Can I get some cheese with that...

[Cainehill]

[quote]Originally posted by PvK:

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"Everything in Dom2 boils down to those temples, after all..."

It does? Temples do several things, but I don't think any of my games have "boiled down" to temples. Then, I haven't used many immortals, nor relied on blessed national units.
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I don't use a lot of immortals either, and still find temples extremely appealing. (This may be influenced by my having played a lot of CW Pan, admittedly.) Having enemy dominion creep into my provinces is no good, naturally.

And more importantly when using a CP (Combatant Pretender / Prophet), the temples help raise your dominion, which means that your CP has better health, strength, etc.

Immortals (both pretenders and commanders (albeit how many nations, other than T'ien C'hi and Ermor get non-pretender immortals?)) just make lots of temples even more compelling.