Conquest of Elysium 5: Exploring the Planes and Dimensions

[@TherealNiqqa]

I hate it when I enter a random portal in the woods only to meet horror beyond my comprehension

[@CairnEnjoyer]

@@TherealNiqqa luckily Crossbows take care of even the nastiest Inter-dimensional Horrors beyond human comprehension.

[@Kinnumeister]

@@CairnEnjoyer No one man should hold such power as crossbows in Illwinter games....

[@pd639]

God finally someone making informative content about this game.

[@matejlazic912]

Yea not enough content is being made about this great game

[@mseeross]

This game is absolutely amazing. I spent hundreds of hours exploring it​@@matejlazic912

[@nukeacitrus]

Had no idea what Elysium is. Never seen game either, but now i wanna know everything! Great video 👍

[@kacpadestro8086]

Void concept in dom and eli fascinate me , imagine that every dom game is canon and cycle resets every time god is pulled by some siren song some pull towards the void and abbbandons the realm. What is there ? Is it just big grave of dead gods ?

[@CairnEnjoyer]

My headcanon, based on the lore info from units in Dominions and CoE as well as just the look of the sprites themselves is that the old Gods become horrors themselves after an eternity on the void.

[@JanJansen985]

It says at the start of every Dom game, the wheel turns

[@CairnEnjoyer]

The Primal world looks like a wheel as well, and it connects to most of the other planes, with the nexus being like the hub and Elysium (plus sky-agartha-inferno) being the drive shaft.

[@Asgoritolin]

Finallyyyyy someone makes a video about this!!! Thanks bro, appreaciate it a lot.

[@ELtaco37]

Conquest of Elysium 6 is gonna be a massive breakthrough hit I can feel it

[@CairnEnjoyer]

All the illwinter games are pretty niche, I think mass appeal would be difficult.

[@Wolf93]

Man, now I want to play it again

[@wanderer1636]

When I invade a realm with a planar army scroll I usually assign all the other commanders in the army to the one with the scroll by clicking on each one I want to bring while the scroll-wielder is selected in the transfer units screen. That way I can bring my entire stack of casters in rather than a single leader who might get sniped and leave the army unable to move. (I also tend to do it for non-ritualist commanders like assassins or elemental champions just to lessen the UI clutter.)

[@CairnEnjoyer]

That’s a good idea, ironically I remembered to do that a few times moving units but forgot others.

[@juancastle5436]

This is very nice. I've only visited the sky, Agartha, and Hades.

[@wanderer1636]

One of the things I keep being sad about is that you usually can't view the other planes on the end-game reveal map screen (sometimes you can, and I have no idea what the determining factor is other than having had units in the plane at one point). Granted all the planes aside from sky and agartha have the same layout every time, but I still like seeing where all the independant units were.

[@CairnEnjoyer]

You have to have explored a majority of the plane for it to be shown on the end screen. Aside from Elysium that is. For example even though you might visit some plane, unless it is already over 50% discovered it won’t be shown.

[@wanderer1636]

@@CairnEnjoyer Ooooh, good to know, thanks!

[@lambdalandis]

I wish the planes had a better risk to reward ratio. There’s a lot of cool content that just feels like a trap to explore. Especially without a guide

[@CairnEnjoyer]

I wish there were more unique recruits available

[@clusterfox6143]

The most I have ever conquered was elysium and agartha playing as the pale one king. I tried to invade hell, but my armies were not nearly prepared. Seeing the power of the warlock makes me want to give it another try.

[@CairnEnjoyer]

One cheeky way to invade hell as Agartha is to open a channel to the sea and let it flood the area where your tunnel to hell is. The demons will all drown trying to escape and you can explore around much easier.

[@captaintofu4926]

What I like to do is to leave 1 unit behind on the world map to have a scouting post. Watching this I was thinking: If I remember correctly, the void does only reshuffle unseen tiles. What if 'lay' a road to the nexus gate? Also: Horrors are dangerous. What if you leave 1 unit at EVERY tile in the void? They cannot spawn on occupied tiles

[@nonya1366]

I always kinda figured you open a portal to hell on *your enemies* front lawn, do that like, once or twice, then hell should be de-populated enough for you to go sinner hunting. At least warlock style.

[@dimas3829]

Void is great as a concept and a trap for dominions supreme deities to be swallowed by.

[@CairnEnjoyer]

I think all the realms are great conceptually and I wish in CoE6 they could play a bigger role in an average game. Even playing multiplayer the planes are not terribly relevant as they are such a huge investment to conquer for many factions with not enough return.

[@SouthernRex-1994]

It's a shame no one has used the Globe Icon to create a "lore accurate" or "dev version" of a map for Conquest of Elysium or Dominions. It shows enough that one could have a good starting point. If only I knew how to create maps...

[@MazuiLakon]

I once conquered all the planes and lõbotõmized their gods with the ermorian emperor and empress duo 😂😂😂

[@CairnEnjoyer]

It’s fun but pretty tedious after a point

[@khatogast6916]

GREAT VIDEO i just started playing elysium too

[@gromuk4849]

Awesome video, I wish the planes would be more relevant for getting stronger, especially in mp. I feel like is a cool concept but in this scenario you can only mostly focus on Elysium to dominate the match

[@CairnEnjoyer]

To be honest I think in an average game the planes are there to give a bit more strategic depth, and a bit of additional flexibility for certain classes who can easily take advantage of them. I do appreciate that they are there even if they are not nearly as significant in most games as the "main" plane.

[@ososimiospub6406]

Please do one exploring rare events, just a few days ago I got a event where a brigand proclaims himself king.

[@rory8182]

Honestly very handy even just for the explainations of how the different realms exist

[@phillipmele8533]

Abrasax appears to be El’s chief lieutenant.

[@Zazymandias]

No Black Sun phonk edits in Agartha? I don't know about this one...

[@olso8621]

Great video

[@Seth717]

Thanks for the video! more videos like this! also what is the name of the mod that give you the power to show all planes?

[@CairnEnjoyer]

Watcher mod, on steam workshop. Just an immortal statue unit that can scry every plane

[@1Maklak]

This is further than I ever got in a game, but I find it strange about your playstyle that you don't clear the land you own from animals, brigands and such with several local wandering armies. That way your villages stay yours. Burning down all the Ancient Forests also goes a long way. Armies seem to have a size beyond which they're just more efficient to split that deathstack. 1:27 The way the Greater Demons killed so many was by repeatedly casting Bloodletting, which is 1-6* for the entire battlefield. Only the units with huge pools of HP survived that. In other words, you met a hard counter to your doom stacking ant it would have been better to detach some armies to attack the nearby mines and cities. BTW, these were NOT two Lords of Hell, these were two Greater Devils.

[@CairnEnjoyer]

This was just a test game to explore the planes a bit more as most normal games I barely get to more than one at most.

[@1Maklak]

@@CairnEnjoyer Yeah, even going into the clouds seems to cost more than it's worth in gold income. So a good way to explore the planes is to have a Dwala in "house arrest" and then maybe hope for a whirlpool or a shovel or something.

[@christopherreid4857]

There is a level 3 library in the void

[@CairnEnjoyer]

Hard to take advantage of for most factions due to ever increasing insanity. Probably benefits Cultists most, though I have a theory that a faction like Baron can actually take great advantage of the Void due to how many expendable commanders they end up with, allowing them to easily cycle through them and explore to find the Nexus and take advantage of that plus what the void has to offer.

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

Cool

[@mex_I.M]

i hate demonlogist/cultist opening portals to hell and back

[@CairnEnjoyer]

The good thing is if you are a digger once all the demons leave Hell you can go raid Inferno with little resistance.

[@ASHFAR578]

Great video but i didnt watch it whole yet. So is there a faction that can enter and possibly conquer whole map? I will have to try it if possible.

[@CairnEnjoyer]

@@ASHFAR578 warlock is probably the easiest for that

[@alonlucas9396]

I love the worldbuild of COE5. The game has this fantasitc planes that you can invade and (luckly) conquer, and it is not even the core of the game

[@CairnEnjoyer]

I’m disappointed they didn’t include other planes into Dominions in a more significant way.

[@CaptianSwan]

I found a portal to the celestial realm in the void, not sure how common or rare it is.

[@CairnEnjoyer]

There is always a one-way portal from the void to the Nexus, sometimes there can be others as well. There is only one guaranteed portal to the celestial plane in the Primal realm

[@CaptianSwan]

@@CairnEnjoyer Good to know!

[@alonlucas9396]

YESSSSSSS COE5

[@jackvoicer5588]

In this playthrough there are only neutral enemies ? Like no AI players?

[@CairnEnjoyer]

Yes I was using a mod called “Bystander” to ensure the game could continue with no AI’s left, so I could explore freely.

[@jackvoicer5588]

@CairnEnjoyer ah, I see. Is there diplomacy though? I mean the war part is always cool, but can I strike with my ally to kick some (enter your race here) butts. If there is a mode would be great too. Also I am curious about races, all of them have the same resources but I assuming different starting units, all videos I saw dudes cast units from , I am guessing heroes, and they are elemental based, or dead or nature. Can I like win as a man, as a man who fights with some technology based warfare? :) Thanks

[@CairnEnjoyer]

@ all races and factions often have totally different resources and play style which can make the game very chaotic. There isn’t really diplomacy with the AI, you can either be on a team or not. With real human players you can of course do whatever you want. You can play a pure human faction, like Baron, they have their own advantages but often have to use their early hame power spike to win early or else get overwhelmed by magical enemies. There are some other strategies you can use with a nation like that as well but the game is not balanced at all. Some nations (like monkeys) are just bad.

[@HOGTO1000]

Is it possible to kill everything in the void?

[@CairnEnjoyer]

I don’t think so, Horrors just continuously spawn and your “memory” of void locations is regularly erased.

[@HOGTO1000]

@ I was just wondering if it works similar to the other planes where if you kill a horror in the void it’s properly dead like the elemental lords?

[@CairnEnjoyer]

@@HOGTO1000 The void is just completely random, the terrain reshuffles every turn and so do the creatures there. The only real use of it is as an "easy" way to access other planes as a nation without some other easier form of access.

[@JanJansen985]

Markgraf conquer the Hades when?

[@JanJansen985]

Hades sucks, the stupid ghost spawner event is the worst The primal realm opening up is at least funny

[@CairnEnjoyer]

Elysium suffers from a lot of very cool concepts being just tedious to deal with in game. The idea of every unit killed becoming a ghost and being sent to Hades, and sometimes haunting the living world is cool. However chasing ghosts around the map like scooby doo because they keep taking random tiles is very annoying.