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Pretty much any game can see you get a decent advantage if you are willing to make trades. If both sides are coming out ahead on the deal and you make tons of trades, you come out well ahead of the others. Everyone has an incentive to trade with you, as each individual trade is good for both sides. Dominions can’t be compared to Eve Online, but there certainly is room for the trading strategy. However, I would like to raise a point of terminology. Instead of “forge *****,” it might be wiser to use the more traditional name, which I believe is “capitalist whore.”

I can not comment if MA Ulm can become such a successful trader that it makes up for any other disadvantages, but it is a legitimate strategy. Some folks might not like it, but then again, not everyone likes what you have to do to make certain nations really powerful.