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[Mrhappyface]

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I wouldn't recommend using it against your neighbor's dog or picket fence though.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   While stuff like that does help in making it hard on a person the biggest problem comes after the enemy takes a provinces with a fortress. It basically means they automatically get a strong border where if they can defend it means they can just take on provinces at a time, slowly eating an empire bit by bit.

[EuchreJack]

   While stuff like that does help in making it hard on a person the biggest problem comes after the enemy takes a provinces with a fortress. It basically means they automatically get a strong border where if they can defend it means they can just take on provinces at a time, slowly eating an empire bit by bit.

Well, it all varies.

For instance, low resource provinces offer much less recruitment potential.

More importantly, mages researching in a fortified province can't assist the province defense, which means province defense of a fortified province generally loses more than unfortified province defense, unless you take your mages off research duty.

[gman8181]

I'm really itching (metaphorically of course) for a chance to hop into another round of Dominions right now. Should anyone start up a round (preferably Dominions 4) I'd love to join in.

Hell, I'd even sub *shivers* for another player right now.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I think people are basically holding their metaphorical breath till Dom4 is out and about. Once this round finishes I would probably start another but chances of someone else starting a new round is low. Especially since the last couple rounds besides this one have ended because of catastrophic player loss.

[gman8181]

True. Eh, well I suppose my patience will simply have to hold out for a while longer. Hopefully llamaserver will be hosting Dom 4 games as well in the near future.

I wonder how we'll organize the whole team play thing... Palazzo, you have to work alone.

[EuchreJack]

True. Eh, well I suppose my patience will simply have to hold out for a while longer. Hopefully llamaserver will be hosting Dom 4 games as well in the near future.

I wonder how we'll organize the whole team play thing... Palazzo, you have to work alone.

Oh, I'm certain ol' Palazzo could add a lot to a game by serving as a lieutenant player on a team.  Probably be the only time you ever see a player deliberately betray their team...

[Mrhappyface]

I wouldn't mind if I play with a team that has 4 major blesses.

[gman8181]

Alas you can't betray your own team. I literally don't think the mechanics allow it.

In regards to a bless team... I might be interested. Really I'm looking forward to trying everything. Used to be all about scales and big armies for me but recent games have led me to reconsider. I've been playing a few single player games, taking bad scales (even death) and really high astral and death magic lately and it's kind of fun looking for ways to creatively utilize less troops and more creative national magic to beat back the hordes of enemy nations set to the highest difficulties. It's... really hard early on but once you get a good foothold on territory it can devolve into a really easy game.

Still with actual human players, I'm curious how it would work. I figure the lack of early game expansion might be balanced by easier access to late game stuff. Usually I feel uncomfortable going with bless nations but that could be fun too.

Palazzo and other experienced players, share your knowledge with us! What's your general guide line(s) for playing a successful game?

[E. Albright]

The quad-bless thing is doable, and a master lich or dragon sporting that is a scary thing... but it'd be hard with humans on a medium+ map, as you're essentially taking Ermor-style scales (and a dormant pretender) to afford it. You're throwing all your hopes into a blitz. Beyond the awful-and-getting-worse income, you're going to get the worst of the devs' recent efforts to make sure bad scales have teeth, event-wise, so you don't exactly have a long game to work with.

Still, it's entertaining to churn out the nightmare sacreds with Mictlan or a giant nation, hehehe...

[EuchreJack]

Alas you can't betray your own team. I literally don't think the mechanics allow it.

I'm sure Il Palazzo can find a way to betray his team, game mechanics be damned.

[sum1won]

For dominions generally:
Have a strategy of sorts for the long-term.  Make sure you can expand to at least 10 provinces within the first year or so- figure out how your nation can effectively expand, and ensure one of those strategies is enabled.  (ie, for Yomi, I dislike their gold-expensive troops for early expansion, so I started with a SC pretender) and have at least one midgame strategy and lategame strategy in mind.  Have an idea of how you might counter the most common early strats, or at least blunt them. (astral nation with no significant SC counters?  Research horror mark.  Now you've got a deterrent, if not an effective weapon.) Research and gems are somewhat more important than gold later on, but gold has its uses.  After that, play dynamically, not too conservatively, or you will fall further behind.  Don't give up from setbacks, and shift your guns.  For fighting any player that you can't take out in one go (and you usually won't be able to do so) have more than one strategy planned, as a player can make hanging on to the same one very expensive.  Surprising your opponent with an innovative strategy can be helpful, and at a certain point, you might even start researching specific spells specifically to deal with certain threats - like MindHunt to deal with a non-astral invader, or witherbones v. Ermor or c'tis.

[Mrhappyface]

Horrors got nerfed.

[sum1won]

Many of them are worse.  Some of them are better.  I do agree that they won't kill off an SC nearly as effectively anymore.

[Mrhappyface]

PC crashed. Give me 24 hours please.