I really miss this dude's Dom5 content.

EA Ermor is one of my "main" nations, here are some strategies I discovered: 1. None of your fort-only mages require a temple to recruit, so don't bother building them in the same provinces as forts. Only build temples where you want to make Pontifex's & Flamen. 2. The Lizard Auxiliary troops are efficient expanders for their cost, and can put most indies in the trash can. 3. EA Ermor has a gem cost reduction for the "Shroud of the Battle Saint" (Require Construction 4 and 5 Astral Pearls) which makes any mage wearing it blessed. Have your pretender craft a hammer, make these in bulk, and take a bless that helps your mages (Reinvigoration)! 4. Start your death gem income early by recruiting a Augur Elder before turn 12 and have him go site searching. You'll be glad you did when all your future Augur Elders can afford to cast "Twice Born". 5. Get more "life" out of your Gladiators and Retiarius by setting them on "Guard Commander". Any assassin or "Attack Rear" troops will get a nasty surprise. 6. Archbishops and Bishops of the Sacred Shroud can heal afflictions, which allows you to be more cavalier regarding astral spells like astral projection, astral window, and mind hunt. Feebleminded can be cured!

@darklordvadermort

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1: how to get dom killed by elves in any multiplayer game (they don't need to dom kill u really if they destory all ur temples u r gonna be sorry when someone elses dominion creeps in and starts raising unrest in all ur province and you get -1 morale bonus to every battle) 2.: they have lower map move, not worth it (not to mention cold blooded 5. sometimes valid. you can multi province expand on the 2nd turn with gladiators.

@CantusTropus

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@@darklordvadermort Elves aren't going to be wasting their time domkilling you with stealthy priests. Any competent Elf player will spend their money on an army to rush you, not on priests.

@darklordvadermort

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@@CantusTropus see parenthesis it's not really about getting dom killed so much as leaving all of your temples exposed to raiding. i would say ermor is somewhat of a scales ish nation, and lots of scales dont even work if you dont have dominion... not to mention, like I said, unrest from foreign dominion, and morale penalties. Also if have unforted labs on all of your temples.. once the enemy takes the province they can gateway in or teleport out, you have no idea what is gonna happen...

when you are talking about lore at the beginning, I feel it's with pointing out that Pythium is in many ways the continuation of Sauromatia, inheriting their swamps and hydra etc. This of course implies that Ermor also conquered Sauromatia.

I'm putting this in the comments for visibility because its a point of lore that i know people care about. MA Ermor fights Marignon and Scelaria. As people point out, Marignon basically burns itself out but destroys the ashen armies. After the war though, Scelaria are the ones that hold the Western Ermor Imperial mantle as far as i can see, and in Lemuria they carry Ermors legacy just that bit further a way Mari doesnt. There are no Consuls or lictors in Marignon, while in Scelaria they persist until the very dawn of the LA. So in saying the campus scelaris beats Ermor im not diminishing what Mari does, just focusing on the Ermor line itself, which i think runs though scelaria to lemuria.

@Richierua

3 жыл бұрын

Please do Hinnom/Ashdod/Gath next!

FW Flamen can also get the skull of fire from augur elders and make a water bracelet--now you got runesmashers for your massive communions. Plus you now have acid paths for manifest vitriol or some other stuff--maybe bootstrap to staff of elemental mastery. Flamen also give access to air quills without using cap rec turns.

how to say you're a tabletop gamer without saying you're a tabletop gamer: refer to units in strategy games as "models".

@PerunAU

3 жыл бұрын

Now is that actually labelled somewhere or is it just known? I can test it to confirm if need be but that sounds odd and has a dramatic impact on the combat ability of the unit.

@Mewobiba

3 жыл бұрын

@@PerunAU You can see it in the weapon description; it has the "can only be used once in battle" line there. It is also used by Jomon's cavalry. It's because these units, unlike most with light lances, also have a sword. Oh and also, you might have missed it, but the worthy heroes gladiatrix's skill damage is armor negating, so basically every turn she attacks she will cause her victim to lose an eye, and force them to make an MR check or just die (that's what heart finding does). And because of the slave collar she can't be easily repelled. She's an incredible anti-thug/sc if you can keep her alive.

@Kris_Lighthawk

3 жыл бұрын

@@PerunAU Noor is correct, when you click on the light lance, the 2nd last line in the description says "This weapon can only be used once in each battle". This of course also means that equites can't repel the way most other light lance cavalry can.

This is one of the nations i am trying to learn for EA. Good to find this review.

Important bit that you missed when going over the various infantry is their mapmove. Principe is often a really nice unit for cost if you're mostly resource capped in recruitment, but being 16 instead of 18, it can't keep up with the rorarus / hastati / equite, when led by a centurion / legate. Not that all your armies will move at that speed, your mages cant either, but it gives alot more strategic flexibility when you can move more of your troops faster.

IMO you want earth/astral, and you probably want it on your god. Crystal matrix is your ticket to mass regen + relief + army of gold/lead in addition to national access to fog warriors, wailing winds. As a changeup play you can also do darkness or solar eclipse + fire elemental spam (maybe with spirit sight on sacreds). Probably give a bow to your flamen/etc so they can fire it after doing their big buffs, burn out the communion less. This also lets you make coins to get another astral booster, enough to get S random augur elders to mind hunt (which, as you point out, is less risky with true healers). Definitely recommend going heat over cold. Troops don't have snow move, murdering winter is earlier than flames from the sky, and you can put out a ton of fire elementals.

One thing to note: you say that archbishops would survive their old age because of recuperation, but recuperation itself is actually negated by having old age.

@gibbcharron3469

3 жыл бұрын

That's true in Dom 5; but as I recall, Healer still works and I'm pretty sure they can heal themselves, so it's not too bad.

@cyndanius5851

3 жыл бұрын

You could also take "Unaging" in your bless to remove the old age.

@gibbcharron3469

3 жыл бұрын

@@cyndanius5851 True, but that takes points away from an equite-tailored bless, which you may need to survive the early game.

I am looking forward to you covering LA Pythium, the nation that embraces the "jack of all trades, master of none" school of magic education.

@emilsoderman3691

3 жыл бұрын

Thats even more Tien´chi no?

@rovsea-3761

3 жыл бұрын

@@emilsoderman3691 Late Age Pythium is the only nation in the game with national access to every path, which is why they have the "jack of all trades" identity around themselves. :)

@Self-replicating_whatnot

3 жыл бұрын

@@emilsoderman3691 Tien'Chi has big hirable rainbows, LA Pythium has 50 different indy tier mages with all kinds of paths, enough to make you weep.

@purple_menace6604

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Honestly LA Pythium is pretty bad for a "jack of all trades" as they mostly just have access to low level death, nature and water. Literally everything else is either dependent on randoms, cap only recruitment, or attached to a heretic.

"and the Augurs who are absolute shit heads in between." Ha After all they try rebranding in Scelaria and still manage to fuck everything up again. EDIT - Also there's a rather sudden cut at 36:30, where you go from discussing the Lar to the Heroes. The cut goes back to the Lar discussion at 42:16, but just wanted to give a heads up.

I love the lore of this game and the EA->MA->LA evolution was a stroke of genius that really makes the game narratively stand out even more than it already did.

Good nation overview, thumbs up. I'd add 2 things... legionariesreanimators (though obviously Bone Tribe can do much more). 2. The 1 in 5 spread on the Flamen randoms can be frustrating. Being slow to recruit and requiring an unforted temple means you may not be site searching any or all of E/W/N for a very long time if you can't/don't pick those paths up someplace else.

Hmm.. another lore disagreement. I would say its MA Marignon who puts ME Ermor down. After making a "bad" deal with the infernal powers. At least it says as much in the Goetic Master lore.

@PerunAU

3 жыл бұрын

I don't disagree, just a lazy focus on Scelaria because they more directly fit into the Ermor chain of succession..but yes marignon deserves more credit for scouring eldregate itself. The ashen war was clearly a multi front conflict though.

I'm just getting into Dom6 and I'm watching a lot of videos like this to become familiar with the gameplay and capabilitys. Imagine my fucking face when I see this video series, and the same guy briefing me on the Ukraine war is also briefing me on Skeleton Rome.

You know for Ermor it makes sense for them to kick ass without divine intervention due to all the reasons covered in the video. I've always been curious about Abysia. In the lore they are super badass and beatdown multiple other nations. In gameplay they are very meh and some of the nations that they are supposed to "beatdown" are considered much higher tier.

Dominion 5 Nation Guide: Emutopia.

so that's why Ermor is getting rushed in most of my games before year 1 finishes...

The splicing of the heroes section into the middle of a sentence where you're talking about Lars is a bit odd but otherwise good vid.

@PerunAU

3 жыл бұрын

Long story involving a corrupted segment of video. Thanks for forgiving the hickup.

@sr71silver

3 жыл бұрын

@@PerunAU are you saying it wasn't an inspired stylistic choice?

Great guide. Is that map you used for background available online anywhere? It looks great too.

@PerunAU

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that's Peliwyr, which comes built into Dominions 5 :)

What map do you use to at the beginning of the video?

Overall good analysis (excerpt for the misunderstanding of how the equite light lance works) I think I would rate EA ermor somewhat higher than you. I have not played them yet, but they have done quite well in most of the games I have seen them in, and I think I could easily win with them, especially in a game that don't have a ton of players, so that it is actually possible to win the game before late game. They are for sure not a bad nation for a mid game throne rush.

I though it was Marignon who defeated Ma Ermor, something about demons stealing a chalice and every knight of the chalice dying to defeat Ermor's undead armies then unleashing devils to destroy the Eldergate?

@PerunAU

3 жыл бұрын

They win the climactic battles, Scelaria just survives (which is an achievement). I harp on scelaria because they take up the mantle of being ermor after surviving that war while Mari clearly go their own way

Personally I only ever use Principes if I'm resource capped but still have recruitment points. Most of the time Hastati are more economical. Maybe with both order and production scales Principes would be better, but I usually go order neutral as Ermor because production is way more important.

Vae Victis

I am pretty sure MA Ermor is not defeated by Sceleria (though they hold their own) but by Marignon making a pact with the Lords of Hell.

@emilsoderman3691

3 жыл бұрын

Basically, everyone in the ME "Europe" fights Ermor to variosu extents, Sceleria with undead, Ulm with steel, Marignon with faith and fire, Pythium with theurgy.... But its Marignon who actually puts them down.

Nice content, but could you reduce the click sounds next time? :)

@PerunAU

3 жыл бұрын

Good call, and yes.

Marveni Delenda Est

@natedigger5678

3 жыл бұрын

Berytos Delenda Est

sigh... Undead legionaries are good, and worth considering.

@purple_menace6604

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They're hard to mass as EA Ermor because you don't have reanimator priests. They are really good but you can't really do what Sceleria can do.

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