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hello, I am completely new to this game and after watching a 5 min tut and getting my ass beat for 5 hours on the lowest difficulty while playing senator I wanted to ask for general tips/guides.

Also if there are mods which bring improvements (quality of life) to the game.

I still do not know what my senate guy does, like I have never got to see a library (and only saw the capital once and lost shortly after) and couldnt proclaim myself as emp, also his scaling into the late game feels so off, when my AI opp with the lowest difficulty can apparently summon big creatures and/or be immune to physical damage. While I have to pray that random ass inv groups dont take my ressources. like whats the senats plan here in that situation? i just bought mostly ballistas/catapults/cheap frontline and every mage on sale and it still feels so weak to whatever the hell the necromancer is doing. Am I missing something?

any advice appreciated!!

edit: thank you for your advices, didnt know catapults dont do anything in non siege battles.

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So red is me and Im playing as voice of El, its a huge map, and the blue is the Driad Queen, i am playing on remastered (the mod i dont remeber the full bame) cuz i heard it helps with balance. I was super close to getting completly cooked on all fronts (war with ruid purple, dwrafs turquise and minor battles with evryone else, but then i decided "i now have capitolium, lets break the seventh seal and war of atriction this shit", at first it didnt work, i lost my "pope" three times, the capitolium twice, and spent good 50 turns without a commander, but when the forsests started to disapear, i had a chance at a comeback. Lost one pope again, but now i am gathering forces (mostly catapults for a final siege) in preparatoin of a final battle against the blue. This game is super long and fun, is there a way to see whihc turn i am on?

UPDATE: Death attacked the Capitalium with almost 400 undead... AND I WON with less than a fourth of my army dead!

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So to clarify what I mean Illusionist and Druid both have heavy rng in their unit generation and I kinda dislike that.

In my mind itd be better to have the option to make specific units for higher costs or maybe higher movement penalty. Now this could get a bit cluttered for the ritual page and no one wants a mile long list, so what if you used a "delegate" system? If you've played the Warhammer 40k governor mod then you know what I mean but generally the way itd work for the Druid atleast would go like this.

1. Druid of whatever tier to create specific delegate

2. A ritual to spawn a commander version of a specific animal, which itself has rituals themed around that animal

3. Commander Animal produces those units

Im unsure how much effort it would take to make this but I think ill end up trying my hand at it using the Overhaul mod as a framework since I do enjoy the expansion and development systems that mod uses

Also very very vague on how'd this work for illusionist...maybe the main illusionists retain the rng rituals on top of adding delegates with specifics? Or make him specialize into a specific theme and having every mirror tier of that theme?

I am playing necromancer and haven't found any freestanding temples on the map, I do see that major city with a temple district and when pressing i, it shows it has a temple. Would this count for the lich ritual?

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I only know about gaint ant queen and the seven seals from El

So I'm going to do a baron run is there any tips for baron I should know about

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Before I ask anything, I love this game and its lore so much that I’ve decided to make a funny video, but I wanted to do something kinda different. I’m not that good, so playing a super maxed out difficulty might be fun, but I wanted also to pick out enemies that would realistically be at the “beginning” or during the Dark Ages. I got the Maharaja, Dryads, Cloud Lord, and Warlocks for thematic purposes (they show up start using gems and getting everyone all riled up).
I was thinking Barbar would be a good “not anyone’s friend” faction that honestly could show up at any time. Also maybe teaming up certain groups and being the only faction that just wants everything to go back to bed would be cool. Could even add in demonologies for messing with the portal that gets mentioned in Pale One lore. I would love to make all kinds of vids of “canon” battles since I always thought that there is enough cool and interesting stuff that you could make you’re own storylines with all kinds of conflicting timelines and it would still work! I’m a writer so I can’t help but be like “yeah I could do something busted, or meta, but what about the weirdos? What’s the story?” If there was a faction of just lizard people I’d have probably picked them lol.
Also from what I’ve seen the tier list is more of a “how much does it rely on rng to work” type of question, or am I just crazy? I played a lot of northgard and fighting games where the list was telling you who is even viable vs who is burdened with being actually balanced and mortal. Are the Pale Ones considered busted and I just didn’t know? They are fun but they aren’t reward-you-for-dying like necro can be (unless you get you one of the diamond using big boys).

TLDR; who would be scrapping with the Pale Ones in the dark ages considering the lore of Elysium?