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Do Astral 3 casters succeed in severing cords 100% of the time? I guess that makes it a lot less potent.

Here's a question: I have an astral 4 caster with Evocation 5 and Thaugmaturgy 5 researched. I mindhunt someone. Oh noes, my cord gets severed by an enemy astral caster, and I'm feebleminded and I'll probably never recover! So, that probably...can I use a Faerie queen's heal on it? What about Gift o...

I will admit that I just did it because a guide told me to, and because the sacreds comprise the army. With the 56 points, I might use it for scales/Dominion. Or would you suggest a 3rd magic on my cyclops? (At that point, does it become better to use a crone or something?) Also, how do I see the tu...

So, I finally got some Bogarus successes (thanks guys) and wanted to play a Giant race, so I took Ashdod. Generally I have little trouble winning (though I managed to lose a game where 4 AI were on me by turn 11); here's my general strategy, more or less: Imprisoned Cyclops, E10/Nature6, Heat 3, Ord...

I've got a question. How can I tell which evocations are good, which are bad? My sense is that High precision = good Large area of effect = good Damage enough to kill human troops all the time = good Armor piercing = good Say I hit evocation 2. I have fire/air mages. Fire Blast: Range 5, Precision 0...

Oh, when you said you were envious of people who could play dominions 3, I thought you were referring to cost. Uh...start with easy AI and a strong nation; Frank recommends MA man, which is probably a good suggestion, then start with real slow/careful turns, and read guides while waiting for the tur...

@Star: Their demo is actually surprisingly decent, except it cuts out around 30-40 turns, and limits you to about 1/2 the early age races, and research level 4. But still; it'll give you a taste until you can get the real thing.

Uh, I just carefully summarized the arguments politely for his benefit. I'm pretty sure he's not using it, or if he's using it, there will be massive revisions. To the tune of making caster stuff 10-12 points, and melee stuff 6-10 points, rather than the other way around.

If I have an awake pretender, I prefer to prophetize the commander then the scout, by switching the armies to the pretender and having it patrolling the first turn. my reasoning: Scout or Commander will spread dominion at equal rate; the difference is going to be location; scout can be used offensiv...

Man I love you guys. I laugh out loud reading so many of these posts. The acerbic wit, the vitrolic hatred of stupidity. I'm just going to link the DM to this thread. Let's look at some by-the-numbers breakdown. Augment Summoning: Only 7 points Metamagic Empower: 5 points Enlarge spell: 5 points Ext...

http://www.seankreynolds.com/rpgfiles/misc/featpointsystem.html My DM wants to use this. I immediately notice some awful logic (where weapon specialization, weapon focus, and great fortitude are used as the benchmark of a normal feat), but does anyone have anything better to illustrate how truly awf...

So I try to win a game with a race before I start working on a new race, but I've gotten stuck. The games: Small random map, 7-9 impossible AI + me. Marveni: No trouble winning. Awake Pheonix pretender with Air4/Fire4, growth3, order3 and then other random stuff depending on how I'm feeling (usually...

The information you guys are giving is so helpful and great; thank you very much. Another question I have: Assuming I'm eliminated between 15 and 40 turns, how long does a multiplayer game take in terms of number of days? Come the end of april I start a summer job with computer access about once per...

@Korwin; thanks. I could only find the crummy version that was for CBM...and I realized when it was telling me dwarven hammer was a good artifact that something was wrong.

Anyways, thanks for the advice. I'll try that with the summons.

Does anyone have links to pre-written guides on any of the following things, or want to offer up some commentary? (If not, no worries) I looked on the Shrapnel Dom3 forums, but while they have some okay nations guides, there's relatively little written on these subjects. 1) Thugs/Super Commanders: I...

I'm MA man playing against NPC's; I'm winning a war against Caelum. Bogus showed up. How do I beat him without pulling a huge army? I have access to Random elemental 2 mages, Astral 2/Earth2 mages, and Air 2/Astral 2+1 random element mages, plus a rainbow commander, and normal man mages. Reasearch i...

Edit: I thought better of this post.

@Judging__Eagle, Akula, Orion, and K: Thanks for the advice. Hopefully this next game goes a little smoother. Unfortunately, Marveni doesn't have easy access to W3 for clams. I'm not sure druids can get it without boosters, so that might be held out until summons. Oh wait...druids get W3...25*25*2.5...

Awesome, thanks guys. @K...Windows directory eh? I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the help. Some longer, strategy questions: Feel free to ignore this post if you're disinterested. I've been playing EA Marveni, on random small maps with 20 Impossible AI. I'm unpatched, unmodded. I use the default sett...

I got this a week ago and have been working through it, slowly. One simple question: Why is it when I have a PD of 25 on a fort and 10 mages there, when an enemy attacks, they slaughter the Province Defense and start to seige without my mages joining the fight? Can I get the mages to fight with the ...

I have also now purchased this game due to hype seen on this forum, though it might be months before I play with anything resembling competence.

This game sounds incredible and right up my ally, but I can't find it for purchase anywhere. EBay/Amazon my only option?

New user; is there somewhere I can read more about the Doubt system (aside from the other thread about doubt herrings)?

I was able to find these threads: http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=51920
http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=51989
But I was wondering if there was more material out there.