Enemy dominion too high for me?

[JonBrave]

Originally Posted by Saxon

I would suggest you need your prophet involved in the preaching.

The other, longer term, solution is temple spam. Build temples in your back provinces, so you get some extra push outwards.

I take your point about maybe the Prophet, despite the bad dom.

As for temples, problem is it's a small map, I start from a corner, I only have 7 provinces before bottle-neck one.