Can’t believe they made God of War into a faction

The true heroes of EA (ignoretheslavesignoretheslaveignorethe....) With a full imprisoned scales pretender you can shit out giants and helot for armies, however I feel I can't get the full use of their mages to get the most use of my legions of giants.

You skipped over the rewards for the annual event! I was hoping to get some clever advice on gearing for them! I guess I'll have to watch the stream and see what you do with them.

I recommend trying Celestial Gryphon as your Pretender. Very fast. Don't need to risk on the front line to get a lot of value. Can zoom around to add very powerful Air magic to battles and also is incredibly useful to claim thrones. I tend to choose blesses that are passive, and this is excellent with one that increases map move.

One thing about Bishop Fish is that they are absolutely capable of being casted Natively as Mekone. (at least without a pretender or empowerment) What you need is Construction Seven for the Water Bracelet and then Use your water random Elder Cyclops to craft a Robe of the Sea (since they have master smith 1) Next put the aformentioned items onto a water caster of your choice and now he is at least a Water 3 that can breathe water Finally you'll need Conjuration 6 and an underwater province with a lab to Summon a Bishop Fish (also craft an item that allows them to breathe air) That being said as Mekone (outside of fighting the undead or claiming thrones) you do not need Holy 3's that much as Holy water is a better investment for your Polemarchs than climbing water ONLY to summon bishop fish. Great Video can't wait for the stream.

Love these

Yay! Been waiting for this one!

I used to do a lot of Mekone in Dom 5, and tried a match or two of them last week now in 6. My current build was a Scales Statue of War with the paths for Gigantomachia. Not taking Unaging was painful, but having Leadership in my bless let me swarm peltasts who, for once, refused to break. Looking forward to your stream to see how you handle it.

These giants dont eat the small folks 👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪

These are fun to watch. Adding a small section for these reviews to talk about how easy the nation is to go underwater or underground with would be interesting. And maybe a mention of traditionally which if any nations the nation under review has the most trouble with.

Time to post about precision again! So while the Discobolus unit has 12 precision, the bronze discus has a -3 precision modifier, meaning his actual effective precision is 9. This means he has perfect accuracy at shooting at things 1,2 and 3 tiles away, can have 1 tile of deviation at ranges 4-10, 2 tiles at 11-17, and 3 tiles at 18-21. This is pretty decent accuracy still for a thrown weapon, but a 27 blunt damage discus hitting the head of your 24 head protection gigante hoplite still won't feel good so having them fire their 4 shots of ammunition before both sides get into melee is for the best. I am also not too sure how worthwhile it is to buff them with magic with how limited their ammunition is, but I suppose you could find some value if fighting against giants who lack much chaff. Afterall you native fire-2 access for ignite arrows and can easily get flaming arrows, and some air access so perhaps winguide isn't out of the picture. I'd though never recommend farflight arrows, your precision is bad enough without increasing their range even further. I do admit though, 11 precision flaming discus with 27 blunt and 8 fire AP does sound like a wonderful meme build to make as Mekone.

Mekone’s philosophy seems pretty much objectively right in the world of Dominions. The Pantokrator is only one thing consistently: a giant asshole.

Oh man this is going to be a big one.

Mekone was the second nation i played in Dom 6 and had a blast with them. though i certainly made some mistakes. didn't get the scales right so was struggling to get troops out, wasn't really using magic to its fullest so that was a lot of buffing being left on the table and going to waste. in the end i didn't even truly win that, beat back every nation accept for Abysia that proved to stubborn a thorn in my side. After sieging their capitol for several turns and not being able to beat them despite throwing several legions of giants at them (yes i was and probably still am that bad at the game) i took a hollow victory. just ended the game with the mind set 'will id win eventually' but felt cheap and still doesn't sit right with me. looking forward to game on Friday and i'll actually be able to catch some of the live stream this week. not sure if i can watch the whole thing but i'll be with you and rooting for you as long as i can

Just stack inspiring presence, churn out 500 peltasts armies that never retreat. Buff em

Mekone was my third of 4th nation and all i did was scale dump and shit out untold billions of giants and didnt research or hire anything but the big lads. Great time, big boy smash big. Definitely didn't lose no cope

F4A3E4B3 Eldest Cyclops with Inspirational Leaderx3 and Superior Morale, 4 Dom, O3 P3 H1 G2 M1 Imprisoned. I find inspirational on Mekone to be both a meme but also pretty useful as it makes all your mages decent troop leaders and makes your armies much harder to route. The blood is great for getting those temporary earth gem items allowing for spartae and auto casters for steel legion and the slasher enchantment. Am trying to find a set up where the ai are challenging against Mekone but not to where it feels like the ai is just cheating. Independants strength being at 6-7 makes expansion more interesting but also seems to break the ai, any advice on having fun?

So I've played a SP game w/ one of zan's builds, an imprisoned great archon with: 4F4E5S 6 dom 2P2O1H1G0L3M and a caster bless of x3 reinvig and far caster. Can natively cast gigantomachia and gets us into astral on a decent titan chasis w/great scales, and it worked really well for me. Cyclopes can make staves of elemental mastery and the great archon with a coin of meteoric iron can craft rings of sorcery and then further wizardry. And once the great archon has those he can cast all the big earth globals and we just have to kill anyone with the ability to cast elemental opposition of earth lol. Great archon can also make matrices so we can do some crazy communion plays late game. I can't stress enough how good lizard shamans are for us, they get us into big nature for regen/relief/PR/howl, even oaken warriors if we aren't going for army of gold. And we can craft enough gear to get them to summon an ivy king if we don't want to do communions. Also rings of regen are quite good on our thugs/assassins.

I just played an EA Mekone yesterday! I also had the dormant fertility statue pretender, but went with a mix of nature and death, with an Unaging bless. The death ended up being completely useless, as it took too long to get any indie death casters. I do like having low to mid nature magic for rings of regen and cauldrons/bags of wine for supplies. For over half the game, I mistakenly had the Gerontes in all my forts, rather than Ephors, oops. I absolutely love Polemarchs. So beefy and deadly, with incredible leadership, AND great paths with summoned phoenix/earth power. This was the first time I used assassins, from the annual event, and even ended up crafting them some items. I started them out with easy nature items like the barkskin necklace and vinedude retinue. My armies were pretty much pure Helote Peltasts and Gigante Hoplites for a while, eventually supplementing with whatever archers I could find and occasional barbarians. My armies did very well until the end, against Niefleheim. I had more than enough thrones, and was just waiting for my prophet to waddle his way across my empire to grab em all. I was NAP'd against the only other large opponent, Sauromatia. So I picked a fight with the MUCH smaller Niefelheim, and won a few fights. Even two big ones. But then they showed up with another large army that ALSO had about 15 of their size 9 giants, and my poor Gigantes ate dirt. The first time, my fired up archers carried me. The second time, I ran out of a front line.

Are you going to do all of the nations in each age?

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Please don't go into the campaign saying "pole-march" haha It's poe-le-mark