This game reminded me of your EA Hinnom, where sacreds steamrolled everything they faced.

I like wardogs as chaff. Great for soaking lances as well as arrows, they can also beat bottom tier indies by themselves (looking at you Jaguar tribe and Woodsmen), though Ulmish regulars do it more cheaply. In re:flails If I remember correctly, both attacks from each 2 hand flail have the same target and so are somewhat less useful than if they chose a separate target for each. I think highly of the shielded variety- only one attack, but it has the same +2 modifier and the shield can stand up against pretty much anything up to crossbow fire. I'd call the guardian a kind of anti-sacred troop. Not really worth the price unless you're facing heavily blessed sacred or a god. The heroine also needs a hat. This is the chance to see how a lead crown performs vs. a blacksteel helm for (almost) no opportunity cost. The smiths don't care. The Smith does not benefit from enemy scales in enemy dominion. Nothing you do can benefit from enemy scales in enemy dominion. However, if you can get beneficial scales in neutral dominion you can take advantage as long as it lasts. So if you can get positive magic scales in neutral dominion over a lab you control, your smiths there would have a positive research modifier. Maybe a reason for going low dominion, particularly considering you have no sacred troops per se, but given the tendency for low dominion to spread wide since it can't spread high, I wouldn't. The Black Priest is not a mundane researcher. That means that if you're taking -3 magic scales (my personal recommendation if you're going negative at all), his research is actually going to be 4. This would not meet your criteria for an efficient researcher. Which is okay because you want your smiths to research, forge and summon in most cases. You need a battle mage and this guy is okay for the role. Priest/Smith is better, but he comes out old. Use your astral random smiths to master matrices for your Priest/Smiths and Black Priests that random fire and a few slave matrices to get them boosted at least one level in combat. Astral, Fire and Earth gems are your keys to victory IMO. Along with forging, particularly boosters. Getting nature mages is also a good thing. WTH, making the device that allows you to instantly claim every throne is the optimal strat! There are a number of approaches. That's what makes this game interesting to me. I'm interested to see what *you* do.

2:05:51 it is the demon jester from marignon Also I am enjoying watching your older streams!

Rlyeh certainly has some Mass Effect Leviathan vibes to it

Yeah yeah Ulm is ‘forgiving’ for starters etc etc. But I don’t know anyone who got into Dominions by min maxxing their first game. Just pick whatever is most flavourful and then later find out your first nation was EA pangea like literally everyone else.

The opposition spell only has a range of 25 not 100 - thus nobody was ever close enough to use it.

This looks pretty fun.

Thanks for the vid! I agree with your faction take. While MA Ulm is easier to grasp the basics of, scipting/squad size and composition/province resource management all have so many nuances that have a hard to spot but potent impact on the game even from right at the start of expansion. Watching the dom 5 championship tournament was deeply enlightening as we got to see an expertly piloted MA Ulm. As an example, bringing a sub commander with your second expansion army, you can pop any infantry that take bad afflictions right at the front in a baby squad to catch lances without spreading morale issues to the vanguard, the prot is so high you can let timmy jump on that grenade and keep your troop losses giga low.

1:10:00Your smiths can build temples now that they're sacred. You don't need actual holy paths to do it.

U could get an inspiring researcher pretender to go for that angel u know...

3:02:29 it is indeed the shaytan Spy ability Also when you cast Eye of god you can tell as well

Maybe a weird bit of feedback and its maybe personal opinion, but dont read your chapter titles. Either just say you are moving on, or show the heading and start on the new topic. Your delivery is super conversational, it feels super weird to interrupt yourself to announce the focus of the next topic. Imagine: "Hey babs, how was your day at work?" "It was good. Kids and School. How did the kids do in class and do they have homework?"

Research pretender and rush iron angel thug squad ftw Do we have access to the trinity chassi? Ponder

I think having a healer pretender like that makes sense on nations that have more quality than quantity troops. That are based on a few High power thugs or super combatants. But Ulm is more quantity based.

I tried this after a boring start and was praying for magic diversity/research to add to my dormant dwarf rainbow (like yours with a bit of air/precision/self def) and opponents reliant on their sacreds. Then successive turns sage, lore master (throne), then Machaka declaring war. Interesting to tank magic scales in a build. Also considered with dormant keeper of Bridge with A4/E3/S4/N3 or Taiwat of war with astral as both safer in battle than dwarf.

We have a DAWG

Tempering the will is easy MR negates antimagic, it works exactly the same way, and additionally does not stack with antimagic

Now that the Steel Maidens have gone extinct who wants to mine the chocolate coal tunnels of Ulm with their length 5 black steel pikes?

One of my first nations. It's a good starting nation, for sure. Then later, after playing other nations for a while, you return to Ulm and realize all of the cool tools it really has. I love the war dogs, by the way. Not too expensive, good prot, and 5 attacks out of a square? They're surprisingly great during expansion. Also I tend to grab a few spies early on, not just to scout, but also once I decide it's time to go on the attack I will park them in someone's capital and cause unrest. Cool thing is this doesn't generate an event - so if they're not watching they will hit 100+ unrest and be out of recruitment (and money) for a turn or two. NOT a fun surprise.

again my comment is poofing :(

Perhaps you could sacrifice one of your luck scales for glamour 2 and water 1 so that you could use some glamour gems you either search yourself to get access to water Kobolds and gnomes Water kobolds give you luck true sight (for elves and ubar) for your army thugs and pretty late game they can use frozen heart if you ever need to Gnomes give you nature and glamour as army support. Enlarge, rings of regeneration and you can forge the boosters for higher grasps in the other paths Addendum 1:Also quick tip a spy can find out what throne is in a provinces and find certain magic sites Addendum 2: the water and glamour on the god allow you to take winter move resist which can make your cap mages with a boot of the messenger quite mobile. And also glamour allows us to take heroism which can allow the mages to get more Xp while sitting in the capital researching before a war which could allow them to have better precision in the war Both are things I would sacrifice at least one reinvigoration for

The titans aren’t expanders they are Defence tools For example your three way war in the test game. The fire earth and air guy can give you your mage bless and if dormant pretty okay scales. High fire and air spells like the flame lock down spell can counter Defence sacreds Or the keeper of the bridge can give you the same with different paths Though you give up astral with them

You should %100 have army thugs in every single army, you only need a weapon and maybe misc items for resistance. Swords of sharpness will deal with prot tanking thugs, Fire brand will kill chaff, holy scourge vs demons, staffs that cast fireballs, incinerate, burn are also available for your commanders. Flaming arrows for your crossbows will hurt your own people but once massed they will kill almost everything until arrow fend comes out. Meme bless: You can take a dormant/imprisoned weapon bless, forge bows of war, make your H1 priests on mass, give them the bow, bless them in combat and rain death behind your Ulmish infantry.

ALSO ALSO. You could do the Matron of the Healing Spring for the site if you want. Take her Dormant and get the N gem income. She wakes up and forges W/N/G for you.

Flambeau is prononced Flame-bo (French) Ulm is considered a good starter faction for new player. When I started Dom, I disagre. The faction look to Human for my fantasy game so I want with MA Ermor (past me: cool, undead faction). I remember taken Growth scale to counter the death penalty of the dominion and probably order and prod scale for bonus money. I did not win that game. All my pop still died :( My second faction was EA Mictland (past me: nice, aztec faction, that rare). What a bless? Some what less miserable than ME Ermor but still not a win. 3e faction was MA Ctis. Finally win by spawning the big lizard army, winning the same way one win with Ulm. oh well.

Also gonna say this. Good LUCK actually getting to Iron Angel. Thats one of those AWESOME OMG SO COOL!!!!!111111one spells that takes far too long to get to.

Ulm is my favorite nation through the ages. LA Ulm is a gothic powerhouse. My favorite blood nation.

MA Ulm! Lets go! Wonder what bless to go for.... Just kidding, no bless needed

actually your cheapest capital commander is the dwarf at 135g a turn

1:10:57 *breath* *breath* "...ya got game on your phone?" Knut

12:40 The Monolith is resistant to the types of damage your troops do. Piercing or slashing thru that defense is not going to make much difference. Hire some mercs with maces or barbs with hammers to nail the Singlestone down. They're better against his troops as well. Edit: Bingeing the series. I don't always agree and sometimes quibble, but it is always interesting to see what and how others think. 26:00 The Noble Commander can carry boots, but they are greyed out on his profile. This means he can't actually use them, thus does not have full slots.

The Centauride archer is also slightly faster than her Centaur brother. If you're having them fire and maintain distance this matters. She can stay ahead of enemy cav until she's cornered, giving her an extra shot or two before melee, and possibly a little more dispersal leading to some extra shots. Whether this matters depends on your overall vision for your force and the magic you can bring to bear. Edit: If you want to script the level 0 enchantment combat spells, have your mage buff themself first, then attack(one turn) for as many turns as it will take to get them to the battle line, then cast a specific spell. This will help you get these off reliably and early, always handy.

I like indie infantry paired with my Jotuns in separate squads. Generally with javs if the Jotuns got 'em, without if they don't. Put the humans down front (Enkidu or cavemen are even better) and let the giants wade thru to the battle line. Edit: I also like using Gygjas to forge shrouds of the battle saint for themselves. This makes them sacred, reducing their upkeep to 120, making them efficient researchers, is better than their native armor and gives them your bless. Their age can then be reduced by rejuvenation- not out of line with empowerment, 40 years for 40 slaves. This requires mage turns as well, so maybe wait for the ones you want to keep. Transformation with or without Twiceborn may also be a viable option for some of them. I also like Irmunsul N7G3B5, dom6, T1, S1, G3, L2. Unseelie fay footfolk and knights are a worthwhile option here along with Mother Oak. Jotun wolves then become worthy bodyguards and regen becomes about twice as valuable.

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35:43 "are there anyone who is super depressed? We can actually do something with sheep and depression." ...i don't like where this is going, especially when there is two welsh people in the camp

About the distinction between light and heavy infantry: Light infantry are skirmishers. Heavy infantry are intended to fight shoulder to shoulder. Troops are designated heavy or light based on their role in battle, not on the relative weight of their armor. I suppose the tags that best designate light infantry are 'skirmisher' and 'undisciplined'. Perhaps the order to 'fire and maintain distance' works as well. Regardless, armor has nothing to do with the classification of heavy or light. Edit: The bouda's second form is stealthy, so you can park it in enemy lands to let them deal with the unrest. Just over the border so they can retreat into your turf if it gets hot.

Hearing babel sing before reaching 2k sub is.... definitely not on my bingo card for a 2K subscriber special

I cant say im surprised at how this went. MA Machaka is not very good. They NEED their sacreds to do much of anything at all. What does surprise me, however, is that the Sacred Leader actually has a Priest Level. I was certain that Illwinter had moved away from doing that as it makes for amazing and/or OP AF Sacred Raiding parties/expansion parties simply due to you being able to fully distribute a bless to the entire party of Bodyguards before the commander attacks. But ive gone back through the nation lists and surprisingly to me, there are still nations with powerful sacreds (Heavy Cavalry/Giants/Elves) that still have a Sacred Leader version of the stupid stronk sacred that can bless the sacred expansion party. I suppose that means the nations that get such a early game powerspike truly are terrible after that.

51:26 "I keep the blade to remember to never let go of the pain and fled like peasants." That what you miss

I didn't join the stream until after the 60 min mark and I heard the popping when you were talking on and off until I had to leave at the 4 hr mark. I did mention it in chat (twice) but you seemed to skip by and not see them 😢... but chat was kinda busy. There were longer stretches with no popping, but it would randomly fire back up for a bit.

Make independents a bit weaker allowing the AI to expand easier. Try 3 level ones, 4 level twos and 1 level three for thrones. 7 or 8 points to win.

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Sorry about the audio issues at the beginning. Tested for hours last night and it was all clear. Use the bookmark to skip ahead if it bothers you, as it clears us there (31:50).

I am late. I go with awake scorpion king 6e, 2f scale: 1 prod, 3 heat, 1 unlucky. bless: hard skin. since your sacred are mostly spider with 16 nat protection you get the full effect of increasing your nat prdot. If you cast Iron skin, you can get 26 protection on the spider. for the scorpion king, I just took him for it 4 attacks. He will survive in mele. I equip him with regen ring and 2 fire mace ( the aoe 1 one). he slower than the sacred sadly. addition: Test game is going very well. The double mace of eruption shred people. to bad my scorpion king is slower than the sacred and cannot push it. Currently tring to see if it it good alone. note: his prot is 32 (19 basic+ 3 earth magic + 5 bless + 5 Iron skin)

the missles were one thing, but his biggest mistake was that he placed down the snipers in front of the tarantulas and then never actually did anything with them. if you look at the sniper builds, they are full-on built to be assault marksmen, but he literally never gave them an upgrade. on top of that he made them the first thing to get shot at, they basically turned into chaff themselves for the tarantulas. that was a "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" game for him 100% in regards to him missile spamming early on, the reason this worked so well for him was because you put yourself in a really good position to get missiled like that to begin with. you almost had good timing with the crawlers overtaking the tanks, but because they were so far forward, the missiles had insane value because it was getting procc'ed when your sledges and crawlers were entangled together, which killed everything. if you shift your entire army back a little like 4-5 tiles, it gives time for crawlers to run in front, and down the line when you get sledge range, itll be even better. that also sets you up for more front-line soaking with an initial wave of what could be fangs or crawlers, or potentially something super tanky like armored sabretooths. but to get out of that situation you can either do one of three things: spam shields, put chaff or something tanky all the way in front to eat it (trying to overlap the missle bubbles so one group of crawlers would proc two missiles), or use missile interceptors

So question for the knowledgeable, how do you counter rus? I dont have a good feel for their weaknesses. (Just lost a game to them)

Fairly common fire 3 Dai Onis can get a skull of fire and a fire helmet to end of culture I think.

Correction - Royalty is the most important and pretty much necessity expansion for new users if choosing. In fact, I wouldn't even recommend just getting the base game unless you get Royalty. Like the base game can be worth getting. But not much. I don't use any mods at all. With exception of 2 for setup only. Character creation and a starting location finder. Both can be disabled as soon as the game first loads in so there's really no mods ever active. I highly recommend Ideology and Biotech. Both add really important content to the game. They enhance the game very nicely. But neither of them make it into a full game the way Royalty does. Without Royalty it can still be fun to play. But it will be missing a huge essential substance that really was needed for it to really be a game. In fact, I don't think Royalty should even be a separate expansion. Because the others really expand on the gameplay. Whereas Royalty completes what was lacking in the base game. Like imagine Mass Effecs without a campaign or story. It's basically just an engine. Royalty pretty much turns RimWorld from being like an engine that was fun but felt incomplete. Into a real game. Whereas the others are expansions.

good play poor camera management - way too zoomed in and very twitchy on the movements