Fools Lament II - Ended - Mictlan wins!!!

[Peter Ebbesen]

Peter Ebbesen said:
All your neighbours want to kill you before your dominion reaches critical mass

Huzurdaddi said:
I'll be honest I have never seen this happen. I'm not 100% sure as to how the rules wrt. dominion flowing though other people's provinces work.

I have... Playing Ermor.

It is terrifying to the opposition (according to reliable information from said opposition after the game). Once your dominion builds up to 10 in each core area, it starts spreading like there is no tomorrow unless your enemies have as high a dominion (unlikely, but not impossible, until late game since Ermor usually have a much higher dominion pretender than most other nations) or are preaching like mad (which they will be). They can hold your dominion at bay with preaching, but as soon as you launch an offensive and clear an area of priests for a few rounds, their local dominion will be crushed and the population will soon follow. If timed with raiding to destroy temples in the rear, you will severely restrict their ability to push domain back at you, and even if you have to retreat from your offensive (which, quite possibly, were part of your original plan), you may have managed to destroy a province for gold purposes.

The Lich Queen is an excellent pretender for domain warfare and thematic to boot.

This works best on non-wraparound maps if Ermor can secure an area leading up to a map border (giving you a safe domain-side)

...And is wholly dependent on the oppositions' starting domain. Did all your neighbours start with dominion 8-9? Or do they have substantially more temples than you (each)? Then forget about it.