7:32 The monks are still not really protected against rear fliers. Though the Longbowmen would probably just massacre those. Air Shield buff on rear fliers? 10:14 You also have made a ton of research progress like Rigor Mortis, Howl and other spells. Though you kind of went: "I need more" instead of using them. Are you hunting for the perfect engagement? That is a flaw of mine as well. I think the music is a bit loud in this video?

Watching your and Cookies remote searching reassures me so hard in my belief of not casting them.

Part of it to is the gem baits have prevented you using a lot of the magic you already have like Rigor Mortis, Howl, Foul Vapors etc. A little sad that Vclez army got pinned in the fort. I agree the way to try and save it would be pushing on Holoma like you said. I think my personal plan that I'd want to try is have the main army go to Iron Peaks, and then split the Man forts moving between his cap and Holoma or by going on Holoma. You can gem ferry with Harpies. From there you threaten everything he holds dear in terms of production, unforted temples, and income. You could have that BN pretender create the BN armor booster to make big nature spells easier.

Hey, I liked the video. :) Yeah, research is a problem because you kind of need your mages to counter Man's Knights. He does have a simiilar issues with using Monks against your chaff, though probably not as big.

14:45 Honestly, it kind of feels as if both you and Kidzin have IRL misfortune in this game so far. The amount of unlucky small details that screw up important plays seems to be pretty big to me. 19:18 From what I saw in Kidzin's replay, it was more that the Behemoths got through the wall later. At a time were the monks had already advanced to stand directly behind the wall and then trampling those before they could hp route your army. In your replay the Behemoths got in faster, but were focused by the Longbowmen and Fae Footmen and died quick even with Ethereal. 26:55 You also killed his Pretender. That is also not something to scoff at. As for the Gem Management, I wish there was a kind of "template" where you could assign a mage a certain number of Gems they should have, and those would be automatically refilled from labs or other commanders that have Gems in excess what was set up. That would cut down on the amount of fiddly work you have to do to keep the mages supplied with the right amount and type of Gems.

30:15 The chaff for the chaff. :D Have fallen a bit behind on the videos. Time to catch up again. :)

The kitten camera is great.

Feels like this lobby was a bit unusual in terms of fighting Asphodel. Agartha's statues, Man the nation, Abysia with his fire shield regen bless, Vanarus and the discounted Zmey hordes, I had piles of fire magic on Na'Ba.

Thanks for the chapter. How good would it be to summon stronger undeads like Banes and then give them the Asphodel undead buffs like regeneration and quickness? Or Tartarians? If you had the death gems that is.

I love the stat block you used for Otto. did you make it up on your own or find it somewhere?

I fucking can't believe I won both in yours AND Cookies versions but lost the actual fight lmaooooooooooooo. Yeah I am not a fan of gem baits either but they're just part of the game. no real way of getting around it. Fey Footmen were god damn fat mistake.

Sounds like it would be like Front Mission.

Woulda Coulda Shoulda traded you for your air and fire gems In a way, outside of your cap, the Phaecian lands should be considered part of your heartland. That's where your gold income is. Not sure about the temple in Vclez either given you're trading for gold, and the province is in danger. Pyrene couldn't touch Ulm here because I and likely Vanarus would have tried to stop him as free agents. No reason to let the premier blood nation spiral like that. I also didn't necessarily want to coalition Pyrene preemptively since I thought I would get a follow on coalition or disadvantageous war with a stronger Vanarus as the next strongest blood power. At least that's my view as Na'Ba at this time.

Jay had so many rolls to find a book about bloodmagic and he rolled really bad every time. I mean three rolls with advantage, one roll without and he didn't even reach double digits and he had help, too. 😅

44:10 - 45:50: wow that was the worst game of charades. Mitch is really bad in this, but it is hilarious🤣😂 and don't worry Jeremy it wasn't your fault. I knew instantly what you tried to convey

Commentary reminds me of Tactics Ogre (SNES/PSX). You could do mock battles with your own units, selecting up to 10 for each side, and you could have a second player control one of the teams. Death wasn't permanent, none of your skills were restricted, and you got to keep the exp. from the fight as well. Made for some silly fights back in the day.

It's time to begin imagining why else Ballin would've cast it there XD

So, how many turns have this war been going on at this point? :D I usually start to feel pressure sooner or later to try to force an end to the war, as my paranoid self can feel my neighbours moving in for the kill.

He put the Mother Oak there because that's where his lion was. There's no alteration site there :(

Knights of Avalon do not have any kind of dark vision, and truesight (on the unicorns only) do not help against darkness. Man do not have darkvision in his bless, so Darkness would be great for letting your undead forces easily hit the knights

Heart aches thinking about unicorns

Did you end this campaign here? Still want to get to the end, level 20 or 21?

Thank you for streaming this. I've been enjoying the series so far, but now you're driving me a little bit crazy XD You want to know how to see the Boost status of your troops? After pressing B to get the movable pointer, highlight your unit and press A to check out their character sheet, where the boost buff is displayed. You were so close at multiple moments in this vid, but didn't press the button lol. Pressing C instead opens a mini display of that character. You can look at enemies stats the same way. Hope that helps :) Anyway, I started my own playthrough with Karna as the main character, starting with 5 hp was very rough, but she's level 28 now (just after Taros) and has become super op :D

Oh my "Lily in the library" is my new go-to phrase instead of " bull in the china shop".

Yeah a new adventure.

Your sacred production took a little bigger hit than you hinted at. You lost 3 turns in the battle you said, but you also have lost 2 additional turns so far from the siege. Still significant attrition to Man though. Crazy number of glamor gems I mean retaking your capital should be a bit like casting mother oak haha

Yeah, the minotaurs would have waded through way more consistently if tramplers got to use the new mechanic to displace smaller units. Instead they had to kind of sneak through as manikins in front of them died. There is a replay bug here iirc. In the actual battle, one of the Black Minotaurs ended up on a corner and just got to sit there decking knights for free. I double checked, and I think I recorded fast enough to get the original version when that time comes. Looks like that corner guy may have scored as many as 14 kills primarily on Knights of Avalon. I think you do win this battle with Howl via hp loss to the knights from archers

<bashing head with a keyboard>

8:37 The Centaurs killed 5, the Manikins killed 6. Looks like a decent showing to me. :) 16:17 It says in the tooltip that 1 unit lost their mount. 27:21 Silver Lining: Fucking Lucky survived. 31:10 Too many remote wolves. Probably. ;-) Thanks for video. That was a really interesting battle and yeah, Kidzin was also not impressed with the outocme. The Unicorns actually all ran away in his replay and I wouldn't actually have been surprised if the Knights of Avalon would have routed due to hp route. Just did the math and you got a 65% total hp loss. 10% off. :D

Really fun battles happening here!

I really hope the wartable/hourglass is heavily cursed. Nymdaer just touches creepy stuff randomly. It is speaking IN HIS HEAD with multiple voice offering him some kind of deal and he just does it. That is just recless behaviour.

Been watching some of his turns. Really neat seeing what your doing then see what he's doing. So far I've been worried how your game is going. But just saw he hasn't done any research in Enchantment. No Relief for him for some time. Ok to say this for the game is far along from now. He's posted his turn 33 today. You got the chance here to steam roll his big armies.

You and Man both doing god's work fighting each other for the health of the lobby :)

12:20 I watched on Kidzin's channel how the battle actually played out, and it was incredible close. Your Centaurs did run forwards at the start and drew the attention of the Knights of Avalon, allowing the Black Minotaurs to kill several. By the time they finished off the last Black Minotaur, the Knights had actually start routing. 38:40 Oh no, not Fucking Lucky. :( It's funny as Kidzin was behind you with his videos all this time and now he is ahead. Glad to see you back in action. I hope the moving wasn't too bad.

Interesting that Howl does not spawn wolves on their side.

Finally ! Been hoping you find way in this game with Asphodel. Fav Nation by far of mine. GL

Have to comment because it’s a great game show and no one else has.

I remember the first time I fought the kraken. Was such a cool enemy! Instead of a bunch of enemies, just one big one and his tentacles made up additional units. Was kinda blowing my 8 year old mind back in the day

this truly is the slowest blitz 😉

100& using that joke next time i fight a drow

Somehow i missed your upload of this epsiode. I only got a notification for session 7, but hey 2 sessions at once, what a great weekend ^^

Still having fun listening.

Maybe we can finally get to see a big battle with man? I don't think I have ever seen two players being at war for this long without a single major battel taking place... Long wars is generally a bad thing for both players, and should be avoided if possible

How fast do Knights of Avalon fall asleep in Rigor Mortis now that Rigor got nerfed with an MR check?

14:59 The Jade Maidens are sacred and don't cost that much upkeep. So for the force addition you get out of them compared to their cost, they are probably fine. May the cold war finally end.

One of the 50 here. Subscribed and loving it.

I have 2 questions: 1) How do you keep your players interested in a nonstop dungeon crawl like Undermountain? 2) I see it has been 8 months since your last episode. Did the campaign die?

did this campaign die?

2:25 Hahaha, yeah, I do the same. 13:03 "You transitioning out of late game into mid game" XD Distant Horizon, playing Dominions backwards. You start at turn 60 and have to lose provinces to indies. 18:00 Actually, the Knights of Avalon in Silvania and Lovendalon can actually reach Vlecz in a single turn if I am not mistaken. Don't underestimate Man's movement again. Especially no in their own territory. They can move 4 plane or forest provinces in their own territory. 20:59 Yep. The ping was last episode. Good luck. I hope Man doesn't jump your sieging army on Vlecz, that would be a major blow.

Looks like a big fight on the horizon!