[Evil Dave]

Originally posted by Zen:
What exactly are you looking for advise?

Two things: how best to expand the dominion, and how to deal with its effects on indie specialists.

To make good use of Miasma, it needs to spread, which means a high dominion score. There are two ways of getting that: spend points when designing a pretender, or build temples. I've done fairly well by starting with dominion 9, but I'm not sure the reduced scales and magic are worth the cost.

OTOH, since the dominion does give a (slight) income bonus, it seems that building lots of temples might not be so bad. But I haven't done well starting with, say, dominion 7 and building from there. So that's the first question: how much dominion to start with?

The second question is what to do with indie troops and specialists? Miasma slowly grinds them down, so they become much less cost effective than normal. Think sages are still useful, but I'm less sure about archers (for example), which I usually recruit for C'tis.