Are heavy bless strategies the best ones ?

[Teraswaerto]

KissBlade,

What you say is true, however in larger games diplomacy can keep a soft target from getting into early wars. Granted, it's a gamble, and you're leaving survival up to things you can't really control.

[FAJ]

Graeme Dice said:
If you want to get a massive early game advantage over every other player, then the only way to do that is to use a dual-bless strategy.

[...] national troops are obsolete from the very first turn in Dominions III [...]

[...] magic plays virtually no role in Dom 3 [...]


[...]Death 3 has almost no effect whatsoever on your game[...]

[...]the no-brainer choice of drain 2[...]

So, why do people bother playing dominions if it is so formulaic? is winning MP games so important that people are willing to throw out the variety in the game to use the same duel bless strategies over and over?

I think you have a pretty cynical outlook on the game.

[Graeme Dice]

FAJ said:
So, why do people bother playing dominions if it is so formulaic? is winning MP games so important that people are willing to throw out the variety in the game to use the same duel bless strategies over and over?

If you are playing competitively, then play to win, and don't you dare complain when somebody else uses a more effective strategy than yours.

I think you have a pretty cynical outlook on the game.

Yes, I do, but that's because it's balance took a giant step sideways, and another small step backwards from Dom 2. The devs balanced the game in a manner that's similar to throwing wet pasta at a wall. Some of it will stick (which is equivalent to what gets used by players), but the majority just falls on the ground and is ignored.