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Wait for the Dom3 demo. If the demo is similar to the one they put out in Dom2, you'll only have from 5 upward nations to choose from (all with their own units, although most have units filling some of the roles of light and heavy infantry, archers and cavalry, and the differences are sometimes just cosmetic for human nations), and you can only research magic up to level four in the 8 schools of magic. That'd be about 250 spells if I didn't make any major mistakes. They aren't all usable for all nations, and especially the level 0 and 1 spells can sometimes be just barely better than nothing or even too situational to be of any use at all, but it's still 250 spells. And in Dom2, you'd also be able to forge about 150 items, few more for Dom3.

If the AI is able to offer any kind of resistance, you can probably enjoy just discovering the game. And then you can choose a different nation, and do it all over again. Perhaps even in a different age, so that the enemy nations have also changed.