Hello

[Anglachel]

Just wanted to say hello. I found out about this game about a week ago when I was bored and went to CDnet and just scrolled through the entire list of demo games by publishers(yes I looked through them ALL). When I came across the Dominions II entry and read the breif description I was surprised. I haven't seen a turn based fantasy strategy game of note since Masters of Magic. I remember having lots of cool hot seat games with Master of Magic when it first came out so I thought Dominions II would be worth a look so I downloaded the demo. I knew from the first choices when I started up the game that this was a game with depth. Unfortunately I found myself making a lot of choices setting up a game that I didn't understand as far as thier rammifications on a game but I mollified myself somewhat by just picking what I thought looked cool and just try and figure it all out by playing. Then the first turn map came up and I was totally lost and no tutorial in sight. I quit and deleted the game.

The next day I did some research on the game because I figured that from the depth the demo hinted at it would be worthwhile to try again. I then came across Bruce Geryk's walkthrough and used it as a reference to understand how to at least do the basic function to play the game. Thank you Mr. Geryk for taking the time to do that walkthrough, otherwise I would have passed by this excellent game. As it stands I now own the full game of Dominions II and am anticipating playing through a full game. I have had a lot of experience playing strategy game short of those mega grognard ones with the little paper squares. I have played War Hammer and War Hammer 20k on table top and a lot of way Dominions II plays as far as units and spells and routing tactically reminds me a lot of War Hammer. Especially the way the undead army works. I always favored Orcs in War Hammer and War Hammer 20k. One of my favorite things to do with a game I am new to and which catches my interest is to study the current meta-game and see how I can defy those expectations. I have done a lot of reading on this board already and am starting to get an idea of it but I think I will have more fun just playing the game and seeing some things for myself.

Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and perhaps I will have something worthwhile to post here from time to time as well as questions most likely because I am fully aware that anyone who has it "all figured out" is doomed to never learn anything new.