Strategy Index Discussion
 

I've found the forum's search feature a bit inconvenient, and my favorites list a bit cluttered, so I've decided to gather the major racial strategy threads in one place. Maybe do more, but only one task at a time. In order found in manual... Formatting and completeness will come when they come. For now, it's a matter of finding the easy stuff first, then searching.

Strategy Wikis
Strategy Wiki Thread

The new Strategy Index is here: The Strategy Index

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This is great. Thanks for doing the work compiling it.
Needless to say, this should be stickied somewhere.

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Good collection!

You might want to break it out by Nation and Age though. For example Early Ermor and Late Ermor don't have almost anything in common.

(p.s. also the first Ermor post in your list appears to be about the jotenheim)

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Excellent work. Thanks.

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Great Lazy_P! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
Thanks for compiling this link list.

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Very nice. Thanks very much for compiling this list. The search engine is a bit tedious for this sort of thing. I wish someone would do a more thorough LA Pan though. Maybe I'll have to do it myself.

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Thanks for the comments, Ballbarian, Lingchih, Gandalf Parker (everybody look out, its the NSA!), Velusion, and Tichy.

Velusion - Eventually. If I'm actually to finish this, I'll have to minimize the organization I do while I scrounge up threads. I'll section-ify-ize them after I've gone three forum pages without anything Nation-y jump out at me.

Lingchih - I'll let you know if I find any thorough Pan threads. I'm not done panning through the river of words just yet. Though if you start a Pan guide, or aggressively discuss them, I'll happily give it a place of mention at the top of the first post.

I added some Shinuyama. Hmm... I'll probably be adding to this thread on a daily basis, thanks to a job thats usually exceedingly slow until 6, then goes to hell in a hurry. Though it isn't always that predictable.

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Yet another great thanks for this work.

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Marignon link is for Agartha.

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Excellent work Lazy_Perfectionist, though if you keep at it, you're bound to lose your 'lazy' qualifier. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Perfectionist, you should get this thread stickied and then update it as people make new guides

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We should make sure all of the good strategies are in the wiki.

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If you make sure that all the "good" strategies are in the wiki then you turn the wiki into a blog

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Updated to page 20 of forum. Brain cells low, chat amongst yourself, I will do no thinking.

Uhm... Will make graphical avatar/sig for person who find/write Eriu/Tuatha thread. Or just offer imaginary chocolater chip cookie.

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Ooooooh, or make a chocolate chip cookie graphical avatar/sig!?
Time to learn me some new nations!

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moved.

Yar! Kaliasa- demo only. May be useful as a starting point for other Ape nations, and for full-version Kaliasa. To bad he (the author dirtywick) hasn't been heard from since '06. Least in these forums. I'm consulting Shinuyama ATM for one of my games.

MA Ulm

I'll do some additional work on this once I get over a little sickness.

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bump

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I have a request here. If you start a national strategy thread, post here with a link, please.

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If I may make a quick suggestion Lazy_Perfectionist; It makes for a cleaner thread if you added all the new strategy threads in the first post, instead of adding a new post for each new one.

Maybe under a 'New:' section, in case people check back and want to see which one's they haven't seen before. With the newest ones appearing at the top or bottom of the list, and after a month or so being shuffled from the new list to the standard list.

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I will clean things up tomorrow, Saulot, but with my headcold, I'm just to lazy to bother today.

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Bump.

Give me a cookie, Saulot! I demand a cookie! Or Libby's head on a silver platter.

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You know who you remind me of?

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/image...ookieThief.jpg

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

*hands over the box of cookies* Now put down the weapon.

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Oh.. and after tidying, I stuck plenty more threads in the first post. I found a lot more from pages 20-30 than I expected.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1596962
Darn, I really can't find that video where Martha/Cookie Monster flirt. That was hilarious.

Cookie Monster on Martha Stewart Living
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orxd5L5qFLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FYvxa9RKp0

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: Cookie Monster on Martha Stewart Living
 

A question to the moderators, it is possible to sticky this very useful post as asked before?

Re: stickie this
 

A) its not a good idea to sticky a thread based on good intentions. Its better to have it prove itself as being maintainable before stickying it (this one does seem to have reached that point but not when the request was first made)

B) its not a good idea to have too many stickies so making a sticky can mean losing one

C) because of B it can be better if one of the other stickies (such as the FAQ sticky) brings a thread into its thread by linking to it

Update
 

Another update, a small one this time. Two threads, one Agartha, one Atlantis. Later, I will be working on combing generally interesting, non-nation specific strategy threads, from old-age to Wight Lords.

Request: If there's a racial strategy thread I missed, please bring it to my attention. If you make a new strategy thread, please bring it to my attention. I'm a bit flexible, but I'll generally add it to my list if it hit two pages long.

What I'd really like is if you'd actively look for any really educational After Action Reports, and bring them to my attention. My searches won't be touching on the AAR forum, but I've seen some really interesting reads there.

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This thread is *awesome*. Thank you Lazy_Perfectionist!

Ideally, all of this info could be bound into one file: "THE dominions strategy guide" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Update
 

One file? Thats like the old thread about one book.
Even with Dom2 I used to say that a Strategy Guide would have to be a set of encyclopedia.
With Dom3 we are getting close to needing a library. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Update
 

Thanks for the feedback, Wraithlord, and everyone. It keeps me kicking away at this.

I've added one truly new thread that popped up. Caelum I believe. Nothing tuatha and eriu yet? Well, I guess I'll have to play a few practice games with them. I'll update my agartha guide after I get some multiplayer experience under my belt. I'm in as MA agartha in two games, LA Atlantis in two.

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You missed the LA Ermor guide I wrote:

*see sig*

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EA Ulm advice thread that has analysis of Ulmish units, strengths and weaknesses for EA.

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Merci beaucoup. I'm sticking it in now.

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General Strategy and Information Threads:

The Art of Placement
Intercepting Armies
Site Searching Strategy

Edit:
Some Old Age Tests
Alexander's Ever-Expanding Tome of Knowledge, pt 2
Help countering trampling monsters

Re: Update
 

Some new nation threads on the first page.

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we really need to make this sticky. I visit this thread every day http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I couldn't even find it anymore (had to go through the search function). This is such an incredibly informative thread, surely it has earned sticky-status by now?

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Yes this thread needs a sticky pronto. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Ha, I successfully stickied it!

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This is a great thread. Thanks.

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You're welcome. I appreciate the feedback and the sticky.

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LP--

I am truly humbled by the work that must have gone into this. Thank you.

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there isn't any guide of Lanka ?

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None that I've seen, unfortunately. I think they may have been added in a patch.

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It occurs to me that this thread currently focuses only on nation specific strategy, and not general gameplay tips. May I suggest that it both? For example, here's a thread where you can download charts plotting how much extra or less gold you'll get from Growth and Death.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...o=&fpart=1

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Found a Lanka guide!

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...art=1&vc=1

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Perhaps the lead post in this thread could be edited to list ALL of the nations making it clear not only which ones have guides but which ones do not. It might spur some people to do one on their favorite nations.

Personally, Im always drawn to the underdog. I love digging into the overlooked features of this game to try and come up with a reason for it to be there. Im much more interested in knowing what the most overlooked nation is.

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If my day at work isn't an exercise in panic, I'll see what I can do about updating this guide.

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Thanks for this thread.. and keep it coming ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I'll try, I really will. But the other IT guy is on a vacation- and doesn't come back till Wednesday. This ties my hands, in a couple of ways, and doubles the grief I get for things out of my control. After he returns though, the insanity will continue, but at least...

Well, this isn't a livejournal. It suffices to say that I've seen some threads of interest that I will probably stick in this thread once a certain bandwidth issue is resolved for good.