Dominions 6 - Warhammer - Nurgle - National Overview 

Thanks, I enjoyed doing the nurgle sprites quite a bit.

@@sombrewarhammer Dude love your warhammer mod. Just had a campaign with the Beastmen faction and it was great fun.

@@deathnotehell1 Glad you're enjoying it! I'm working on Tzeentch currently but it will be a few versions away. Meanwhile I'll probably add some heroes to existing factions.

Sombre, your mod is top notch. Superb. Thanks for the effort.

Yeah i could see that - great points!

Yeah i should try that next time.

Boycott Lucid's cronyism and his middle finger to Patron supporters. Any time you want to return my years+ of support would be great. Sombre is a thief who stole functions of my steam account and regardless of Lucid's original claim to make a dom5 community that was different and more open than the past he doubled down on legging humping the same elite group of cyberbullies and banned a guy for ~3 lines of text in as many years from the discord he had effectively paid to access. Lucid and Illwinter sycophants like him who refuse to be publicly critical are why Dominions is still crawling in the mud of nichedom after decades. Gamer's Workshop (warhmamer) has in the past sold its license to companies who install spyware in the games. I'm not sure what Sombre's connection to them is but as a rule boycott Gamer's Workshop products until they compensate gamers for the personal data that has been harvested and sold.

Yeah those are good points - i end up getting those hordes of chaos spawn later.... (foreshadowing) The bigger ones can also wade through your normal infantry - so when storming forts they often end up in the gate.

I havent played that many of them, but i think in general the units have lowish magic paths and tend to be quite expensive for what you get - i.e: chaos warrior 30g is pretty pricy for a scales infantry compared to the value you get from ulm etc. They also dont have scaling mechanics like any of the strong vanilla MA factions. I think the best argument you could make for them is that they are top of middle of the pack. My feeling from playing them is that they are more middle of the middle of the pack.

Iirc the intention for all of them is to be of upper third of vanilla nations strength wise. And some can get quite easily bonked by mid pack depending on matchup.

Some of the nations are definitely a bit on the strong side (the recruitable ethereal cav of Nagashizzar and Vampire Counts are quite potent as expanders, for example, and the Empire Knightly orders are each ready-made expansion parties that can be recruited very fast.) Ultimately, while not exactly broken, a lot of stuff in the mod can *feel* like it is, because it breaks the normal ‘rules’ of dominions in minor ways; for example, High Elves get a commander specialized in crafting with Master Smith 2, which is something even the vanilla Titan of the Forge doesn’t get, nor any other vanilla unit. And Lizardmen get Slaan, which are innate casters that have magic paths well above any recruitable vanilla mage in the game. Multiple factions have recruitable mages that have 0 upkeep, another thing which is basically unheard of in vanilla. Commander units almost universally get unsurroundable, normally reserved for stuff like chariots in vanilla, and many elite human commanders get superhuman stats compared to vanilla humans. The empire factions have access to Late Age path diversity in the middle age, and Wood Elves have recruitable immortal sacred cav. But ultimately, none of the aforementioned things end up being as broken as they sound, because they are costed accordingly, have serious limitations placed on their recruitment, or their trick isn’t actually powerful in the grand scheme of things. Or all three at once.

If only you knew... (i actually get sorta lucky at the beginnings, but luck towards the end is horrible )

​@@LucidTactics I'm looking forward to seeing it! Also, I can see it being true on the whole, but the mute affliction sticks out in my brain every time.

Chance for promotion in general is much in your favor but of course when you end up rolling mutliple stages upsets can be quite devastating ;D

@@-Kidzin It could be 1% odds to fail for each stage and I'd still stand by my comment haha The only thing I haven't seen in a while is a key battlefield mage getting shot in the head by an arrow to lose the battle.

Boycott Lucid's cronyism and his middle finger to Patron supporters. Any time you want to return my years+ of support would be great. Sombre is a thief who stole functions of my steam account and regardless of Lucid's original claim to make a dom5 community that was different and more open than the past he doubled down on legging humping the same elite group of cyberbullies and banned a guy for ~3 lines of text in as many years from the discord he had effectively paid to access. Lucid and Illwinter sycophants like him who refuse to be publicly critical are why Dominions is still crawling in the mud of nichedom after decades. Gamer's Workshop (warhmamer) has in the past sold its license to companies who install spyware in the games. I'm not sure what Sombre's connection to them is but as a rule boycott Gamer's Workshop products until they compensate gamers for the personal data that has been harvested and sold.

Heroism bless is disabled for the Chaos factions, due to the reliance on promotion.

Many thanks :D

Not really, more like Asphodel's without the sacred freespawn: the Zombie plague is low quality chaff and Nurgle's rot gives better chaff with a Herald of Nurgle. The main draw is that it's free stuff for actions you'd take anyway.

@@perryshaffer8358 Not making the leader super tough and heavy emphasis on thug is a mistake for a nurgle faction

@@dean_l33 He's free. You don't have to thug him out. He can ferry troops better than Aspiring Champions when they start out. He can bless the troops more efficiently than the Sorcerers and as efficiently as the Sorcerer Lords. Not a thug does not mean entirely useless. Papa Nurgle needs troop pushers and paper shufflers too.

@@perryshaffer8358 Fair but I feel kinda miffed tbh

Heroism bless is disabled for the Chaos factions, due to the reliance on promotion.

There are very few nation specific pretenders, Sombre isn't hugely keen on doing them.

Soon (tm)

K ill fix it now ty

Yeah i used to be able to have youtube auto add videos to playlists when they were released to avoid this... but then youtube removed that feature... so now i dont know anyway to upload videos without having them display in a playlist.

Depends on the Warhammer nation in question; the Orc nations are broadly comparable in power to some of the more run of the mill or weaker vanilla nations, and Kislev has powerful sacred bear cav and dual wielding berserkers, but both are nowhere near as powerful as Zhayedans or Vanhere respectively. Even the really powerful Warhammer nations aren’t currently so powerful that they eclipse the most powerful vanilla nations. Vampire Counts get some neat tricks, and potentially amazing expansion options, but they aren’t nearly as good at drowning the world in skeletons as Sceleria, and require gold resources and recruitment points, or gems, to initially recruit their armies, while Tomb Kings get cool animated constructs, but those constructs aren’t sacred like MA Agartha, and again, their undead units require gold, resources, and recruitment points to be recruited, and many are vulnerable to fire. High Elves get extremely good units and mages, but pay a massive premium to recruit them, and nearly all of their mages are extremely pricey. Lizardmen get godlike Slaan Mages of varying power, all of which put Royal Mallqui to shame, but their only other mage is a dirt cheap skink priest who IIRC automatically becomes a communion slave in battle, so those incredibly expensive, slow to recruit slaan with poor physical stats are required in order to actually accomplish much with your magic. And having too many of them active at once *will* bankrupt you. The Empire factions are good, and their ability to recruit mini-armies of Imperial Knights makes for powerful expansion, but again, doing this requires a huge amount of gold, is largely unsustainable because of upkeep, eats valuable commander slots in your forts, and beyond that they don’t actually have anything broken; their mages are good, but each sort of specialized, and they need to spend gems to actually get access to their equivalent of cap only mages. Ultimately, the Warhammer nations are powerful, but they remain within the ballpark of what you’d expect of one of the more powerful Vanilla nations.