Dominions 5 - Lemuria - Ep 2 - Initial Expansion

[@sagridlocked2963]

Mega rough having the two undead provs in your cap circle. You can't spook them :(

[@Madhattersinjeans]

That big farm province just gave you a huge power boost. I would defend it tooth and nail. I would attack it tooth and nail. especially against lemuria, ain't nobody got time to let them wreck a big gold pinata like that.

[@Doombot221]

This looks like it will be awesome 🤩

[@CasparMinning]

Would you consider joining / hosting a match where you are anonymous? So you get to play without your reputation getting in the way of the game

[@LucidTactics]

Yeah ive thought about doing that - might be fun :P

[@bobking5307]

Thank you lucid I love lemuria

[@dakka123]

The province that saved an empire.

[@SkeIIum]

Could you give a ranking on your pop kill nations? Why does MA Ermor seem to inspire so much fear compared to everything else?

[@miniaturecolossus5242]

IIRC MA Ermor has the fastest popkill and highest freespawn rate, hence less reward and more undead to crawl through than the other popkill nations. Longdead are also mindless so they never rout unlike ghosts. MA Ermor is also the popkill nation that needs scales the least (e.g. no magic power like Lemuria) so the meta tends to revolve around trash scales and super blessed lictors, which tends to lead to a much more aggressive early game. None of this is to say that MA Ermor is necessarily "better" than the other popkill nations, they still have there weaknesses (weakness to banishment, weak mages, no real late game strategy etc), but fighting them is generally more painful and starting next to them can be a more dreadful experience.

[@ResandOuies]

Also there a lot of blood in LA and nations with other tools against undead. So less game warping imo

[@nicolinrucker5181]

@@miniaturecolossus5242 well there's also that old AAR/LP from Dom4 with the quad9 imprisoned god bless of ultimate DOOOOOOOOOM.

[@ulizez89]

Goes over Ctis and doesn't mention the 30g, 1rp holy 1 priest...... Ctis can spam the shit out of those girls!!!!!! Also, wither bones party with their mages in the mid game.

[@dogebestest7187]

What do you think about having 2 ghosts per centurion on guard commander and the rest on fire? Does mean some more attrition as the guards tend to take the brunt of it but they do OK at taking hktsaway from forward centurions as you unleash javs

[@LucidTactics]

yeah that could work too, not sure if it would be better!

[@Doombot221]

Astral being strong against Lemuria--is this because of things like star fires? Or are there other hard counters I'm not thinking of?

[@FundaiX]

Solar rays is an astral spell that counters undead (12+ non-negatible damage against a square of undead, and it comes at Evo2) Astral can Soul Slay and Mind Hunt as well, which negates immortality, a big part of what makes Lemuria so awful to fight.

[@flamedeluge1332]

Big fights against ghosts are generally pillow fights, and Lemurian commanders have way more HP than their troops, so the commanders get preferentially targeted by soul slay and paralyze communions. Eventually Lemuria gets rigor mortis and winter to fatigue out the communion, but enchantment 6 is a big climb for them.

[@Doombot221]

Thanks both of you for the helpful feedback!

[@LucidTactics]

@@FundaiX And antimagic really reduces ghost damage output!

[@fnors2]

I think, as was mentioned, that magic duel becomes an issue. The main mages of Lemuria are S1 for 20 gems and S2 for 50 gems. Sending a bunch of cheap astral 1 mages with 1 pearl to magic duel can be somewhat cost effective, too. You get about 40% to win and kill a mage and 1/6 chances to tie and kill the mage while loosing yours. So overall, you get ~58% chances to use 1 gem (or some gold + 1 gem) to make Lemuria loose 20 gems and a mage turn. With S1 against the S2, you get about 41% change to kill (maybe loosing your mage) and remove a nasty Grand lemur from the battle. Sure, it will revive, but it might change the outcome of the battle. An astral nation could potentially trade very well in such a situation. Especially since this could get rid of a lot of Lemuria's mage support relatively cheaply in the first round or two of a battle.

[@harrowmasteralfa7276]

Hey Lucid are you also going to upload your Ermor game?

[@LucidTactics]

Yup!!! I'll do it i think when this lemuria game is done!

[@harrowmasteralfa7276]

@@LucidTactics YES! my two favourite nations form my favourite Dominions 5 youtuber

[@tomhoni9642]

undead who dont need to eat get obese? like a necromancer thought: yea youll gonna be a fat ghost and puts aditional ghost bacon on his creature? how silly is that ^^

[@Madhattersinjeans]

He's literally just big boned.

[@PhantomHunter666]

How does multiplayer work for Dominions 5?

[@LucidTactics]

You join one of the discord communities and sign up for a game. (I have list of them in my community resources video) Once you're in a game - its normally 1 turn a day for 1-3 months depending on how long the game takes. Turns take about 4 minutes at the beginning and about 30 minutes at the end.

[@PhantomHunter666]

@@LucidTactics ohh

[@Nionivek]

It sounds like a good way to make people dislike Lemuria less would just be to tell everyone you will play it... early.

[@CatsWithShoes]

might be they feel they can counter so they relax?

[@bobking5307]

Yes

[@ivansaliuk132]

The oly real counter to you is Atlantis. So i dont really understand the complaining

[@LucidTactics]

Caelum is very good vs lemuria too. You can be sure gath has some crazy ghost murdering bless too :P

[@ivansaliuk132]

@@LucidTactics Caelum is kinda good against Lemuria, but its Caelum. And Gath can be problem due high stat good bless sacreds indeed.

[@LucidTactics]

@@ivansaliuk132 late age caelum is actually super duper good. You'll get to see a lot of their tools and tricks this game in the hands of a good player :)