101 uses of Death 10 pretender

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by licker:
It could be fun, but I don't see how you will mass sacred troops with such a low dominion...

A dominion of 3 would let you recruit only 3 per turn (assuming they are capitol only...) until you get enough temples built, and that's not so cheap now is it with your massively negative scales.

Under such a strategy, you do not want to build many temples, not at all. The more temples you build, the more you harm your core strategy.

As I see it (remember, this is all based on projections, as I have not actually played such a strategy yet) a vital ingredient to the low dominion approach will appear to be to play either a nation with extremely tough (but capital only) sacred troops [Black Hunters, Niefel Giants) - where you are unlikely to be able to recruit more than a few anyhow, OR to play a nation where you can recruit the sacred troops in each fortress. (And remember that sacred commanders may do instead of sacred troops. I shudder to think of a an army of four or five Last of the Tuatha Sidhe or Vanheim Vans with two or three L9 blessings...)

All things considered, Marignon comes to mind as probably the ultimate candidate for this strategy with BOTH cheap sacreds available in all fortresses AND tough sacreds available in the capital AND strong sacred mage/priests.