What is Dominions II?

[reverend]

I think Arryn has some good replies.

- MoM taken to the next level
- best fantasy TBS currently available
- large-scale AoW (AoW = fighting for a province, Dom2 = fighting for a world)

You might also try comparisons to Fantasy General, but the two games are very different. (Like comparing Panzer General to Hearts of Iron). Actualy, I think Victoria or Europa Universalis could be compared to Dom2. They are RTS, but you can pause and slow down the game enough to basically make them turn-based.

[Arryn]

I'd hate to compare Dom to Hoi (or any of Paradox's EU-engined games). IW has coded a by far better AI than the lame excuse for AI that EU/HoI/Vicky have.

The provincial aspects / world conquest do vaguely resemble Risk, but that's about as far as that analogy can go, and it's pushing it as is. You have a broader and deeper variety of units than the Warlords or AoW series, but lack the depth of hero development of those games. OTOH, Dom allows you to go into more detail in equipping your "heroes" (commanders), so it's a different sort of "development", and more or less balances out not having a real system for user-selected hero skills and their improvement. Pretenders are somewhat similar to your mage in MoM, but the feel is different. Dominion push (vaguely) resembles something from Populous.

[PrinzMegaherz]

The battle system with its not controlable fighting sequences remind me of some console strategy games like ogre battle or the older warsong.

Indeed I would like to see closeups of the commanders faces and some statements before battle, to give your units more personality (like an Abysian Salamander with fiery eyes "I'll burn you to cinders", or an charging ulmish knight commander "For [enter god name here]".

[magnate]

PrinzMegaherz said:

Indeed I would like to see closeups of the commanders faces and some statements before battle, to give your units more personality (like an Abysian Salamander with fiery eyes "I'll burn you to cinders", or an charging ulmish knight commander "For [enter god name here]".

Thanks - you've just given me my next pretender's name: Aiur.

CC