Yet another new person with a question...

[13lackGu4rd]

HoneyBadger, I don't know about you but I registered on these forums 2 weeks before even deciding to buy dom3. it took 2 more weeks for it to actually arrive in my mail box. spent that month reading stuff on the forums, almost immediately ran into Baalz and his great library of knowledge so I've done some serious amount of reading(as in most of his guides) while I didn't understand most of what he said there, as I didn't even own the game, I did already get a picture of what the different nations are, magic, armies, etc. don't remember my first single player game but I know that I did mess around a lot with EA Atlantis. for obvious reasons it didn't do me much good, so I moved on to land nations, read Baalz's guides on them once more, than started to actually understand what he was talking about. than I got some expansion rhythm going and quickly enough got into my first MP game, as a sub, don't even remember what nation it was. the first game I played from start to finish(well, finish is when I died) was a vanilla game with EA C'tis.

your main problem is that you're assuming people jump right into the deep water, before knowing anything at all. sure, some people do, but I'm seeing more and more newbies on IRC and here on the forums who ask questions, obviously read stuff around here, and acquire more knowledge in this game before even attempting their first single player game! and even the people that do jump right in with no preacquired knowledge are usually not as dumb as you're trying to make of them. so if you take Niefelheim with no idea at all on what you're doing, the first unit you will most likely recruit is a niefel giant(more if you can afford it) than send them out against indie, probably in larger numbers than you actually need and without a bless for them unless you got something from your random pretender generation. but even than you probably won't bring priests to bless them. and guess what? you'll still roll indies as well as most AI nations...