Mod: Reign of the Vampiri

[Amos]

Small changes to sprites for "Tetsu Militia" and "Thrall Berserker".

[Loren]

Something that doesn't make sense with this race.

It's got a pop-killing dominion and yet it's a blood nation.

[HoneyBadger]

I think it's an interesting twist. A blood Nation with pop-eating makes sense for vampires, afterall. It will definitely differentiate them from every other blood-Nation. And it will help avoid the 'Hinnom effect', of having a very powerful Nation that just gets more and more powerful by the end-game.

[Loren]

I've been having bad luck with the game while playing this race.

Once it went off into la-la land while moving, once the game simply vanished during turn generation. I wonder if there is something about it that confuses the game engine.

[Amos]

Play-tested this mod myself many times, and never had any problems. This mod doesnt have anything that could cause the usual problems - like holy pretender.

[Loren]

The Mighty AI's have been driving me nuts.

This race starts slow but becomes unbeatable if it has enough time to act. At the mighty level I'm getting overrun before I have enough vampires.

[Gregstrom]

I'd be interested in knowing how many freebie vampires were cropping up per turn at the end.

Giving the vampire master a gold cost might be interesting - there would effectively be a limit to how many you could summon.

[Loren]

Originally Posted by Gregstrom

I'd be interested in knowing how many freebie vampires were cropping up per turn at the end.

Giving the vampire master a gold cost might be interesting - there would effectively be a limit to how many you could summon.

I think I was up to around 600 from the main group and I don't have a count on the blood hunters (~350 slaves/turn at the peak, declining due to the dominion kill) when I decided I had enough firepower that C'tis was no longer a threat and there was no point in playing it out. I didn't have enough death gems to recruit enough wraithlords to lead them all.

Gold wouldn't have been much of a limit, anyway--my upkeep was under 2000 and I hadn't recruited anything beyond blood hunters for a long time. I forget what my income was up to, something in excess of 20k--I had Gift of Nature's Bounty up.

I was using the vast amounts of gold to make conquest easier--every province I took I put at least PD 80 in. This way I didn't need to worry about maintaining a battle line, each strike group just wandered around taking provinces. The number of provinces that got retaken was very low, doing it this way was faster than a battle line that would keep having to stop to seige castles.

(Strangely enough the AI hardly was interested in globals. For years I had Gift of Health/Gift of Nature's Bounty/Strands of Arcane Power/Wrath of God up, the 5th slot empty. Finally Bogarus started casting The Kindly Ones and I would promptly dispel it. Gift of Health finally got taken out and I didn't bother to replace it as all my fighting was in enemy dominion and there were no enemy mages in my dominion that might feemblemind the guy who cast Strands of Arcane Power.)

I'm now trying it against 8 impossibles. I'm #1 in all but army size and research. Patella somehow severely crippled themselves--when I found them they had 4 provinces to my probably 40. They declared war, I took them down to two but they have expanded back to 4 after my mercs got too weak (going the other direction through indies.) I've got assassins in every one of his provinces but the capital and he's not expanding any more but right now I'm not in a position to finish him off. I'm hoping to pin him in his capital and dom-kill him as I don't feel like taking the casualties I almost certainly would against his pretender.

I have just encountered Tian Chi and Mictlan, no hostilities yet. I'm cursing the random events--an assassin was in the process of taking an indie province. All the commanders were gone, time to attack--oops, I get the province but now it has a castle that I'm sieging!

[Amos]

My girlfriend is in a hospital sick. I'll fix those two issues plus the thrall spell as soon as I'm able.

Also, did you do something to the vampire lord? I have recruited some, given them skull staffs and am having them recruit more--the intention is to use them as blood hunters. (I've found a 60% off site, makes them a *GOOD* deal!) The problem is that they won't stay on monthly casting. The new vampire lord shows up but the orders are cancelled

I added new sprite and:
#maxage 2000
#poisonres 90
#coldres 50
#fireres -50
#darkvision 100
#darkpower 2
#regeneration 50
#domsummon20 405
#def 23

[Loren]

I don't know enough about modding to know if that would mess up it's ability to keep an order.

I fixed some of the immortality problem on my machine. Vs 8 impossible AI's. Two dominion kills so far, I'm at war with two neighbors, at peace with three.

My dominion is eating into Gath's space two levels by now and my dominion down there hasn't spread very well because it's the area I dom-killed Mictlan in not too long ago. On the other side I'm having an awful time pushing my dominion into Marignon. I want a white candle to attack into so I get my vampires back. I picked off one ragged layer of provinces and I haven't managed to push any farther. He's got temples in every province and apparently a strong dominion. The True Bloods are ramping up well, though, I'm now #3 in army size.

I'm probably going to win this.