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Sweet jesus 35€.   

Given the games market today this can be a hard sell. But so worth it if it's anything like dom4 multiplayer. Assuming you're into said multiplayer. It's ok in singleplayer too I suppose.
I'll be buying this first thing after temporary poverty passes, which shouldn't be long. To support the dev as someone said, and I know that even at full retail this will have a ridiculously good € per hour value.

I maybe lied a little bit.  How's Yomi/Shinuyama/Jomon?  I've never really been able to wrap my head around them.  I see EA they don't hire their oni anymore, but built temples and get them as freespawn, which is an interesting change, and they still seem to have Chaos Power, which I've seen a lot of people say is actually a weakness.  Turmoil hits gold production and they're really gold-heavy, and all that.

Flexible, but weak has always been my impression of them - lots of magic path variety, but they're spread out.  Easy water access, but in like all three ages they tend to have kinda weak troops except for EA's oni (which will be less prevalent now, since they're freespawn now rather than hired?).  I guess I've just never managed to figure out how to play them, am I missing something?

With LA Jomon... I seem to recall I just talked myself to barely survive till mid-late game and just rolled over everything with mage supported samurai armies from there. Can't remember whether I actually won or lost that match  Seemed to follow a similar pattern with MA Shinuyama, based on my tests in singleplayer (or did I play them online at some point? Maybe?). MA just had more badass mages. And cheap goblin hordes as opposed to expensive samurai hordes. But basically mage supported armies and suicide earthquake/rain of stones/etc. mages is how I ran them MA/LA. Less suicide in MA with their ogre mages. Did ok. Fun if you enjoy that sort of play. I don't think they're near 'strongest' nations in their ages, but multiplayer Dominions is enough of a diplomatic mess anyway that it doesn't matter as much I don't think.

Flexible but weak sounds somewhat appropriate.

... now it's coming back to me. Huge samurai armies, cast 'flight' on everything and then spammed earthquake. Good times.

Possibly KOTOR? Definitely not the second game but I remember the first one being over with pretty quickly as far as RPGs go.

It didn't overload you no. Excruciatingly long tutorial + 5 plot planets + spoiler bits. I'd like to say that I maybe possibly did my first playthrough in 40-50 hours? Subsequent runs were close to or around 20h.

Icewind Dale was a bit shorter than Baldur's Gates were, from what I remember. Bit less RPG, bit more hack 'n slash.

Jade Empire was quite reasonable.

Fallout 1 was fairly short, but I had big issues getting comfortable with it. Could just be me but it didn't feel like it had aged as well as these other games. But I do think it's oldest too. Had fun with it once I 'got' it though.

How do you guys prep for a MP game with humans?

Make a pretender build, play 10-20 turns. Tweak build, play 10-20 turns anew. Tweak as necessary. Object of 10-20 turns is to get roughly province a turn. If I'm really serious I do it until I can expand reliably and efficiently. Usually I get it close enough and call it done.

Then I fail at expanding anyway.

Oh and I probably look at what everyone can recruit to come up with a very vague idea of what I might be facing in the first war or two.

There's pretty much no preparation on how to conduct mid-late game MP game. It comes down to experience and gut feeling.

I'm playing marignon in a game and haven't bothered with communions because it's easier to just have one dude cast light of the northern star, and still have all the mages available to spam stuff.

Clams of pearls help, too, since they can allow casters to self-buff without needing to burn real pearls in every battle.

In that situation I might still use a small communion to cast some bigger spells. 1 or 2 masters-4 slaves kind of stuff. No spells spring to mind now but I'm sure there's some. But for massed stellar cascades spam or such I would definitely go with masses of S2's just for their immediate effect. Basically I view communions as fragile, rickety contraptions that might have a huge payoff. Not something I like to rely on in huge numbers.

EDIT: Also, I don't think I've shared this on here yet.

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It's a Tyranid Broodlord with Scything Talons I converted and painted for my brother.

That purple is bloody awesome.

Good thing both are fun games.

Steam doesn't do any mid-sale super discounts anymore, right? If something's 50% off now that's as cheap as it's going to get during the sale. I'm pretty sure I remember reading something like that, but it could've just been wishful dreaming.

Hmmm, normally i would, but i can't find any address/contact on llamaservers website.

Check the end of your llamaserver email. Any of them. It's at the end. Not sure if you need it now, but for future reference if nothing else.