Dominions 6 - Shinuyama - Ep 16 - Advancing on Asphodels Cap

(un/less skuffed audio) After a huge victory in the previous episode, shinuyama looks to take asphodels cap before they can get their feet back underneath them.
Meanwhile we get some pretty cool fights between ulm and pyrene. Naba also scrabbles to regain initiative.

[@DemonsthenesDominions]

I think we didn't mention it, but the extremely murderous squad of disciplined goblins were kinda brave from 2xp stars (from being made as blood hunting bodyguards 30 turns ago) and had quickening in addition to the Barkskin, both of which details were likely important to beating that Howl defense.

[@cz85]

Original battle sounded like Lucid adding the swishing sounds with his mouth on post. Once I imagined that it became much more enjoyable to listen to. Going to miss the old upload.

[@waywinkle-nz]

Sounds really good now. Great work :)

[@lowlife4103]

Ancient Presence SC for 15W + 25N looks very strong. You can bring a LOT of support without HP routing your SC 😮 How do all y'all feel about crafting bottles of living water? Were they for assassin defence originally... i forget.

[@DemonsthenesDominions]

I made them to have stuff that runs in and kills annoying Foul Vapors traps... Also they're pretty good at fighting Asphodel stuff under Rigor Mortis. And don't require mage fatigue, like regular elementals would. I had been incorrectly assuming that my Sorcerors with gear and gems would be sufficiently assassin resistant :).

[@DarkSideCookies]

They're reasonably strong without the +25N, but you really want to fluff/position them in some way to get them into combat due to their extremely low combat speed. It can be hard for an Asphodel to properly support them and get them into combat with just manikins without causing them to hp route or leaving them so isolated they can get focused down. Having Wind Masters from the throne fluff them with flying and and dryads fluff them with quickness was definitely a concern.

[@lowlife4103]

@DarkSideCookies low combat speed is a very good point. I'm looking forward to a deep dive on them. Devour? Absorb? Very rare abilities. Slimer is cool too. Do they wade through friendly units? So many possibilities. Blood empower for hellpower from sabbath? I bet that guy could eat a lot of horrors 😋

[@DarkSideCookies]

@@lowlife4103 One of primary cases we were thinking about was Soul Vortex Presences, but empowering in blood is super interesting to me. I do wonder what all it'd be able to consume with blood and horror marks though! I've got some more practical tests I did around somewhere I think/hope.

[@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443]

Did you reaupload the same vudoes twice

[@aggrael8285]

The description says this has less skuffed audio compared to the original upload.

[@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443]

@aggrael8285 oh ok

[@ottokaugin6397]

Losing 60 Storm deamons isn't a big deal, I don't know what Lucid is smoking, but I might want some! :D

[@cornuthaum]

Awww, no more funny sound effects.