Rlyeh newbie getting massacred by AI...any tips?

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General_Jah said:

So what exactly is the usefulness of temples then?

In addition to what Sombre said:

Temples also increase the cap for purposes of sacred unit recruiting (not so important for Rlyeh though).

But more importantly they also increase the effectiveness of preaching, especially for getting rid of negative dominion, and for building higher positive dominion. So if you've got red candles in a province you own, build a temple and put some priests preaching there. You've probably already got a bunch of starspawn doing research, switch them to preach until you get the message that they can't raise the dominion any higher. Your insane prophet dudes are great for this too, since they are H3. (You'll have to take them off preach manually each turn to check to see if they're wasting their time once you've got 3 or 4 or 5 white candles in the province.)

Especially as LA Rlyeh, you should build a big border of white-candle dominion around the edge of your lake, it will stop enemy dominion from being able to spread into the middle of your territory.