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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

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Originally posted by PvK:
Seems to me drain gives a good bonus to magic resistance, helping your forces survive banishment, which is rather important. No?

PvK

Drain is essential... your minions die like flies even with +1 MR. Without it, you'd be toast. You can always forge skulls and quills for research - con-4 is easily in reach of an Ermor pretender in a few turns.

Besides, it's good to make your dominion as hostile as possible to everyone else=)

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It's not really a very good idea to choose Drain-3. Your undeads, even in Dom 2, would be banished by the bundle anyway. There isn't too much point to protect them. It's better to improve your research using Magic Scale. Skull is possible but it's not gauranteed that you have many death sites other than the capital one.

On the Dominion side, there is opinion that your dominion strength shouldn't be excessive (more than 6 candles) in a MP game. You're usually hated and ganged up against by most people. But with a smaller dominions strength, you might have a larger chance to delay the inevitable. With a high dominions strength, you'll also have a very impressive number of units, most of which are *useless* undeads - another way to ask for an alliance to kill you if the world score is open for everybody to see.

But the balance between viable diplomatic scale and enough undeads is a hard one. That's why I always find Ashen Ermor difficult to play in a MP game.