Happiness in Darkness -An Argatha Ktonian Dead AAR

[Nerfix]

I thought a bit of funkiness is just WAD with Stygian Paths?

[okiN]

I once played a game with a friend of mine who was BE Ermor. In a last-ditch effort, he sent all his troops (Hundreds of them, pretender included) to attack my capital via Stygian Paths. Some 20 wights got through, only to dissolve without a commander when confronted by my PD. He lost the game that turn since he had literally nothing left after that.

[Nerfix]

OK, that's no more a bit of funkiness, it's lots of funkiness.

[Agrajag]

okiN said:
I once played a game with a friend of mine who was BE Ermor. In a last-ditch effort, he sent all his troops (Hundreds of them, pretender included) to attack my capital via Stygian Paths. Some 20 wights got through, only to dissolve without a commander when confronted by my PD. He lost the game that turn since he had literally nothing left after that.

What he was probably aiming for was getting the game so funked up it won't be able to host, thus getting a draw due to technical difficulties
Last time I sent so many troops with so many stygian paths, it made the game hang while hosting.

[NTJedi]

okiN said:
I once played a game with a friend of mine who was BE Ermor. In a last-ditch effort, he sent all his troops (Hundreds of them, pretender included) to attack my capital via Stygian Paths. Some 20 wights got through, only to dissolve without a commander when confronted by my PD. He lost the game that turn since he had literally nothing left after that.

Yes I once sent my bog mummy pretender via 'stygian paths' with a powerful army. The spell description says you might be attacked by forces from the underworld... and well I was looking forward to see if any unique creatures would attack. Needless to say there are no attacks... units and commanders are just killed without a fight. The spell is also bugged as the spell told me I had over 9 million units die.

I'm sure the spell has been tweaked somewhat, but if the spell description still says you can be attacked then an actual battle should happen instead of the game just killing units. Just never use this spell while playing Dominions_2.

[Boron]

At least i hope stygian paths works now .
Somewhere was mentioned i think that they are fixed .

[quantum_mechani]

Boron said:
At least i hope stygian paths works now .
Somewhere was mentioned i think that they are fixed .

I've checked it, it works now.

[DominionsFan]

quantum_mechani said:

I've checked it, it works now.

Good to hear, thanks for the info.

[Boron]

"Late fall in the year 3 of the ascension wars"


This turn we are quite defensive, the indy attacks have disturbed us. I try to catch the small caelum raid group.
From my side no major orders for this turn.

We reached conjuration 5 though, so we can start umbral summoning. No astral 2 mage in sight .

"Early winter in the year 3 of the ascension wars"

Yay, 1000 Gold event (and a barbarian attack event, another province lost temporarily ^^).

Especially for Nerfix:

Quite good. The Glaive is magic, 11 Dam, +1 to attack, -1 to defense, length 4.
So a good SC killer if he hits. If you take a fire 9 dragon this might work.

And now the real bad boy, the umbral .

They are almost like thugs and cost only 2 Deathgems .
Their lifedrain attack is also magic and armor piercing.

No major battles happened this turn, but Caelum has castled and Ermor has drawn a few undeads to my border. I am not making real progress grmbl.



HMPF i need bodyguards. I tend to forget stuff in dominions . A caelum flier army on hold + attack rearmost did kill my 2 necros who where the only commanders and thus won a major battle. It was a pyrhic victory for Caelum, but they won nontheless.



Caelum has now 300 or more troops there, and they did win the victory at our upper castle. Probably they will try to siege the castle this turn.
I might need to use the umbrals already.

[JaydedOne]

Wow. Thanks for sharing those two new summons. They rule. But Endo hinted there was something beyond the sepulchrals and the umbrals... Any hints?