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>>15183018

I tried playing this game for about an hour or so but gave up. Feel like I should give it a more thorough chance. It's like a Total War with only army macro, right?

>>15183096

Basically. Make sure you know how to macro provincial defense, simply press "d" on a province and you can spend gold to automatically build a garrison which requires no upkeep. I played the game for hours without realizing this, which is like a huge part of the game.

>>15183096

Did you read the 400 page manual?

bump baby, i wish that there were more spells that altered units, like i love divine name which lets you turn a normal unit into a commander, there are items ofc but i'd like to be able to turn units sacred or whatever

it'd be cool if you could alter bless effects/scales after the start of the game using expensive spells

idk i'd like a gamemode where your pretender starts off pretty weak with like a dozen other pretenders and you have to keep increasing dominion and empowering, kind of like a survival mode. i mean, a lot of the shit in the game is focused on progress

the biggest feature the game needs is realtime as in getting rid of "months" fucking completely (or make some of the ritual spells not require a turn to cast), i mean it sounds like it wouldn't work with the way combat and multiplayer is implemented but you could do a paradox games style of gameplay, idk.

Im kinda miffed that the maps on the workshop are all so shitty.

>>15183096

It's not hard.

>Pick nation that isn't fucking retarded and weird

>Fill build queue with chaff turn 1

>Do a turn

>Attack province next to capital with the shittiest indies, i.e. light inf, deer tribe, fishmen

>Rinse, repeat

>>15183096

once you read the manual it makes a lot more sense, the game isn't all that complicated to get into beyond the initial of figuring out how things work.

>>15189664

just use the map section from the zetaboards forum

Is the lore kiked and cucked or not?

>>15190507

It's based on mythology from several different cultures, as well as some stuff they made up. One of my favorites is Ermor, which is an analogue of the roman empire + necromancy. In the later ages a disaster occurs where everyone becomes cursed so its just undead roman legions nonstop.

>>15190507

Ulm is best.

Praise Ulm.

>>15190476

You can fuck about with the weird nations once you understand the basics. For a completely new player I would not recommend Mictlan or Lemuria.

>>15190507

Depends, is the portrayal of proto-Jewish religion as a bunch of bloodthirsty tyrannical giants that eat their lesser kin cucked or not?

>>15190507

Yes it is. Game is made by cucked Swedes.

>>15190507

Here's how I understand the lore:

>For eons the world is ruled absolutely by an omnipotent god called the "pantokrator" (another name for jesus christ) until eventually the pantokrator suddenly vanishes.

>The abscence of the pantokrator causes a power vacuum, and beings of great power ("pretenders") emerge and assemble their respective nations and begin a war, fighting to become the new pantokrator.

>They either ascend to pantokrator by capturing magical "thrones" of power or by expanding their dominion (religious domain) to snuff out the other pretenders'. Pretenders are permanently vanquished (as opposed to being killed, which is only a temporary setback for a pretender) their dominion fails to occupy even a single province, or when they physically/militarily fail to do so.

>When a pretender captures the proper number of thrones, or conquers the entire world with their dominion, they finally ascend to pantokrator status.

>For eons, the new pantokrator rules with absolute power until it suddenly vanishes into the void. Thus, the cycle starts anew.

>>15183018

>tfw mods actually work now

damn right they do, look at those d&c good goy zionist supporting homosexuals crying in their own raid thread

>>15190507

MUH SUPERIOR NORDIC ELVES

Berytos gets turned into sassy black witches who don't need no wizards. Which is kinda shit.

African kangs are appropriately at the bottom of the food chain.

It really is hit and miss.

Am I the only one that only likes playing against AI? I used to play against humans a lot but it seems 99% of the player base is just interested in running around with W9 elves, dumpstering weak nations with blocks of cap only sacreds, then going AI turn 15. At least the AI blobs are somewhat varied.

>>15194501

what mate, you've been playing with shitters after 2000 hours you stop caring about Y's rush and Lanka bless gank and do things fun.

Also Phaecia is stronk.

>>15194614

I'm way passed 2000 hours. Busting your ass getting turns in on time and preparing for the weeks before a game starts and so on is not worth it when half the players are gonna be AI by turn 5.

>>15194677

half the players going ai is rare, that's mainly in scrub games where the assholes go in with broken scales and only realize 5-10 turns in they're fucked.

>>15183449

>walk into a bar

Is this shit still overpriced as fuck?

>the assholes go in with broken scales and only realize 5-10 turns

Or blind attack turn 1, lose then stall until someone tries to salvage an unsalvageable mess.

FUCK YOU MEKONE, YOU HORRIBLE CUNT

>>15194677

>>15199209

>>15190867

Oh please.

>>15199118

>I can't remember the source for this

it's from Dom3