Bet the CGW review helped.

[Cthulu13]

Originally posted by Griswel:

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Originally posted by gregarine:
The Computer Gaming World review was what got me to come here and order the game. They made the game sound very/deep and complex which is what I like!

Same here (CGW and the tutorial site).

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It was CGW battle report that cinched it for me. I just got the game and haven't got over the learning curve yet so I spend most of the time crouched in my little provinces, playing with magic and hoping none of the computers notice me.

[Saber Cherry]

Originally posted by Wauthan:
I guess Illwinter will add a step by step tutorial for Dominions 3: Fall of the Gods that explains its detailed and streamlined userinterface?

If it had not been for this forum, and particularly the works of Saber Cherry, I would simply have given up on the game and saved my money for Warlords Battlecry 3. Now I'm glad I didn't. This game is very addictive, and I eagerly await the patch. Learning the game is pretty fast actually. Mastering it enough to beat the computer on easy is a whole other matter.

It's funny you should mention that! I consider Warlords Battlecry II to be an exceptional game... on par with Kohan, if not Total Annihilation. And yet - I've been playing Dominions for a couple years, and am writing (to my knowledge) its only combat sim... and am still completely unfamiliar with most of the spells and 60% of the units

I think that's what I like about it. There are just too many variables to ever do anything "perfectly"... not because it is too hard... but because there is no "perfect way".

-Cherry

[Lord Felix]

I also learned of Dom2 from the CGW review and battle report, but it wasn't the first time I'd been to Shrapnel Games. I've been playing computer strategy games for about 20 years, and Dom2 probably had the biggest learning curve of any of them. I studied the game, the manual (such as it is), the CGW battle report about 10 times, everything on this forum, and kept thinking about the game constantly for almost a week before I felt like I really knew what I was doing. My first five or six games I was VERY slow, and I got slaughtered. I finally won for the first time tonight, as Ulm against average Jotunheim and Michtlan on the Urgaia map. An easy setting, of course, but I wanted to see one all the way through.

This is a really, really good game. Definitely more difficult and interesting than AOW:SM, which is a mighty good game.

[Riley]

The CGW review is what brought me here too. I never heard of Dominions before. So far its a great game. Maybe one of the best games I've bought this year.

We like to use Cherry like our number factory! Mwhahahahahaha!

The beauty of Dom2, is right when you think you have something where you think nothing can budge your idea of it. Something comes along and makes you look at it in a new light.

And yes, everyone bow to Cherry's Combat Sim. All hail furry ears.

[ManInGray]

I heard about the game in Cgw to.

[mjlaufgr]

I simply want to chime in about Warlords Battlecry 2. Worth both the word "exceptional" and the bold text it's printed in. Amazing game that was tragically passed over by many.


Mark