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FAJ said:
But due to the cost in scales, the low dominion and hits from scales, arn't the armies very small? Wouldn't they suffer greatly from things like bonds/prison of fire, or powerful, single target killing spells? God forbid they start getting charmed.
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I'm not saying it's a good strategy but I will say this.
With Dominion 4, you don't have to worry about your own domininon spreading very far. Though I tried the build I just posted in single player, and in the first 3 turns I had my population of my capital cut by a 1/5th, then cut by 5% in one event after the other. I actually started patrolling the capital with the crappy guys just to make enough cash to keep pumping the sacreds out.
Playing on Aran in SP my strategy was to conquer my nearest neighbor as quickly as possible. I managed to do it on turn 15 or so without any difficulty. I just walked right up to their capital, and laid siege to it. I don't think I even lost a guy on the way there. By the time I was done, I had a second army of sacred giants ready to go.
So it is viable to get a good head start that way. Your main units are also sacred, so high MR. I would like to remind people this is a difficult research map, so it's easier for bless nations to abuse researching nations early on. There's simply not enough time to research the spells needed to counter an assault like this.
Is it a good long term strategy? Doubtful, unless you can find a blessable summon quickly enough to carry you into the mid and late game. Your capital is always going to be under full effect of your awful scales, and if you have average luck I would say by turn 40-50 you simply won't have enough population/resources to recruit from there. Though I haven't crunched the numbers on that. On turn 23 or so after patrolling my capital I was down to 19k population or so.
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