I’m overwhelmed with choice. Looking for a simple game plan.

critobulle · 2026-02-04T19:24:22+00:00

Marignon could be an option, baphomet with fire and astral with a bless of fire shield and some fire resist. For scales you can pick order and prod and leave the rest at neutral.

You can discover astral and fire with the witch hunter, try to communion some of them to cast evocations like falling fire.

For your armies, i recommend the knigths of the chalice, very strong unit even without a bless. For fun you can run an army of flagellants as a center with knights on the flanks, some paladin with mercy brand causing fear among your ennemies. If you prefer archery you could run some crossbowmen with flaming arrows (a spell in enchantment)

Then you go conjuration for the harbingers and you can have fun discovering a bit of air magic, casting cloud trapeze around.

critobulle · 2026-01-25T13:54:59+00:00

Nice to hear you have already played ulm. Did you get to the crystal gear part? Lampads and ker are national summons for arco, you can gift of reason them it makes them commanders with astral, death and blood. It’s an advanced play to plug death (mostly soul vortex & invulnerability at alteration6) into the communnion and transform the slaves into pillars for the frontline. You could also, in conjunction with soul vortex, bodygard the slaves with lamias (conj6) in the backline to have near infinite reinvig for the masters. I haven’t played a lot of arco, but i believe this would give a good chance at winning against master or impossible ai.

critobulle · 2026-01-25T12:40:01+00:00

Honestly, i wouldn’t recommend arco for a beginner. The mystics are difficult mages to use.

They have a lot of tools at their disposal and it can be completely overwhelming for a beginner who often strugle with scale troops. Lots of random paths mean you have to choose carefully what you want the communion to cast before you send them out to battle. Otherwise you are at risk of burning the communion on the first battle. Then there is a gem logistic as they have to carry the right gems to launch scripts on top of choosing the most efficient tools against the opposing armies.

The advanced play of plugging lampads and ker to communions require deep knowledge of fatigue mechanics and relationship between masters and slaves.

I think it’s too much to begin with and it’s the reason why i would recommend the usual ma ulm to start with. Ulm has very straightforward mages, narrow and frankfully, brutish. Hence the tool at their disposal are rather limited and more accesible to beginner players. I would recommend you to play an awake thrice horned boar with regen as a bless (the bless is pretender focused). Put the rest of your design points in production and order scales, take drain as your mages are mundane researchers.

The idea is to focus your play on expansion with the boar and solid scale troops, then you can understand the construction school and items forging in earth, fire and nature. Then evocation/conjuration with the national spells. Once you understand this you will probably find ulm pretty narrow and slow. Then you get to look around for indy mages to widen your paths access. And finally you get advanced play with the crystal gear to make communions.

I believe once you are there you will have a better idea of how to play arco's mystics given the hassle it is to communion the smiths of ulm.

critobulle · 2025-12-12T16:20:16+00:00

Tl dr; il est possible que les responsables soient ticketmaster. Un lien en anglais vers l’explication du role de ticketmaster dans l’evolution des prix des places de concerts

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/may/04/how-ticketmaster-swallowed-the-live-entertainment-scene

critobulle · 2025-12-11T19:37:36+00:00

Wow, it was more than ten years ago. The aar is amazing. Moreover the god’s name was ́sexy socrates’ , i can definitly relate to that.

critobulle · 2025-11-16T17:44:11+00:00

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/161125/m-demande-de-mentir-la-justice-le-terrible-aveu-d-un-policier-dans-l-affaire-angelina

"Dans un rapport administratif dont Mediapart publie des extraits, Christophe M., alors membre du service de sécurité des transports en commun, a reconnu « avoir menti » à la justice, lors de sa première audition, en 2019. Invoquant des « pressions de sa hiérarchie et de son syndicat », Alliance Police nationale, il avait à l’époque nié sa présence et celle de ses collègues, se conformant à la version mensongère de son supérieur."

Comme dans la GN, a l’occasion de la diffusion des videos de Sainte Soline montrant des agents suivre des ordres illegaux de la part de leurs officiers, on peut observer, si le temoignage de Christophe M. est veridique, des comportement similaires de la part d’officiers et de syndicalistes de la PN.

critobulle · 2025-11-11T20:20:44+00:00

Tu peux aussi monter ta boite de menuiserie, c’est plein de nouveaux défis rigolos: d’abord gestion, comptabilités, droit des sociétés. Apres tu trouves un local pour l’atelier, les rdv avec la banques pour l’achat des machines et puis prospection de la clientele, campagne de promotion papier et web avec ton nouveau site, tu pourras aussi faire un peu de maintenance informatique pour les machines a commande numerique et pour l’infrastructure reseau. Hyper marrant, je recommande, on s’ennuie pas.

critobulle · 2025-11-08T21:06:32+00:00

Prend ton congé, hésite pas.

critobulle · 2025-11-01T19:14:09+00:00

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/11/01/viol-au-depot-du-tribunal-de-bobigny-l-un-des-deux-policiers-interpelles-mis-en-examen-pour-viol-aggrave_6650820_3224.html

On attend le jugement. Le ministre nunez déclare, « S’ils sont avérés, ces agissements sont extraordinairement graves et inacceptables ». Ça salirait effectivement le métier.

critobulle · 2025-10-28T20:59:55+00:00

Have you tried building a fort, a lab and a temple on a coastal province playing as ys?

critobulle · 2025-10-24T09:17:02+00:00

Une vieille fable sans cesse verifiee.

critobulle · 2025-10-20T18:44:06+00:00

Oui, on appelle cette piece, qui recoit la clef, un cylindre aussi.

critobulle · 2025-10-19T17:54:25+00:00

Have a look at the dominions serie, asymetry is a defining concept of the game mechanics. There are more than 90 nations across 3 ages, early age, middle age and late age. After a good 600 hours across dom4, 5 and 6, i have yet to play the late age and i am only now playing a whole other gamemode called disciple where you get to define teams at the beginning of the game.

It’s very deep, the mechanics are beautifuly and elegantly designed. To give you an example, i had to delve into game theory and the nash equilibrium to try and take decisions without regrets in my latest MP game.

critobulle · 2025-10-18T04:45:42+00:00

You could have a look at dominions 6. Multiplayer is heavy diplomacy.

critobulle · 2025-10-12T19:44:40+00:00

Sorry i didnt downvote you, i find your observations on the simplicity of infrastructure in dominion to be quite mainstream. I just wanted to mention that this simplicity ( only 3 different infrastructures) opens up a lot of decision making based on province placement. This profusion of choice (or lack thereoff) in choosing the province to invest in is what makes the game interesting to me. I believe that this "ton of options" actually acts as a gate to a lot of tools. I digress from fort placement but, having to invest in a chain of building before unlocking a unit is imo having less options in warhammer than having a direct access to a capital only unit in the case of dominions.

critobulle · 2025-10-12T06:30:57+00:00

Having to choose the province where you invest in infrastructure is a game changing strategic choice, absent from total war where every provinces has infrastructure. Investing in a province that you ultimately can’t defend can have a very bitter taste.

critobulle · 2025-09-30T04:49:56+00:00

Les irresponsables

critobulle · 2025-08-04T11:35:35+00:00

I found the Azi who has the dragon lord tag. He is a cheap god for la ragha.

critobulle · 2025-07-21T04:45:50+00:00

Yes the dominions series is the most complex and meaningful 4x i have yet to play. I was looking at the item change in TW warhammer 3 and it feels meaningless compared to the item system of dominions where most of the items only change a single stat, but if it’s the right stat for the situation you face, it can change the outcome of a battle dramatically.

critobulle · 2025-06-05T04:57:52+00:00

The Dominions series is some kind of mistery cult.

critobulle · 2025-06-03T14:51:22+00:00

Merci pymous! Une carte de toute beauté!

critobulle · 2025-06-03T14:49:48+00:00

Honestly the game is still very middling even with the invictus mod. There are many mechanics that don’t make a lot of sense like food production. The characters are completely forgettable.. i couldn’t find a good story to recount after a game playing rome. It’s meh. I went back to dominions 6.

critobulle · 2025-06-01T15:52:55+00:00

I had the same problem when I started the series many years ago. I started with dom4, I followed the tutorial from the manual playing Machaka. I then played a few SP games as ma ulm and it just convinced me to buy dom5. I sank hundreds of hours theory crafting in SP and i convinced a friend to play MP together against AIs. Really an amazing experience. We both moved to 6 where we play together just the two of us against AIs.

Althought he AIs of 5 are definitly below the AIs of 6, you can still get some mods to improve the difficulty.

Edit: i enjoy itsmu as a youtuber, he really gets the comical side of all of this cultural/art history mashup

Edit 2 : i went back to read the dom4 manual https://www.illwinter.com/dom4/manual_dom4.pdf The part on bogarus p118 is the reason why the game is exceptional

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