Dominions 6 cometh soon

[Undercovergeek]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dominions-6-will-vie-for-4x-godhood-once-again-later-this-year

I really liked the time I had with 4 despite various fallings out at ye olde place over a certain multi player game

And been accused of cheating in another off site game

But the game itself was glorious if you’re into micro managing units, fiddly menus, sometimes crazy ai and so much fantasy gubbins you’d never need to play another game again

Missed out 5 and now 6 with qol promises galore

[Gusington]

You were accused of cheating?

[W8taminute]

Love the Dominion series and most likely will pick this up once available.

[Undercovergeek]

You were accused of cheating?

Yeah there were 12 playing with a central GM and you sent your turns to him - there was a big battle coming up for me but like a dick I forgot to process any orders so my opponent used up a load of resources and spells in a battle I wasn’t there for and accused me of doing it on purpose

[Gusington]

Like a mole/inside job/saboteur sorta thing?

[Undercovergeek]

All of those things

[Barthheart]

[Martok]

Steam page is up: 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2511500/Dominions_6__Rise_of_the_Pantokrator/




No official release date given.  However, under the "About this game" section, the devs state they're expecting to release it at the end of this year still. 


As for what's different/improved compared to the previous iterations: 

Dominions 6 is scaled up compared to Dominions 5 and armies are larger. We wanted to tweak the balance between conventional armies and magic. To accomplish this a couple of changes are introduced. Incomes and resources are increased, while mages are more expensive. Battlefield-wide spells are more difficult to cast and there are instead more mid-tier spells. There are some other changes with the same aim.

The second and probably most influential change is the addition of a new magic path. No longer are illusions the domain of Air magic. Instead illusions, phantasms, dreams and the stuff of forgotten legends are manipulated with the path of Glamour. This has resulted in many new spells, items and sites being added to the game.

A third massive change is the separation of mounts and riders. Riders and mounts now have separate stats and can be targeted individually. This change probably has less impact on gameplay than the previous one, but will still have an impact on cavalry and nations using mounted units.

Dominions 6 will feature a number of new nations as well, with late age getting more, at the time of writing. The addition of the Glamour path has also affected several of the old nations.

There are also a number of changes intended to ease gameplay.

More stuff will be added in the upcoming months.

[Martok]

I've long been interested in the Dominions series.  However, I've always been scared off by the horror stories about how difficult it is to get into; the games are rather notorious for having extremely steep learning curves, and a less-than-friendly UI. 

It would be great if the devs were able to make significant improvements in this respect, though I don't hold out much hope of that.  Every iteration of this series seems to feature granular improvements only, with any notable changes mostly taking place under the hood. 


Somewhat ironically, I just noticed/discovered that apparently I purchased Dom3 on GamersGate about a million years ago, so perhaps I should install it and try giving that a go.   

[Undercovergeek]

That may have been the dom3 rush we all got involved with over there - I think it was huw that mentioned it was 4.99 on gg and a load bought it for forum pbems

[Gusington]

I have always been interested in this game series too but for the same reasons...held off. Never did buy any of them *checks libraries to be certain*

[Undercovergeek]

Sub forums are still there

Me, yskonyn, ubercat, huw, pratt, al infeirno then others joined

[bayonetbrant]

Sub forums are still there

That was a huge draw back in the day. We had a lot of people playing in those PBEMs


Anyone wanted a PBEM area here can open up a thread here
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?board=15.0

Or ping me if you think you need more than just one thread 

[W8taminute]

I've long been interested in the Dominions series.  However, I've always been scared off by the horror stories about how difficult it is to get into; the games are rather notorious for having extremely steep learning curves, and a less-than-friendly UI. 

...

Martok, it's not too difficult to learn in order to beat the AI on normal.  Yes there is a learning curve but anyone of us here is smart enough and experienced enough to learn enough of Dominions to do well in single player.

Where the game has the steepest learning curve is when it comes to playing against human opponents.  There are so many clever humans, both here (liked (but is improving)) and at the other (beloved) place, that can whip out some obscure spell from their grimoire at precisely the right time and wipe out your grand army in two seconds flat that took you 10 turns to assemble. 

[Yskonyn]

Sub forums are still there

That was a huge draw back in the day. We had a lot of people playing in those PBEMs


Anyone wanted a PBEM area here can open up a thread here
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/forum/index.php?board=15.0


Or ping me if you think you need more than just one thread 

Once Dom 6 hits, let's see what the interest in playing is. It was fun back then!