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Wow, I staled the last turn (don't have much time due to New Year and school, yes a kid I am compared to most dom players) but I never saw anyones dominion grow this fast. Didn't hink it was possible really, I never used dom kill properly even with Mictlan.
Interesting, never been dom killed before, although I did take only 4 dominion, I really dislike Niefelheim, really,really.
I'm fine either way, just wanna see this game over. And yeah you're right Arch, if I had seen my dom cut in half sooner I'd probably ignore the NAP, as would have done with AN,AC,Burden of time and similar situations.

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well, I don't think putting up AC would count as reason to vitiate the NAP, given that you payed for most of it ;p

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Well not in this situation, but in general.

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Yeah if the damned Arcane corruption wasnt up I could be fairly easily countering his dominion kill. I think you got played there Ex.

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Actually... that was my idea before he started the dominion rush.

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Ahh so he turned your idea against you then. Good move Arch. Ya bastard... :D

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i'm not sure what you could do w/ it down... the brute fact is that you need a ton of _something_ in order to counter all the candles. I think I'd have been dumping all of your vast pearl income into juggernauts, and that's not too affected by AC as the casters can all be casting returning.

but even with juggernauts, the wave was just too far advanced - and I'm generally adding 5-7 more temple checks a turn.

Raiding can lower my bloodhunting, but not sufficiently. I'm about to start using all my Gem store (1300 or so) to convert to astrals in order to wish for more Blood... so that'll be a steady 200 blood every 2 turns income.

I'd never take a 4 starting dominion either; I'm guessing neither will Executor from now on. :p Some builds I can live w/ a 6, but that's the absolute minimum for me (except some Mictlan strats).

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I usually take a high dominion, 8 or 9 since I tend to go with the oracle a lot, other that that I take a dom3 SC pretender which will need awe of course so that's 9 dominion again. Only with Mictlan I take 7 and that's usually the lowest I go.

I really don't know why people think Niefelheim is an overpowered nation?

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ah, because it can rush almost anyone, and most nations won't be able to do squat. So they come out of the early game in a very strong postion.

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Well I don't know, so far I faced Niefelheim 3 times and I beat him all 3 times with little problems.