Holy Bears, Holy Babes, Holy Bird Babes, and Babushka if you're lucky. My Favorite EA faction.

I feel like I can get a lot more replayability from this nation than many. I like the variety of good options. Your choice of sharing damage to tick off group berserk with regen is very interesting. I was thinking of a quickness bless, with regen or resists, but I might go with yours.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Getting resists are really good here. You have fire and lightning magic so friendly fire is going to happen at some point.

This feels like a birthday present. I started playing them last night!

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Happy birthday!

It's Baltic mythology, po perkunais! This nation is quite literally the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where the Baltic sons of thunder lived alongside the Belarusians and Ukrainians in harmony. All that's missing is an iron wolf.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

I am not sure it a good idea to get them to add any more nojurations. :P

@user-eq1rn1lr9m

Ай бұрын

Its more to the baltoslavic mythology as in the times of Great migration. Perun/Perkunas as a thunder god etc etc. We were neighbors and participated in the same waves of european migrations, so balto-slavic ancient cultures and paganism have lots of intertweavings

That's a lot of options to deal with Zeus. Also this is a literal swarm of bare-bear-ians.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

The lazy man's way to kill Zues? A sloth of bears! O>O

Love this week's thumbnail joke 🤣

47:00 I definitely like the Zmey as a rear-attacker. That line is going to make bodyguards feel silly so long as you can find targets who don't resist too much fire. Not unbeatable or anything but it strikes me as a great way to spend some fire gems -especially if you can get dragon mastery for bonus summons (both crown and sceptre look easily craftable at Construction 5 and 7)

Nice. Just finished a game with Rus and was looking forward to when you would cover them. Bring on the bears!

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Rus was a nation I wanted to cover really early, but Wadestar was still actively posting his game. I am shocked no one else has posted content for them, since they are so much fun. Might even be a sleeper powerhouse too.

Seeing a lot of random potential Astral mages. Probably enough that you actually can count on being able to put a communion or two together for the bigger battle spells.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

For sure, but not having cheap recruitable astral mages will always hold you back compared to say EA Kailasa.

Good bless/strategy - and a perfect use of nation strengths for expansion/logistics in contrast to your last one.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Oh, what didn't you like about Suaromatia?

@andrewcole4843

Ай бұрын

@@BabelBuilder A bit coy about criticising a much better player but: you were complaining about slow expansion and the need for complex play then doing the opposite and going for infantry and slow units standard scripts. In my opinion cav nation (nerfed by mount changes to mount prot/repel/bloodlust but can be mitigated) with flanker lancers in every province (competing for role with the faster sacreds at first), horse archers all too low precision, and cataphracts/hydras great later but too expensive or slow respectively early. There are solutions to that but accepting infantry speed strategic movement not the best in my opinion.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Constructive criticism is always welcome! I'd have to go listen to context, but I believe we had a conversation about expansion in general being slower in 6.

The Leshiy has a forest shape at size 10 and upgraded paths. given the terraform mechanics, Leshiy thugs and supercomabtants in the late game get much more scary if all the plains and farmlands become forests.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Ooo! Nice tip. That would add a lot of value to growth!

Rus is a lot of fun and pretty easy to pilot LFG

Larger + Berserker might be worth it You dont have to worry about Alkonosts to bless because those are active all of the time, and your bears will have 13 attack when they go berserk. You could also add Spirit Sight as another always active bless because you have access to Solar Eclipse and are in the same age as Ubar and Tir Na Nog

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Interesting. The only issue I see is that larger really lowers our attack density by a lot since bears will go to 7 and sacreds to 4.

the Skinshifters are hands down my favourite EA sacred unit. in my game with them i took a bless of undying X3, enchanted blood, blood surge (might be wasted as i can't remember if it stacks with berserk) reinvigoration and magic weapons. in the first year i was able to take cap and 3 tier 1 thrones without a single Skinshifter dying.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Everything you mentioned should stack just fine. Things that share a name don't stack in 99.9% of cases.

i sure could use a bear in my life

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Bear with it.

3:50 I do like a cheap temple -by which I do of course mean a dozen* cheap temples * to start with 20:00 Priest is cheaper for building forts (as well as temples) and more useful when not doing so. He can also pick up some stray troops (though even with xp I think 10 is not going to qualify for real reinforcements. You might also consider scouts for fort building.

1:03:32 Don't forget that Immobile pretender, including Irminsul, generally have the bad forging trait that mean he need 1 more point to forge an item then normally necessary, which means he can't forge hammers at earth 3 (he can do the boots since the boots are earth 2).

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Yep! Even if we only get a hammer or two I do like the option. Alternatively, we could take death to help with those conjurations.

Someone posted a video for Dom 5 testing EA units for all nations and put them in a chart, and Chud Hunters were top 5 for era. When they berserk they have 15 attack for the spear which is very good for repel

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Maybe with some barkskin/ethereal....hmm....that cost though!

49:00 I wonder if it would be a good idea to sui-martyr your Prophet (sorry Alfred) once you get H3 flyers so you can have a H4. I suppose it might depend on what Heroic feature he's picked up.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

I don't think I would do it on purpose. We don't have any special holy spells, and we are not desperate for mass courage. You can also communion up to it if you need to.

If you got lots of undead enemies or throne defenders, you might think about thaumaturgy 5 to unlock "the ravenous swarm".

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Maggots is another good one!

Bears! 🐻🐻🐻 I am disappointed that Illwinter has yet to add a bear pretender to the game. An animal that is revered all around the world, with deep mythology, and cults that persist to this very day.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

That....that...It can't be true... I don't want a world with no bear pretenders!? Why did you share this curse upon us?! When I get time, I am going over the full list!

38:00 Likho Script: Fire, Fire*, Retreat. ('ware flyers!) Not much good against PD but one of the few stealthy units who can punish armies for catching them and live to boast about it. * This might be too greedy but you should have some idea who you're up against and r50 is substantial.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

That would be funny if you can hit actual troops with a curse on the way out!

1:07:00 how hard did you think about Regen v Enchanted Blood with your Blood Bond?

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Enchanted blood is better than nothing, but its too slow to keep people alive with blood bond. You also don't need the +1MR as much as on some nations. The benefit would be skipping out on N7 and getting something else.

@Timlagor

Ай бұрын

@@BabelBuilder The N7 price when you're already in Blood was what I was thinking of as the upside to EB.

C.H.U.D.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Superior to humans!

42:30 2% is a pretty slim bonus but at least they don't cost much. I'd want to be seeing some actual value from them as troops -even if it was only as a mobile reserve -that fire-flare could really help against the right enemy (shades and mannikins come to mind for some reason).

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

2% is small, but the idea is you have like 50 of them stacked up.

@Timlagor

Ай бұрын

@@BabelBuilder You're still spending 1 gem and half a mage action per 1% -in *one* province!

@diazinth

Ай бұрын

@@Timlagor with the amount of gem gen events, I don't think the return on investment of the gems used is that far away from at least decent though. And cash events can net you a lab/mage recruit decently often I guess.

@Timlagor

Ай бұрын

@@diazinth Fair point. I certainly haven't attempted to do actual maths on this (assuming the necessary data is even available).

@diazinth

Ай бұрын

@@Timlagor and I think good event also means not bad event, which might also influence the value :)

I'd recommend not doing the Fire shield route just because there's already one on youtube -the game would certainly be different but D6 content is limited enough it'd be nice to widen the variety

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I try to mix it up. Larger and blood surge are hard to resist lol

Damn, never thought i would laugh at that, but you butchered a lot of names. No harm, just silly fun. Guide is still very good regardless.

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

I wonder if Dominions holds the record for most distinct dialects used in a single game? I do try, but I am most definingly going to slaughter a lot things that come from outside of my limited linguistic skills.

@Timlagor

Ай бұрын

@@BabelBuilder "moieties" is a perfectly good English word!

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

I actually had to look moieties up! Dominions Teaches Vocab 101.

UUUURRRRRAAAAAA

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Gruh?

@user-eq1rn1lr9m

Ай бұрын

​@@BabelBuilderRussian war cry

man your pronunciation of all dos summons lol

@BabelBuilder

Ай бұрын

Come for the strategy, stay for the slaughter of language! I am open to pronunciation tips!