Can a low base dominon be helpful?

[Yossar]

Originally posted by Saxon:
When picking your starting dominion, you need to bear in mind that you can raise it, and then decide how important it is to you. Also, I believe that dominion maxs out at 10. I could be wrong, but if I am right, you probably do not want to start any higher than 8. After all, most people will build at least ten temples. If anyone can confirm this, please let me know.

That's correct. Unless you absolutely need high dominion early or are going to make a lot of holy units (since the number you can make doesn't max at 10), 10 is viable only on the tiniest Maps (Urgaia maybe), 9 for something like Aran, and in general you'd probably want at most 8.

[Rainbow]

Thanks for posting that Saxon. Some very solid info on dominion in that pdf.

That -10% hit points per level of dominion must be a good way to discourage pretender SC's from going rampaging in your core provinces.

As far as I can tell from the guide, the only way a dominion point can be 'wasted' is if it is spread from one provinse into another (randomly chosen) province, which already has max. dominion.

The explanation of what the Restless Worshippers theme actually does is worth gold. Great info!

/Rainbow

[Vynd]

Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:

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Originally posted by Vynd:
OK, as I understand it, when the game does a temple check (or pretender check, etc.) in a province and it determines that dominion should go up, then it will always boost the dominion of that province unless it is at max. If it is maxed out, then and only then will your dominion (possibly) be pushed into a neighboring province.

If that was true, in the first turn your dominion wouldn't spread outwards before it is maxed in the capital. Anyone who has played more than a couple games should know it doesn't work like this. Did you really never notice that surrounding provinces might have a positive dominion in turn 2 while you capital was still below its optimal value?

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You're right of course. And yeah I'd seen this many times but somehow just didn't think of it when I was framing my original post.

[Gandalf Parker]

Ive often used low dominion as a tactic. Usually in a game where Im a sneaking nation and want to stay hidden longer. Or Im going with really harsh scales to get high bless and planning to do most of my activities outside of the range of my dominion

[ June 01, 2004, 15:36: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]