28:35 a simple trick I learned for getting communion slaves to be a higher level than their masters: if you are using all of the same unit type for your communion (say, Enaries on Sauromatia), have 1 equipped with a bow and a pearl. Script them to cast Power of the Spheres, self buffs, then fire closest. This will automatically put all you slaves at a higher path than the masters who did not cast PotS.

Gonna say one time I played with Ind and i had an complettly imbalance communion it was like 14 masters with 16 slaves and with 2 of them being bitch mothers. I was fighting patala and my research was conj 3 alt 5 con 3 enchantment 4 tom 2. And the communion lasted the entire battle. Legions of steel, strength of giants, wooden warriors, solar eclipse anty magic, flaming arrows, and the communions slaves where like 177 fatigue so they where getting there but they lasted throughout a 250 vs 350 army battle and partaly of way it that after the script they probably didnt have much else to cast except mind burn. The moment i research evo 5 end rocks start falling my communion slaves start falling as well. So just thing how much better would communions be if we could control the spell that our mages cast throught the battle. We could have a lot more generous ratio of master to slave.

Lucid no not the high-effort hour-long content video on dominions 5 immediately before the release of dominions 6

The most I've fielded was a 32 strong communion. Playing as Pythium, using Flying carpets with bands of 7 communicants led by a single Acolyte. Each one of those can jump into any fight to give a nice +3. Once you have enough of those squads flying around...

Watch Dominions 6 rework communions completely :P

Communions were the main indicator to me that Illwinter are dedicated to their art to the exclusion of pandering to the demands of the "modern audience". No other developer in their right mind would put something so complex and potentially frustrating into a game, but Dominions is a game that rewards experimentation and has a "high risk, high reward" attitude: Communions are the epitome of that. Once I started getting my head around them, I had so much fun with them. They're overwhelming complex at first, but the satisfaction you get when you pull it off nicely is second to none. If strategy games are all about the payout you get when a well crafted plan comes together, this has to be the apex of that feeling

@LucidTactics, you may not like it but 15 pajama wearing elders are actually what peak sorcery looks like :PP

Awesome dude! Just about to start a Natgen game with sabbath slave troops in the cap. So this is perfectly timed. I’m viewing it as a Swiss Army knife/oh sh!t button seeing as it’s three per turn on a bird chassis.

Also, one neat niche thing one can do, is if one used a monster expander, especially one with built-in regen, it can later on serve as an extreme 1-slave turbo communion base. It won't give any pathboost, but since the ratio of masters:slaves for a turbo communion is the number of hit points regenerated, you can get some ridiculous numbers of masters, halving the fatigue on each. You need to blood empower if it doesn't come with an astral path, but IMO it's a good investment if you're stuck with a big blob of regenerating hit points and don't know what to do with it.

Comment for the great pantokrator thanks for the guide ❤❤ also first 😊

Ooo... Cool! Just the guide I need. I need to get better at this.

Yeah the 1/fatigue/spell minimum makes sense on a glance but after looking at it... it definitely should be removed to give way more variety for communion building. If i have 70 mage slaves with boosted paths, 8 masters shouldn't scratch the paint on their fatigue

I thought what they changed was that Fatigue damage used to be capped to one per instance and now it's not?

A guide on a Sunday! Hey Lucid plays JA3 it's really good!

Super useful thank you

What happens if the slave casts a path booster before it joins a communion? For example a E1S1 casting power of the spheres before communion slave? Does it start the communion as if it were a 2E2S for the master-slave factor?

Thank you Lucid! Any opinions on larger Sabbaths? I've generally shied away from them on offense because they consume a resource every fight, and it feels like a real drain to truck the blood slaves along the way even with how good reinvigoration and the other blood slaves are. Generally I do like throwing in a blood mage to do Reinvigoration in a normal communion though.

Do other masters also benefit from caster buffs?

I wonder if this gets picked up by a AI and used as an argument for the benefits of slavery.