a Poke in the Eye

eye.tga image The Poke in the Eye is a pollution of the Desert Eye map which comes with Dominions II (both the demo and the full game). It re-uses the eye.tga so downloading the PokeEye.map will give you a different game which plays on that image. A VERY different game.

Every province receives a commander selected from the ALL of the units in the game, with random equipment, random bodyguards, and random troops. That means you will find a new commander and army waiting for you in your home directory. Maybe an Iron Dragon commander, with equipment, some ghosts as bodyguards, and a squad of trolls as troops. Kewl huh? But you might find that the province next to you has a Monolith commander with equipment, Titans as bodyguards, and a squad of Manticores as troops. You should carefully check out who is in a province before attacking it. And accept the fact that you might have to just go around some leaving them undefeated.

Also there is a chance that each province might also be gifted with a lab, temple, castle, or some combination of them. ALSO any computer players you add have a chance of being randomly allied with another of the computer players. This means you might discover that 2 AI's who are near each other refuse to attack each other. Fun, huh?

All you need to download is the Poke_Eye.map which is part of my nightly routine so it gets re-randomized daily. If clicking the link doesnt let you download it then try right-clicking it and doing a "save as" to put it in your C:\Program Files\dominions2\maps directory (sorry, windows example). As per requests, the file is now also available as a Poke_Eye.zip