Hi just wanted to say thank you. Your videos cover a very specific theme but nonetheless you find your audience. And i appretiate your obsession with necromancy as a fellow undeath enjoyer. I'd also like to recommend Tainted Grail: Conquest. Here necromancer take a while to unlock sadly but i think its one of the best forms of "dead lifter" in turn-based deckbuilding rogue-like genre (if there are more even)
Noticed the zombie AI was also annoying at times, figured out that you can 'unclaim' tiles you've dug into! It stops minions and workers from randomly wandering over to those places, very handy (Especially when you've dug really deep or wide)
Some fun combos and tips: Resting in coffins regenerates limbs, as of a recentish patch. Making the faction more forgiving. Was probably changed to make the new scaling more forgiving for necromancer. Spend your gold often. Don't be stingy with basalms. Think of them as potion effects that are permanent use, with this in mind the value is absurdly good. Bone Dog with Swarmer and early skeleton with Swarmer. 3 gold per, it's cheap. However, if you want to focus on an elite force that gains xp and keeping the skellies alive kit them out with multiple arms too. Two Handed Weapons early can be brutal. Swarmer skeletons with two handed axes are absolute work horses. You don't have traps. So always build at least one z level down and surround your staircase with guard spots. When you transition from skeles to vampires have the skelies play guard duty. And/or tailor make some undead with multiple arms, swarmer, and two handed weapons to swat whatever comes down instantly. Vampire Brutes or Juggernauts are good for this. Skeleton Archers with wings and ranged damage means you're 3d printing harpies lol lmao Two heads is great on vampires since they regenerate limbs when they do bite attacks and having one head for redundancy is good. Vampire mage can wear two hats this way for more spell power. Training 3 is a pretty strong basalm the entire game despite the +5 stat boosts existing because your defense also raises to your max attack training level. +5 Defense/Attack is better if you're wanting to specialize, but Training 3 is solid if want both stats. Vampires can work the Distiller, which generates rats which drop rat body parts. These don't count as corpses for making standard guys but do count as body parts for skeleton kings. You don't have a pop cap, so you could make a few vamps who's only job is to work distilleries. Having a zombie or two with movement speed and darkness basalm set to only hauling can be good being surface janitors that gather things. Darkness on mounts can help your keeper lead from the front without worrying about being vaporized in the sun, but it's still risky. There is a special armor you can craft later that gives darkness too. I prefer a bone dragon with darkness and the rest of its slots in defense. A redundant set of wings is also not a bad idea. A slasher is decent until you get a bone dragon. Your keeper is a given, but his personal bone dragon mount is worth having a phylactery for too.
I have some of the other dominions games (4 and 5) but not 6. I agree they're great. I have some videos on Dominions 4 and 5 including modded factions for them
I don't like the level scaling thing added in 1.0. like srsly, I had a dragon on my home tile, the dragon couldn't damage my guys and got killed by a basic vampire with iron stuff. Meanwhile a village half the world away has horses capable of biting bits of top minions, even through adamantium sometimes, and the villagers survive several hits. btw, cheb, did you find a use for the juggernauts? Really seems like vampire warrior is better in every way. I gotta try a lich revamping mod.
@@chebgonaz Vamp brute always seemed kinda useless, maybe as a swarmer could do something, but otherwise, since training is now capped, not having equipment slots is just way too limiting. To me it seems relying on a spam of two headed vamp warriors is the most effective, makes playing lich pretty monotonous. Also, curretly in 1.0, constructs (like golems and bone king), have a problem of insta dying from lucky hits. My max upgraded skeleton king (like almost 100 heads and 50 hands), after only losing 1 head and 1 arm, no heath damage, "fell aprt" from a random normal hit. Guy on a steam discussion said it's unintended and a known problem.
@@chebgonaz Also, with the level scaling has another nerf for the lich in comparison to the normal keeper - prisoners. other keepers can directly convert those stronger versions of creatures, thus gain inherently better minions than can be recruited, or build. Would be amazing if lich could actually create a permanent raised dead that would keep the power of the original dead creature.
He returns from beyond the veil!
Yes, the acolytes joined hands and spilled blood upon my altars. My work is not done!
Hi just wanted to say thank you. Your videos cover a very specific theme but nonetheless you find your audience. And i appretiate your obsession with necromancy as a fellow undeath enjoyer.
I'd also like to recommend Tainted Grail: Conquest. Here necromancer take a while to unlock sadly but i think its one of the best forms of "dead lifter" in turn-based deckbuilding rogue-like genre (if there are more even)
Thank you to for watching & supporting & for your recommendation
Noticed the zombie AI was also annoying at times, figured out that you can 'unclaim' tiles you've dug into! It stops minions and workers from randomly wandering over to those places, very handy (Especially when you've dug really deep or wide)
Good to know, thanks
He lives! And no, I could not tell that it was an AI.
The real Cheb got brutally dispatched and now AI masquerades in his stead.
Some fun combos and tips:
Resting in coffins regenerates limbs, as of a recentish patch. Making the faction more forgiving. Was probably changed to make the new scaling more forgiving for necromancer.
Spend your gold often. Don't be stingy with basalms. Think of them as potion effects that are permanent use, with this in mind the value is absurdly good.
Bone Dog with Swarmer and early skeleton with Swarmer. 3 gold per, it's cheap. However, if you want to focus on an elite force that gains xp and keeping the skellies alive kit them out with multiple arms too.
Two Handed Weapons early can be brutal. Swarmer skeletons with two handed axes are absolute work horses.
You don't have traps. So always build at least one z level down and surround your staircase with guard spots. When you transition from skeles to vampires have the skelies play guard duty. And/or tailor make some undead with multiple arms, swarmer, and two handed weapons to swat whatever comes down instantly. Vampire Brutes or Juggernauts are good for this.
Skeleton Archers with wings and ranged damage means you're 3d printing harpies lol lmao
Two heads is great on vampires since they regenerate limbs when they do bite attacks and having one head for redundancy is good. Vampire mage can wear two hats this way for more spell power.
Training 3 is a pretty strong basalm the entire game despite the +5 stat boosts existing because your defense also raises to your max attack training level. +5 Defense/Attack is better if you're wanting to specialize, but Training 3 is solid if want both stats.
Vampires can work the Distiller, which generates rats which drop rat body parts. These don't count as corpses for making standard guys but do count as body parts for skeleton kings. You don't have a pop cap, so you could make a few vamps who's only job is to work distilleries.
Having a zombie or two with movement speed and darkness basalm set to only hauling can be good being surface janitors that gather things.
Darkness on mounts can help your keeper lead from the front without worrying about being vaporized in the sun, but it's still risky. There is a special armor you can craft later that gives darkness too. I prefer a bone dragon with darkness and the rest of its slots in defense. A redundant set of wings is also not a bad idea. A slasher is decent until you get a bone dragon.
Your keeper is a given, but his personal bone dragon mount is worth having a phylactery for too.
can't tell if the AI voice bit was real or gaslighting. i guess that's the point.
Hahaha :D
I started playing not so long ago and did not understand how to replenish corpses, tell me
Cheb Gonaz jumpscare
Argh!
If you could turn up your voice volume during recording it would help a ton.
Thanks, yeah. Been battling audio since forever. It's supposed to be audiobook level but idk
Great video! Welcome back
thanks
Naglfar as the world name is great.
Agreed. Cool name
have you ever looked at Dominions 6? they have some great necromancy in it, they have several undead only nations.
I have some of the other dominions games (4 and 5) but not 6. I agree they're great. I have some videos on Dominions 4 and 5 including modded factions for them
Another great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
I recommend Spellforce: Conquest of Eo for their Necromancy
Thank you for the recommendation
I don't like the level scaling thing added in 1.0.
like srsly, I had a dragon on my home tile, the dragon couldn't damage my guys and got killed by a basic vampire with iron stuff.
Meanwhile a village half the world away has horses capable of biting bits of top minions, even through adamantium sometimes, and the villagers survive several hits.
btw, cheb, did you find a use for the juggernauts? Really seems like vampire warrior is better in every way.
I gotta try a lich revamping mod.
I haven't had much success with juggernauts, nor those "glass cannon" types of units like the Vampire Brute.
@@chebgonaz Vamp brute always seemed kinda useless, maybe as a swarmer could do something, but otherwise, since training is now capped, not having equipment slots is just way too limiting.
To me it seems relying on a spam of two headed vamp warriors is the most effective, makes playing lich pretty monotonous.
Also, curretly in 1.0, constructs (like golems and bone king), have a problem of insta dying from lucky hits.
My max upgraded skeleton king (like almost 100 heads and 50 hands), after only losing 1 head and 1 arm, no heath damage, "fell aprt" from a random normal hit.
Guy on a steam discussion said it's unintended and a known problem.
@@chebgonaz Also, with the level scaling has another nerf for the lich in comparison to the normal keeper - prisoners.
other keepers can directly convert those stronger versions of creatures, thus gain inherently better minions than can be recruited, or build.
Would be amazing if lich could actually create a permanent raised dead that would keep the power of the original dead creature.
@@BucketBoatable that's a good point. It'd be game over if you lost your big minion, since you save up for it the entire game