First Post: Suggestions on Nation choices?

[Hadrian_II]

Man has also

Stealthy raiders (Warden or Cu Siddhe)
Knights (They are just strong units)
Good Nature magic --> Lots of army buffs like mass protection, relieve and mass regeneration
Look that you get some fire on the pretender for the flaming arrows.

Every nation is somehow competitive.

btw. i would succest to play some MP, as playing against the AI is not what makes Dom3 fun

[Edi]

I would say that aside from Lanka and Niefelheim, the only out-of-the-box SC/thug nation would be Fomoria, unless you go for a double bless on some of the better bless nations.

[vfb]

What about Yomi? Dai Oni self-bless (at least E4N4) with built-in Fire Shield and Soul Vortex works pretty good IMO.

[Tyrant]

MA Marignon is a nice nation for learning. The army is decent and has combined arms, and they have excellent non-unique SC summons. Magic's kinda narrow and the age problem is annoying but they follow the "normal" progresion of power- arms - arms and casters - SCs.

[Networkingguru]

Tyrant said:
MA Marignon is a nice nation for learning. The army is decent and has combined arms, and they have excellent non-unique SC summons. Magic's kinda narrow and the age problem is annoying but they follow the "normal" progresion of power- arms - arms and casters - SCs.

Thanks Tyrant, I will give them a try as well.

[Networkingguru]

Edi said:
I would say that aside from Lanka and Niefelheim, the only out-of-the-box SC/thug nation would be Fomoria, unless you go for a double bless on some of the better bless nations.

Yea, I thoght about Fomoria, just skipped them as there aren't any good guides. I'm going to give them a shot anyhow though, looks like I will need to get GoH ASAP to deal with afflictions.

[Networkingguru]

Hadrian_II said:
Man has also

Stealthy raiders (Warden or Cu Siddhe)
Knights (They are just strong units)
Good Nature magic --> Lots of army buffs like mass protection, relieve and mass regeneration
Look that you get some fire on the pretender for the flaming arrows.

Every nation is somehow competitive.

btw. i would succest to play some MP, as playing against the AI is not what makes Dom3 fun

Thanks Hadrian_II. I will give Man a try as well. I guess I have just been spoiled by playing thug nations against the AI, as I can't stand replenishing armies, and with Neifel, for example, that is a rare need. However, Lanka isn't so bad, as I can replinish anywhere, unlike Ermor or Neifel.

As for MP, I would love to play some MP, but I am really put off by what seems to be a very complicated process (find a game in the forum, get on IRC, play during certian times I am guessing, etc.). My wife is learning the game, and if I can get a buddy of mine to learn it, I can play MP with them. I guess I'll head into the forum and try to find a good game anyway, just kinda hate coming in and getting stomped, LOL.

[thejeff]

Networkingguru said:

As for MP, I would love to play some MP, but I am really put off by what seems to be a very complicated process (find a game in the forum, get on IRC, play during certian times I am guessing, etc.). My wife is learning the game, and if I can get a buddy of mine to learn it, I can play MP with them. I guess I'll head into the forum and try to find a good game anyway, just kinda hate coming in and getting stomped, LOL.

Playing MP is really pretty simple. You don't need IRC, you can play any time you want and there are newbie games starting fairly regularly. IRC is good for playing blitz games, that start up and play straight through. Most MP games on the forum start with a 24 hour timer, so you can do your turn any time during the day. This does lead to games lasting for months.