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Something worth mentioning is that the AI isn't amazing in Dominions and is pretty reliant on waves of units to do anything. This is the sort of situation where thugs (and certain types of giants) are best at. Plenty of spells can kill thugs and giants or weaken them for regular units to kill, but the AI isn't good at using them effectively. So it's not surprising that you had an easier time with Gath, which can make good thugs early, instead of Mictlan or Ind which would need research and gems to make them.

For the human (and humanish) nations it does depend a lot on who they are. MA Ulm has a ton of heavy infantry that expands well, whereas Mictlan is more modestly armoured and more dependent on numbers. The Late Age is also the roughest to expand in, since indies are better equipped and knights and crossbows are more commonplace. Dominions 6 making indies tougher also doesn't help. You might want to turn the strength of independents down a step or two, or commit to playing a few test games to figure out expansion before doing a serious game.

Nation choice and pretender design being massively important and extremely front-loaded is kind of a flaw of Dominions. Once you figure things out it's not a problem, but it makes starting out and learning things rough.

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I have uploaded my silly halfling mod to the Steam workshop. It's definitely not balanced, and I'm sure I missed some stuff when updating it to Dominions 6, but it's nice to shove it out into the world.

If nothing else, it means I can now focus on making more silly halfling nations.

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Yea, but it seems ridiculously stupid to design her gate in such a way as to give clues concerning the other gates' defenses.

Xykon knows where the gates are because younger Serini wrote it (encoded) into her diary. It might be stupid, but it's not out of character.

One of these days, they're going to pull their head out their bum and consign that nonsense to an optional "i hate myself" mode, blech. It's not like you can't design around not having it, more than a few games harping on FE's style does away with it, and they're all the better for it.

They sorta have. Fire Emblem Fates removed durability, then it was added back in for Three Houses, and then Engage got rid of it again. Who knows if the designers will change their minds again for the next game in the series though.

We have a Steam Page for Dominions 6

Most notably, we're getting an entirely new magical path: Glamour. It's picking up 'illusions, phantasms, dreams and the stuff of forgotten legends' from Air magic, so we'll have to see how its inclusion works on the battlefield and what Air gets in compensation. Scales also seem to be more dynamic, with your choice of nation and pretender affecting their limits. Riders and mounts are also going to be separate entities, though I'm not sure how much that'll affect battles. Speaking of battles, unit sizes seem to be tweaked as well to be more granular, though I don't see the point that change. The only reason I can think of it's to make hoburgs no longer as small as bugs.

Obviously we're getting new nations as well, and one is even shown off in the store images. Pyrène is a nation obviously based on the Basques, that has gone from dwelling in caves to blood sacrifices to goat-demons, so Marignon is going to have a fun time with them. Pyrène also gets sacred Mouflon cavalry, which is awesome.