Guide: Domkill : The Power of Faith

[Kheldron]

Corydalis and InversionsRedux files attached

Corydalis.zip

InversionsRedux.zip

[chrispedersen]

I believe growth continues even under hostile dominion. Are you sure it does not?

I think you should consider adding Ea-arco, and possibly LA Pythium as nations that can dom kill. I think EA-Abysia is as strong a candidate for dom kill as pangea, possibly stronger. Abysia can take a H3D3 scale and not suffer much. Just have your blood stockpiled before you commence dom killing.

The easiest counter to domkill in most cases is to stop the harvesting of blood - so I think you should add a section about how much blood to stockpile.

[zlefin]

domkills are fun, i've actually won a few blitzes that way. mostly (perhaps all) with abysia of various eras.
EA aby does make a ncie dompusher; it has ups and downs compared to pan. it doesn't have easy jade knives; but on the plus side it has some of the games' best pd; and aby is pretty strong defensively, making it much harder for peopel to try to take out your temples.

Taking an awake (yes, awake) blood fountain can allow you to start a dompush very very early in a game (with the 3/turn slaves it gets under cbm), and can rather surprsie people. but this should only be done with a nation that, like aby, can handle early sc gods and other threats entirely with its national troops/mages; or you could take the fountain dormant, and get in time for a good mid-game push.
once you get a bunch of loser troops to patrol, a fountain and hunt yoru capital quite well, and bring in enough slaves to supply an entire early-mid game dompushing force on its own.

[aaminoff]

I'm actually playing EA Arco in an MP game now, with a Dom10 Virtue pretender, partly in order to see if DomKill could be made part of my bag of tricks.

Dom spread without blood sacrifice is nowhere near as efficient. Baalz's Arco guide suggests besieging your enemy's big army in their cap, then rather than assaulting, surrounding them with temples. Sure, but that is just a trick to avoid a last pitched battle.

The trouble is that EA Arco has the firemen (heretics) and the flying 3-candle pretender, but lacks the firehose. This means that I have to track down every enemy candle and actively deal with it, I can't rely on my tidal wave of dominion to flush the small stuff.

Which brings me to my next question: How do you know where your enemy dominion is? My heretics are not good enough spies to always see the enemy dominion they are in. So I have a bunch of them hanging out in my enemy's territory, on the assumption that they are accomplishing something (and in fact their dom graph is going down). How can you see enemy candles?

[Kheldron]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

I believe growth continues even under hostile dominion. Are you sure it does not?

I was quite sure of it but I just tested it and you're right!
It may be the only scale which takes effect even under enemy dominion
Edited


Concerning EA ARco I have some doubt as blood sac really is the required tool to pull out this strat imho.
Preaching of any kind is a poor man's blood sac.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Kheldron

I was quite sure of it but I just tested it and you're right!
It may be the only scale which takes effect even under enemy dominion
Edited


Concerning EA ARco I have some doubt as blood sac really is the required tool to pull out this strat imho.
Preaching of any kind is a poor man's blood sac.

Also my belief that it is the only scale.