting for my labors to end.

The goal for the first game is to have the kingdom self-implode in chaos and insanity. I'll consider that a victory.

Endoperez · #4 October 4th, 2006, 07:45 PM

To get this thread back to its tracks:

http://www.cthulhulives.org/solsticecarol.html

Taqwus, thanks SO much for that link. I've seen the cd's on a shop once but didn't like their unprofessional looks; oh, what I've missed! I'm buying this whenever I can. In the meantime, listen to a msemerizing song of horrors! "Stars brightly burning, boiling and churning, bode a returning season of doom"

Here's another, shorter one. The style in these is just unbelievable. The singers are great, although they pronounce few words funnily Kathulu and Fong Re Lay? But... "oh, tidings of madness and woe, madness and woe, oh tidings of madness and woe (and great woe)..."
http://www.cthulhulives.org/Solstice...wakesample.mp3

JaydedOne · #5 October 4th, 2006, 08:53 PM

EDIT: I see that Livejournal cares not for the image-linking. Well, you can follow the URLs for the moment. Again with the too tired and full of work to fix the issue. If someone wants to help me correct this, I'm all for it.

A few pics, as I'm too tired and full of work to do an AAR this evening:

Goodness. Look at these guys who're turning up all over my kingdom:
[image]http://pics.livejournal.com/jaydedone/pic/0000h3tw[/image]
[image]http://pics.livejournal.com/jaydedone/pic/0000q007[/image]

Just to give you an idea, by Turn 10, I had this little group of buddies show up in one of my provinces:
[image]http://pics.livejournal.com/jaydedone/pic/0000r0p4[/image]

All told, I'd say by Turn 13, I had roughly 60-70 deep one/merman dreamers spawned with my Dominion 10 Void Lurker imprisoned and my Prophet dead for half those turns due to a stupid Arena scripting mistake.

By the way, hey... This looks... new...

[image]http://pics.livejournal.com/jaydedone/pic/0000kqt1[/image]

Why, yes. Yes I do believe that's new.
[image]http://pics.livejournal.com/jaydedone/pic/0000pqtp[/image]

BTW, the random map generator's really pretty good. Here's a map I generated with about ten minutes of fiddling with the controls:

[image]http://pics.livejournal.com/jaydedone/pic/0000cw87[/image]

alexti · #6 October 5th, 2006, 01:45 AM

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DominionsFan said:
Hm I never heard about Apocalyptica. However I prefer dance music, and as I see this is a metal band.

Then you may want to check Korpiklaani

Meglobob · #7 October 5th, 2006, 02:31 AM

Nice screenshots, JaydedOne, R'lyeh dreamlands looks very interesting. Not sure if I like the idea of my underlings doing there own thing. Do they seriously mess yr turns up by doing something else instead?

The spreading of insanity thou., original in a computer game, I like it.

I suspect that R'lyeh dreamlands r not good for a newbie player to try?

Nerfix · #8 October 5th, 2006, 04:41 AM

I don't think R'lyeh is easy for beginners in general.

Most of your troops either have the protection value of a newborn kitten or are painfully s...l....o...w. The Void Gate which summons your Sacred troops is, well...I� I� FTAGHN! *rips off his clothes and runs around wildly while being hunted by a Horror*, errr, funky. Yes, it's quite funky.

Then you have trick units like the Crab Hybrids, Shambler Thralls and the Illithids. Illithids are very good, excelent in fact.

You have an S1 mage who is also an assasin, S1 and 100%WSED priest mage who is the ony who can use the void gate, um, semi-reliably and the crown jewel of your mages the 3S 1W 100%WSED (or was it two randoms? I forgot!) Starspawn. So you won't have much evocations. Instead you have to rely largely on Astral magic and perhaps stuff like Gifts from Heaven and Nether Darts for combat.

That's what I think. Perhaps some newbies find them easy to use but I'd vager they have hard, frustarting time trying to invade the land with the low-prot units who will get easily killed by archers.

But they do have a solution for that, oh yes they do...

JaydedOne · #9 October 5th, 2006, 11:13 AM

I actually found it very forgiving for a newbie, at least in single-player. The AI responds poorly to enemies in the water (it takes it a while to figure out how to launch amphibious assaults), which gives you plenty of time to turtle up, gather resources, and figure out where the best strike point on land is. The paralyze ability offered by masses of illithids tears big holes in an enemy's offensive, allowing you to tear through them with your generally low-armored creatures. And Astral magic is great all-purpose stuff.

Granted, in multiplayer, it's different as players tend to recognize R'lyeh's weaknesses more readily.

DominionsFan · #10 October 5th, 2006, 11:41 AM

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JaydedOne said:
The AI responds poorly to enemies in the water

Yep I just figured this out while playing with the demo. It was the same in Doms 2. However the AI is much better overall now, it is fielding huge armies in the demo, and building many castles also. Like I've said I was surprised that an AI player moved almost 700 troops to my border province. It was a strategical location, the north side of the map. 1 land province, and water below it.