Computer Enemy Dominion Spread Is So FAST!

[apples]

I think my god's dominion is like 4 and the computer AI was set to advanced. Guess that explains my weak dominion and computer player's army.

[llamabeast]

A common recommendation is to take at least 6 in dominion.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

There are several common reasons people go for less dominion.

Bad scales that they want to outrun.
Cheap, quality priests of at least level 2 (Ctis), and somewhere specific to put the rest of their points.

As an interesting fact, priests can raise your dominion above your pretender's natural level. With a temple and t2 priests preaching, you may see this, but with t1 priests, you're out of luck, unless you have a ridiculously bad dominion scale.

[Valandil]

I think it was Gandalf who,in Dom 2, played a domstrength 2ish triple bless mictlan, neglecting to push his scales with sacrifice, and relying on uberbless sacreds.

[Folket]

Two sacreds a turn with Mictlan? Sounds like a very bad idea. At least strange and many ideas from Gandalf are strange. Probably bad and strange.

[Humakty]

I think it all depends on your dominion strategy. I usually go for positive scales, so even if I don't play with sacreds, I take a dom of 4+ so I can easily control my territory.(and take advantage of my scales)
You can imagine the opposite, with an ultra bad scale setting, and a pretender with 9 S/B/D, for a powerhouse in late game.( and a 1 or 2 dom)

[Kristoffer O]

Folket said:
Two sacreds a turn with Mictlan? Sounds like a very bad idea. At least strange and many ideas from Gandalf are strange. Probably bad and strange.

It is not very difficult to raise dominion with sacrifices. Might have been even easier in dom2. Can't remember.

[Folket]

Sacrifices does not really allow him to recruit more sacreds do they?