Let he who has never colossally self-owned with a battlefield wipe cast the first Gift from Heaven.

Hey, don't say the bears didn't do anything! They slowly filtered through the chud's lines, sharing spaces with mages and being surrounded by stationary troops on all sides. That way, if the enemy brought any offensive spellcasters, they would be able to compensate for their low precision by having the highest HP squares in the exact middle of their army.

to knock down forts in one turn you need a lot of chaff. to not lose that chaff for nothing you need a lot of other things to escort them. that's how doomstacks come into existence. there are ways around it, for example stealth chaff (wolves and demons) or mobile chaff (great eagles, black hawks), but they are not as easily available as national troops and other chaff.

I mean its also worth noting that unless specifically countered Nidbatheds are absolutely insane in efficiency. If I assume you have 8 dominion (so 4 scars) the opponents would have to kill ~300 nidbatheds to actually kill the ones you have in your army. If you have 5 then its closer to 400. Additionally as far as I can tell HP routing is only considered based on the final death if Nidbatheds. This battle is significantly closer than it appears and might even be in your favor as far as quality is concerned, if you have 10 dom cap, then it was in your favor to start.

@hpmunchcraft8032

3 ай бұрын

Most Nithabeds in the army were at 3 or 4 marios going in, some with afflictions and all with XP (all were veterans of campaign against Ind). However most of the surviving Nithabeds were between 2 and 4 marios, so the losses were probably around 100 marios, 150 at absolute most.

@redman0027

3 ай бұрын

@@hpmunchcraft8032 Marios is awesome and I will be using it from now on lol. Thanks for the numbers on your guys, I do think Nidbatheds are very powerful and they definitely benefit from not doom stacking. My doom stacking ended when I encountered my first winds of death caster...

@fabienherry6690

3 ай бұрын

Yeah it's kinda the worst exemple here where howl just counter any evocation or range anyway and nida is just an op nation

It seems that wind guide was reworked in 6, it now halves the precision penalty from storm. If properly used this must make Tstrike way more viable in storms

"Excellent work. _Use_ your surroundings. Make them fight for YOU!" -Master Piandou, Avatar The Last Airbender

At a time I didnt knew Winds of Death also damage undead. As MA Ermor I removed around 2,5k skellies by spamming it.

My only complaint about this video is that it reduces the chance I face someone who doesn't understand how air magic works. I'll take every advantage I can get here... 😀

Why is it that 95% of players think it is a good idea to run battlefield sounds at full blast when they make a video so that it is hard to understand anything spoken over the sound of flying arrows?

@hpmunchcraft8032

3 ай бұрын

That's what arrows sound like at 12%

@Kellnaved

3 ай бұрын

@@hpmunchcraft8032 Tried 0%?

@Timlagor

3 ай бұрын

@@Kellnaved I think they set it too high in the recording software and then think they can compensate in the game

I also feel this video shows Nidvangr is pretty op at the moment

Was going to comment on in game sound, already lit in comments. Otherwise good message :)

L O U D E R

How you bless the nid bois

@hpmunchcraft8032

3 ай бұрын

Undying +10, Heroism x 5, Enchanted Blood, Righteous Wrath. I put it up in da bimeo

Perpetual storm wouldve been much better of a play here. Never rely on precision in a storm unless youve really high precision

@MogFlintlock

3 ай бұрын

Or, y'know, you have Storm Immunity (which you can now provide to your sacred mages via the Storm Flight bless)

@lostlegionnaire3767

3 ай бұрын

@@MogFlintlock I didn't know that. I will remember that in the future

hard to hear the commentary over the game sounds. i had no idea that casting storm was so negative for guys casting lightning bolts. i assumed it was what you were supposed to do. but i have never played a nation with a mage that could cast storm...

@hpmunchcraft8032

3 ай бұрын

Sorry I balanced the Audio badly. But I had to drown out my neighbors' terrible taste in rap.

@Thramoun

3 ай бұрын

Casting storm power I believe also negates some of the penalties mages face

@yugonostalgia8961

2 ай бұрын

Air is such a pain in the ass to use, my least favorite path by far. Never play an air nation if i can avoid it, 1 fairy queen for arrow fend + FW is all i can stomach

Very cool but game sounds are too loud compared to your voice

This new battle music sounds like generic fantasy crap... A real downgrade from the previous entries, honestly. Some great insights here, in any case. Thank you for sharing them!

@throeawae2130

3 ай бұрын

dom6 music if far more listenable than 5's. and switching to battle music for the battles was much needed. while it's easy to say it's generic fantasy crap, i don't really see how the previous music was not.

@im50yearsold

3 ай бұрын

Reject modern fantasy garbage. Return to Dom4 music

@ulizez89

3 ай бұрын

@@im50yearsoldDom4 had some real bangers! But honestly, I mostly turn the music off.

So.... I got lost in all the giggle and laughter about the situation. So I thought you ARE supposed to cast summon storm power for lighting strikes and so on. but its actually a fumble? Thats very confusing. So instead of casting summon stormpower the mages should have just been casting trueshot and what not and it would have been more efficient?

@thatoneguy5856

3 ай бұрын

Stormpower into thunder strike is a great combo. When the storm isn’t crippling the rest of the battle and you have some way to mitigate the risk of blasting yourself. With a critical mass of thunder strikers you can DELETE an army that isn’t resistant to lightning.

@jonahpotter5156

3 ай бұрын

storm / storm power is fine, just don't also rely on a bunch of archers in the same battle you're casting storm. Also, I'd argue if you're gonna cast storm, you might as well just cast Wrathful Skies, assuming you have the research for it, and busy the rest of the air mages painting lightning resist on just enough elites to hold the enemy troops off long enough for Wrathful to do the job.

@hpmunchcraft8032

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I would call it a fumble, especially here. Storm/Stormpower/Thunderstrike gets pumped a lot as some big strat, but without some way to mitigate the lost prec (ie storm immunity or wind guide), you end up with a lot of mages casting a 50 fatigue spell very inaccurately and they end up not doing a whole lot. Storm also greifed his own crossbows. At this level of research (mostly 5s), the best use of storm/stormpower is still probably an air elemental play... or to ruin someone else's evos/bows/crossbows.

@yugonostalgia8961

2 ай бұрын

@@hpmunchcraft8032 liked your idea of using gem into thunderstrike turn 1 or 2. If they had cast wind guide then they could follow up spamming lightning bolts w/ crossbow support, keeping the same evocation strategy with less anti-synergy.

"Promosm"

God the sound design is making my eary bleed. Your voice is heard from far away, drawned in the *Tuk tuk tuk* sounds of computer simulated war...

Dude turn off the game sound please

@luka188

3 ай бұрын

Tell me you're not a dom enjoyer without telling me you're not a dom enjoyer. Turning off the sounds is a blasphemy towards all pantokrators past and future!

@superresistant0

3 ай бұрын

@@luka188 I actually use dom archer sound on repeat to fall asleep

@Neighter

3 ай бұрын

​@@luka188new music is cringeworthy tho, something you could already find on yt autoplaylists.

but it does look so cool tought^^