Thank you guys so much for the comments! Loved making it, as Ind is one of those nations that can feel so frustrating to figure out, but my goodness is it satisfying when it all comes together! Let me know how your astral/holy dominance is coming in your games, and any tips/tricks you guys have pulled off!

Great video! Really well put together and very informative, especially on a tough nation like Ind with all those different troops and mages, keep up the good work!

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words! Trying my best over here, but man... some of these nations are just brutal haha! Really appreciate the comment, and glad to see you here!

Making me want to play some Ind again, nice informative guide

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! Very neat nation, and super fun to play, even if it is sometimes a bit of an information overload! Enjoy!

Great video, good research, short enough and to the point. Keep working, man, and you will definitely blew up, at least in the Dominions community P.S. Your voice is cool

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Appreciate the feedback! Working on making EA Tien Chi work for another viewer request right now, but did you have anything you were interested in for another video?

Great video, thank you for the breakdown!

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Happy to help! And thank you so much for the comment and feedback, its greatly appreciated!

Great video. i am a big fan of Ind so this video hits just right. Keep it up. 👍

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Awesome, glad to help! And thank you so much for the feedback!

I tried 5 games with Ind and was doing fine every time until one of those giant- or heavy armor-nations found me. Really need to try that strength build next.

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

I really think you'll love it but in the MEANTIME (your current game where you can't change it), try to throw a small communion in there with a few abbot magi in there, and drop "Gifts from Heaven" (Evo level 5, along with stellar cascade spam) on their skulls early in the battle. It'll wipe those goof-balls out, and then if your script switches around order 4-5 to other stuff, you'll be good to go ;) If you keep hitting yourself, do stellar cascade spam in a turbo communion (i.e. "Strong mages are the slaves, weaker mages are the spammers") and watch those giants fall asleep ;) Large size = easy to hit. Let me know how it goes!

Great stuff. well put together; cogent, even.

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Hey: I appreciate you! Thank you so much for the comment and feedback!

It isn't just high damage that can pop mist form; you can also lost it just to the 1% chance any time it reduces damage. If you would take > 1 damage 100 times, there's a > 60% chance it will pop just from that 1% chance. IMO, that's unacceptably risky for pretender expansion even w/o the lucky exploding roll! At low prot, you're going to take many hundreds of damage rolls and if they happen early in a particular combat, you just get blown to pieces. I'm a lot more comfortable with 20+ provinces in expansion tests than I am with LA version of this nation with the little guys is even more precarious in expansion, still need to test with them a lot more.

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more! In general in Dom 6 its becoming much more difficult to expand, especially for the smaller (human) nations. Figuring them all out is requiring all sorts of tricks, but the part that's the most difficult is to ensure you don't somehow cripple your late game by leaning TOO far early. Ind's biggest issue (it seems) is that a ton of their power lies in their ability to get their first forts up for their "other troop" generation, and that makes it very iffy, at best, for them. Great comment, thanks for the feedback!

Just to note, an error that was not corrected was one that I also encountered when researching the nation in Dom 5. The National Cap has a Fountain of Youth site, Making it so all your units except your starting commander don't start old, so The Pretender Design screen lies about the Marshal and Abbot Magus being old. For the benefit of specific use cases, you may recruit the Marshal or Magus over their superior upgraded forms only because they cost one Cap Recruitment turnover 2. For example, you may need a leader that gives out Moral +3+item/bless bonuses to 4 squads or massing more mage bodies with Astral 2 to spam more spells (like 1 mind burner and mind hunts vs 1/2 mage a turn). Mass recruiting Abbot Magus seems like a reasonable move, particularly in matchups in Multiplayer, but recruiting a Marshal over a King means you need more turns to recruit mages or need a formation commander next turn. (Also, unless we are talking about gold efficiency, a marshal is better than a general for cap turns.) But it's still a good video, and I hope to see more.

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Very true, and I appreciate the deeper insights! My primary concern for the age of the magus' also ties into the facts that in multiplayer, oftentimes human nations with "old" commanders (esp. if massed) will often get stomped by things such as Burden of Time, or my least favorite bless withering weapons. You're 100% correct however, and I did indeed miss that the starting age will NOT be old for either one (you will have 9 years for the Magus until old, and you will have 71 years on average for the supreme). Good catch, and thank you (though on a side note be cautious with burden of time/withering weapons/winds of death traps, though that's even rare enough even in multiplayer)! And I couldn't agree more about the specific use cases of spamming 1 turn recruitment mages/commanders (ESPECIALLY with communion setups!), but in general in my guides, I'm trying to give people an easier "cover all situations" sort of setup, so that they can get back to focusing on playing and getting more experience with the game ;) On a side note: have you yet found a use case for the darn piconyes? I still haven't found a way to make them useful, and I've even tried Hail of burning embers along with a billion of their slingers to no avail. I can't seem to figure out a use for them at ALL, other than just another site to recruit Sages for research. Even with huge attack density with all of them jammed into one square, I'm not really figuring out a sneaky way to use them in multiplayer or even singleplayer :( Greatly appreciate the feedback, and will work on the next one asap! Have any particular nations you'd like to see?

@stephenlucas8836

2 ай бұрын

@@AOReaper don’t now about horned men, and aren’t most strong human mages already within decay range? For nations love EA T’en chie with all the new foreign mages and swords thugs.

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

@@stephenlucas8836 It depends on the age difference between their current age and the "old" age position. For Magus, for example, they have 9 years (2 rounds of decay) before they're old, whereas the supremes have 71 years (15 rounds of decay) before they suffer from old age. Then, once they ARE "old" they take damage equal to (Old Age penalty * 5 + closed d10 - 1 + max(5 number of years actually aged))/10, rounded down, which the first number (old age penalty) is basically a multiplier of your max age that you currently are. So by the time a Magus hits 15 rounds of decay (and a supreme is now "old x1",) the Magus will actually be suffering increased penalties. It gets exponentially worse pretty quickly, but again: you ARE correct. Its not so dramatic that it ends a game for you, usually. It just gives players a MUCH larger range. Old age hits at 48 for a Magus, and hits at 195 for a supreme, so if you look at the breaking point between "Old Age penalty" 1 and 2, Magus hits 57.6 years for Old Age 2, whereas it takes Magus Supreme to age up to 234 years to hit "Old Age" 2. This gives you a MASSIVELY wider range before your mage starts dying from the enhanced old age. TL/DR: Magus is "old" and takes damage within 2 rounds (and enhanced damage within 2 more rounds) whereas Magus Supreme doesn't hit old for 14 rounds of decay (And then enhanced decay damage after another 7.8 rounds of decay). Considering the fact that when you complete combat you're guaranteed another "20 rounds of decay" for anybody that survives, this basically means a hit of decay on a Magus = guaranteed death, whereas a Supreme has a really good chance at survival. Alright! I'll take a look at EA Tien Chi, and try to whip together a guide for them over the next 2 days or so. I'm fairly familiar with them from Dom 5, but I'll run a bunch of test games, and hop into a multiplayer and see what people "go to" for against me. Thanks for the suggestion!

@stephenlucas8836

2 ай бұрын

@@AOReaperthank you for the breakdown, I appreciate if you can figure out how to best gear Master of the Swords as no one on KZread covered ea tien Chi yet.

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Been working on it for a few days... man EA Tien Chi is BRUTAL now that expansion has gotten so much more difficult! I think I've finally figured out exactly how to expand, as I'm averaging 18 provinces now, but I need a little more time to figure out late and mid game tricks for the average player. Honestly: it would've been smart if I did one of my "quick" tutorial videos on communions first, but I fear the average player doesn't like depending on communions, given how quickly they can go wrong. I should be done here in the next day or two, and I'll figure out how to get a concise guide put together for what I think is one of the most versatile, but finesse-required nations in the game haha :)

Very nice, throughout explanation of Ind for Dom6 noobies like myself, though I have to ask - what the hell is an effer-all and where can I get a prescription? :D Please type "ethereal" into google and give a listen to the pronunciation, because it's physically painful for me every time you have to say it XD

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Haha, yea, everybody likes to pronounce words differently ;) no worries my friend! If I find that prescription for you, I'll be sure to drop it here :P Thanks for dropping by, and thank you for the feedback! Glad to have you here!

I havent played much Ind but Ive played a decent bit of LA Piconye. So im just spit balling here I would try using them for bogging down amd surrounding giants at least in LA they are really good at fighting giants

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

Oh I can imagine! The sheer attack density would be ridiculous, but my goodness would it be bad if they had a single trampler or those trample boots on a thug hahaha. Thanks so much for the comment and feedback!

@nickwoodfin2690

Ай бұрын

Not just attack density, but large units like giants typically are hitting one target, but the Picoyne are 5 to a tile, so really strong units that target single units with powerful attacks end up wasting a lot of the damage potential with overkill. They are very bad against a strong mage evo corps though. In LA they have high defense skill for their infantry, solid flying unit and commander with thug potential, the most amassable crossbow in the game, the ability to make powerful complicated communions, and a strong sacred/bless/smite game It's a good time

@AOReaper

Ай бұрын

@@nickwoodfin2690 They sound solid as heck to me, given that description. Maybe I'll throw them on the list, and see what I can find when I get to them. In fact, I might make them one of my next few videos, that sounds like a FUN thing to "figure out and make playable" for the average person, who might find the diminutive size too daunting to take on!

Thaanks for this, hard to find info on ind. I use s8 f5 dormant divine glyph with twist fate andd solar weapons with almost maxxed out scales. Seems to be ok. Give it a shot!

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

It is, isn't it? Twist fate and solar weapons seems solid, especially against Ermor or a death heavy player in the game. I don't ever trust solar weapons, just since weapon blesses are their "own attack" (i.e. its a TOTAL damage of 3 vs prot of like 10 for most troops), but it does sound good if you're running into massive undead spam. Let me know how it goes, and if you end up leaning into the other provincial recruitment (gogs, etc), or if you're able to carry with the bless primarily!

@ed2365

2 ай бұрын

@@AOReaper the bless is secondary. Its really made mainly for exterior recruitment and to use the unique lvl 9 conj spell call merkava. I use it to get a fort up super quick almost totally relying on cynocephalians and femm infantry knights and crossbows.

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

@@ed2365 Oh yea, I kinda figured when you mentioned nearly maxed out scales (which is key I think). You're well on your way to kicking butt with these guys, keep it up and let me know if you figure out any other monstrous tricks (like small communion stellar cascades spam... that's a fun one)!

what is the map you are using?

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

I use map-nuke to create a map that is "generic" for pretty much all MA nations. I find this removes a lot of the random bad-start stuff in the Illwinter map creator (i.e. starting with only 3 connecting provinces, etc). If you'd like I can hunt down a link to download the Mapnuke for you.

@discotheray2020

2 ай бұрын

@@AOReaper Thank you so much! I got it from here ;)

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

@@discotheray2020 Awesome, thanks for letting me know! I really like the tool, it helps balance the game out to be fair for all really well!

I am still confused with dominions 5

@AOReaper

2 ай бұрын

Its a tough game! If you have anything in particular you're struggling with, let me know and I'll try and crank out a video for you. Would a "basics" video for Dominions help you out at all? Like something starting from absolutely nothing to learning how to actually run your turns? Thanks for the comment!