[magnate]

I disagree with Pickles - I always choose Dom 9 or 10 in SP if I can afford it. It makes a big difference to a lot of little things - you'd be amazed at the number of spells or effects that are bigger and better in your dominion (or don't work at all outside it). I need hardly any scouts when my dom is so strong that I get very accurate reports of neighbouring provs. Unrest goes away faster, so income comes quicker. All my summoned commanders have 2x hp. It's particularly useful at the moment where I'm up against Ermor, who also has strong dominion, and his gets him free troops.

What interests me is how many castles MP players seem to build - in SP I hardly ever need to build castles because there's always an AI capital to take when I need one! If I ever get into MP I'll have to read up on castling ....

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