"Azazel taught the Avvim how to make war, how to make weapons, and *how* *to* *make* *and* *use* *cosmetics* ." Clearly the best unit in the game. What a rascal.

@nttea

5 жыл бұрын

Fabulous murder

@seleneparker4782

4 жыл бұрын

Its even cooler when you see Azazels Cosmetics magic item required blood slaves to make. He takes evil eyeshadow to the next level it's literally made from ground up humans

@the_ogre1234

3 жыл бұрын

Based lad to be honest.

Hinnomite lore is based pretty heavily on the Book of Enoch and Dead Sea Scrolls, along with some of the Israeli Tribes' more hostile neighbors. Ashdod was more heavily based on the Canaanites, IIRC. It's not really until Gath that you get strong elements of the Israeli Tribes.

@danieltabin6470

5 жыл бұрын

It's based on Canaanite lore in general. There is a bit of a misconception that comes from the bible that Israelites / Hebrews were not themselves Canaanites. We now know from archeology that they in fact were.

@chicoti3

4 жыл бұрын

@@danieltabin6470 What? This makes as much sense as saying the Egyptians were Canaanites. They were different people, and we have tons of evidence backing this up.

Might also want to mention the national heroes of Hinnom, which are basically turbocharged oversized naked Melqarts. They'll need armor before they can SC and you're very unlikely to ever see them if you're going misfortune, but they're kinda funny.

@LucidTactics

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah they are a strong reason to take luck. They are probably the best heroes in the game.

The undead stuff from Ashdod comes from the fact that Rephaim also refers to the heroic ancestors of the Israelites as well as giant neighboring enemies. Also just continuing on with the video, as I mentioned in my other comment, Hinnom is based on Cannanites who biblically are separated from the Israelites but historically are identical to the Israelites. Also, Gath is very Jewish although. Also also, while the middle east has gone through a process of desertification, it always has been very deserty, but to this day it has areas that are exceedingly lush and productive, such as the coasts, the Nile river valley, and the Mesopotamian river valley between the Tigris and Euphrates.

As an additional note, if you ever get to chance to cast a spell named "Unleash Lord of Civilization", I don't think it's even possible to resist the temptation to cast a spell with that awesome of a name.

@the_ogre1234

3 жыл бұрын

And the units you get are just as good.

@Gh0st652

2 жыл бұрын

Even if it doesnt turn out to be particularly good, I tend to make it a goal to reach the crazy named spells.

Just be aware that there is an event where one of your melqarts eats a ba'al in the same province for an extra blood lvl lmao

Just watched Raiders of the Lost Ark, so this is fitting with the theme of my current media consumption.

Yes! I find the biblical gaints the most fascinating factions in the game, I am looking forward to this one.

I really like learning about the historical ideas behind a nation. This was a great overview video!

Hi Lucid! Thanks for another very interesting video. I enjoyed your excursion into the background of this bizarre and fascinating faction. I'm looking forward to the let's play!

What a blast from the past! I member the old Hinnom play through from Dom4

Cheers for the upload I am looking forward to a revised perspective on the nation!

The music you chose adds an interesting intensity to a Dom 5 nations overview. :p very interesting stuff as always. :)

@dakka123

5 жыл бұрын

The music really does ad an additional layer of enjoyment and flavour, the Yomi and LA Ulm ones were especially delightful.

My favorite team, my favorite KZreadr. Nothing better than this ole' series.

@LucidTactics

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

I'm super super super super excited for this. The Canaanite nations are my favorite and I wanted to watch your Hinnom let's play but decided against it as it was dom 4 and so as not useful for a dom 5 noob like myself.

You messed up when comparing Melqarts and Ba'als (and to a lesser extent, the Grigori) in that you didn't check their gear. Biggest bit is that Azazel's huge defensive advantage over other Grigori is because his unique weapon, the First Sword, gives +7 to attack and defense. Similarly, Ba'al shows 11 defense while Melqart shows 18, but their base values are 13 vs 14, so the difference is minor with forged gear (total difference between Ba'al and Melqart stats is something like +1 attack, +1 defense, +2 strength, +3 hp).

@LucidTactics

5 жыл бұрын

Good point, don't think I actually knew that

I very much enjoyed the short section on the ecological history of the middle east from which this nation would hail. We have some great people producing KZread videos on Dom5 gameplay, but I'd really, really love to have someone on the level of Joseph Campbell discuss the history and mythology.

@LucidTactics

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks dood, means a lot!

The blood thorn allows an additional slave and reduced fatigue when casting hell power thereby getting you stupidly good stats on the Melquart which in conjunction with an attack boosting bless, ring of the warrior, fear, and some high length weapon gives you a very scary repel focused build. Am I right?

@LucidTactics

5 жыл бұрын

You are exactly right. Shhh!

@shinemoon4673

5 жыл бұрын

Add larger for 21 hp and slightly better repel.

@LucidTactics

5 жыл бұрын

@@shinemoon4673 not a bad idea, but enlarge is part of the fluff script :)

Liquid: These guys are not necessarily evil... These guys: *summon demons and eat people*

Great vid as always but I disliked the background music you used. Too excited for nation analysis.

@HBoggggggggg

5 жыл бұрын

just open the video in an editor and subtract the music, or replace it with enya

I would love to see Shinuyama piloted by yourself!

I'm really hoping you can manage to find a province with Garnet Amazons in your game.... They will solve a lot of your blood problems and if all goes well, you might actually get that Azazel SC at a reasonable point in the game lol.

You should make more nation overviews the other factions.

So unfortunately while they are supposed to have the corruption ability which is a morale check against 1 to every enemy commander every round the ability has been broken since the beginning of dom 5.

I think the Gregori have a chance to spawn a random nephelim hero

Also important to note that your Qedesot (70 gold level 1 priest) has 10 morale, while your Qedesim (65 gold priest level 1) only has 8 morale.

@the_ogre1234

3 жыл бұрын

What even is the point of the guy-priest? I've yet to find a good use aside from saving 5 gold.

Are you going to do the repel bless with these guys? I remember you being keen on trying it out

@LucidTactics

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe...

As a noob; can you not use kohen to empower not pop eating priest in blood to bloodhunt and make it a little bit more efficient for mid and late game? I personally also like the bloodstone booster you get from the melqart.

@LucidTactics

5 жыл бұрын

Well empowering is very inefficient, better to work towards vampires. Yeah cranking out blood stones is really nice

What does the "insence" special effect on kohens censor do?

@LucidTactics

5 жыл бұрын

It puts people to sleep I believe

@the_ogre1234

3 жыл бұрын

@@LucidTactics Poison. It poisons people. 15 points of it for 2 turns over 1 entire square of I remember right.

Will of fates being S4 with 4gems, would require 4S to cast it, so you could cast power of the spheres, light of the northern star for , 650 fatigue and 7 astral pearls. Even if you use an extra pearl on power and light those two cost 135, so you could get it ish 13 turns into the fight for 9 pearls... If the enemy lets you. Oh and the mage would kill himself on the will of fates cast. Think I would recommend a booster or a communion.

honestly the worst part about the pop killers especially in EA is just how little pop it feels like there is in most provinces. you need a little less then 5000 pop in a province for a single rephaite warrior to not kill more then its produced at growth 3 if your not careful you can easily and accidentally kill a significant and un-regrowable in any real time span portion of your own provinces

@the_ogre1234

3 жыл бұрын

Blood fecundity is your friend as Hinnom.

Will of fates cost 4 gems, there is no way you can cast it with a A2 mage without a booster

@crodusfool7617

5 жыл бұрын

You need light of the northern star and power of the spheres with two mages, it’s an unfortunate turn 4 will of fates

@rosc222

5 жыл бұрын

You forget about light of the northern star, that plus power of the spheres gets you astral 4 and then you can cast Will of fates.

@Kris_Lighthawk

5 жыл бұрын

You could do with one mage, but the fatigue cost of light of the northern star would put you out for so long time that the late will of fates is not likely to be of much help at all

It could be funny to put a black heart on a lord of civilization :)