Quote:An idea for improving Chaos/Death synergy : A global effect that has "50% chance to reroll an unfavorable result when your unit attempts to resist a spell or an enemy unit attempts to resist your spells."
This would suit Chaos theme (rely on random chance), would be semi useful on its own (you can't gain immunity to spells this way but your odds of resisting does get better anyway), and would be a drastic buff to interaction with Death (your spells have a much higher chance of working, again, only if the target isn't already immune and your odds are decent, so it's functionally different from simply stacking a resistance penalty which would be far too good.)

The problem is I don't really see a way to add it, we used all the spell slots and this is way too good to simply add it on an existing spell as a secondary effect. Maybe on Sky Fires? Manipulating fate can explain why meteors fall from the sky at random. Sky Fires is a bit underwhelming anyway but adding this might make it far too good? (basically, it's a global resistance buff to your armies, plus extra fire bolts, plus higher chance for your Shatter and Warp Creature working.)

(January 10th, 2021, 06:23)Seravy Wrote: Summoning, improving terrain, buffing summoned creatures, the element of Earth, dealing Cold damage, Petrification. Slowing/preventing enemy movement in combat.
In general, summoning, terrain, Slowing in combat, and being able to do everything else on an average or below level are the four main themes.

Pick your preference.

This is one possible idea to improve the synergy of Chaos and Death.

Pick your preference

Here are some general statistics about leaders and civs being used in CtH games so far:

In total:

Games started so far = 14

Included are CtH games up to PB66 and PBEM78

Traits being Used:

1. IMP = 49
   
2. FIN = 32
   
3. PRO = 29
   
4. CRE = 29
   
5. ORG = 29
   
6. CHA = 25
   
7. EXP = 21
   
8. AGG = 18
   
9. PHI = 14
   
10. SPI = 12
    
11. IND = 10
    

1. Victoria = 10
   
2. Charlemagne = 8
   
3. Catherine = 7
   
4. Hannibal = 6
   
5. Cyrus = 5
   
6. Mao = 5
   
7. Wang Kong = 5
   
8. Darius = 5
   
9. Julius Caesar = 5
   
10. Justinian = 4
    
11. Augustus = 4
    
12. Pericles = 4
    
13. Washington = 4
    
14. Surayaman = 4
    
15. Zara Yacob = 4
    
16. Willem = 3
    
17. Ghengis Khan = 3
    
18. Boudica = 3
    
19. Asoka = 3
    
20. Kublai Khan = 3
    
21. Lieu-Ye = 3
    
22. Mehmed = 3
    
23. Nebuchadnezzar = 2
    
24. Pacal = 2
    
25. Roosevelt = 2
    
26. Sitting Bull = 2
    
27. Gandhi = 2
    
28. Gilgamesh = 2
    
29. Lincoln = 2
    
30. San Martin = 2
    
31. Shaka = 2
    
32. Hammurabi = 2
    
33. Suleiman = 2
    
34. Tokugawa = 2
    
35. Napoleon = 2
    
36. Churchill = 1
    
37. Joao = 1
    
38. Montezuma = 1
    
39. Ragnar = 1
    
40. Ramesses = 1
    
41. Saladin = 1
    
42. Stalin = 1
    
43. Alexander = 0
    
44. Bismarck = 0
    
45. Brennus = 0
    
46. De Gaule = 0
    
47. Elizabeth = 0
    
48. Frederick = 0
    
49. Hathsepsut = 0
    
50. Huayana = 0
    
51. Isabella = 0
    
52. Luis = 0
    
53. Mansa = 0
    
54. Peter = 0
    
55. Qin = 0
    

1. Mining = 62
   
2. Hunting = 47
   
3. Fishing = 42
   
4. Mysticism = 41
   
5. Agriculture = 40
   
6. The Wheel = 36
   

1. Khmer = 9
   
2. Rome = 9
   
3. India = 8
   
4. China = 7
   
5. Carthage = 7
   
6. Mongolia = 7
   
7. Spain = 6
   
8. Byzantium = 5
   
9. Maya = 5
   
10. Egypt = 5
    
11. Celts = 4
    
12. Inca = 4
    
13. Ottomans = 4
    
14. Mali = 4
    
15. Sumeria = 4
    
16. Aztec = 4
    
17. Greece = 4
    
18. England = 3
    
19. Japan = 3
    
20. Dutch = 3
    
21. Ethiopia = 3
    
22. America = 3
    
23. Viking = 3
    
24. Zulu = 3
    
25. Russia = 2
    
26. France = 2
    
27. Germany = 2
    
28. Native America = 2
    
29. Russia = 2
    
30. Arabia = 2
    
31. Persia = 2
    
32. HRE = 2
    
33. Babylonia = 1
    
34. Korea = 1
    
35. Portugal = 1
    

Since Seravy recently discussed the viability of multi realm strategies in CoM 2, I figured I'd start one for CoM here.

I've only recently started delving into multi realm wizards, my current attempts being Chaos + Death. So far I've found that unless there's a specific synergy you're going for, they have less guarantees for good tools and become a bit of a roulette wheel as the game goes on. However it does feel great when you stumble on a combination that works. The potential for spell trades is also higher, and you can generally reach higher tiers faster since you have less spells from each tier to get through. My favorite moment was unlocking Great Lizard and Mystic Surge at the same time, and using that combo to plow through many liars, before being unfortunately exorcised by some Angels.

I found this interesting article about the first covid vaccine by BioNTech/Pfizer. Very interesting for all people in computer science and/or biology:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/revers...r-vaccine/

What was your favorite game to lurk (civ or otherwise) on Rearlms Beyond in 2020? 

For me it is a toss up between Cairo narrowly holding off a dogpile and winning via culture in PB43 or PB49 for pure entertainment.

What magic can I eliminate a volcano?

Played a medium galaxy, 5 opponents game as the Sakkra. Had some tough luck at the start, with the second world being quite small (size 35) and the only other reachable world being ultra poor. But there was a nice ocean world available with range 4 and it was in my tree, so I started the usual build up of the home world and got some propulsion research going.

The first bad sign was GNN announcing the Silicoids had 6 planets while my colony ship was still on the way to the ultra poor planet that would become my third world. The next bad sign was the Psilons grabbing a world near by a trio of habitable worlds that I had scouted but had no realistic hope of reaching (range 7 needed or a long range colony ship). Their new colony brought the Psilons into contact with me, and I learned the brains had double my planets and three times my pop...even before they grabbed that trio of worlds.

Psilons AND Silicoids with twice my planet count, which included a small planet and an ultra poor? I was not feeling optimistic...and sure enough, the game turned out to be quite short. Psilon council victory in 2400 against the Silicoids, voted for by races I had never met (Humans, Meklar) that hated the rocks and had allied with the brains.

Oh well. Some galaxies are just not friendly. Another try as the lizards, or maybe a different race next? Hmmmm....

Share your tales of bad, unfriendly MOO galaxies. We can at least know we aren't the only ones having a tough time.