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Ultraliskhero
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada249 Posts
May 07 2014 15:16 GMT
#161
So in the manual, it says that if the cold scales on both sides of a river are +1 or greater, the river would be frozen and you can cross it. However, I don't always see this in games. Even with cold 2 on both sides, I still see some rivers are not crossable, is there something that explains this?

also, I really like the turn summaries from Scip, keep it up!
Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
May 07 2014 15:21 GMT
#162
I have never seen such behavior o.o The only reason that comes to mind is if you're trying to cross the river with Vampires, who can't cross rivers even when they are frozen.
"It may be pleasurable for some of us to imagine being ravished" - Christopher Hitchens in a debate with feminists RIP 2011 Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
Capresis
Profile Joined September 2008
United States518 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-07 16:17:24
May 07 2014 16:16 GMT
#163
How do you use battle orders effectively? The only things I've ever used are:

Melee: Attack Closest, or Hold and Attack Closest (if I have lots of archers)

Ranged: Fire and Retreat or whatever it is

Spellcasters: Cast spells

How do you effectively do different orders? If you tell cavalry to attack rear and they run headlong into the enemy troop wall, do they just do battle as normal then?
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
May 07 2014 16:44 GMT
#164
Ye attack rear will try to make a beeline for the rearmost units but if they get caught the entire squad will start fighting as normal.

Also if I'm not mistaken it takes a morale check to actually move beyond squads that are in front of the units in the back no matter if your "rear-atacking-mans" come in contact with them or not, meaning higher morale = higher chance to actually reach the back.

As for spells, you usually want to script the first 5 turns with whatever you want them to be doing, whatever it may be.

Guard commander can be useful for archer decoys (put decoy in front with said orders, they'll run back to commander while kiting the enemies archers, pretty much guaranteed against the AI).

There are a bunch of scripting tricks and as they say, google is ur friend .
knuckle
KillerSOS
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4207 Posts
May 07 2014 17:51 GMT
#165
On May 07 2014 20:50 Scip wrote:
Atlantis took heavy beating taking their province, lost like 1/4th of their force
Lord Tolkien is OP as shit taking 2 provinces on t2 as Caelum thanks to mercs. The provinces he took have p low income though.
Atlantis conquered a province with t0 gem site.
Ulm has a rainbow pretender who's currently on site-searching duty
Abysia got only 1 candle this turn I think. Could it be their prophet assasin is messing around in enemy dominion already !?
And the struggle for ascension to godhood continues...


IT. WAS. Worth it?
^_>
Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-07 18:25:28
May 07 2014 18:12 GMT
#166
Lol, my expansion army got rapped. Who woulda thought that 20 heavy infantries and heavy cavs means 4 heavy infantries and 15 heavy cavs. qqq
What are the rules about diplomacy, only in-game messages or are TL PMs ok as well?

Lord Tolkien hires another group of mercs and gets 3 provinces this turn. All of them poor, his income is still in the middle range. Will someone attempt to buy the mercs away from him ?!
Atlantis took too many losses last turn and doesn't take any provinces.
Everyone else gets only 1 province this turn, including me, despite having an SC pretender.
Agartha sent out one of their first mages out to search for provinces and it looks like it paid off. +2 gems/turn looks like a sick site to find this quickly :D
Congratulations to Sir Edward Blackfirst, who has already reached more than 100 exp. What a beast! He's still under Lord Tolkien's contract for 2 more months, but the #2 in HoF can be hired right away :p
"It may be pleasurable for some of us to imagine being ravished" - Christopher Hitchens in a debate with feminists RIP 2011 Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
xuanzue
Profile Joined October 2010
Colombia1747 Posts
May 07 2014 18:18 GMT
#167
On May 08 2014 03:12 Scip wrote:
Lol, my expansion army got rapped. Who woulda thought that 20 heavy infantries and heavy cavs means 4 heavy infantries and 15 heavy cavs. qqq
What are the rules about diplomacy, only in-game messages or are TL PMs ok as well?


pm's are ok, games with diplomacy restricted are usually anonymous.
Dominions 4: "Thrones of Ascension".
Capresis
Profile Joined September 2008
United States518 Posts
May 07 2014 19:40 GMT
#168
Okay, thanks. And what are Vanheim's go-to troops and strats? (=

So far I've been buying mostly skinshifters because I seem to be a bit wanting on resources, and they only cost 7 each. They seem pretty good for expanding too because of regeneration?
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
May 07 2014 19:43 GMT
#169
On May 08 2014 03:12 Scip wrote:
Lol, my expansion army got rapped. Who woulda thought that 20 heavy infantries and heavy cavs means 4 heavy infantries and 15 heavy cavs. qqq


A little trick for provinces that you want to be sure about, put a scout on retreat orders and put him all the way in the back, then let him attack the province. He'll run away obv but you get to see exactly what's in there. He needs to have an adjacent province to retreat to though or POOF .
knuckle
Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
May 07 2014 19:47 GMT
#170
On May 08 2014 04:43 HeatEXTEND wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2014 03:12 Scip wrote:
Lol, my expansion army got rapped. Who woulda thought that 20 heavy infantries and heavy cavs means 4 heavy infantries and 15 heavy cavs. qqq


A little trick for provinces that you want to be sure about, put a scout on retreat orders and put him all the way in the back, then let him attack the province. He'll run away obv but you get to see exactly what's in there. He needs to have an adjacent province to retreat to though or POOF .

Yeah, i know that trick, but I just decided to Gambol. The greeds got me though
"It may be pleasurable for some of us to imagine being ravished" - Christopher Hitchens in a debate with feminists RIP 2011 Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
May 07 2014 19:52 GMT
#171
On May 08 2014 04:40 Capricis wrote:
Okay, thanks. And what are Vanheim's go-to troops and strats? (=

So far I've been buying mostly skinshifters because I seem to be a bit wanting on resources, and they only cost 7 each. They seem pretty good for expanding too because of regeneration?


All I know about vanheim is fuck glamour thugs .
knuckle
Lord Tolkien
Profile Joined November 2012
United States12084 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-08 01:40:24
May 08 2014 01:39 GMT
#172
On May 08 2014 03:12 Scip wrote:
Lol, my expansion army got rapped. Who woulda thought that 20 heavy infantries and heavy cavs means 4 heavy infantries and 15 heavy cavs. qqq
What are the rules about diplomacy, only in-game messages or are TL PMs ok as well?

Lord Tolkien hires another group of mercs and gets 3 provinces this turn. All of them poor, his income is still in the middle range. Will someone attempt to buy the mercs away from him ?!
Atlantis took too many losses last turn and doesn't take any provinces.
Everyone else gets only 1 province this turn, including me, despite having an SC pretender.
Agartha sent out one of their first mages out to search for provinces and it looks like it paid off. +2 gems/turn looks like a sick site to find this quickly :D
Congratulations to Sir Edward Blackfirst, who has already reached more than 100 exp. What a beast! He's still under Lord Tolkien's contract for 2 more months, but the #2 in HoF can be hired right away :p

I'll be honest, I hate the exp'd mercs.

They always die and take HoF slots from other people.

I'm just using them to burn through as many provinces as I can for now. As everyone noticed, my income is still worse than yours because Caelum during summer hue. even my cap only has Cold-1 which means im getting hugely income-screwed right now.
"His father is pretty juicy tbh." ~WaveofShadow
Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
May 08 2014 11:44 GMT
#173
Tolkien's hatred seems to have had an effect on his play; Poor, poor Ferdinando bit the dust. Huge army size loss and only 1 province gained might mean that Lord Tolkien's national army also got rekt; has Lord "I have played 12 multiplayer games before and haven't won a single one" Tolkien blundered?!
Vanheim and Atlantis haven't gained a province this turn, both increasing their armies. Vanheim has been hit by an ugly even this turn however; is it possible they conquered a province, but a random horse of barbs took one of theirs? Dominions giveth, and Dominions taketh away.
Everyone else got 1 province this turn, except for me, because SC pretenders are op huehue

Ulm has found their own 3gem site! Good lucky old Ulmish. Couldn't have happened to a nicer country.

A new mercenary group, the Elephant crops led by Hannibal has arrived. Will the whoremonger Lord Tolkien snatch away this one also?
The hall of fame is occupied mostly by prophets, 2 merc generals, 1 corpse and 1 indie commander. We shall see when will it start filling up with thugs and SCs!
"It may be pleasurable for some of us to imagine being ravished" - Christopher Hitchens in a debate with feminists RIP 2011 Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
May 08 2014 18:03 GMT
#174
I'm currently sick at home and need to stave of nasty feverish dreams so if anyone would be up for a blitz duel lemme know.
knuckle
Capresis
Profile Joined September 2008
United States518 Posts
May 08 2014 21:07 GMT
#175
All right Scip, I understand everything else, but how do you know from score graphs that I got 'hit by an ugly event?'
KillerSOS
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4207 Posts
May 08 2014 22:20 GMT
#176
My Kracken seems to have met his match...
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
May 08 2014 22:28 GMT
#177
On May 09 2014 07:20 KillerSOS wrote:
My Kracken seems to have met his match...


:D
knuckle
Scip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Czech Republic11293 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-09 00:48:40
May 08 2014 22:52 GMT
#178
On May 09 2014 06:07 Capricis wrote:
All right Scip, I understand everything else, but how do you know from score graphs that I got 'hit by an ugly event?'

No other reason for your income graph to drop like that
It could be an unrest, poploss or provinceloss event, but I don't think there's any other explanation.
Pretty sure upkeep isn't accounted for in the income graph
Just waiting for our Attorney at Law now! Excited :3
If I understand the website correctly, our Attorney at Law has only 4.5 hours to make his move!? o.o

Lol I am getting rapped in this expansion phase, god damnit :D
"It may be pleasurable for some of us to imagine being ravished" - Christopher Hitchens in a debate with feminists RIP 2011 Psalm 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
Capresis
Profile Joined September 2008
United States518 Posts
May 09 2014 01:00 GMT
#179
There is an octoglob next to my province D=
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
May 09 2014 01:21 GMT
#180
On May 09 2014 10:00 Capricis wrote:
There is an octoglob next to my province D=


Couldn't find it on the dom inspector
knuckle
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