Introduction

Welcome to Dominions 5: the game that is the most sagatious of sagas, the most epic (in the time sense) of epics (in the story sense), and the most confusing of confucianisms.

This time we're doing something a bit different with a game full of modded nations! You may have heard that one of the strengths of Dominions 5 is how easy it is for anybody to make a mod and this is a showcase of 10 of them. The downside of dominions modding is how easy it is for anybody to make a mod. Balance? Tone? Theme? All entirely gone. I am playing the clown nation Kirkostaculis made by goon Mu and the other nations in the game are: praying mantises, trolls, frost ghosts, feet, rocks, djinn, Brits, ants, and illusions. We'll see them in more detail later.

There have been a good number of Dominions 5 LPs (including two vanilla ones ongoing) so I won't retread too much ground here. In short it's a strategy game almost like Civilisation, if Civilisation was written by two Swedish teachers in their spare time over 15 years who threw every myth, religion, and quasi folktale in and made them all duke it out in an arena. Faux Vishna wrestling with Faux Queen Titania and a thousand skeletons while Faux Bat-Jesus sacrifices hundreds of virgins in a ritual which steals the sun.


Two massively geared lategame super experience super powerful thugs square off.


Rain down meteors to obliterate your foes. These elite troops are blessed to allow their friends to take some of the damage for them but that works less well vs 999 damage rocks.

Previous LPs:
- Newbad
- Therodos
- Ramc's

Games thread

Discord


Please, no game spoilers in the thread and I'll be introducing the other nations as I meet them. The game is still ongoing and 50 turns in at the time of writing. Apart from the nation mods, there's also SILT which nerfs immortal summons and Pretenders Enhanced, which adds a bunch of new ones and gives recuperation to most vanilla ones so they don't just get crippled to shit over the course of the game.

Table of Contents

• Turn 1
• Turn 2
• Turn 3
• Nation Overview: Fennoscandia
• Turn 4
• Turn 5
• Turn 6
• Nation Overview: Anglia
• Turn 7
• Nation Overview: U, part 1 (guest post by Xanrick)
• Nation Overview: Eljudnir
• Turn 8
• Nation Overview: Karanaac
• Turn 9
• Turn 10
• Turn 11
• Turn 12
• Turn 13
• Turn 14
• Nation Overview: Myrmecos
• Turn 15
• Nation Overview: EA Ssaon'raha
• Turn 16
• Turn 17
• Turn 18
• Turn 19
• Turn 20
• Turn 21
• Turn 22
• Turn 23
• Turn 24
• Turn 25
• Turn 26
• Turn 27
• Turn 28
• Turn 29
• Turn 30
• Turn 31
• Turn 32
• Jokes Not Told: Shiny Red Nose
• Turn 33
• Turn 34
• Turn 35
• Turn 36
• Nation Overview: U, part 2 (guest post by Xanrick)
• Turn 37
• Turn 38
• Turn 39
• Turn 40
• Turn 41
• Turn 42
• Turn 43
• Turn 44
• Jokes Not Told: Gigantic Clown Head
• Turn 45
• Turn 46
• Turn 47
• Turn 48
• Turn 49
• Turn 50
• Turn 51
• Turn 52
• Turn 53
• Turn 54
• Turn 55
• Jokes Not Told: Master of Seltzer
• Jokes Not Told: Master of Custard
• Turn 56
• Turn 57
• Turn 58
• Turn 59
• Turn 60
• Turn 61
• Turn 62
• Turn 63
• Turn 64
• Turn 65
• Turn 66
• Turn 67
• Turn 68
• Turn 69
• Turn 70
• Turn 71
• Turn 72
• Turn 73
• Turn 74
• Turn 75 and wrapup
• Jokes Not Told: Clown Sublime and Joke Book

Fan art