About this website

This website is dedicated to the 31 players Dominions 5 game called “Legendary EA” that occured between mid-december 2017 and mid-april 2018. This is an After Action Report where I try to relate how this game went for me, for the fun of it and to provide insights to other players about Dominions 5 gameplay from my own experience.

If you don’t know Dominions 5, this can be read as an epic story of war and conquest in a fantasy world. Sometimes I couldn’t help using some common acronyms from the game, here’s a glossary to decrypt them. Also if you want to know more about the creatures or magical items, here’s a website gathering every information from the game.

If you are a Dominions 5 player, the gameplay is more about overall strategy than specific tactics, though sometimes these are addressed in detail.

Also, if you liked this AAR, you may like the 2 other ones I made :
– MAddening MAyhem – The Way of the Dragon : a 7 players game with the Alexsa Modpack. A small, intense game that was very interesting and worth relating … and that features a lot of Dragons
– Confluence Total War – A Journey with the Fay : a game with all 24 nations of the Confluence mod, this is a quick and cheap AAR without many pictures or stories, but you can check it out to see how the Fay and their god came to dominate the world

If you have Dominions …

All of the .trn and .2h files from turn 1 to turn 75 can be downloaded here, and the map that goes with it here. No mods were used. They are provided in the state they were just before sending them on the server, which means all my orders and scripting are open to review.

However, as you may know, these files being from an older version, the battles won’t run exactly the same and sometimes the results can differ from what happened in the game.

About Dominions 5

Illwinter is a swedish video game editor made of only 2 passionate developpers dedicated to create the games of their dreams. The Dominions series is the result of their passion in putting historical Mythology into an incredible video game.

It is rather difficult to describe this game. I played it hundreds of hours just to discover every nation, every creature, every spell, and try out every possible strategy I was thinking about.

Indeed, the atmosphere that emerges from this game is really unique. This is about the final apocalyptic war between the gods for supreme domination … I’ve never encountered any game like that before, it really feels like the legends from our own human mythologies … most strategy games featuring magic spells are about some random mages fighting each other for whatever reason, but here, it’s The End Of The World and the one who will emerge victorious will be The Supreme God that rules all others, the Pantokrator. In that, the music provided with the game is outstanding and help to understand the stakes.

Official website for Dominions 5 : http://www.illwinter.com/dom5/index.html

Dominions 5 soundtrack : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvxhmW3K5yo

About me and the game

Before starting this game, I had played a lot of Single Player dominions 4 (more than 400 hours) and about 200 hours of Dominions 5. As such, I was highly trained in beating normal AIs, but didn’t know the requirements of a multi-player game. Indeed, even though I was starting to master every mechanic of the game, I had no clue about what to do with more than half of the spells and magical items, and had to learn it as the game went on.

So that was my first multi-player game (well, almost first, as I had started another much smaller one 2 weeks before, but it was cancelled after one month and 40 turns). And as a first game, a big one with 31 players, quite a large map, and some very experienced players involved. So, at first, my only expectation was to have fun and survive as long as possible. But as the game grew, my understanding of the game deepened, and when my unexpected leading position became obvious, my involvement changed and I tried to go for victory.

Copyrights

I ruthlessly looted the web to get some nice pictures to adorn the site. If you own rights on one of them and wish me to remove it, send me a message, I’ll get rid of it ASAP.

Contact

To contact me, just use this e-mail : silence@magmadev.com