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Anonymous No.717902794 >>717903246 >>717904254 >>717905425 >>717907148 >>717909323 >>717912794
Should I go for it? Im mainly interested in SP. I love Conquest of Elysium but I couldnt get into Dominions in the past. The desire is there but idk, also making a pretender while I knew nothing about the game was putting me off.
Anonymous No.717903246 >>717903787
>>717902794 (OP)
>Should I go for it
yes

>Im mainly interested in SP
you'll be missing most of what the game has to offer if you do, the AI cheats out of the ass at higher difficulties but it still so braindead fighting it is a non-issue once you realise how the game mechanics work, so all it does is just keep throwing hordes and hordes of chaff at you and that becomes stale after a while and the challenge is gone

>also making a pretender while I knew nothing about the game was putting me off.
watch a pretender tutorial on yt and play a few games with a civilization that doesn't care about blesses such as middle age Ulm, so you go full scales and forget about everything else, its not a hard system to learn by any means
Anonymous No.717903391 >>717903576 >>717903787
is this one of those games where people rack up thousands of hours
Anonymous No.717903576 >>717903967
>>717903391
if you get the hold of its multiplayer, yes, some games can go on form months even, but there's also blitz games that only last a few hours at most
Anonymous No.717903787 >>717903967 >>717904223
>>717903391
Yes
>>717903246
I see. And where can i find people for multiplayer, if I may ask.
Anonymous No.717903967 >>717904302 >>717909782
>>717903576
>>717903787
i'll do my best to stay clear of it, then. i don't really wanna spend a thousand hours on games
Anonymous No.717904223 >>717904292
>>717903787
asides from the in game lobbies, there's discords servers with bots that host their own games for all skill levels and people tend to be very active, speaking of which, the dominions general on /vg/ is always up and you can ask for games or advice in there too.

even if you don't wanna bother with MP, i strongly suggest to at least watch some multiplayer matches on youtube, there's really no comparison between SP and MP, the amount of shit you can do in the latter compared to the former is way too much, its one of the reasons (asides from being kinda a niche game in the first place) these games never developed a defined meta or best strategy for each nation, they are just too robusts and there's so much to take into account that most players just go with whatever works best for them and their nation and call it a day.
Anonymous No.717904254
>>717902794 (OP)
No
Anonymous No.717904292 >>717905110
>>717904223
I donโ€™t know if it was viable but I really liked the spell that makes random hybrid creatures with chance for cockatrice, chimeras, etc. but in the end I think I ended up spamming boars with one of the nations. This was in 5 the game seems like itโ€™d be really fun if you can figure out how the fuck to play
Anonymous No.717904302
>>717903967
if you play singleplayer only it shouldn't suck that much time out of your life and even if it does its worth it because there's no other game quite like dominions out there, so its worth experiencing just for that fact alone.
Anonymous No.717905110
>>717904292
you can make anything work in singleplayer, crossbredding, as you mention, isn't really used for much outside of getting cheap siege chaff units (to break down forts faster) but if you want you can make an army exclusively out of mutated creatures and buff them up with battlefield wide spells cast by your mages and it will work great agaisnt the AI

>spamming boars with one of the nations
yeah the sacred trampling boards from one of the early age nations i forgot the name of, for these you only need a strong bless, summon enough of them and you win

>if you can figure out how the fuck to play
that's basically were the fun of the game is, the biggest advice i would give you when starting is that, if you don't make a strong enough bless with your pretender god for your sacred troops (or if your nations doesn't have particularly strong sacred troops) then you'll be rellying mostly on summons,mages and thugs/supercombatans (basically this is what the community calls geared up commander units that can stand on their own against most armies) generic troops are mostly useless mid to late game and only used to soak up damage, delay the enemy enough to let mages/elite troops do the killing, but with enough buff anything can be useful, doing stuff like killing inmobilte pretenders on AI capitals can be though, for these you'll need proper mage support and strong units, also regarding underwater provinces you should just ignore them, they are not really worth the effort of capturing early-mid game, nonetheless, you'll figure it out as you go, singleplayer is not really difficulty so you can take things at your own pace.
Anonymous No.717905336 >>717905471
I have autism and even I couldn't be assed to delve into it's systems and mechanics.
Anonymous No.717905425
>>717902794 (OP)
If you've already played one of these games no. They're all exactly the same with one more digit in the title.
Anonymous No.717905471
>>717905336
I saw the exact same comment few days ago on a dominions thread here on /v/, wonder if it was you again
Anonymous No.717907148
>>717902794 (OP)
ye
Anonymous No.717909323
>Bought the game last friday, because I just couldnt stand the itch to play it anymore.
>It's 35% off now
That will be the last time, Gaben.

>>717902794 (OP)
Go for it

>also making a pretender while I knew nothing about the game was putting me off.
There is so much shit and different combinations that work that could stay clueless even after playing for good while. You first learn what doesnt work, which is relatively simple. To learn what really really works you either play against or watch people who have trying to figure out shit for years and copy them.
And honestly if you want to play only against the AI, you wont need to powergame your pretender.
Anonymous No.717909782
>>717903967
Classic /v/
Anonymous No.717912794
>>717902794 (OP)
Visit /domg/ on /vg/.