Community effort (phase 3)

[Saulot]

Did you miss the name I suggested earlier, Foodstamp?

Air Update: I've started testing a few units with placeholder sprites for the time being. I've also started spritework on a few non-human units.

[Foodstamp]

Aye I saw it. Incase anyone else missed it, the name is "Acatharti Dominion". The name is alright, I don't like that it has the word "Dominion" in it.

Here is a current list to condense the names for voting:
Acatharti Dominion
Tarn
Yesod
Yesodot
Arba

If I have missed others, or you have new ideas, just add to the list

[Saulot]

I suppose you're right, dominion does sound better in a completely different context. (Perhaps a scifi one or something not involving dominions)

*ponders*

I suppose Confederacy, Commonwealth, Empire, Caliphate, Emirate, Sultanate etc. are all fine substitutes (they can also go before, such as X of Acartharti.

Or simply Acartharsis.
Or 'Unified Acartharsis'.
Or 'Greater Acartharsis'.

Also, a play on the Mongols, The Silver Horde.

Also, a play on ancient China, The Four Kingdoms.

[Foodstamp]

It is not the context. The word is the title of the game, as well as one of the game features/mechanics, that is why I don't like the idea of it being used as part of the name of a nation as well.

Acatharti Dominion (Confederacy, Commonwealth, Empire, Caliphate, Emirate, Sultanate / or X of Acatharti)
Acartharsis.
'Unified Acartharsis'
'Greater Acartharsis'
Acatharti: The Silver Horde
Acatharti: The Four Kingdoms
Tarn
Yesod
Yesodot
Arba

[Endoperez]

If you name it Silver Horde, put in a multihero "Silver General", age 100/50 human with att/def/str 18, 20 hp and a bonus bite attack.

[Sombre]

Riding a bog beast.

[Maraxus]

Okay, I'm definitly okay with Contesting Tribes.

For the name, I'd prefer something with more then 1 syllable. Acarthasis sounds good. Like Not-Carthage-ish.

[Foodstamp]

So "Acarthasis: Contesting Tribes"?

I like that name as well .

For theme, maybe it can work like this...

The pretender has pulled the four tribes together. Even though the tribes are bound together by the will of the pretender, they still jockey for position politically and have a distaste for one another, bred by their worship of different elements. The exception being the priest(s)(I am going to create) who are ordained by the new order, so they are not subject to the politics of the precarious alliance.

So while there is a truce of sorts mandated by the pretender, the factions still play the game of political intrigue, trying to stab one another in the back. To top it off, they do not work well when mixed together in units, and would rather be in legions of their own ilk (cold auras, hot auras, vulnerability to opposite elements etc)

[Sombre]

Keep in mind that the AI will make a total mess if you give it units which can't really go together. It's bad enough with hydras and abysians already.

[Saulot]

I'm sorry, I made a spelling/typing mistake a while earlier and somehow it multiplied
A case of migrating and multiplying R(s)...

It was supposed to be Acatharsis, not Acarthasis. But whatever you all like is fine.

Anyway, I vote for Iberia. Foodstamp, you might consider throwing in some inquisitors for priests, and possibly combine one with stealth. It would tie in with the secret police, priestly power, rise of the Pretender over the various groups I discussed earlier. I also recommend a weak province defense of something between indep. light infantry and militia, but with different equipment, and slightly better morale and training, and no javelins. These are regular people, but due to nearly constant warfare are far more prepared for it than your average indep or militia, but by no means compare to the military power of the four groups.