Who believes?

[happygeek]

Do I understand correctly that Dominion is not about army presence, but the strength of the population's belief in your pretender God's supremacy? You build temples, for example, and your dominion increases because the people flock there and see the glory of God. Your priests spread the word, much like Saulus did back in the day. Soon everyone is talking: Your God is not just an idea!

So I am stil very new, but I was playing SP against lots of death nations, and came across 4 provinces with only a couple of hundreds of population in there. I tried some blood hunting, and had death scales, as did my opposition. Soon there was ... NO POPULATION left in half a dozen provinces. But my dominion rose.

So with no population -- who believes? How can anyone's dominion flourish with no citzens? No one is there to train the smiths to forge the armor to recruit the troops, but also no is there to flock to the temples! The priests preach -- to whom?