Bought CoE after reading about it here. Played Dominions before, but they're more multiplayer games and my friends only play games with leet grafix so they won't play this (or CoE for that matter) with me.>start game as Baron>2 banshees next to me>move leader into tile to attack them>he can't hit them>get rapedTips for a useless nigger like me?Thanks for reading my blog, also Conquest of Elysium thread.
>>1345724If you right clicked on them to inspect, you would have seen that they have that insanely damaging wail attack, and are ethereal. Best to steer clear until later if you can help it. I think banshees are usually stationary to the site they're on and don't wander around.
>>1345724Eh, I bought CoE specifically because it's SP focused but got bored after a couple matches. Dominions is better even in SP. I sort of regret my purchase but at least the money supported the devs
Been playing kobolds. Any tips?
>>1347668Poison is good, so green archers are the best. Wyvern knights are good too. White is nice with its flying units. Upgrading your lairs is important since it makes them freespawn better units.
Gems suck and gem using classes need to be reworked.
What's new in 5 to justify upgrading from 4?
What are some deities that feel actually deity-like and not like a mage with 100hp?>>1351841Boats and pirates to go along with them, terrain based on the tile you're on, new factions, different types of fort terrain, more planes.
>>1347213What's with people who like dominions being unable to handle coe?
>>1355761they are too autistic and can't appreciate coe's whimsy
Did the Barbarian get anything new in 5?They seemed a little lacking in 4, I liked playing them because I prefer weaker factions and they had Werebears.
Just got to heaven and YHWH was a bloody chicken. Wtf.
>>1362588https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas
>>1355761CoE feels like a lite version of Dom
>>1362793Dom is the autistic version of CoE if anything, given CoE is the older series. How do you feel about, say, Age of Wonders? What are some other strategy games you like?
>>1355761Well I love CoE but can’t handle Dominions for the life of me, even though I enjoy the setting.
>>1362279yeah they got some stuff, most visible is amazons with tattoos that can buff them. I don't really like how they're integrated though, they feel very separate from the rest of the faction and the tattoos aren't very fun
Supposedly humanoids that have souls go to hades when they die. Do people that are Soul Slayed go to hades? Do things that are Disintegrated or swallowed/absorbed leave corpses?
Played Dvali and realised you're limited to 9 gates or whatever and I plopped them down on all my nearby mountains. Welp. In hindsight, I can see why, since there's limited space in the underground cavern where the portals are, but I just assumed they might stack on top of each other.They just give you a way to destroy unwanted portals or at least add more at a greater expense.Anyone got any tips for modding?
>>1366432It's probably better that way. Your enemies can use them if they take a mine with it and all dwarves share portals so it would probably let enemy dwarves invade you easier if the portals were all over.
Necromancer is a fun time. It took a bit to get the hang of but I love turning pyrrhic victories into more momentum with a single cast of raise dead. Couple tips for anyone who wants to try it.>spam lesser ritual of mastery until you get twiceborn, and then suicide that mage to turn him undead. Wight mages regenerate sanity.>bane fire archers are insane. Get them.
>>1366955I pity the living who can never know such joys
>>1366993And here is my army after killing and raising his. Feels good man.
This fuckin wight might is a badass. He wins this battle.
>>1366995Truly a worthy heir to the "Good luck, I'm behind 5000 skeletons" meme.
>>1367287It was a grand game. I won. In hindsight large maps are a bit too tedious for me.
>>1367310I like the enormous maps, but 100% conquest is dumb af. Should be a victory condition when you have half the map or something.
>>1367409There is no "half the map". You aren't measured in terms of any sort of territory and the spaces you can capture vary wildly based on your faction, including what you can use as a citadel. The map also includes Agartha and the Sky, so even if you could "have half the map" of Elysium, that would only be 1/6th the total area that counts for victory. You have the choice of taking all the opponents' citadels or killing all of their commanders. If you don't like large maps, just don't play large maps or just declare yourself the winner then you reach a certain point even though your victory is purely imaginary. Late game usually has easy ways to get around like teleporting anyway, especially necro who can move really fucking fast through Hades.
Manticore wandered onto my starting fort turn one. Bitch got fingered.
>>1370077xXxNecromancerxXx noscope Finger of Death 666 damage OHKO gg no re
>>1370077based, fuck turn 1 monster indies
>>1345724cool
I wish they would let you buy and sell an item simultaneously.
Probably going to be skipping this one since I already have 4 and these games continue to upgrade with each sequel
>>1374517This game is just over a year old so that's probably going to be a long skip, not that I'm saying you should buy it. Why do people speak negatively of the games upgrading anyway? Isn't that a good thing that they don't become some shittier game with the same name stamped on even though everything about it is different?
>>1349398Aren't warlocks OP as all get out? All the other ones are pretty bad though.
>>1351841Personally I pirated 5 because I didn't think another 40 bucks or whatever was justified for what they're providing, especially seeing as planes are extremely half-baked at best. I'll likely shell out for 6 though when that releases in a few years.
>>1374697>Aren't warlocks OP as all get outNo, cloud elemental are. That's 1 out of 4 types of warlocks you can start with, and even then all it takes is some lightning immune/resistant units to deal with them. And you still have the problem of finding gems of the right type, which are probably on clouds guarded by lightning immune things. On top of that, they're only really OPish because you can get a few of them early on, they aren't really that great in the long run. Warlock's other non-basic-elemental summons are pretty decent but good luck getting started. >>1374698Why shell out for 6? It'll just be a few more half baked planes, a couple classes, and expanded boat stuff. You should wait for 7.
>>1355761Dominions has a lot more content, less game-ending RNG bullshit and more player agency. COE feels like an incomplete game.
>>1375010They're very different games. The RNG bullshit is really only a factor in the early game of CoE anyway and can be mostly mitigated by not being reckless. Dominions is the better game, sure, but they're not really comparable frankly.
