The Cerulean Maharaja is most interesting to me because it might be evidence that not all Bandar were so keen on Patala's Nagas.

My mea culpa for this video is getting the holy communion rules around the wrong way when explaining them. The combination that doesn't work is masters that are priests but not mages (so crystal matrix priests basically). Slaves that are not priests, but which are mages, are good enough as long as the masters are mage-priests.

@righteousindecision2778

2 жыл бұрын

You had me looking at illwiki while the video was going..... then I read this.

@Bill_Garthright

2 жыл бұрын

I should have read the entire comment section before commenting myself. Oops! :)

You mention that non-sacred communion slaves don't boost holy paths but I'm pretty sure they do.

@horrifyingthoughts

2 жыл бұрын

They do.

Arco is probably one of my favorite nations. Behind Hinnom/Ashdod/Gath and Mekone/Phelegra.

On the subject of holy comunions - master has to be a priest and a mage(1 in any elemental or sorcery path will suffice), whereas for slaves you just need a way to plug into communion, so even pythium communicants will do, and those are not even commanders let alone mages or priests.

@Leiska86

2 жыл бұрын

You actually cannot slave non-magical commanders even with a matrix. The communicants are the only exception.

@Self-replicating_whatnot

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leiska86 Why yes, i explicitly stated *whereas for slaves you just need a way to plug into communion*

@Leiska86

2 жыл бұрын

@@Self-replicating_whatnot I got the impression that you were saying you can take your priests and, if you can just plug them in, you're good to go. But since there is literally no way to do so, I assumed you must be mistaken about slave matrices. BTW, even if you make a mod unit/commander auto-cast communion slave, it will not plug in if it doesn't have magic.

@Self-replicating_whatnot

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leiska86 Just to clarify, what i was saying is so long as your priest has at least nominal skill in magic, he's can benefit from communion, whether he's plugged in via spells or matrix. And any kind of slaves you can scrounge up will do just fine boosting him to higher levels of holiness, be that Choir, Communion, Sabbath or Pythium/Phlegra autojoining pawns.

Lucid mentioned a sweaty tactic with fliers that can also apply to kers. In bigger fights, you can put them on guarding commander and have it hold a few times then run, letting you get a lot of buffs onto the kers/other flying units like flying/luck/quickness/strength. Delay also makes it harder for opponent to protect mage line. Bronze colossus is mindless (no soul slay) and has a ton of innate resists, so it's very annoying to kill it if you don't have shatter or smashers on very sturdy thugs (so it doesn't just kill them with shock wave or w/e). That or turn timer it, which will kill due to mindless.

Ahhh a perun nation overview. Happy birthday to us

Late age video uploaded late at night for me! Then again you live in Australia.

The important question, across the Arcoscephale ages: what is in the handbags, that all the sibyls etc. carry?

If you can get your hands on some water, coral blades are my favorite item on squishy humans.

so wacky to go back and look at old dominions stuff from perun

I checked the mod inspector for events because sometimes there are fun national ones. I don't know how to easily see events that aren't tied to specific units, but anyway, there are two that are tied to LA Arco units: - Sibyls can increase dominion by a huge amount (+5) and draw in some slingers to a province. - Once per game you might discover a cerulean warrior had a "personal advisor" who joins you. This is a monkey guru. No new magic that you didn't already have from sibyls, but damn, why not have a White One Vanara fight with you? Both of these events are listed as "common good". The sibyl event is minimum turn 20.

It's annoying enough that phalangites and hoplites look identical. While I'd love for Illwinter to bring out glorious gameplay updates, there's a few sprites they should take a look at sometimes.... You don't need holy levels to be a holy communion slave, just like all other magic paths. Not sure how it would even work if some communion slaves were priests and others weren't. Holy spells will also provide so little fatigue that it doesn't matter that the slaves aren't priests.

@flamedeluge1332

2 жыл бұрын

A pure H caster cannot be a communion slave, they need to have at least 1 regular point for the spell to work. It's the same as a slave matrix.

@Bill_Garthright

2 жыл бұрын

_You don't need holy levels to be a holy communion slave, just like all other magic paths._ Thanks! I was wondering about that, because it seemed like Perun was saying otherwise. (Maybe I just misunderstood him?) And I didn't _think_ that was the case,... but I'm certainly no expert! Thanks again.

@Bill_Garthright

2 жыл бұрын

@@flamedeluge1332 How about the _unit_ communion slaves of MA Pythium? Can they boost Holy, too? I assume so, since they don't have _any_ spell levels. But I've never played that nation.

@Isvoor

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bill_Garthright I'm pretty sure the game just bundles up all communion slaves together, regardless of if they are a unit or how they got into the communion, and then counts them up for the master's magic boost. The actual paths (or lack thereof) of the communion slave matter only when fatigue gets determined.

@Bill_Garthright

2 жыл бұрын

@@Isvoor Thanks! PS. Perun did comment about this stuff, but I didn't read his comment before commenting myself. Maybe he should pin it at the top.

I totally agree on the human late game balance issue. At late gane, as human nation, you just can't take your massive mage core out of your defensive domes. They're forever lab monkey or castle defend units, which won't win you games. I think they need to be limited late game but being almost useless is quite overdo. Unlike strategy ritual spells, imo battlefield combat spells are major fun part of the game and utilizing your magic core is big part of it. At late game, that part of the game is just gone for human nations. Players are forced to pick something Death or Blood path to have a say in the late game, which kill off the possibility of alternative nation builds and greatly limited players creativity. This game has too powerful "win-button" type of counters. Like Arrow Fend to archers, Murdering Winter to human, Foul Vapors to no poison resistance, Heat from Hell/Grip of Winter to no resistance. Once they're online, you just know you already won.

Good guide again, and again my main criticism - no expansion examples for real noobs. Quick note about mages - Sibyls is even less userful, cuz Orphic mystics have same S+D crosspaths but they are also spellsigers, and work much better as D masters. Sibyls not completely useless mages ofc, but very "meh" ones indeed.

@PerunAU

2 жыл бұрын

So for expansion examples, do you mean actually showing how an expansion party should be configured, rather than just what outcomes are possible?

@Chikanuk

2 жыл бұрын

@@PerunAU Yes, exactly. For noobs its can be really hard to understand and/or implement expansion properly without proper example. Im sure you seen it at least few times - how inexperienced player failed miserably early one. Especially if its something tricky, like elephant expansion.

@PerunAU

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chikanuk It's a good suggestion. I've already recorded the next guide, but for the one after that, I'll try to show how I set up expansion parties. And also show how to do them really simply if someone isn't an expert player.

:D