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Gokufan1988 · #61 February 26th, 2009, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Ludivico van

also, its [faerun] confusing as hell (thats allowed isn't it?) to differentiate between the land and the sea. I personally would choose a less aesthetically pleasing map thats easy to read than one thats detailed but confusing. I would say use something made for dominions. there was a 1000 or so province map, but that may be a tad extreme.

From looking at them, theres going to be a lot of monkeys runnin around everywhere. I think I'm looking at using numbers to drown the enemy in a swarming mass of feces and furry little bodies.

And serpant creatures . . .?

I'd use the elephants to expand against indies at the very least, they're pretty great for that. From what I've heard the serpent creatures (Naga) aren't very good and looking at them I'm inclined to agree. They're quite expensive but and also slow, use tiny shields and have less hp then you'd think something that pricy would.

Just looking at the nagarishi makes me think you could make a pretty cool linebacker communion.

Have the nagarishi cast:
communion master, summon earthpower, invulnerability, quickness, whatever

then have a yogi cast:
communion master, body ethereal, personal luck, resist magic, whatever

have someone bless the communion (since all your mages are sacred, I'd reccomend a minor earth bless at the very least) and have a bunch of yogis armed with frost brands cast communion slave and then attack.

Later on you can have a Kinnara add:
communion master, mistform, mirror image, flight, air shield

I have no idea how practical this would be but it's fun to think about.

Ludivico van · #62 February 26th, 2009, 06:50 PM

see, i'm at the point where i know how to do normal shhhhhtuff and thats all. I have sought after the effect of communion slave/master spells. does it say it on there? i thought i checked, but i didn't see it. all i know is how its done. WHAT THE HELL DOES IT DO!

I hope you didn't inconvience yourself getting all of that for me. like, hopefully you didn't look all that up from the time i posted that post you quoted from until now. I'd feel like an a**hole for switching. I'm just more familiar with c'tis. although, I get the feeling its the same sort of idea in terms of troops, but with greater variation and undead and . . . well, not all that similiar. thank you though. I will most likely still use that combination or some variation of it, seeing as I have none of my own.

Gokufan1988 · #63 February 26th, 2009, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ludivico van

see, i'm at the point where i know how to do normal shhhhhtuff and thats all. I have sought after the effect of communion slave/master spells. does it say it on there? i thought i checked, but i didn't see it. all i know is how its done. WHAT THE HELL DOES IT DO!

I hope you didn't inconvience yourself getting all of that for me. like, hopefully you didn't look all that up from the time i posted that post you quoted from until now. I'd feel like an a**hole for switching. I'm just more familiar with c'tis. although, I get the feeling its the same sort of idea in terms of troops, but with greater variation and undead and . . . well, not all that similiar. thank you though. I will most likely still use that combination or some variation of it, seeing as I have none of my own.

Haha, don't worry about it. I've played Bandar Log single player so I'm familiar with their mages. And like I said I don't know if using that strategy would actually be a good idea.

The way communions work is that you have masters and slaves. One joins the communion by casting the astral 1/thaum 1 spell communion master or sommunion slave. Putting more slaves in the communion boosts the masters' magic skill in all paths as follows
+1 at 2 slaves
+2 at 4 slaves
+3 at 8 slaves
+4 at 16 slaves
and so on.
In addition, when the communion master casts a spell the fatigue generated from the spell is spread between all the members of the communion. Finally, any buffs applied to the masters are applied to all of the slaves.

There's a (long) guide here: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=37499

Gregstrom · #64 February 26th, 2009, 07:14 PM

Ludivico, you're down as C'tis now

Baalz wrote a nice guide to communions which might help you understand them better, by the way.

Unless people (including myself) find something wrong with the SpringRain map linked in my earlier post, we'll be using that.

I'll also be closing the game to new players at this point.

Ludivico van · #65 February 26th, 2009, 07:38 PM

i can live with that.

i hadn't played as ctis LA, only with that theme in dom 2 . . .

I miss my slaves haha but i can dig this map.

Gregstrom · #66 February 28th, 2009, 08:17 AM

Hokay. I've taken the map and after a bit of a struggle I've set some start points. The map's a little short on choke points, but never mind. Everyone should have 5 neighbours to their capital.

I've put the game on llamaserver, so feel free to submit your pretenders as soon as you like.

hEad · #67 February 28th, 2009, 12:09 PM

Gregstrom me old mate,

the link for the map down load appears to lead one to a post in the babylon 5 mod for space empires. Any chance you could ah, make the necessary adjustments please?

Gregstrom · #68 February 28th, 2009, 12:15 PM

I can't adjust the link on llamaserver, sadly. Instead, I'll put the link here and in the top post.

hEad · #69 February 28th, 2009, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Gregstrom

I can't adjust the link on llamaserver, sadly. Instead, I'll put the link here and in the top post.

Excellent!

Gregstrom · #70 March 1st, 2009, 07:51 AM

Yay! 50% of pretenders uploaded already. Good stuff, y'all