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Well I liked AOW:SM (which was the best out of the Age of Wonders series, in fact it is the only TBS game that I keep coming back to) and the Tactical combat was the best part of the game. It is a shame that DOM3 gives you none of that thrill. I do have a question though, is the combat similar to the Total War games or it combat just hands off?

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(Oops! Sorry for the double post but I thought the first one did not go through.)

So is the combat like the Total War games. (I have never played any of the Dominion games. I play TBS games like AOW:SM, Total War series and the Civ series to name a few. I am currently playing and moding AOW:SM a lot and am looking for a new Fantasy TBS game.

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif The combat in Total War was real time. In Dominions combats are automatical. You give orders to your commanders/mages, and the AI is playing the battles.
Like I said before, tactical combat wouldnt be a good option in Dominions. In AoW: SM you played around with a small number of units, here you play with thousands sometime.

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The automatic combat in Dom gives me just as much thrill, if not more so, than the tactical games. Tactical combat in which you control every unit simply would not work in Dom for obvious reasons.

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True but in Total War you also had a Turn based stratgic portion of the game which allowed you to manage your empire as well as allowed the RT batttles with out becoming a click fist like most RTS games.
So do you just give each army (or what ever) a script and hope for the best. And do you only give this script at the begining of each turn or can this be done at any time?

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Essentially your troops have their orders given for any tactical engagement. Those orders, that you set and edit in the army setup menu, will stay unchanged from battle to battle unless you edit them. You set the orders before the battles actually happen, and you change them on your turn according to what you think you'll be going up against.

EDIT: Waitasec, are you asking about the new game? 'Cause my mind blanked and I was typing like I was on the dom2 forum explaining the basics to someone new to the old game.

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Don't worry, it works pretty much the same for Dom3.

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Its working like this:

1. You recruit/summon troops/monsters
2. You recruit commander[s]. Commanders are units with leadership. Reguler troops dont have leadership.
3. The commanders can control a certain number of units, it all depends on their leadership
4. You assign the troops to your commanders
5. You are using battle scripting on the army setup screen. Here you give orders to your troops and commanders that what to do in the battles.

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Ok thanks for the answers. So if I get dom2 will this give me a good feel for the new dom3 do you think? Or is the new game going to be so much different from dom2 that I should not bother and just wait for dom3?

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Trying the demo won't harm you. Dom 3 will most likely be easier to grasp for a beginner though.