Dominions 5 - MA Ctis - National Overview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- We've done a national overview for Ctis before, we we will focus more on grand strategy with them and some tricks in this video; in some ways its pretty straight forward, but theres also a good bit of room to do some advanced stuff!
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Somebody learned to use stable diffusion.
Oh boy! Every day we get closer to a LA Ctis overview!
LA Ctis most enjoyable Ctis to play.
It's always a good morning when Lucid uploads :)
Just did a mp game as C'tis last week and ended up winning via dominion. The income and disease was just amazing due to dominion 10 and as many temples as I could afford, which was many due to the increased gold! The poison slingers dominated everyone.
Regarding shaman turbo communions. With Coral Blade, Hydra Skin Armor, Amulet of Giants, Ring of Regeneration, personal regen, and enlarge you can get 28 hp for 9 regen a turn on a Shaman slave. This is 30 gems a slave. There are maybe times this is useful.
Give all your slaves cheap bodygaurds, put a marshmaster in that communion, and throw down soul vortex.
Honestly it’s kind of hard to have enough S random marsh masters in one place to really need all that much regen to keep your communion going, low effort regen/enlarge tends to be enough until you get really late.
@@soccrplayr232 I agree. The context where these sorts of gem based turbo communions might be used seems pretty questionable even though i do find it very interesting just how far it can go. Especially for Ctis. Though I guess the same thing is true for any nation that has found shaman indies and it could be more useful for them. You can easily turbo communion like 4 masters spamming skeletons without even needing to put in a single gem.
@@soccrplayr232 I was thinking more you have 20 shaman masters hooked into like 8 slaves, spamming soul slay/charm.
@@somefallingleaves I'd recommend giving Ma Phaecia with a regen bless a try (indie shaman with communion items can work in a pinch) at some point so you can shroud weavers for a slightly different flavor of it than the other turbo communion nations that are basically all just spamming more skeletons with it. Weavers are so cool and just use them for everything. Dropping hundreds of thunder strikes is a blast. Admittedly needing to be able to consistently thunder strike for 50 rounds straight doesn't tend to come up much but your communion is basically impossible to kill at least.
The copyright claim thing is out of control. So many TH-camrs run into it even when the music isn't owned by those doing the claims.
For the review, I know Tarts aren't the best late game option, but it does seem like a nice late game option to fix path issues.
Gift of Health + Tarts fixes the magic diversity issues albeit probably too late in the game. GoH lets you use indy mages without items easing up that micro, prevents opposing players having it for invading you, fixes the Tart affliction issue. You have easy access to Divine Name and Gift of Reason. The extra HP from GoH stacks nicely on your troops. I just don't know when you have time to run down Conjuration though with so much stuff in Alteration, Enchantment, and Thaumaturgy.
Also, Howl and Swarm can help distract archers a bit for the troops.
Interesting access to Liches and Worm Mages for late game immortal play.
Very expensive, but an Acashic Knowledge cast on Thrones to search every path could help break into stuff. Voice of Tiamat for searching the odd pond you take with undead can do the same.
In terms of magic diversity:
Fairy Queens fix the Air access albeit at Conj 8
Lamia Queens can help touch on Blood a bit (50% chance)
You can Wolven Winter yourself to cast Hidden in Snow as another alternative to break into Earth perhaps using Water Gems.
Yeah its pretty crazy as a system. Theres no consequence for someone falsely claiming your videos (that i know of)
@@LucidTactics That would take effort from their now unemployed staff I'm guessing. I've only heard of the worst offenders getting banned, but many of the sources are foreign and they just spam new accounts to blackmail with.
It would be a better system if they had copyright holders prove they own music by registering before letting them claim like Twitter's old verify system. Then if they get too many false claims you hold up future claims on manual investigations by humans so they have to wait forever, or they get banned potentially and have to pursue claims by snail mail the old way rather than having Google do it for them.
Love having an excuse to take luck scales. I just wish we could get more of the big sobeks.
Get well soon
zomg lizords
The unappreciated swimming trait deserves mention. All your units get it and it allows your armies to ignore rivers and thus be more mobile in heat dominion than everyone else. Swamp guard are a trap..they are significantly slower in combat and on the map than most of your other units ruining ctis' mobility. While Sobek guard have limited recruitment Sobek Generals are only 1 commander point. Pump out 2 of these guys a turn, give them a frostbrand and regen bless and you have an army of thugs. I cant see Ctis without a regen bless. You need it to make your sacred snakes viable troops which they can be if you temple everywhere and are pumping out 10/turn. You need to temple everywhere anyway to push away cold dominion. Regen bless is also valuable for freeing up spell script space for your communions. Good spot for elemental fortitude. Regen also keeps your sacred troops alive in cold dominion who are being damaged by cold fatigue. Astral for pen is good but consider a fireshield or attack bless for casting heat spells to warm provs. I like the Empoisoner in early armies. Eagle eyes lets them reliably drop a lingering blob of poison on the rear blob of archer/mages/leaders.The regular troop poison slings make heavy calv a lot less threatening. 2 sacrifical slings and maybe 10 cheapo militia will soften up a heavy calv prov so your regular army can take it early. Ctis City Guard with its castle defense bonus is worth mention for retreating patrolers. Twiceborning ctis mages is a problem because of lich cold aura makes battle placement difficult. Its easy to kill off your mage core by forgetting about the aura.
Swamp Guards aren't a trap, they're just half-upkeep bodyguard units for your expensive priests & mages that aren't meant to move around with armies, a lot of nations have similar units.
I could see regen, it offers some nice thing with turbo communions and some utility out of sacreds... Doesnt help much with path diversity or anything though. Also would mean maybe you take it awake.... we are talking about giving up a lot of scales for that... not worth it imo.
@@LucidTactics naa no need to be awake..elite slaves can carry you through early..you wont have enough spell caster or sacred snakes and sobeks till mid game anyway.. i like the golden lion with fire shield/regen or the snake king with 4F4A7N.
The other problem for elite warriors is stuff like fire elementals and AoE evos in 1st war, since they're only barely better than human hp stuff w/o resists. Ctis will threaten with foul vapors/rigor, enemies will threaten with clouds, 5+ AoE evos, firestorm etc. Lots of investment for Ctis to resist those if they can kick out enough to handle AoE stuff to handle HoS.
You can rely on off-script heals for turbo communions. Strongly recommend testing that before using it in real games. IME, it's only a little more prone to disruption than communions usually are.
Cold-blooded just feels so bad when you have Jotun/Caelum/etc. Normally, battle going long favors Ctis, but not in cold. Shamans at scale don't work well there, and you can only send so many twice born marshmasters.
Cold definitely feels bad. Ensuring illwinter casting nations die is your number 1 priority
Fire elementals destroy MA C'tis. Played Marignon against them, and they had no answer to even my small fire elementals. Even if they had Ench 5 I would've destroyed them in that game, my Knights had poison res and Witch Hunters pwn skelly spam.
Thank you so much for the new video. Ctis is definitely my favorite faction. Do you think you'll ever do another Ctis game and show us some Elite Warrior Spam?
If you just want astral on your god, take the Netter of the Moon. Cheap titan with 3 base astral.
"Your main objective is getting Illwinter ... killed."
:O
lol of course you have to play the lizard nation scales
Hey thanks for the great video!
Just wondering about the expense of dominion during pretender creation. Since youll want a couple of temples anyway (for those sacred serpents at least) wont making a dozen temples give you super high dominion anyhow? Do you think 10 temples is too many?
I feel that a real bane for MA C'tis is MA Agartha. They usually have multiresistance bless and does not really afraid anithing from your big combo. In every battle you are just facing a huge hp wall of sacreds, statues, magma children, umbrals and elementals that slowly chewing throu your army without tiring and I've no idea how to handle that. I've literally lost several of my multiplayer games as C'tis just because of wars with Agartha.
Yeah that's a tricky matchup for sure
How to manage microcontrol fatigue in this game?
Some videos on this channel seem stuttery. As if frames are out of order somehow, weird.
Is there a justification for going one of the neters with the research boost starting free and then researching early with that or are the scales just too important?
IMO you want scales. You already have amazing early game research with marshmasters.
I don't want to say there arent situations doing that might be better, but i feel youre probably better with more scales.
Hope you get to feeling better soon. I got sick with that garbage last November and it took 3-4 weeks for me to start feeling semi-normal again. Awful stuff.
Thanks dood,
Yeah it's been a slow process!
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