Dom I Strategies which WON'T work in Dom II

[Pocus]

Originally posted by ywl:
I don't think that you can kill 600 troops with a single MW. As Alex said, it can only kill 20%-40% of an army. If your enemy has a 2000 units army, Mw won't help you.

In my experience, 30 water gems is a significant amount even at turn 30. 15 water gems per turn is a very good income already.

I can think of many other good ways to use 30 water gems. 30 water gems give 30 winter wolves, or 3 Boots of Quickness - neither is too shabby.

The murdering winter spell, aside from taking out group of mages along with mundane units (thus weakening them even further compared to magical summons) act as a very strong deterrent to gather any sizable force in a given location. A nation which is capable of MW'ing his opponent has already strategical and tactical superiority, even before casting the second one, as your opponent will have big difficulties (to say the least) resisting any sizable land attacks of your. When the MW'ing nation has national units immune to cold, as Caelum, it is even worse, as you cant force him to break down his force into defeatable stacks.

In the house rules some of us plays, we interdicted the casting of the 3 army bLasting spells in no dominions was in the province. Perhaps too extreme, and a solution could be to tie the cost of the spell to the dominions level : if you dont have a presence in a province, harnessing magical energies in it should be more difficult somehow.

To understand the problem, you have to play games which Last reasonnably long, on medium to large maps. It seems to me that dominions is failing in his game balance when you reach this point, but this is seldomly seen as most tests and games are stopped before reaching this extremity.

If Daynarr or Psitticine can give their opinion on how these spells play in doms II, then perhaps further conclusions could be drawn.