Micromanagement

[Makinus]

Hello everyone!

First, let me tell that i love Dominions! I have both Dom2 and Dom3, and i play Dom3 in my main machine and Dom2 in my notebook (it�s not robust enough to handle Dom3 well)...

Now, while i love the game, i rarely finish a game (i play only against the AI, no multiplayer for schedule reasons), mainly beause of the huge amount of micromanagement needed on later turns...

So, i would like to know what strategies you use to reduce micromanagement in later turns... i get tired of every turn to check every province to recruit new troops, it get tiresome when you have 50+ provinces to check...

[mathusalem]

for SP only :

* only on smalls maps
* no scout or spy after the third one
* big army or tough SC : I don't adjust my force with the enemy one, I crush them methodically and raise the PD.
* only battlespell without a gem cost + clams, blood stones

[thejeff]

Victory Conditions.

Don't try playing a 600 province game with all nations in it. You'll be massively dominant long before actually taking all the provinces.

I usually play with 5-6 nations, 10-15 provinces each. 10%+1 capitals as a victory condition. You don't really get into endgame magic, but the AI can't handle that anyway.
Early/midgame is where the AI works best.

And don't recruit troops in every province anyway. Recruit troops in the castles near the front and maybe capital only troops. (And your occasional good indy province) Recruit mages everywhere you can. You should be spending most of your money on mages by the time you've got 50 provinces.

[Zeldor]

Do not cast Gift of Nature's Bounty And do not play nations like MA TC.

[BesucherXia]

I always play SP huge maps (glory of the gods) with all nations in it. When I am getting tired of the micromanagement, I just start another game and pick another nation.
After all, if human players can manage to reach a certain phase in a SP game, killing AI will be just a matter of time.

[Makinus]

One feature that would ease the micromanagement would be a setting where the province would always produce a selected unit up to the resource amount available in the province... would be possible to add this in a patch?

[chrispedersen]

I would like priest to automatically go to defend if they cannot raise the domininon level via preach.

[Ewierl]

chrispedersen said:
I would like priest to automatically go to defend if they cannot raise the domininon level via preach.

Keep in mind that "Defend" and "Preach, even though preaching has no effect" result in identical behavior. It's only a difference of the word under the commander icon.

[MaxWilson]

Except that if they do go to "defend" they'll show up when you hit "N" so you can move them elsewhere.

-Max