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Illwinter sent in notice that they’ve released a patch for Dominions II: The Ascenion Wars, a turn-based fantasy title (screenshots). Changes include the addition of mod support, a transylvanian/bavarian theme for ulm calledBlack Forest, and a new theme for marignon called Conquerors of the Sea. The press release also notes that the game has received Editor’s Choice awards from Computer Gaming World and Computer Games Magazine.

Dominions II 2.06 Patch Download – [ shrapnelgames.com ]

PCBurn.com has published a review of this new title available for Linux.

Overall we can heartily recommend Dominions II to anyone into “serious” strategy gaming. Replayability is infinite and the network option allows for solid group gaming. AI opponents provided a tough challenge that I was rarely able to beat.
– Chris Bergeron

The complete review [ pcburn.com ]

Illwinter let us know that Dominions II: The Ascension Wars (screenshots), their new turn-based fantasy strategy game, is now shipping. An official press release has been put out by Shrapnel Games, their publisher:

Shrapnel Games is extremely pleased to announce that Illwinter GameDesign’s turn-based fantasy epic, Dominions II: The Ascension Wars, isnow available and has begun shipping worldwide. Legions of hungry fansfrom around the globe are eagerly awaiting this title, judging by themassive number of pre-orders that Shrapnel received. In fact, hot on theheels of Space Empires: Starfury’s pre-release sales record, DominionsII has just set a new company record for pre-orders!

Dominions II can be ordered from TG for $40 or from Shrapnel Games for $44.95.

Shrapnel Games has released a demo of Dominions II: The Ascension Wars Demos. Dominions II is a turn-based fantasy strategy game where you are trying to achieve the ‘rank’ of god.

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A representative of Illwinter wrote in with this brief announcement regarding the releaseof their next game, Dominions 2: The Ascension Wars:

Dominions II is soon completed and it will be published by ShrapnelGames. It will be a multi platform release for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Solaris.

The projected gold date is October 10th and if you preorder the game before it goes gold you receive $5 off. For more information,take a look at our local mirror of the official press release.

Illwinter Game Design wrote in with this announcement:

Version 1.15 of Dominions from Illwinter Game Design was recentlyreleased. This is a small patch that fixes two newly discoveredbugs. Hopefully this will be the last Dominions patch this year as we are currently putting all our effort into finishing Dominions II.

A complete change log for version 1.15 and a fully playable demo can be found on www.illwinter.com.

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Version 1.13 of the turn-based fantasy strategy game Dominions has been released. Changes and fixes include:

• Bag of Winds creates one Lesser Air Elemental at the start of a battle and no more
• Wall Shaker can be used to cast panic as it was supposed to
• #cannotwin didn’t work for Abysia in scenarios
• Mists of Deception could cause the game to crash during turn generation
• Temporary files were not always removed properly

Dominions 1.13 demo downloads:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom_downloads.html

Version 1.12 of the turn-based fantasy strategy game Dominions has been released. Changes and fixes include:

• Huge memory leak when using non default map modes fixed
• You no longer risk loosing wished for power after a battle

Dominions 1.12 demo downloads:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom_downloads.html

Version 1.10 of the turn-based fantasy strategy game Dominions has been released. Changes and fixes include:

• Support for scroll wheel mouses in Linux (this will probably work on Solaris too)
• Support for ESD and aRts (sound)
• Curse did not always work properly
• The generation of a military strength report during siege crashed the game in some rare circumstances

Dominions 1.10 demo downloads:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom_downloads.html

Version 1.09 of the turn-based fantasy strategy game Dominions has been released. Changes and fixes include:

• New magic items making it easier to enter underwater provinces
• New magic site in which Shamblers may be recruited
• More magic item restriction, e.g. Father Illearth cannot wear boots
• Some blood magic spells increases more in power with higher levels
• new independent underwater province
• Full version history here

Dominions 1.09 demo downloads:http://www.illwinter.com/dom_downloads.html

Version 1.08 of the turn-based fantasy strategy game Dominions has been released; changes include:

• inanimate units are no longer affected by regeneration items
• Sphinx costs 100 design points
• one new god and larger nagas
• 3 new independent provinces (rare ones)
• 7 new unique magic items for independents
• variable fear strength, also cummulative with magic item fear
• awe strength is displayed and is now cummulative with magic item awe
• C’tis High Priest cost changed from 180 to 120 gold

Dominions 1.08 demo downloads: www.illwinter.com/dom_downloads.html

Dominions Ordering Information : www.illwinter.com/dom_order.html

Illwinter Game Design announced the release of v1.06 of Dominions, their multi-player fantasy game available for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Changes in v1.06 include:

• New Gods and Magic Items
• Battle summaries
• Checksum for files to prevent cheating
• New commandline options for e-mail auto hosting
• Various bugfixes

Dominions can be ordered from the Illwinter site, and is also available from TuxGames.

Version 1.05 of the turn-based fantasy strategy game Dominions has been released; changes include:

• fullscreen mode works
• user interface enhancements
• fixes many bugs

If you purchased the game you should have received details on obtaining the patch. For those using the demo, a patch is publically available:

Dominions 1.05 patch: domdemo105_linux.zip

Speaking of Dominions(screenshots),Illwinter has released version 1.03of their turn-based strategy game. Changes include a bugfix for extremely largearmies and an Air Elemental fix; the full changelog can be foundhere.

A patch for the Dominions demo canbe found at

http://www.illwinter.com/domdemo103_linux.zip

If you have the retail version, you should have received download instructions viae-mail (fire off an e-mail to support@illwinter.comif you haven’t).

Tux Games sent in the following:

Tux Games is now stocking Dominions andConquest ofElysium II from Illwinter.As an extra note, we have now started to accept payments by Paypal,which will allow people without credit cards who cannot find theirgames locally to buy them online through our site.

Johan Karlsson ofIllwinter Game Design sent in the followingconcerning their turn-based fantasy strategy gameDominions:

Illwinter game design will host a few multiplayer games of Dominions.Anyone who wish to participate should visit www.illwinter.com to signup. Each game will have about ten players and will be hostedautomatically 2-3 times per week. It is ok to participate using the demoversion of Dominions.

The demo can be downloaded from here.

ZOCKS.de’s Jera let us know that they’veposted aninterview (English)with Johan Karlsson ofIllwinter Game Design about theirrecently released fantasy strategy gameDominions. The genesis of the titleand the various facets of gameplay are discussed.

Illwinter Game Designhas announcedthe release ofDominions

Dominions, a turn based strategy game set in a fantasy world of magicand mystery, allows players to take the roles of Gods fighting forsupremacy. Players will be able to research more than 400 differentspells and there are more than 300 different magic items tocreate. The fourteen nations can recruit their own unique troops andall in all there are more than 600 different units and monsters in thegame. To enable massive multiplayer games all battles are run by thecomputer without any human intervention. Battles can be inspectedafter each turn to see how well your preset battle plans workedout. The objective of the game is to be the sole remaining God. A Godis banished if he is no longer worshiped or if he looses all hislands.

A demo is available for download from

http://www.illwinter.com/dom_downloads.html

You can order the full version athttp://www.illwinter.com/dom_order.html