What is the lowest you can go with dominion?
 

Is 5 too low?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It depends on a LOT of things, more information is needed.

Sammual

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As Ulm, or as a nation with a surplus of cheap priests - maybe not. You can force your dominion outwards via other methods.

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Man might be able to pull it off, since they have both stealth priests and cheap temples. Remember that every 5 temples you build adds 1 candle to your overall dominion.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I don't consider 5 low at all. 3 is low - you can expect to do a lot of fighting in enemy dominion unless you preach a lot. 5 is mediocre. 7 is strong - good for supercombatant pretenders, extreme temperature nations and some special dominion effects (like Miasma), but many nations will get better returns from a moderate dominion strength with better scales or magic (& bless effects). 10 is insanely strong unless you are Ashen Empire/Soul Gates/Carrion Woods - you will almost certainly do better putting those points in other things.

Also, I don't know how it works with Mictlan, but it may be that their god's dominion strength has almost no effect (since their prophet and temples don't radiate like other nations). If they depend on sacrifices for all their dominion, then it doesn't matter what their dominion strength is unless the effectiveness of sacrifice is linked to the god's dominion strength.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ive gone as low as 2 when I was purposely trying to hide my location.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Every sacrificed slave is as effective as one temple. Thus dominion 5 gives you a 50 % chance of getting an increase from a single slave.

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You do want to be somewhat careful with your dominion. In Dom 1, I set up a game against all the ai on The Old World map - the largest. Imagine my surprise when I got the "the god of Arco is permanently banished because his dominion doesn't touch a single province" message on turn *two*!!

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Gandalf: Wow, 2 dominion? As who? Did you survive?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As Pangaea, and once as Man. In both cases the strategy was to sneak armies to find weak provinces then use call of wind/wild spells to soften it before my army attacked. Both nations have the ability to sneak in builders of temples and labs, and of course fotresses. They took cheap fast-build fortresses to be able to quickly recruit their own units. Then move on to find another weak spot.

I ended up with alot of points all over the map. Very tiny dominion signature let me remain unnoticed. Someone finding me and charging the location surprised them when they found no pretender, didnt cut my incomes, and couldnt find a line of owned provinces showing where I might have gone.

No, I didnt win any multiplayer games with this. But Im not known for winning. I am known for not doing whats expected though. Its not a bad tactic. Someone playing on a large map could maybe win with it.