Warhammer Dominions 5: Altdorf, The Empire National Overview

[@danielsaper8264]

Thanks for the overview! Altdorf is a quite fun nation to play in SP. It kind of forces you to actually play with the different magic paths, and figure out how to make them work against what you're actually fighting - there are less options for just throwing heavy thugs or SCs at the big AI stacks, which is often an easy cheese against them. However, you don't have to worry too much about battlefield wipes or remotes, so your low hp units are quite as vulnerable later on.

[@Milorada7375]

I like your passion for these mods and overviews even as the base game is so old! Bravo I like having 2CP 3Holy, it lets you do smite expansion like with Bogarus

[@Mewobiba]

A few suggestions on pretenders to consider for inclusion in Altdorf, based on just what vibes I get: Fits well, frequently featured on heraldry: Solar Eagle, Demiurge, various winged hybrids (Celestial Gryphon, Criosphinx etc), Golden Lion, Solar Serpent. Fits well with national themes: Earth Serpent, Great Archon, Titan of Forethought, Titan of Heaven, Divine Glyph. Is in the ballpark but not quite as fitting: Dragon (red), Father of Winters, Thrice-Horned Boar, Great White Bull, Bronze Colossus, Titan of Heaven, Golden Idol, , Serpent of the Underworld, Phoenix.

[@sombrewarhammer]

Good suggestions Noor, I’ll take a look and extend the pretender list in a future version I think.

[@HisRotundity]

I remember when the Grey Wizard Lords were Assassins, good times.

[@Bruh-jz1se]

Heck ya! This is what i been waiting for! Let gooo!! 👉😆👈

[@wadeperry4294]

Something that really tweaked Distant Horizon during his single player of altdorf was the lack of foot slots on wizard lords that prevented the use of earth boots, leaving only the bloodstone to boost earth. Any thoughts on that?

[@sombrewarhammer]

It’s a fair point, but that is just how mounted wizards in dominions work and you still have e3 access. I don’t really regard it as a problem. It’s worth knowing though.

[@alfarabi73]

Just one observation regarding unit stats: I think you've done a good job in translating Warhammer Fantasy Battle units stats into its Dominions counterpart stats, but one jarring case is the Demigryph Knights. They have 300 percent functional HPs as regular knights on the tabletop, but here it's less than 20 percent extra. I checked some other monstrous cavalry to see if you uniformly reduces HPs for monstrous cavalry, but that's not it either. So I am puzzled why Demigrphy Knights got the discriminatory treatment.

[@alfarabi73]

Hmm, okay, I saw Bull Centaurs stats and thought you discriminated against Demis only, but Necropolis Knights have even fewer HPs. So I guess your approach is to ignore the mount HPs if the monstrous cavalry unit is ridden? I am not sure this distinction is tenable.

[@sombrewarhammer]

Some of their hp exists in their second form. They’re also smaller in dominions

[@alfarabi73]

@@sombrewarhammer "Second form"? What does that mean? It's been aeons since I played any Dominions games ;)

[@sombrewarhammer]

@@alfarabi73 when the rider is killed the mount keeps fighting

[@alfarabi73]

@@sombrewarhammer Ah, okay; I remember now. But you lose the unit once the rider dies after the battle, right?

[@Mewobiba]

Just noticed a bug; the Grandmaster of the Reichguard has 3 arm slots.

[@sombrewarhammer]

Oh yeah. Weird. I’ll fix that. He should probably have one

[@alfarabi73]

Oh, by the way, you can't have Huss without Valten! ;)

[@ZanGames]

Would it be cool to make the generic 1dominion pretenders be wizard lords for their respective colleges?

[@sombrewarhammer]

A few people have asked me for this but I generally don’t like making pretenders. It’s possible I might do it at some point though.

[@ZanGames]

@@sombrewarhammer I'd say you can just get away with basic reskins for now. Nothing super fancy.

[@sombrewarhammer]

@@ZanGames it’s not a lot of work but it’s still work!