While not terribly inefficient researchers, they are a pricey alternative in a pop kill nation that doesn't need the extra research per turn that badly. They are good targets for Twiceborn, which causes them to come back as reanimators, in addition to everything else.Дryad Hags are, unfortunately, worse than Black Dryads at research, and worse than Panic Apostates at everything else. They are also good for collecting and transporting manikins, hiding and preaching, spamming swarm in large battles, and for buffing thugs with Blessing and Regrowth. They have high precision and are good with ranged magic items.Д«lack Dryads are your primary researchers. If you've built a temple and lab in a forest but don't yet have a fort, it can be worth it to recruit them as researchers. Be sure to set them to 'Stay Behind Troops' or they will likely get themselves killed.Д¬entaur(ide) Hierophant(ide)s are not bad commanders for their cost, but I struggle to find a place for them. Minotaur Lords are only good for commanding armies in the expansion phase, later on you can rely on Panic Apostates to command manikin and non-manikin troops alike. In most games you don't even need to rely on forts to recruit them, since they are available in every forest. They have a high stealth value, and flying combined with a high map move makes it very likely they will reach their intended destination in one turn, whether to scout or to transport gems. Resist Poison (5) Animal Awe (1) Beastmaster (+1) Stealthy (40) Supply bonus (30) Forest Survival RecuperationД«lack Harpies are probably the best recruitable scout in the game. Sacred Stealthy (60) Supply bonus (20) Forest Survival Recuperation Sacred Stealthy (60) Supply bonus (10) Forest Survival Recuperation Sacred Stealthy (40) Inspirational (+1) Forest Survival Recuperation

Stealthy (60) Flying Forest Survival RecuperationД«erserker (+5) Trample Forest Survival Recuperation Still, they are a very cool concept and a lot of fun to play. Winning with them will take quite a bit of luck, and at best you'll be playing with a handicap vs other players. They also have some of the lowest resolution pixel art you can find, a good indication that the nation hasn't gotten love in quite some time. This will be the time to push their advantage, with manikin armies getting strong spell support and powerful Carrion Lord thugs filling in the gaps.ДЄsphodel is widely regarded as one of the worst nations in Dominions, and likely THE worst nation in the Middle Age. On the other hand, their ability to build forts in one turn and focus their money on mages will lead to a surge in research and gem income by the mid game. Having recruitable mages is both a blessing and a curse in this respect.

It is best to think of Asphodel as a pop kill undead nation with recruitable mages and play accordingly.Д«ecause Asphodel's economy never fully transitions away from gold, and because of the need for more forest provinces, they will be forced to expand continuously. In the early game Asphodel can make good use of strong halfmen troops (especially the sacred black centaurs), but as their population diminishes they will lack the gold and recruitment points for these units and will be forced to rely more on the freespawn undead manikins. If the provinces are owned by Asphodel they receive undead manikins as the population is killed. As the game progresses provinces within the dominion of Asphodel will see their populations decrease. To remake the old theme into a new Pangaean splinter nation.'ДЄsphodel is a nation of halfmen, such as centaurs, satyrs and minotaurs. Unfortunately, this made the whole setting of the Carrion Woods rare, and that was a pity. The nation was once a theme inДominions 2 that was removed and made into a global spell available to primarily late age Pangaea. Has always been something I liked, and I suspect is has sneaked into other RPG campaigns of mine fromДЄsphodel as a Dominions nation has a history similar to Lemuria. There was a manikin in theД«estiary that sparked my imagination and resulted in animal carcasses reanimated by vines. The first carrion beasts appeared in one of my Ars Magica campaigns. Into slithering and growing entities strangling the living in their sleep and reanimating their corpses as

Panii and halfmen of Pangaea have revolted against theirД«rethren and unleashed the powers of a dark and hungry god upon the living world. It opens itsДЄsphodel is a nation of the vengeful wild. The carrion jerks and twitches as the roots gives life to the dead animal. 'If you have walked in a forest with trees covered in ivy and stumbled across the carcass of a dead animal, partly covered by leaves and vines, your imagination might give life to the vines and the roots of the nearby plants.

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