Hey guys! Had family in town, and was a bit under the weather, but got this up. Really curious what you all think about the two different versions of expansion. Its always fun doing "expansion focused" runs, trying to maximize numbers, but I figured the multiplayer focus would be a little bit more helpful. What do you think?

@gogeta667

Ай бұрын

Never clicked on a video so fast. Gonna watch this through in a bit. I like a multiplayer expansion focus. Typically because the AI, once you get used to them, are kind of pitiable so long as you aren't mismanaging your own nation.

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

@@gogeta667 100 percent! On the other hand, some people just don't have time for a full MP game, so I want to offer something that both sides can use. That's why I do chapters on all of the videos too, so people can hop around and see what they're interested in. I'll be sure to include much more of the multiplayer commentary in the future videos! I'm really glad it helped, and you liked it! Thanks so much for the feedback and comment!

Remember you are legally obligated to play Irish bagpipes when playing this nation

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Hahahahaha, exactly! Hope you heard the shoutout, my friend. This nation is going to require a deep dive video at a later date!

Lots of great tips and faster than 90% of dominions videos, with some hot takes. Didn't know the matrona site appears before she does, very cool!

@AOReaper

17 күн бұрын

Right?! Thank you so much for the comment! I sort of felt like the Matron was a let down, only because I'd reaped all of those benefits for turns before she arrived hahaha! Glad you enjoyed it, and hope to see you on the next one!

Hell yeah lets see

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Awesome! Glad to have ya! Thank you for the comment and feedback!

Oh my gosh you did for moria h. You are my favorite channel for sure now my middle friend. Now this is going to be done with talk to text and it Will be a wall of text but I feel the need to say my two cents first off, I really love the video. Thank you for doing it. I can't wait for the next video on multiplayer and then I will give my thoughts on multiplayer as I think they are, or at least where, maybe the most or one of the most powerful factions in dominion's 5. Definitely things are a bit different now with glamor magic and a couple of Nerf and buffs but still a very very strong Nation. So much to say. I'll keep it short on this to see what you cover in your next video, but as far as just basic things, remember all your druids and Kings are very mobile with air trapeze. Second, you need so many gems. It's not even funny because aerel mental spam and death gems for all things death. Also dance of the Morgans. Is that good I know it's late but do yourself a favor, script some army and then fight against a florian army and have them cast that against you with just any kind of bless doesn't even matter can be unblessed and they will completely shatter you. I mean completely. It's also worth noting that you'll probably want to put up wrathful skies and storm and you can just go ahead and summon our elementals keep flyers from coming in and killing you even though Ariel mantels will have a hard time trampling your Kings because of size and dance of the Morgans wind of death, wailing winds, etc. Total madness okay. This nation is insanely strong. I will talk about the multiplayer and the tricks later. You definitely nailed it on the heroes twice. Born them immediately. They are that good if you can get a way to get luck. 3. Do it. I would take luck 2000 if I could. The heroes are that important. Days of death is insane. Try it out. I would even spend the gems to twice born him. His leadership is also 300. Don't know if you saw that his son's leadership is 150. Nothing to sniff at. Also keep in mind your kings have sailing and they also have gift of water breathing. It's actually a really big deal. I mean a really big deal. There's so much to say. I'll leave it to see what you cover in multiplayer and then add more. I feel like I owe you some money for these videos. You should give me your cash app rock on my metal brother. This is the true metal Nation

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Hahaha love the enthusiastic reply! Its VERY true that what you said is important. Sailing is AMAZING in the right situations, if you're playing on a water filled map... the only issue I've found is that most players tend to play on mapnuke maps with one or two water spots here and there, so I didn't run into too many examples where it factored in too big. Dance of the Morrigans IS an amazing spell, but at the time of Video 1, the 3 games I'd played in had ALL been decided before I could even reach the research for it :/ Having gone with a "long term" scales version of the pretender, I was punished for it, which I mention in my second video with my alternate version of my pretender (more bless emphasis - much more synergy + much more beneficial for the morrigans). And about the gems - Oh my gosh yes! SO MANY NEEDED, but that feels sort of the same with other nations, Fomoria just seems to need SO many gems from each path type that it gets rough sometimes! Thank goodness they're in EA! Thanks so much for the comment, even voice to text as it was ;) Love having it!

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Haha, after my first comment, I thought about it, and added a linktree to the channel for donations/subscriptions. Hope that helps brother, and looking forward to doing part 2 so we can get down and dirty on some Multiplayer tricks!

Double take on expansion is awesome. Really gives another perspective on early aims and goals. Ty for your content Reaper. Keep on reaping!

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Sounds great, thank you so much for being so supportive! I'm glad its scratching that itch, and helping with your games!

Especially liked the commentary that accompanied the second expansion

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Really glad it helped! I'll start including more of this sort of thing in the future! Thank you so much for the comment and feedback!

I gotta say, I wasnt really sure how I should play around with Fomoria, I did watch a guide before, so I was familiar with some of their stuff, but i just wasnt sure. This guide really did it for me. I will be jumping into my next EA game and grabbing Fomoria with the lessons are learned here and since I started playing the game. Great vide man, I was a bit lost in the Merverni one, but this one was just spot on and easy to understand. Thanks a lot for this! I am curious if you'll get to Tir na Nog and Eriu eventually. I'd be curious what I can learn from you about them :D Again, great video, looking forwards to more

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad, thank you for the kind comment! Eriu, definitely a possibility, even though they don't fit my style TOO much, they have some serious possibilities with the new fir bolgs they get in MA, and they REALLY lean in hard on glamour too. Would be fun to experiment and try them out. Tir na nog I have no MP experience in Dom 6, only Dom 5, so some of my techniques might be a bit outdated, but I'll be sure to try hopping into them when I can. In the meantime, I'm glad you like Fomoria, because my second video on them (basics) will be a lot of examples of "simple tricks" to use with them in combats, scripting, that sort of thing, and then I'm going to do a deep dive on one of the nations, a more advanced tips and tricks. Good chance it'll be Fomoria, but I'm kind of feeling the "How to transition a hell blessed Abysia into the mid/late game" style video hahaha. People often struggle with this when Rain becomes a thing! And thanks for the comment and feedback, I really appreciate it!

@frantisekprusa4877

Ай бұрын

@@AOReaper More Fomoria content sounds so fun. I cant wait to learn more so I can jump with them into MP. Will be watching closely for when those Gems drop.

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

@@frantisekprusa4877 Sounds good! I've got family in town, and my work is crushing my time right now, but I'll get on it ASAP!

Duuuuuude

@AOReaper

6 күн бұрын

Duuuuuude back! Thanks for the comment!

Balor would have a deep lore, because he is am irl character in myths :p

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Yes! I love this! Its so sad when you get a super powerful/useful hero, and their version of lore is "Welp, this gentleman once walked to the store... and now you have him" hahaha! Thanks som much for the comment and feedback!

@praiseHashut

Ай бұрын

@@AOReaper not a problem! i enjoyed the vid!

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

@@praiseHashut Greatly appreciate that, thank you!

They can get a bit more whit attack skill buff length 4 weapons and better then average attack skill

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

If you mean the sacreds: yes - but compared to what I'd want a giant for, they're not worth the investment, as it would be far too heavy of an investment required to make them "strong" in that way for my purposes. As always: thanks for the comment and feedback! Always great insights!

Can you do a video on Muspelheim, Sons of Fire! 😊

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Sure thing! The flaming giants, that then go bipolar everywhere else? I'll throw it on the list! Any particular focus YOU'D like with them? Bless heavy, scales, or just what's "best" for the nation in my opinion? I can do a few meme style videos here and there after all :P Thanks so much for the comment and feedback AND request!

@donnadinka3877

Ай бұрын

Just what you think would be the best for the nation 😁

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

@@donnadinka3877 Sounds like a plan! I'll be sure to include several variants, but I'll focus more on that in the "advanced" guide that I make SECOND for them. First video, I'll do a basics, and get you going in practice battles in AI, or versus newer players (depending on you of course). Second video, I'll focus on multiplayer tricks and variants of the Pretender you could take that would require more finesse, but might actually win you something. Sound good? And thanks for the comment and request!

How did you get the high resolution picture in the thumbnail?

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

I work a LOT with AI generation of images to get exactly what I'm aiming for. Its a fairly long process, but at the end, I can upscale it repeatedly without losing image degradation, as long as I'm cautious, and don't mind going back and forth. Hope that makes sense!

@skoub3466

Ай бұрын

@@AOReaper I'm curious whit the step of this one the ping and reaper where quitte obvious but this one is particularly neat

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

@@skoub3466 I appreciate that ;) Honestly, its just self training the models. Oftentimes there isn't a model (LORA or what have you) that matches what style I'm looking for, so I have to hunt another one down, and then train it repeatedly until its giving the results I want for the keywords I want. Once I've done that: it basically does all of the work for me. In addition, if you split it into parts (i.e. "Face first, THEN body, THEN background") its much easier to "combine" the images together to get a good finalized product. Hope that helps my friend! And thanks, as always, for the comment and feedback!

Is Elfing an adjective now?

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

I sure hope not, and I think I used it as a present participle a few times in here, and even once as a gerund (haha), but if we start using it as an adjective as well... Pretenders help us all! Haha, thanks for the laugh my friend, glad to have you here! Thanks for the comment and feedback! Let me know if you have any requests for the future, as this comment made me laugh out loud ;)

@damagingthebrand7387

Ай бұрын

@@AOReaper Monkeys. Have they changed much? I still have dom 5.