Dominions Player Preffered Playstyles "Poll"

[Huzurdaddi]

Boron said:
4.Abomination/Iron Dragon (best for special lategame tasks)

Boron, could you explain what you find these good for? Perhaps their use is a side effect of hoarding making resource costs irrelevant? Since price/performance they both seem to be lacking.

[alexti]

Huzurdaddi said:

Boron, could you explain what you find these good for? Perhaps their use is a side effect of hoarding making resource costs irrelevant? Since price/performance they both seem to be lacking.

Abominations are quite good and have multiple uses.
- mass damage spell [virtually] immune (RoS,WS,FftS,MW, nothing can really hurt them - regeneration rocks!)
- anti-GR - their ranged attack kills off ghost raider attack before they can really hurt your army.
- fodder destroyer - again ranged attack takes of enemy fodder before it had a chance to slow down your troops
These 3 together make Abominations very valuable addition to the late game army.
Abomination are also very good at defending sea provinces, because they can efficiently take care of GR and similar attacks.

Ice Dragons are somewhat less useful, but they are still good at clugging fort's gates and generally distracting enemy fire/spellcasters from your other troops.

[Boron]

Huzurdaddi said:

Boron, could you explain what you find these good for? Perhaps their use is a side effect of hoarding making resource costs irrelevant? Since price/performance they both seem to be lacking.

Yeah what alexti said .

Additionally with their 3 AP attacks Abominations have a small chance to also kill weaker thugs like banelords and firbolgs .
Iron dragons you can use as rout blockers by parking 2-3 in the rear corner then they probably don't die and your 5-10 SCs don't rout if 1 gets killed but you save using rather useless troops anyway .