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Winning by straight dominion takes a long time and when I was fiddling with it in a game yesterday (I had the day off) it seemed that I would have won the game faster by spending the money on troops. Of course, dominating the dominion situation helped by troops a lot, but having a temple in every province was overkill. However, I was surprised at how long it took, given the money I had sunk into it.

In other words, pushing dominion is tough and slow. I agree with the poster who said that money spent on temples is money not spent on troops and you can go too far down the temple road. Striking the balance is the tough part.

I also tried the mobile squad of priests. It did help quite a bit in beating down the enemy dominion. In particular, they help take down “dominion walls” in newly conquered areas. However, it was the temples which then push into enemy territory. You need both if you want to ever fight in your own dominion on the offensive. Otherwise the priests just clean up nasty dominion effects in your territory.