Post by Laethaka on Sept 24, 2013 6:41:15 GMT -5
www.illwinter.com/dom4/
should be out in the next couple weeks! I've been playing a lot of Conquest of Elysium 3 this week (a comparably casual spinoff) and can't wait for this. I never tried Dom3, but people seem to love it and Dom2 was fantastic
Illwinter games are really something else. The UIs are clumsy, the graphics are all 2D, and they have fat manuals instead of tutorials, but just dive into the hundreds of units and heroes and spells and you're hooked. My last three CoE games:
-losing a war and desperate, my demonologist summoned a lord of hell with insufficient human sacrifices and it promptly ate him and half my army
-with a big water elemental/human force, my great hydromancer led a glorious campaign across half the map until stalling. Forced to hide his army in a lake until i could bring up earth wizard reinforcements for the final push.
-massive war of attrition between my priestesshood of the horror god and a halfling empire. Waves of bat demons and satyr beserkers cut down by crossbow volleys and torn apart by spiderbeasts in turn. I won right as my high priestess was getting ready to perform the ultimate ritual to allow the horror god to possess her body
and Dominions is even more diverse. There's like 90 civilizations with hundreds of God forms and a million units and items and spells. The last Dom2 game I played, my spider-worshipping jungle-witch empire got slowly overwhelmed by my friend's enormous undead tide on hotseat. It was great
should be out in the next couple weeks! I've been playing a lot of Conquest of Elysium 3 this week (a comparably casual spinoff) and can't wait for this. I never tried Dom3, but people seem to love it and Dom2 was fantastic
Illwinter games are really something else. The UIs are clumsy, the graphics are all 2D, and they have fat manuals instead of tutorials, but just dive into the hundreds of units and heroes and spells and you're hooked. My last three CoE games:
-losing a war and desperate, my demonologist summoned a lord of hell with insufficient human sacrifices and it promptly ate him and half my army
-with a big water elemental/human force, my great hydromancer led a glorious campaign across half the map until stalling. Forced to hide his army in a lake until i could bring up earth wizard reinforcements for the final push.
-massive war of attrition between my priestesshood of the horror god and a halfling empire. Waves of bat demons and satyr beserkers cut down by crossbow volleys and torn apart by spiderbeasts in turn. I won right as my high priestess was getting ready to perform the ultimate ritual to allow the horror god to possess her body
and Dominions is even more diverse. There's like 90 civilizations with hundreds of God forms and a million units and items and spells. The last Dom2 game I played, my spider-worshipping jungle-witch empire got slowly overwhelmed by my friend's enormous undead tide on hotseat. It was great
