Look up the key binds and you'll figure the basics out through process of elimination. Just push buttons until cool stuff happens

@f1shze4lot

5 ай бұрын

For the past 10 years of dominions the most successful strategy was hitting keyboard randomly with your heel

@Centinym

5 ай бұрын

Be comforted mortals. You may not know how the world works or what the future holds - but neither do the gods.

@mao2587

4 ай бұрын

Whatever you do never press “E” if you havent done any action, you will regret it 😂

Thank you for the video. I was strangely enchanted by this game seeing it on the store page and without videos like this one I would have been entirely lost. This one is concise and well put together, I will be waiting for the next one!

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Thanks sir!

Glad to learn this is a game with a long learning curve. I love when a game gives me homework.

@jimslim4227

4 ай бұрын

Hey the game manual is only 440 pages long, you can finish that in a day

@MCSorry

4 ай бұрын

@@jimslim4227 While 440 pages isn't that long, it's more about perfectly understanding every possible interactions. And that's what is going to take a long time.

In the 5th instalment i played a undead race but made it where they live in very very cold. I'm pretty sure as i moved to place to place i killed off the populace and then had new soldiers for my army. Now i didn't really know what i was doing but i won that game so i'll call it a win. Thanks for helping me understand the game better.

@DerekBurn

5 ай бұрын

You Night King White Walker dude

Don’t sell yourself short! I love DasTactic, but his videos are almost too much information about each nuance that you sort of lose track about how to actually play. This video is excellent for getting folks (like me) to just dive in! Can’t wait if you make follow up videos about magic, items, and the mid/late game. That’s about where I got and I’ve stalemated a bit. Tried Arco as my first nation, love them elephants! Almost makes up for the lack of blunt weapons - all piercing gets a little tricky when fighting skeleton armies.

''This is our commander.... Adolf- oh God'' Lmao thanks for that. Needed that. Subscribed.

This is a great video for after you put in your first 5ish hours into the game. It explains things you dont pick up just playing through. For a future idea, could you explain a bit more of the expansion and resources system? For example how to optimize your territories and make them produce more, how to effectively spread your Gods influence, etc.

Longtime Total War fan that is branching out here... this vid was tremendously helpful. Cheers, Lucid!

@LucidTactics

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Awesome video, figured I'd watch just to get refreshed with the new release. Can't believe you don't have more subscribers with the quality of content you put out!

Great guide! I had no idea about hotkeys. Thank you for all the helpful info!

Loving this game ❤

This is a nice introduction, focused and lacking the super deep rabbit hole tangents people can go on when discussing this game

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks for all your vidz

This game looks like it’s right up my alley. Definitely going to have to pick it up when I get the chance

@LucidTactics

Ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it! If you dig single player at all - multiplayer is a ton of fun.

Very useful video, thanks

Could you make a basic guide for multiplayer as well? How standrad multiplayer game works? How it look in early/mid and late game. Is it just one big battle and who have more broken spells/troops wins? Or its diferent?

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Its normally not one big battle. There are big battles - but often things are decided by controlling lots of land with small forces.

Hey Lucid - Thanks for a great video explaining the basics of the game. This is my first time playing a dominions game, and its been fascinating spending hours trying to learn it. Any chance you could provide some tips on evaluating what your army can handle? For example, how you knew your god can single-handedly take on a certain army? Another question which I realize may be a bit advanced for me to worry about. But as a rule of thumb, should the god I pick have the same magic types that the commander mages in my faction have, or should I differentiate. For example if the priests in your faction use earth and fire, do you typically make your god be similar as a rule of thumb, or is it better to branch out?

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

I’ll answer this in a follow up video!

I've been playing Dominions casually ever since Dom2 but I never got too deep into it, was just kinda messing around each time not really understanding what I was doing, and don't get me started on more complicated nations like Mictlan or R'lyeh. Even so, I always adored Dominions, it's rustic and cozy and I definitely should play more of it. Just recently purchased Dominions 6 and loving the new features so far. Your guides are gonna prove useful too, so thanks, Lucid!

@LucidTactics

3 ай бұрын

Having fun...!? Thats not allowed!! Yeah theres so much crazy stuff you can do in dominions, glad youre digging 6!

Very ominous Adolf related luck in this video

@MrZacdeath

4 ай бұрын

dude.... that Adolf guy's pretty good at war......

Started the game, picked Great Mother, tree thing magic, death magic, something else. Sent 3 human armies to their death against a 60-80 human province, my general got mummified. Started raising undead, The Great Mother awakened, then I just spammed undead till I got 5 other provinces

Love your vids! I'm not 'new' per se, but I have a lot to learn still. Just wanted to say I was cringing a bit when you loaded into Ulm and I saw your commander (who was obviously going to be made into your prophet) was named Adolf. Cringed again when the game decided that your first mage should also be named Adolf 😅 I felt so validated when you finally noticed at 39:39 and said ALL the things I'd been thinking until then 🤣

@gaddag1477

5 ай бұрын

Fuck it its been 60 years, time to take the name back I say. He can keep the stash tho.

14:16 it's also responsible for modifying the cost of spellcasting, so it's very good defensively but might interfere with your dartspam

Ulm does not have a scales preference, so making it hot or cold is only going to be a malus. And with only F1, maybe F2, on your master smiths you won't be using fire much anyway.

more of this!

I think you need to update your graphics driver. Really nice helpful videos, but I don't know how you can stand to play with all that screen flickering. At the 48 minute mark, it had a hell of a time drawing those movement apps, heh.

You need to show how to build a second fort and how to decide where

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Good point will add to second video.

When the Sloth bug is still in game but you still make a Guide lol.

Subbed 😁

@LucidTactics

3 ай бұрын

Thanks ":D

53:00 how do i know what is good vs other units and what the job of each commander is? just experiance?

when its on sale i gonna try it. I think

im still new to the game any tips on undead

OH MY GOD THERE IS A DOM6?????? RUNNING HOME FROM WORK TO BUY IT NOW!

@LucidTactics

3 ай бұрын

Little late to the party but we still partying

THANKS FOR THE GUIDE but ima watch some of yo vids first

It's a combat focused strategy game where you don't control the combat, but trust me, it's got legs.

You cant construct buildings on your own or am I missing something?

A major issue I had with Dominions so far is that normal soldiers were essentially chaff with little to no tactical value compared to mages. I understand, magic is greater than might, there's an entire research and progression system behind it. But choices between soldier typesb and tiers being reduced to "it's academic, they are there to take magic shots, just get the cheapest" was frustrating. Have that changed? Also, seems players underutilized the province upgrades system in the last game, people not bothering to build anything but the most basic forts and temples. Is it worthwhile now to invest money on a province? Ps: I'm far more a CoE player if that serves as a reference

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

So 'scales armies' or normal troops are more viable longer since the things that kill scales armies unlock later and are harder to cast... (battlefield wide things) but mages are still good at killing things at a smaller scale depending on the circumstance. Troop choice matters a bit more too because theres some buffs that only work on certain types of units (blunt,slash,pierce). You cant really upgrade provinces more than dom5, still the same fort / lab / temple. So the game is a bit more troop focused, but its not radically different there, magic is still going to be important in mp games. So might not be worth a buy for you.

@rafaelrodrigues7971

5 ай бұрын

​@@LucidTactics Perhaps, but the changes look exciting enough. I'll keep an eye on it and wait for a more generous deal. After all I understand that magic is more important because of resources and time investiment behind it, but the prospect of troops being more important as well as neutral expansion taking more effort really got my attention.

@RogerCillion

4 ай бұрын

@@rafaelrodrigues7971 I felt the same when i played. That is why i havent played "early age", and i would say that "late age" are more normal troops oriented, right ? But im not an expert at the game. At least gems are less and gold is more in the late age.

Some advice: If you're trying to point something out in the UI--particularly what it's supposed to do--don't use "circles" or rapid movements of the mouse to vaguely indicate what you're talking about. Instead, just hover the cursor over the "thing". This both points to the "thing" and allows your audience to actually read the tool tips. I had to give up on the video because the frenetic "cursor spazzing" got too annoying.

What I really miss in this game (which is commonly present in 4x games) - is having a list of "unassigned entity", like, any hero that was not moved, given some order (in this case "defend" should be an order, and default one should be like "idle" or smth). Or "you still have 0 researches in research queue". And so on. Also you have no way to see all your actors positions and orders from one view, where you can be sure who is doing what ...

@LucidTactics

4 ай бұрын

You can hit the n key to cycle through unassigned commanders. As for seeing everything in one view for a battle. Not sure how they could put all that info in, you can see more in dom6 than you could in dom5 though

@Fiard2

4 ай бұрын

@@LucidTactics ty, good points )

always play independents 9

Telling us about the interface is goo but they've clearly evolved it and the ? is really all we *need* to know. The more important information is how to make decent choices right at the start (Character Creation) because that's not much fun when you don't know how anything works and is absolutely critical to having fun through the whole game.

I wanted something harder than civ 5. I got what I wanted i guess

1h guide 🎉😢

Does Ermor still suck lol? I remember they nerfed them a bit too much last game.

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

They are pretty strong! Both ea and ma!

tbh, it seems like that is 80% then tis nuance and you know how to get into every menu almost

What have I done

I wish you included the key bindings and scripts in a separate video instead of a beginners' guide.

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I sorta think beginners need to know some of them. Maybe I’m wrong though. Should make a key binding vid either way

They need to halve the price for me to even pick this up lol. It's just the same game every time with a few things thrown into it lol.

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Yeah for some people definitely makes sense to stick with older versions. Maybe you can catch it on a sale.

@reddragon4482

5 ай бұрын

I'm planning on doing just that haha. If they would have gave the game more of a face lift I'd have bought it day one. The maps especially could do with some work aswell as making the UO a bit better lol. It's still a bit bare bones. @@LucidTactics

Cursed items that make you lose a body part always tiz’s my riz

they couldve atleast updated the UI GOD DAMN

Jokes on you, I'm not new, I just suck

@krakkentrace6095

5 ай бұрын

Same

is dom6 more friendly towards new players than dom5?

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Its mostly the same in terms of learning curve. There are a few features targeted to new players though like auto site search, and auto province defense in provinces. The AI is better though and you can negotiate with it, so the single player experience is better imo (which is good for new players)

@ferreven2558

5 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! Yeah that sounds like some nice QOL stuff ^^@@LucidTactics

The game's totally broken for me. I have full provinces trying to recruit units, but they just don't recruit and stay in the menu on the next turn.

@LucidTactics

4 ай бұрын

Join my discord and share a screenshot, we can get you sorted. discord.gg/umfAu6pQ

I have a question, something about you said about AI. Isn't the AI just cheating and getting troops when it shouldn't?

@LucidTactics

3 ай бұрын

It gets bonus gold and resources! So yeah its cheating some.

@bargledargle7941

3 ай бұрын

@@LucidTactics Thanks for the reply! Great video also, I loved dominions. Just confused about how the AI works there or rather I should say bot. But you know it's cheating every round right? And getting troops in places it couldn't possibly right?

@LucidTactics

3 ай бұрын

@@bargledargle7941 yeah im not 100% sure how that part works or if it does cheat in otherways than just getting gold and resources.

@bargledargle7941

3 ай бұрын

@@LucidTactics Alright thanks a lot for the info!!!

Why is this game so expensive?

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

I'm not sure why anything is priced what it is. But its the deepest strategy game in the world! (imo) So i guess im not surprised its priced well above a casual game. (maybe more people buy a casual game so you can charge less or something) In terms of cost per hour of entertainment, its the cheapest thing i ever bought. But its expensive enough you probably want to make sure its something you think you'll like before buying!

@battlemode

5 ай бұрын

I got 1200 hours out of Dominions 5, and so even though I paid full price, I think I got my money's worth from it.

@wiefdiwbofdbw

5 ай бұрын

it's not expensive. this game receives continous development for years for a one time purchase.

@reddragon4482

5 ай бұрын

Did you own the previous games though? That's the problem I have with it, it's the same game changed about. It should be cheaper than what it's being sold for by a third minimum or add way more content, the maps still look like shit lol, loads of things could be given a face lift. If they updated a lot of it I'd maybe even pay more for the new one but it's not enough currently.@@battlemode

@ev6558

14 күн бұрын

​@@wiefdiwbofdbw So does basically every game that comes out these days. This game is not polished enough for what they are asking. However, it's polished just enough for what the torrent sites ask for it...

..you can get a bachelor's degree with less effort lol

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

True

I have literally never complained about a game before in a youtube comment. But what the hell is up with the pretender scales boosters? They don't stack with the innate scales modifiers of a nation? So take the Carrion Dragon. It has a growth+ modifier. But can it even be taken on a nation that doesn't already have a growth+ modifier? The +1 to growth scales literally does nothing. It serves no purpose. Next up the distribution of scales seems poorly thought out. There are zero pretenders with +1 fortunes scales in the european group. There are 4 or 5 in the middle eastern group. There are 2 in the east asian group. There is 1 in the egyptian group. This means quite a few nations are locked to 2 fortune or less. Arguably some of the +1 growth pretenders could have been +1 fortune instead. Thematically speaking. It needs a passthrough. Sorry for the rant. But when I saw the carrion dragon I just lost it. A straight up tease is what it was lol

@LucidTactics

5 ай бұрын

Yeah that’s a point a lot of people don’t love. (Including me) So, basically illwinter wants there to be a lot more build variety in terms of scales with more things being 1&2 rather than most things +3 or -3. That’s one of the main reasons for the new system. As for pretender bonuses not stacking with national scales bonus’s, it’s because they want 4s&5s to be hard to get to (4/5 are supposed to be sorta undesirable too). Reasonable thing to be frustrated about, after playing the game a bit in beta I’m not too fussed about that anymore… but I do think they could figure out something better there.

@Constellado

5 ай бұрын

huh, the carrion dragon raises max death (aka growth-1)?, many nations that don't have death +1 can take it too.

@battlemode

5 ай бұрын

I think it's actually quite well thought out. The MP meta was getting stale, and this is a way of encouraging people to use different Pretenders. Remains to be seen how the community adjust to it, and whether it's successful but something had to be done.

@cringephodel

5 ай бұрын

@@Constellado nope. look ingame. Carrion Dragon gives +1 max growth scale. I just double checked

@cringephodel

5 ай бұрын

@@battlemode Quite a few nations have scales modifiers. Removing scale stacking actually makes a lot of pretenders a worse choice because it invalidates one of the ways they can affect your game.

why did the amphibian fall off the swing, because he had no arms and no legs. whats the moral of the story, if you lost all your limbs in combat, dont get on a swing

There is just too much shit to go through for a sprite game that has the look of 1980s. I will definitely not spend 40 EUR on this. Great video though.

@LucidTactics

3 ай бұрын

Look of the late 90s ;) Fair enough though!