How long does it take to win

[Loren]

I find the comments about dominion kills being very slow odd. With a good base dominion I normally get a dominion victory controlling no more than half of the map and I've gotten one almost without a fight--I took out my closest neighbor and then dominion-killed the next one, gobbled his lands, repeat.

I'm currently playing a game on a large map against a whole bunch of AI's. Since I knew this was going to be a long game I optimized for it--An imprisoned crone with dominion 10 and very good scales. Being tired of one AI running away with the game I set the independents to max strength.

At present I have taken out two AI's near me and I'm currently mopping up the remains of the second one (it was a dominion kill). The water near me is unoccupied, I've got some giants down there with barrels of air taking them and building temples. Two giants, they started with 29 giant armies each. I've taken and templed about a dozen provinces now (remember, this is against max strength independents) for a total loss of two giants.

I probably have 20% of the map, 4 of the 5 globals up are mine. In terms of dominion, though, I have more than half of the map. One pretty big nation is pretty close to being dominion-killed.