Please help me to love Dominions 2!

[Tricon]

Oh , and the love for the game came when an oponent brought about 30 bloodslaves with them on the battlefield and started casting spells.

It was a definite "You can do that?.....Wow." moment.

Another was seeing 6 elefants and 4 chariots waltz through countless militamen/light infantrymen.

[Taqwus]

I'm rather into blood sacrifice, blotting out the sun, freezing the ocean surfaces, and filling the sky with lethal pathogens.
More seriously, 'tho, this game basically has "more". The magic system is enormous, the amount of detail in units is rather crazy (down to how many eyes a monster has remaining... if this were a board game, there'd have to be more counters than in _Flat Top_), and more options in rather different nation/theme combinations. Hey, you can play a benevolent deity blessing the world with superb health, great harvests, and phantasmal servants; or you can try for far, far nastier styles, or much in between.

[japinard]

I'm playing with "Man" and have been recruiting a balanced army of spearmen axemen and archers.

I've had the Arch-Druid as the Pretender. I'd like to stick with Man since the units are easier for me to identify with.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
I'm rather into blood sacrifice, blotting out the sun, freezing the ocean surfaces, and filling the sky with lethal pathogens.

I'd rather fill the sky with lethal pigeons, personally, and I'm somewhat indifferent to blood sacrifice or freezing the ocean. Totally with you on blotting out the sun, though. Stupid frickin' sun.

[Starfighter08]

Originally posted by japinard:
I'm playing with "Man" and have been recruiting a balanced army of spearmen axemen and archers.

I've had the Arch-Druid as the Pretender. I'd like to stick with Man since the units are easier for me to identify with.

Build many longbowmen then, they rock. As cheap infantery use tower guards. If you chose a low level of indigenous strengh 20 fighters (of whatever type you start with) and twenty longbowmen will slaughter the indigenous forces. Keep following things in mind:
- scout early and attack your weakest neighbour
- place the fighters in front of your longbowmen and give them the order "hold then attack close enemies" (or somesuch), longbowmen should be ordered "fire close enemies". That way the enemy has to walk up to your army while being nailed by the bowmen. This works especially well if the enemy as little to no cavalry or bowmen of his own
-as soon as you can afford it build some knights and place them on the flanks of your army and order them "attack rearmost enemy"
- enjoy the show

[ March 10, 2004, 20:43: Message edited by: Starfighter08 ]

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by japinard:
I'm playing with "Man" and have been recruiting a balanced army of spearmen axemen and archers.

I've had the Arch-Druid as the Pretender. I'd like to stick with Man since the units are easier for me to identify with.

Man's my favorite nation, hands down. But you are wasting your time with the spearmen and axemen. You want to recruit about 40 longbows and 10 - 20 Wardens (or Daoine Sidhe, if you're playing 'Last of Tuathas'). Put the Wardens on 'hold and attack' and put the longbows into 2 Groups - one on each flank, slightly behind the Wardens. Make sure you have a priest to bless your Wardens.
Take that force and you can take out pretty much any independant force up to strength level 6.

Research Alteration 4 for wind guide and send a crone along with a few air gems

Research Alteration 6 for mass protection and give said crone some nature gems

I should mention that you want to get a pretender with air magic to use this strategy, so that the blessing effect on the wardens includes an air shield.

Once you face other nations get province defense (even though it sucks for Man, it will act as a deterent for a while - to stop them declaring war on you) and raise a couple more armies like the one above.


I'm sure there's other ways to do it, but this is simple and effective to begin with.

[Arralen]

Originally posted by japinard:
I'm playing with "Man" and have been recruiting a balanced army of spearmen axemen and archers.
I've had the Arch-Druid as the Pretender. I'd like to stick with Man since the units are easier for me to identify with.

Which magics did you invest in?
How did you set up the scales?
What castle did you choose?

What where the game settings?

What did you do in the first 5 turns?
E.g. you remembered to put the taxes to 80% after conquering a province to reduce unrest, than setting them to 100% again when unrest=0 ?

If you tell us a bit more about what you've been doing, we may point out possible flaws in your strategy more easily.