Quote:
DominionsFan said:
Hm, I've never used dragon pretenders in Doms 2. tbh, but Im gonna try them out in Doms 3. 
|
They work best with "weak" indies.
In my Dom2-Blitzes in the channel indy 6 was normally the default setting.
Now we take either indy 6 or leave it on the dom3 default, which is indy 5.
If you play with indy 8-9 dragons do probably not work well.
But with indy 5-6 they very often rout the indy melee troops with their breath attack
.
In yesterdays blitz i used a w9 dragon and he did conquer 1 province per turn for me from turn 2-12 ca., then i ran into opponents.
The dragon helped me a lot there imho, i was able to conquer the most indy provinces in this 7 player blitz. So i could afford to make naps with my 2 neighbors and could comfortably build up and start blood hunting (i took mictlan EA).
With the dragon you usually get more indy provinces. And after that for raiding he is somewhat useful too.
A dragon usually means 5-15 more provinces then your enemy if he did not also take a dragon.
But some nations are better at expanding as others.
So the above statement is only true if you both have a nation that can expand about as well as your opponents nation.
If you want to try a lvl 9 bless strat the dragon is optimal normally imho.