[Warhammer Dark Omen Forum]

Warhammer Dark Omen Forum

For those of you who like space opera-esqe games (homeworld) you may of heard of Nexus the jupiter incident.

the game had a troubled development it actually started life as a sequel to imperium galatica 2, it changed hands got canceled etc, but did finally in the end get released (just) and although a bit awkward was a decent game.  

There was a subseqent release of a engine demo for nexus 2 which was stunning for the time but then it vanished without a trace.  Until now, and in order to raise aditional funds for the game instead of begging for publishers they have gone straight to the gaming community, the deal being raise 400,000 for game production and take your share 50% of the net revenue, with additional rewards (you get the game free if you put in 20 euro which is worth it on its own) depending on how much you put in.

Visit here if you want a punt:
http://www.games-plant.com/nexus2/

Sign me up please.

Vista is probobly a firewall issue.  Temp disable any installed firewall and the firewall include with windows and see if that solves it.

You must not have installed map patch correctly reinstall making sure it overwrites the previous version.

228 is correct, it means colour mouse curser is turned off.

Another possible fix try:
http://en.dark-omen.org/downloads/view-details/5.-miscellaneous/vista-/-windows-7-crash-fix.html

If that doesnt work try launching the dark omen hardware trooble shooter, click no i need to use the trouble shooter, advanced, then disable sound, and force mmx render.

What anti-virus program do you use?  I suspect its a false positive but i will check.

For the crashing after the intro please download and use this:
http://en.dark-omen.org/downloads/view-details/5.-miscellaneous/intro-crash-fix.html

You suck jero ;P

Luckly we had a new player join to make up the numbers ,  welcome hannes.

I've just uploaded version 5.71 which contains map patch3, and the april tournament map patch, along with some minor cost changes.

Sorry to those who downloaded 5.7 i'm wont change version again till after the tournament unless theres a major problem.

Jump on chat, usually me or olly are around to play a game.  Im encode some gameplay videos now.

Video 1

ud vs empire2	powered by Aeva

 Video2

Empire vs Orc.avi	powered by Aeva

Undead



Undead Advice
Always keep a supply of magic points on hand by usingfountain ice shards on the well.

Any raise the dead spell not used is a lost regiment, also rerember you can dispell and recast to recreate and reposistion your forces.

Charging straight away with your chariots is probobly not a good idea.
Don't let souless get engaged in melee they'll fall apart quickly, they have the death frost as a last resort but rerember it affects them as well as the enemy!

The Fallen - Excellent combat stats but they are delecate, think of them as assassin try and get the charge with them for the fist hit, pin the enemy with another unit first if possible.  Rerember the fallen are imune to magic use them to protect nearby units from magic attacks.

Ghouls - Very skitty however, get the charge + POS will increase they're strenght from 1 to 4, and with 3 attacks, they make excellent shock & chase units...  Also rember you can buy extra individual units.

Use Zombies + Mummies to block, pin and fustrate enemy forces.

Greenskin



Greenskin Advice
Greenskins will auto deploy so you dont get to pick where they are placed however you can still give movement and attack commands.  

You can have up to 15 units - make sure to take a full 15 unit side, overwhelm and exhaust your enemy, keep recycling your rallied troops back into battle.

Biguns have the most powerful spell in game - fists of gork, look for units to use it against you will insta kill them most the time.

The troll lobber is very expensive, and while it it is slow to reload and inaccurate it does force the enemy to come to you out of his carefully perpared positions, is it worth it? 

download link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/875tgl6a652jzt1/bpro05.71.zip

Installation
Backup Dark Omen
Unzip BP over your existing files
Run Ill Omens and click modify Dark Omen
You must use ill omens to create you BP armies
note you must have .net version 3.5 or higher for ill omens to work. You are quite likely to have this already, if not please download from Microsoft here:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851



Rules
Always use 9000 GP
Always use the Ill Omens Army Builder + always click Modify Dark Omen when you first install
Greenskins can use 15!!! Units instead of the normal 10
You are not allowed to use the same side as you opponent

Tournaments for best of 3:
You cannot use the same race twice.   For this reason in the second round one of the players must use the unused race from round 1.  EG Round 1 Empire vs Greenskin, Round 2 one of the players must use Undead, this is to avoid both players having the same race left for round 3.

General Advice
Learn which units are magic/fear resistant or immune, countering the enemies key units is the key to victory.
(Green = fear immune, blue = fear & magic immune, troll armour will dispel 50% of magic attacks (dice rolled), it also counts as lvl 3 normal armour)


Google docs spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AngmyJ9Z9o55dF9KSlBBTlFjUmZ4UGVpR1gwOU5mTkE&hl=en_US#gid=0

Empire


Empire Advice,
All empire troops are good all rounders, their missile troops are excellent but dont be afaid to throw them into melee otherwise you'll be overwhelmed.  Theres several magic resistant regiments available, but only bluecoats are truely immune, knights with Crystal Clock can be used as an alternative.  legionaires come with wright blades these excel vs troops with multiple hit points eg mummies/orcs.

Longbowmen have the long range "elven bow"
Elvens have the medium range bow

I produced BP when we were going thou a period of investigating how the Dark Omen engine work, my idea was to have sets of unique troops whichs showed what types of effects you could achieve eg a tough 8 creature, - could only be damaged by troops with str 4, etc.  

There was a few problems with it as dark omen tends to break down with laggy connections when theres lots of stuff going on, i've since simplified it so hopefully we can have some decent battles with the argentines.

Ill Omens is an army builder i built as the bugs in the dark omen builder were pissing me off.

Black Prophecy - features

Artilery where the operater seperates from the machine once it dies
15 unit Greenskin side
Set magic spells
Magic Generating Undead
No beam spells
no item choice - abilities are unique to the regiments bought
New unit sprites - plus the use of existing ones not use in multiplayer 9chariot/dread king)

The Sides

Undead
-Generate Magic using towers
-Raise multiple regiments during combat
-Uses swarms of low quality troops, highly specilised mid level and high powered super units

Grenskin
-15 Squad Side which auto deploys
-Large numbers of fast expendable troops, will frequently break and rally
-Fists of Gork!

Empire
-High Quality low level Troops
-Excellent selection of ranged weapons
-Powerful Knights
-Elven Mage

Might as well sign me up as its my rule set

If anyone has a chance I need some beta testers to cost balance BP.

You need to remove the steam tanks ability to run over people before you include it in multiplayer or you get random crashes. 

You can use it as a mobile cannon however, thou obviously it stops firing as soon as its engages in melee so will need to be given some melee attacks.

Re Description changes, not in the way you mean no. 

Also we are unable to change the armour formula.

We have a mini campaigntornament tomorrow which lasts 4 turns i suggest you join if you can (begins at 5pm GMT and uses the fair omen mod).

The join up page & info is here:
http://forum.dark-omen.org/empty-t1046.0.html;msg10612#new