average dominion scale.

[Gandalf Parker]

Depends on who I am playing and why. If Im playing Marignon against Ermor I will often play with 7 or 8. With someone using extreme scales Its usually that high also. With Pan playing stealth armies, or if Im pushing maximum bless effects, I will often play with as low a dominion as I can arrange.

[PvK]

Originally posted by djtool:
I didn't see anything in the manual describing a productivity/magic bonus to provinces with a high dominion rating.

They don't directly, but scales do, and scales are spread by dominion.

PvK

[Thilock_Dominus]

It depends which race I choose and how I will play them. But when I'm playing C'tis - Miasma which is my favorite I'll choose to set the dominion scale at 8 with a combat Pretender.


Thilock

[reverend]

Usually, I take 6 dominion. If I need more magic paths sometimes only 5, but that's the exception.

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Depends on who I am playing and why. If Im playing Marignon against Ermor I will often play with 7 or 8. With someone using extreme scales Its usually that high also. With Pan playing stealth armies, or if Im pushing maximum bless effects, I will often play with as low a dominion as I can arrange.

I haven't played Pan much, could you explain why you like to have very low dominion with stealthy Pan armies Gandalf?

[Norfleet]

Probably his intent of taking low dominion is to avoid having his dominion be visible and therefore provide a means of tracking him easily back to his home province.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Some nations should consider Ceremonial Faith, which may be cheaper than going for high dominion, and just as effective if not more. These IMHO are good candidates for Ceremonial Faith, for these reasons:

Caelum: cheap, stealthy, holy-3 Seraphines can fly where their preaching ability is needed.

Man: cheap stealthy monks and cheap temples.

Pangaea: stealthy holy-3 Dryads and cheap temples.

Marignon: cheap stealthy friars and Inquisitors.

Machaka: holy-2 priests with increased stealth, and cheap holy-3 priests.

I've also noticed that Ceremonial Faith works well with R'lyeh and Atlantis, who sometimes have problems to push their dominion because of the large size of sea provinces. Both have astral mages and the astral gems they need (thru clams) to place lots of Telestetic Animates in their underwater provinces. Upkeep-free level 5 priests come handy to keep the dominion right there. And since many sea invasions are carried on with undead hordes, they may find a second role as point defense.

[ July 14, 2004, 09:11: Message edited by: Nagot Gick Fel ]