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Boron said:
Just curious : why do you take dominion 8 with caelum ?
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I've noticed that Caelian economy is much more stable during sommer with a Dominion score of 9-10. I rather neglect HeartOfWinter in favour of a high Dominion. In addition, I felt that it is a huge advantage in the beginning: The provinces you take switch pretty fast to my good scales with a high dominion, which accelerates expansion noticeably in my experience. It probably doesnt pay off if you play on big maps, but if you play on maps where allmost all indipendents are gone around turn 20, this gives you a nice headstart. A huge farmland province is well worth being site searched or bloodhunted by my pretender early on: Its income is insignificant if its not cold and orderly, but with the high strength, the pretender residing there spreads dominion easily to a higher number, resulting in a quick scale change - and having order3, cold3 & growth3 makes a huge difference in income for big provinces!
Also, I dont have a huge blood economy: I usually hunt with 3-4 blood sages with rods in a single >5000 pop province + my pretender wherever he happens to me. Caelum isnt a blood nation, so I only go for a few StormDemons, some IceDevils and some Hellswords. I also do not necessarily built a lab (caelian scouts are quite fine for transport, since I need bloodslave in big portions anyway) nor a castle in that province, but I shift the blood hunters if I have another province suitable for bloodhunting i.e. <8000 pop which needs a castle. I also choose either a Castle or a WizardsTower, since I do not see the point of mere WatchTowers. My fliers might relief a siege, but still they might need two turn to arrive or one turn to cast a WrathfulSkies with a skirmishing force. Hence I do not have that much castles, I
rather spent my money on troops and mages to throw at my enemies. I built just enough castles to defend chokepoints and to turn all my gold into mages
So I am usually lacking the provinces and castles to built more than a 5 temples anyway before I am engaged in active warfare, where my money is needed at the front...
But I post this here to learn, not to proselytize (we are out of the game, aint we?) so please more comments about improvements and flaws in my theory!?!