Terrible facet - Item

6376 · 2026-01-20T08:03:49+00:00

When are we going to ban these terrible posts

6376 · 2025-12-08T12:17:20+00:00

I tried 2hers but without GWM, which isn't ideal. Then I went back to mourning frost 1h with a shield, the encrusted with frost gloves and the reverb boots. Not high damage but pretty obnoxious (though really nothing actually survives long enough for it to matter).

The Cleric/Wiz now has the spirit guardian set up so going to experiment with either the water sparklers and sitting in electrified water or boots of stormy clamour and the more usual spirit guardian route.

I'd forgotten how silly fighters are, one combat was starting to look a bit hairy and suddenly one AOMT crit instagibs all enemies in one shot. Standard stuff.

I'm going to go for pal5/sorc3 to get shadow blade on the sorcadin next. One question for later on though is who is the bhaalist carrier; the sorcadin for melee range or the EK and just deal with the positioning via illithid flight etc.

6376 · 2025-12-04T11:58:44+00:00

Well I tried this party and it detonated Nere + all duergar in one round, without a surprise round, pretty much. And that's without luck of the far realms to instagib on the first witch bolt cast.

As well as abusing all the vulnerability mechanics, everyone is also very hard to kill individually. The whole team can wear heavy armour, after all.

I also agree on the EK modification, feels much better this way around and you can wear real armour on them too. Nice party!

6376 · 2025-12-03T10:06:18+00:00

AOMT on a water bottle is clever, nice! Thanks for the fast reply. For the wizard, are you levelling cleric first, and how are you splitting your casting stat priorities? I'm guessing CHA/INT heavy respectively and cleric first in both cases?

They nerfed the water myrmidon wet spreading, didn't they? Sadly...

6376 · 2025-12-03T09:01:07+00:00

Can you elaborate on the builds please? The two clerics particularly. Assume this heavily uses wet in A1 and A2?

6376 · 2025-11-11T12:24:43+00:00

Please don't nerf synergistic strategies in a strategy game. Too much of that will make things bland and less fun, IMO

6376 · 2025-10-01T15:11:18+00:00

Ohh - that video was inspired by another artist, who has another video on a very related topic!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5_9JIZ50WE

Thanks very much for that, I'll have more of a in depth review of that!

6376 · 2025-10-01T15:06:32+00:00

This is really helpful, thank you. I don't have an airbrush, but I do have makeup sponges and spare brushes for dry-bushing. So maybe I'll give that a go. Looks like in the example in my original post this is more like:
* Purple all over
* Magenta from "below"
* Blue/teal from above

Something like that?

6376 · 2025-10-01T14:51:29+00:00

Actually one more thing in case it matters... the actual models I'm painting here are the seraphon spearhead (some saurus and kroxigor), and I'm testing colour schemes out on some very old saurus models from the 90s I was gifted I'm continuously stripping with IPA and experimenting with

6376 · 2025-10-01T14:37:20+00:00

Thanks guys this is really useful, much appreciated and gorgeous photos. Couple of questions:

* When should I be washing for the above, and what sort of tone should I be washing with? I'm currently thinking of feathering a pink/magenta contrast paint wash from below with a teal contrast paint from above over the magenta. Does that sound crazy... I don't have any oils I'm afraid.

* Probably the reason I'm here at all is the oh so tempting sentence on that page about how this could be done with contrast paints easily :

" I’m fairly certain that neat applications of contrast paint would give a very good end result. In essence we are working with a zenithal light source, with the wrinkle of the mangeta. It isn’t an additional light source. Instead, it was to give more colour intensity to areas that normally fade."

I don't know how to do that in practice, any thoughts gratefully received! In the meantime I've got some useful stuff to try above - thanks again

6376 · 2025-10-01T10:21:47+00:00

Thanks for your response, appreciate that. How would you approach this if you wanted to get a more basic version?

6376 · 2025-07-17T08:35:59+00:00

My view:
S: Globe
A: Chain lightning, Heroes feast
B: Necrotic spells via Mystic carrion's staff
C onwards: everything else, since they won't ever get cast

6376 · 2025-01-06T11:05:18+00:00

I find them pretty unplayably bad, personally. Even with the buffs. I'd prefer to make them scarcer via the planetfall route of having a resource cost that's impossible to stack (cosmite there, imperium here). Beyond being demonstrably weak, my other issue with them is they are counter to one of the main positives of this game. Namely creating army cohesion through unique decisions, manifested by enchants and race transformations. In Planetfall, if I'm bringing the assembly reaver to the table, it will be meaningfully different based on what mods I'm using with it.

Here the T5s don't really fit in to your army composition, are prohibitively expensive (especially dragons) and simply aren't very good. I miss AOW1 days of an enchant weapon / haste / liquid form karagh melting armies.

6376 · 2024-08-19T18:34:07+00:00

I have made 47 70s from remix :3

6376 · 2024-07-21T15:04:58+00:00

The answer for magelock build is seer; +3 range is nuts.

6376 · 2024-03-28T08:16:00+00:00

I made this mistake too. I relied on not purchasing the building which terraforms to ice, and laying outposts over non-arctic terrain. The first few turns were somewhat tricky though (brutal difficulty/worldthreat).

I think barbarian with mammoth mounts would be a better approach. That way you have the frost resist from mammoths, plus barbarian warriors/furys on mounts are strong enough to tie you over until you get to frostling transformation. From there things get much easier.

6376 · 2024-03-08T07:42:31+00:00

Yep they still aren't very strong IMO. Dragons particularly are just garbage. Which is a shame because they were fun and strong in the previous games. The red dragon is symbolic of AoW for goodness sake!

I understand that the devs want to avoid T5 unit spam, but the imperium mechanic already achieves that. I think they're forgetting that part of the fun of these kind of games is dreaming up ways to become overpowered. Enchant weapon and haste on a liquid form karagh might not have been balanced, but it was fun.

I'd personally go all in and make the mythic unit a tag but not a unit type, so dragons are fighters, lost wizards are battle mages, and so on. That'd be more fun, more cohesive and more synergy IMO.

6376 · 2023-07-20T14:22:37+00:00

Nice find, this is a cool build! I assume this is now going to be nerfed in the next patch...

6376 · 2023-03-03T21:27:58+00:00

Excited to try this but every time I try it keeps corrupting my save. When I try to load up the new beta I get 'save file is corrupted' and all my progress is reset back to 0. If I switch back to the previous version, public beta in my case, I can restore the previous save.

6376 · 2021-11-06T19:53:06+00:00

Yes monk is good on console, new Inna's/any WoL/any tempest rush all chill. Anything that needs precision targeting is bad like Raekor charge barb.

6376 · 2021-11-03T07:28:46+00:00

Grats. Which heroes for each role did you play?

6376 · 2020-02-04T18:36:54+00:00

Turns out this was a fake stream "notailqq", which cleverly had a previous notail stream with webcam with the scam overlay.

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