Minimum dominion?

[JimMorrison]

Anything below 6 is "low". Can you be successful with what you might consider low starting dominion? Of course you can, but at 6 is the point that I notice that building and managing your dominion simplifies itself a bit. Around 8+ is where it gets quite easy. Easy domain spread is nice, but for example if you are using a rainbow mage or other Dom1 base pretender, getting above 6 costs a LOT of points for what you get. Also, high dom isn't always needed for a bless nation, taking Hinnom as an extreme example, it's hard to get the right bless with Hinnom, and get everything else the way you want it, and still put out more than 5 sacreds a turn - ever.

Generally, 99.9% of the time, if you are in any danger of a dom kill you are already being crushed. Say you own just 10 provinces, and only have 5 temples, clustered around your capital..... With a prophet and your pretender out, you are at an infinitesimally low risk of dom death. The game is engineered that way for a reason.....

[Hadrian_II]

I played lots of games with a dominion of 4 or 5, and i never ever had problems with being dom killed.

[Lingchih]

Hadrian_II said:
I played lots of games with a dominion of 4 or 5, and i never ever had problems with being dom killed.

LOL

[Folket]

Any dominion scale works for me. Unless I need dominion for something else I only drop the last point in it. I have played with dominion 1 and did not have problem to keep my dominion up.

[llamabeast]

I played lots of games with a dominion of 4 or 5, and i never ever had problems with being dom killed.

Think I've gone that low before as well, and never had any issues.

[Sombre]

I've used 5 quite a lot and never had problems from it.

4 really is low though.

[Edratman]

I've gone as low as 3 with Shinyama in SP because they don't have sacreds. With sacreds 5 is the lowest I'll go.

I always build a lot of temples to boost sacred builds and dominion. From what I read, that is not a workable MP tactic, but it works in SP.