Question: Avoiding domkills?

[krpeters]

Assuming you have a fair number of provinces, your H3 in a province with enemy dominion should be able to push that back in your favor. You're hitting his candles from the prior turn, and if you hit more than he's making, you should be able to keep your dominion alive.

So it depends on dominion production vs. cancellation... his one blood sacrificer can produce a *lot* of candles. It make take you several preachers to counter it. But you can stack several preachers on one temple.

[rdonj]

There are a number of reasons that doesn't work. One should be fairly obvious - preaching can only raise dominion up to a certain level. With h3 preachers that's 6. Blood saccers aren't limited to this, they can go all the way up. Higher levels of dominion are more difficult to erode than lower levels of dominion. It takes a LOT of preachers to do anything like fighting off heavy dominion sacrifice. Each slave sacrificed is worth two temple checks. That means if one h3 priest is sacrificing, his province is generating 7 temple checks per turn. Now make that 10 h3 saccers and you have to have an insane number of priests to make even a dent in that. It's just not feasible. And this is why blood sacrifice and killing the other guy are the only reasonable options.