Dominion Vs Military

[Lex]

Vynd said:
A Priest can only raise dominion in a province up to his level in holy magic. So a basic indy priest can preach a province up to a positive 2 dominion, but no higher. This is what the message you're seeing refers to, not the max dominion that your nation is capable of. You pretty much have to rely on your Pretender, Prophet, and temples to truly max out your dominion in a province.

oh, yeah, that makes sense. so what do you do with all your L2 priests after they've maxed out your important provinces? do you ship them off to battle to cast courage nonstop, or do you keep them doing bugger-all until your pretender dies and you need to call god?

[Boron]

Lex said:

oh, yeah, that makes sense. so what do you do with all your L2 priests after they've maxed out your important provinces? do you ship them off to battle to cast courage nonstop, or do you keep them doing bugger-all until your pretender dies and you need to call god?

you can them always use against ermor / pan cw and other undead horde nations ( e.g. ctis desert tombs ).
or build new temples / castles etc in other provinces , shuffle troops ...

[Arryn]

Lex said:
so what do you do with all your L2 priests after they've maxed out your important provinces?

Give them Sceptres of Authority or Rods of the Phoenix and have them join your attack Groups as artillery.

[Cainehill]

Lex said:
oh, yeah, that makes sense. so what do you do with all your L2 priests after they've maxed out your important provinces? do you ship them off to battle to cast courage nonstop, or do you keep them doing bugger-all until your pretender dies and you need to call god?

Well, sadly, an L2 priest can't cast Sermon of Courage. Putting artillery items on them is an option, as Arryn pointed out, but the priests generally have crumby aim; only items with 100 accuracy or area of effect spells are particularly useful on them.

Personally, unless fighting an undead nation, I try to avoid building very many L2 priests; I don't find them particularly useful except for building temples and banishing undead, while they sap the gold income and clog the production queues. (So to speak - I'd generally rather build a scout, spy, or mage than a L2 priest.)

[Arryn]

Cainehill said:
Well, sadly, an L2 priest can't cast Sermon of Courage. Putting artillery items on them is an option, as Arryn pointed out, but the priests generally have crumby aim; only items with 100 accuracy or area of effect spells are particularly useful on them.

Incinerate, from the Rod of the Phoenix, never misses and generally kills (or at least seriously damages) what it hits.

Of course, if equipping your L2 priests is too much of a bother and you absolutely refuse to pay their measly 1.67gp/turn upkeep cost, you can always suicide them since they're commanders and can go off into hostile territory by themselves.