What did I missed from Dom I.? -> DIPLOMACY!

[Jasper]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
Instead of a fully functional battle simulator you will recieve no battle simulator at all, less is more. So no simulator at all is a whole lot of simulator.

Heh. The funny thing is that it's true, as the old battle simulator was basically worthless. ;-) You were better off simply writing a scenario that setup the battle you wanted to test. Most competitive players in fact did just this. :-(

A simple battle simulator that let you pick any troops, equip them with any items, set each sides research levels, and give orders would go a long way towards minimizing the time needed to play Dominions competitively.

It would also lower the learning curve for new players, and be good for testing and bug finding. I would actually be surprised if Illwinter didn't already have something like this for internal testing purposes...

Would such a tool make the game too well known and thus uninteresting? IMHO no, as you still need to predict what your opponent will do, which is the most interesting part anyway.