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Zan
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Playing some strategy games here and there, current focus on Dominions 6 and Age of Empires IV
Doing my best to teach wacky, but effective, strategies where possible.
ZanOnlineGaming@gmail.com
Doing my best to teach wacky, but effective, strategies where possible.
ZanOnlineGaming@gmail.com
How Does Fateweaving Actually Work in Dominion 6?
A quick review of how Fateweaving and Cursed Luck work in Dominions 6
Shoutout to Loggy and the writers of Illwiki, where most of my sources come from.
Dominion6 Manual:
www.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf
Critical Hits on illwiki:
illwiki.com/dom5/cursed-luck
illwiki.com/dom5/dom6/cursed-luck
Shoutout to Loggy and the writers of Illwiki, where most of my sources come from.
Dominion6 Manual:
www.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf
Critical Hits on illwiki:
illwiki.com/dom5/cursed-luck
illwiki.com/dom5/dom6/cursed-luck
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Mastering Bone Grinding in Dominions 6
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A quick tutorial on how I personally use Bone Grinding. It may be tricky to use correctly, but it can be powerful in the right situations! Keep in mind, this is how I personally use the spell! Everyone has their own strategies and may use this spell differently from how I do. That's okay too! Diverse strategies are what make this game interesting. Shoutout to @DarkSideCookies & @hpmunchcraft803...
Dominions 6 MA Phlegra Strategy at a Glance
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A Dominions 6 guide to MA Phlegra and other nations It is built on theory, experience, and quick testing. If you have other ideas or suggestions on playing the nation, please write them in the comments below for others to see and discuss! Shoutout to Sturm for creating the viewable summons at the pretender screen mod Here are also some discord guides from ExasperatedCultist, a fantastic dom6 th...
Dominions 6 Patala Strategy at a Glance
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A new series where I do my best to give my first impressions on how I would recommend playing some of the nations of Dominion 6. A lot has changed and I hope my perspective as a Dominions 5 veteran helps you get started! If you have other ideas or suggestions on playing the nation, please write them in the comments below for others to see and discuss! Shoutout to Sturm for creating the viewable...
Dominions 6 Sauromatia Strategy at a Glance
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A new series where I do my best to give my first impressions on how I would recommend playing some of the nations of Dominion 6. A lot has changed and I hope my perspective as a Dominions 5 veteran helps you get started! If you have other ideas or suggestions on playing the nation, please write them in the comments below for others to see and discuss! Shoutout to Sturm for creating the viewable...
Dominions 6 Patch 6.23 Balance Changes Reviewed
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A quick review of a very hype balance patch for dominions 6. I am a bit rusty, but am very excited about a lot of these changes! I felt many people were asking for them. Quick channel update at the end: Starting to record again I won't release any series until completely done Will return to streaming when I have a few months of content scheduled RTS videos will be included Please look at patch ...
Securing the Isle, Ulthuan Campaign #2
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Hey Everyone! This'll be a new series with some rapid upload speed as I play around with Sombre's Warhammer mod! Do note I know little about the lore and less about the mod itself. So almost everything we will see will be live reactions/experiences. Please feel free to educate me on lore in the comments below! Steam Workshop link to map: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3170273427...
Total Warhammer Dominions, Ulthuan Campaign #1
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Hey Everyone! This'll be a new series with some rapid upload speed as I play around with Sombre's Warhammer mod! Do note I know little about the lore, and less about the mod itself. So most everything we will see is here is going to be firsthand reaction/experiences. Please feel free to educate me on lore in the comments below! Steam Workshop link to map: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedeta...
Siege and Sorcery, Mekone Multiplayer Turns 24-30
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My first multiplayer game of Dominions 6 as Mekone against a bunch of Dominions 5 veterans! Let's learn how to play with the new spellbook alongside a reliable nation. Also occasionally stream on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/zann_8 Behold! A manual to learn some lore and nitty gritty. I'll buy and unbox one of these soon thanks to all of you! Dominions6 Manual: www.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf Be...
Dominions 6 - Late Pyrene Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - Late Pyrene Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - Project Self Advanced Tutorial
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Dominions 6 - Project Self Advanced Tutorial
Jinns, Lions and Corruption! Mekone Multiplayer Turns 18-23
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Jinns, Lions and Corruption! Mekone Multiplayer Turns 18-23
Dominions 6 - Middle T'ien Chi Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - Middle T'ien Chi Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - Mekone Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - Mekone Strategy at a Glance
Two Thrones, One Mekone: Multiplayer Turns 8-17
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Two Thrones, One Mekone: Multiplayer Turns 8-17
Gods & Prophets, Mekone: Multiplayer Turns 2-8
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Gods & Prophets, Mekone: Multiplayer Turns 2-8
Dominions 6 - Phaeacia Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - Phaeacia Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - LA Pythium Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - LA Pythium Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 | DumbWaysToDie - Blood Hunting
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Dominions 6 | DumbWaysToDie - Blood Hunting
Dominions 6 - Pyrene Vs Jotunheim, Better Cast Fire Flies!
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Dominions 6 - Pyrene Vs Jotunheim, Better Cast Fire Flies!
Dominions 6 - MA Machaka Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - MA Machaka Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - Terraforming Growth Advanced Tutorial
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Dominions 6 - Terraforming Growth Advanced Tutorial
Dominions 6 - MA Pyrene Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - MA Pyrene Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - NEVER Assassinate A Mind Lord
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Dominions 6 - NEVER Assassinate A Mind Lord
Dominions 6 - Wind of Death Advanced Tutorial
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Dominions 6 - Wind of Death Advanced Tutorial
Dominions 6 - MA Nidavangr Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - MA Nidavangr Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - LA Andramania Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - LA Andramania Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - LA Feminie Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - LA Feminie Strategy at a Glance
Dominions 6 - LA Piconye Strategy at a Glance
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Dominions 6 - LA Piconye Strategy at a Glance
Did we lose a pretender in some update? I don't see a Great Siddha as an option at the moment
I feel this might be self explanatory for some people, but I wasn't able to get elephant expansion working consistently for a while. Toss a couple of monkeys into the elephant squad, elephants don't morale route as quickly, elephants do the stompy stomps. Felt like a pretty huge difference to me.
Just came back to this after learning from getting this wrong. I tried misfortune on L3 repel weapon glamour sacreds with blur bless (could have been spell). Oh my! Every one of 2 independent infantry squads + commander got a "failed to resist" from their 50% chance pretty quick (as repels counted) and hence "cursed luck", and with blur to reduce enemy hit chance and mirror images only lost after roll so pretty devastating. Less good chance of inflicting debuff if attacking unit had high MR.
Thanks for this
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You can certainly fit fateweaving onto a righteous wrath/bsurge + undying/enchanted blood imprisoned bless as Ind or MArrignon, or alongside obfuscate as scales-hinnom.
@@TheDoomerBlox righteous wrath + fateweaving is a deadly offensive combo. Honestly I think righteous wrath is too low priced right now...
@@ZanGames I like it as a "lose less" bless alongside blood surge which is a "win more" bless. Lose less to win even more. High undying is just 2x as effective as normal hp, and enchanted blood means you only lose units if the post-fight countdown starts as they are at -10 hp
@TheDoomerBlox i'm currently addicted to that entire combo tbh. Minus bloodsurge though. I need to wean myself away from it...but its just so good.
A dormant Nataraja with fateweaving, heat aura for fatigue and magic 2 for hypnotize sucess looks pretty good
Nataraja is a strong SC chassis too! Just a pricy boy
I'd really like to recommend trying Charged Bodies as a bless. This is partly because they have mounted sacreds, which means two charges per unit, but really its because of their national spell Wrath of the Ancestors, that summons 20+ sacred ghosts for a gem. This spell can be spammed by your cheap mages for an absolutely insane amount of damage output. A single gem does 300 total damage. there's also the 0gem 0reserach version that spits out one at a time, that is just as spammable. I tried this bless as a meme as one of the first MP games when the game released, and ended up winning with it
That pretty much turns each ghost into a lightning bolt, genius! I love it, great find!
I had A LOT of success with LA Ulm turboexpansion. Fateweaving, Fireshield and Invulnerability.
@@duartemarco you monster. Going against that without magic weapons, a titan, or good spells sounds awful. How many black knights to take a province? 2+commander?
@@ZanGames I just used them as commanders, I was popping 2 a turn, and 2-3 could easily take a province. Since I also had increased map move, soon I was taking 3 provinces a turn, and consolidating 4 commanders to take harder provinces. Easy expansion, then won first war against Patala. I have a video on my channel of our first engagement. This was my first "serious" MP game. I had a lot of trouble with recruitment points the whole game, and maybe I didn't capitalize properly on the snowball factor, but it was a very interesting experience.
Interesting as pins down a key part of the bless impact but raises more questions. Say withering weapons with fate-weaving, the chance to hit and chance to damage (just 1 hp needed) being improved for the sacred attacking with the bless at the same time looks multiplicative for chances of getting the bless to work - so is the magic resistance saving throw also impacted I wonder? I wish I had paid more attention to combat result detail when I played that (dormant) on Rus.
No, magic resistance checks would not be affected by fateweaving. Only chance to get hit in melee, and damage taken by anything. It would synergize with poison weapons more for example: poison weapons needs to do at least 1 damage to trigger, and then the actual poison half would benefit from fateweaving too.
Thanks for this, fateweaving is notoriously opaque in its effectiveness. It'd be horrible to run up against this kind of thing in the precise situation it's tailored for in a real game. Diagnosing "what the hell happened to my elite zweihander mans" from that replay alone is something I certainly wouldn't be able to do.
Youre welcome. Thats why i had to dive deep into the math for this one otherwise it would remain a mystery. Never again though, hopefully. I prefer testing based on vibes not equations.
@@ZanGames Yeah, I also only ever vibe check my strats. I'll probably never be sweaty enough to truly excel at this game
@@iiroaro808 thats kind of what i think happens to me too. I got real good at vibe checking things, but i'm too focused on having a good time / doing thematic things to be sweaty. Ill reach a plataeu soon if i'm not already there haha. But itll be a fun one
i got a real degree not underwater basket fate weaving
@@diggles27 they werent offering any more slots on the badass viking lord degree. Some dudes called diggles & blackwhite took the last seats
Great vid
great video!
Thank you!
Doesnt fateweaving work whether they hit the unit or not?
@@Holypikemanz correct. The mr check vs 16 happens for the attacker before the attack roll is even made. Dude just got cursed because he thought about attacking. Yikes
"using claude ai" bro just do the math yourself, why would you risk ruining the entire conceit of the video on unreliable ai math?
Is it wrong? No? Then its as unreliable as a human 😂 Are you even sure you know how claude ai works? Is it a llm that sources its answers from Reddit or are you just kneejerking because of "ai" in the name?
@@CaptianSwan i did the math by hand back in dom5 when i ran fateweaving naga and faintly remembered it was 16-18% chance to crit immobiles and 60-70% chance with fateweaving. It was a pita. Also snake eyes being 1/36, but unsure its %. I use ai heavily in my job now, and i liked the visualization it made. Apologies if it struck a chord. If it helps any i was very resistant to ai at work until they fired everyone else, and anytime i'd ask for help of the remaining i'd be told "just ask ai". Subpar work it is 🤷♂️ Well mostly ask ai - review & fix - ask ai - review & fix until it works. Its weird and new.
Nice vid, makes me want to try out some more Fateweaving combos on blesses
Whenever luck comes out in mass i always wish i took it
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The real fate weaving is that this came out just as I was going to bed, looking forward to this one!
The real fate weaving was the friends we made along the way
OP, must watch b4 sleep
Sorry bout that! Ive been needing last minute touches since Thursday, but this dang puppy is distracting.
The other aspect of Cursed Luck that you don't really go into here is that it also impacts the Defense roll. This means that besides being comparable to taking +strength, it also acts as effectively +attack as well. In other words, you would expect it to outperform a similar cost of +strength on that merit alone, making it cost effective in its own right.
@@rovsea-3761 i lightly mention early. My first draft did not, i hope thats not the one i uploaded. Most of the video i had completely forgotten it affected defense as well tbh. Its also a pita to test defense. The one confirmation i had of it working was a zweihander rolled a -1 at one point for defense. That doesnt happen normally, i think.
Great video as always! Love to see those nagas win...
finally! this patch was long awaited :D oh hai Zan, too :) grats on the marriage! I assume honeymoon implies that
Yes! Thank you!
This video didn't prepare me at all for work in the adult dancing club
Really? If i read the lore correctly, Enarie are men who dress as women for a better connection to the spirits or something. Off the top of my head here, so i could be wrong.
You forget to mention that crippled and limping units tend to die on the campaign map as they move, so you don't even need to cast more than a couple of grindings to fuck up a stack of soldiers.
I absolutely did not forget! I actually hadn't considered that angle before. Great thinking. Love reading comments like these! Hope people go through the comments for extra tips like this one
The idol makes a great Bone Grinding dropper. Ring of returning + teleport and a bunch of death gems = bye bye unprepared army.
Heck yeah, its famous for it! Demilich too.
I like these short form bimeos zan
Thanks HP! Added you to the description, wouldn't have had this replay without you! Current plan is to lean into a few of these. I had taken notes on cave indies from the scope of LA Agartha, but I see youre already making video on all the indies! There is a surprising variety to them too.
lol, I just posted a comment earlier today in your community post asking for this. So thank you Zan
Thats the secret 👀 I got pretty excited when i read your comment, but i did not want to spoil it.
Great video!
Glad you liked it! Let me know what other topics you'd like me to cover.
@ZanGames I like the strategy at a glance series. Also, would you be up for more modded nations? I liked you playing High Elves. Some short test videos would be great, no need for long playthroughs
@@Miguel_Vitta thank you! I was talking to Darksidecookies that i really enjoy his expansion testing videos. I had done some in the past and they were kinda neat. I may revisit that, or just some short SP playthroughs. Edit: I like the creativity behind modded nations. So I do dabble, but there are just so many options in vanilla already. I should give some mods a shot though.
Me upon seeing the title of this video: "What the hell is bone grinding" Me after seeing this video: "I want to cast bone grinding :)"
There was an MA Ctis in my second dom5 game ever, literally years ago, who showed me the way. An Ermorian army in the 3 thousands wiped out by about ~10 sauromancers and a bunch of lizard shamans. I was in awe
Always nice to see applications of these big battlefield wide spells.
C'tis had a rough day.
Buffs to counter your own grinding: 1 - Mistform 2 - Body etherial 3 - Regen 4 - Twist fate 5 - Luck 6 - Enlarge 7 - HEALING SPELLS!!!!! (Heal, Healing Touch, Healing Light, Astral healing, Blood Heal) [Blood spells are hard to use during grinding play, slaves will die] 8 - Phoenix Pyre (put them away from everyone) 9- Life after death (it now makes mages feeble minded 😢 can save your chaff) 10 - Antimagic/Iron will (to avoid limp/cripple) 11 - Liquid body (can avoid limp, cripple) [not sure if it works vs MR check limp]
Life after Death does a feeblemind effect now?
@@DarkSideCookies Yep.
@ Sad. It should provide some value worth doing besides "make soulless" Seems like the overpriced reanimation bless now.
Keep in mind that there is an army-wide Twist Fate spell now, which should be a very effective insulation against single casts of bone grinding.
@ Something worth doing for death titan thrones too. I saw one cast bone grinding in my last game
so many sad sauromancers too
Nice, quick little informative video
I hope you make another guide for MA mictlan for dominions 6. I've searched for tips on how to build a god for them and play them and it's hard to find much of anything, even commentary in other places is mostly limited to dominions 5 mictlan, which isn't terrible but clearly some major changes have happened. Basic stuff like how to build the god for them is just really hard. In what little testing i've done so far their expansion is very tricky, their sacreds require very fine tuning with the bless and tactics to use properly and that's not even getting into the mid-late game strategies. I've learned here at least that their onaqui are amazing and I think this remains true at least.
I have not looked at them too much in dom6 unfortunately. I feel like sacreds are weaker overall in 6 which is unfortunate. I'd have to do some research on what direction i'd take the nation now.
So will there be any more episodes of this series? We left on the cliffhanger of finding out the pretender.
@@Madhattersinjeans Yes! Recording some today. My current goal for 2025 is to make a video per week. Right now thats guides i am excited to talk about. Once i complete recording of a gameplay series, starting with mekone, ill do that. No more series on hold for months
Loved it as I do with all of your national overviews, including the minigame to walk up air magic. The primary idea I would add here is the usefulness of Raven's Feast in the later game. The unrest generated by Phlegra naturally begs for it to be patrolled out, which can easily create 100s of corpses as fuel for Raven's Feast, the death gems then going into twiceborning Tyrants or using ritual of rebirth on any high performers taking a vacation.
Raven Feast is pretty good and this is definitely a great use of the new access to A5 magics! A lot of tyrants also need the D gems just do to the invuln/soul vortex combo. So its definitely a suprisingly D hungry nation.
I can't access the links you posted in the video description. Have an invite, by any chance?
Love the At a Glance series and I am hyped for the upcoming Titan video
These at a glance videos are, I think, the current peak of Dominions video guide development.
That is a big statement! Thank you! I haven't kept up with the others, but I do want to watch Lucid's latest take on Nidavangr.
comments for the algorithm god!
Those gigantes NEED furious warriors/battle fury for that terrible 11 attack value.
Definitely a good spell for them, problem is going thaumaturgy for it feels bad. They'll get a +2 when they berserk at least, bringing them up to 13.
well done! :]