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[High_Priest_Naresh]

Hi I'm new to Dom2 I've been playing for a while and I've decided That my 5 fav nations are
1. Mictlan-blood magic and cheap troops
2. Caelum-Archers and fliers
3. Man-archers and semi strong magic
4. Abysia-'cool' people
5. Machaka-spider riders

plz can peeps help me, and also offer advice on the game

[RibbonBlue]

You probaly want to put this the general dominions 2 forums.
I am pretty nooby too but here is my opinions are your races.
Mictlan, blood and blessings
Caelum, fly, possibly the most powerful mages+magic
Man, archers rocks, magic research sucks so mages=decent
Abysia, blood magic
Machaka, ?

[Zen]

This has been moved to the Dominions 2 general forum so you might have more of a response.

[Truper]

If you want some sort of response, it would help if you asked specific questions. Otherwise, become comfortable with the search function on these boards - there are after all 152 pages of advice (among other things) already here

[Endoperez]

Well, one easy tip to give out is to use your starting spells. Not all nations have equally good starting spells, but Abysia can cast powerful Flare, Caelum has Wind Guide (IIRC), which is great help for archers. Machaka has Blindness, good spell but works best when used against few powerful enemies, so isn't really useful on expansion. If your enemy has few strong units without high mr(Black Knigths, Jotunheim's giants, Knights of the Chalice with flaming weapons and berserk), blind them!

[High_Priest_Naresh]

cheers for your help, but can you tell me who the best god is for machaka, for magic, dominion and strength,

cheers to all peeps who help me....

ps how do you gain ranks, I noticed sum peeps on this site that are genrals and majors how do you gain ranks?