Bogarus Rises! Dominions 3.14 Now Available!

[Annette]

News Release For Immediate Release


Bogarus Rises! Dominions 3.14 Now Available!
New Win, Mac, Linux Patch Ready For Immediate Download!


Hampstead, NC, 28 January 2008

Who says January has to be an unexciting time for computer gaming? Illwinter Game
Design and Shrapnel Games are pleased to announce a new patch for the multi-award
winning fantasy strategy title, Dominions 3, overflowing with the delectable goodness
you've come to expect from Illwinter.

Bringing the retail game to version 3.14 the patch includes something for everyone, even
your dear old grandmother! Like new nations? Of course you do! And so you get a new
late age nation, Bogarus! Do you get your mod on? Version 3.14 adds a number of
helpful modding commands for everyone who enjoys tweaking the game. What about
bugs, you say? 3.14 kills bugs deader than Britney Spears' career.

The complete list of changes found in the 3.14 patch includes:

* NEW! A new late era nation called Bogarus!
* NEW! Bakemono got a new scout.
* NEW! New random events.
* Spell AI: Touch of madness and Berserkers avoids casters and archers to some extent.
* Spell AI: No longer casts LoS on armorless units.
* Modding: Increased maximum number of descriptions.
* Modding: Max number of nations and nametypes increased.
* Modding: New monster commands: #darkpower, #firepower, #coldpower,
#stormpower, #fallpower, #winterpower, #summerpower, #springpower, #darkvision,
#onebattlespell, #patrolbonus.
* Modding: New item commands: #newitem, #descr, #weapon, #armor, #type, #name,
#copyspr.
* Modding: New spell command: #nextspell.
* FIXED! MR bless bonus was sometimes displayed incorrectly.
* FIXED! Dominion sometimes spread in incorrect ways.
* FIXED! Legions of Steel bug fixed.
* FIXED! 'y'-screen bug fix.
* FIXED! Caster of Stygian Paths took 1 point of damage for each unit under his
command instead of the units taking the damage.
* FIXED! Stygian Paths reported random number of lost on the way.
* FIXED! Ritual casting magic items could malfunction.
* FIXED! Bug preventing more than a hundred sprites or so in mods has been
squashed.
* FIXED! Several minor fixes to monster stats and magic sites.
* FIXED! Dance of the morrigans fixed.
* FIXED! Setting 1920x1200 resolution didn't work properly.
* More magic sites enabled in caves.
* Scathach got her magic and flight.
* Hydra sacred all the way.

Please note that prior score graphs will disappear when the version 3.14 patch is applied.

The version 3.14 patch is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and can be downloaded
directly from Shrapnel Games at:

www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/6.htm

Dominions 3 is an award-winning juggernaut of turn-based strategy gaming that make
most other strategy games weep in envy. Available for all popular operating systems
(Win, Mac, Linux) Dominions 3 is a game that isn't afraid to use the word 'epic' to
describe its gameplay and really mean it. You can recruit, research, empower, forge,
battle, search, pray, blood hunt, assassinate, move, storm castles, enchant items, sneak,
build, starve, heal, scout. Enjoy three eras of play, scores of nations, well over a
thousand unique units, hundreds of magic spells and items, twenty-one players in a single
game, random map creation, a manual that could choke Linda Lovelace, and more.

Dominions is also a game that is constantly growing. From the wonderful official
support of the developers who have added expansion packs worth of new content since its
original release, to the fan base with their ever growing mod library, Dominions 3 is a
living, breathing organism. In an era where a Grant will get you six hours of gameplay,
that same Grant will get you thousands of hours of gameplay with Dominions 3.

For more information on what may be the last fantasy strategy game that you'll ever
need, please visit:

www.shrapnelgames.com/Illwinter/Dom3/1.htm

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[MKDELTA]

Awesome! DLing now...

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Thank you Illwinter and Shrapnel!

[ano]

Bogarus seems to be way too powerful. National mages for 160 gold doing 8 research and for 250 doing 12 research. It's too much for late era)
And powerful blood, astral and fire. Well, I think, it'll definitely become one of the top races in the late age.

[Kuritza]

Yes, mages and especially researchers are great. But troops are sub-par, dont underestimate raw power. Mitclan, Rlyeh and Ermor are still LA kings.

[archaeolept]

high research; access to all paths if you include national summons; large number of path combos. However, troops are not great, sacred probably useless, fairly expensive mages as far as using them in the battlefield.

that research is impressive though...

[MKDELTA]

My Bogarus impressions.

Troops: crap. 8 prec archers? Heaviest infantry has 13 prot? D:
Mages: Oh nice. Great research. Lots of variety. BLOOD. Must most likely largely depend on communion circle games to get "serious" battle magic. Lightning bolts are always nice though.
Priests & Sacreds: H3! Nice. If you only had blessable troops...well you do, but they're like flagellants, except worse in combat. Fivefold Angel = freakiest thing ever. Nnnice. Those flag clones seem more like an SF tool than combat troop. Okay.
Summons: Oh my pretenders what a freak show. Definitively not your usual "big scary sacred summons". Well, at least not until Smey. Special forces stuff here too. The flying dog is bugged, it has Falchion, which is actualy nice, but it most likely shouldn't have it. Seducing Sirins! Get your skelly amulets ready. Flying plague spirits and H3 priests. Oh ho.

Conclusion: pretty easy to squash untill you gear your special forces up...then...you can most likely make your enemies life hell on combat and outside of it. You got troops which curse enemies and cause bad luck in the province they dwell in. You got seducers. Troops designed to plague other troops. Good communion potential. Lots of magic variety. Etc.

[Kuritza]

Communion, yeah. Perhaps the best communion available so far, of all nations. Combat magic-wise, look at the occultists. Easy nether bolts and nether darts for you. Cheap archers for flaming arrows and wind guide. Astral fire is another nice spell some Startsy are capable of (all of them if you light of the northern star, for example).
Too bad there's no foot archer with a composite bow, tsk tsk, but nevermind.

Five-fold angels got a 'fist' weapon btw, though description says the've cut their hands off. Perhaps it should be 'stump'? Goddamn freaky things if you ask me... Just the thing I like Dominions for. Khlysty, Skotpsy - quite authentic btw, really nice to see such details.
Another thing is, Druzhina is a name of the troop, not unit. Like 'cavalry' as opposed to 'cavalryman'. Heck, there's no such difference in English maybe... but individual warriors were called Druzhinnik and Griden' (last letter soft, not sure how to spell it) or just Grid. Not that its of any importance, of course.
And God did I laugh while reading Baba Yaga's (national hero) description. True Baba Yaga as she should be! Thanks mr. developer.

[archaeolept]

also they have the marverni "champion of the horn" as a pretender choice... is that correct? Just seems strange given the "flavour" text.

edit: sorry, I had worthy heroes 1.8 enabled ... no marverni hornblower normally

[Meglobob]

Thanks for the new patch.