Your Biggest Dom3 Battle

WraithLord · #1 November 19th, 2006, 12:36 PM

For such huge battles screenshots and/or the turn files would be very nice.

Azhur · #2 November 19th, 2006, 01:01 PM

20 knights against my army of 6000 undead. I'll post a screenshot tomorrow.

Ironhawk · #3 November 19th, 2006, 03:18 PM

I think I had two 500 unit armies clash once. But more than that I had a skelly-spam army storm a castle one time and they were unable to take the gate. By the end of the battle the left side of the battlefield was completely filled with skellies. Every square.

Shovah32 · #4 November 19th, 2006, 03:27 PM

lol, what sort of tough units/mages were holding them back?

reverend · #5 November 19th, 2006, 04:05 PM

I need to play more.

The largest battle I had so far was some 300 units of Ulm storming a Tien Chi cast defended by about 200 units... Still, pretty impressive, when I compare it to the small armies I used in Dom 2.

Hadrian_II · #6 November 19th, 2006, 06:51 PM

I have a screenshot of an army of ca. 1600 Longdeaths and some PD. It looks quite nice

alexti · #7 November 19th, 2006, 10:32 PM

Is it about single player games? I'd think that in large MP the big battles would have numbers well in thousands. At least in Dom2 they were. I don't think that numbers in Dom3 will be much different. Essentially the limit was how much troops that can survive FfS,RoS etc you could bring. It wasn't worthwhile to bring more of other troops as only 10-20% of them would ever reach the real battle.

Endoperez · #8 November 20th, 2006, 04:58 AM

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WraithLord said:
For such huge battles screenshots and/or the turn files would be very nice.

The turn files ARE attached to my first post...

I think it took an hour or so before I realized I had forgotten something, though.

HoneyBadger · #9 November 23rd, 2006, 06:18 AM

I've had a few battles last 75 rounds or more, not sure how many participants, but their must have been a lot and they must have been pretty evenly matched since there wasn't a DM. The AI regularly dumps anywhere from 800-1450 troops on my Niefel giants though. I counter with waves of 60+ skinshifters, which usually manage to eat up their territory, and hold that territory with defense 40-90 until they can't feed/clothe/pay their soldiers.

Endoperez · #10 November 23rd, 2006, 10:10 AM

The attacking army will always start routing after turn 50. Manual, page 80. It doesn't mention the defenders routing, though, even though I'm pretty sure they rout 25 or so turns before the last remaining creatures (like 100+ paralyzed Sphinxes with active Soul Vortex or something) are killed off.