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Old July 28th, 2008, 12:58 AM

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Default Re: Dominions Nations Evaluations ;)

I think it's just too hard to really quantify the nations.

there are some obviously powerful nations.
but I can think of ways to counter certain of them with what are considered very weak nations in the same age.

I would almost say that
powerful = obvious and easy to use powerful strategy

that said, some nations are overpowered, but by and large, most of them have options available which makes them all scary in the hands of a crafty player.
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Default Re: Dominions Nations Evaluations ;)

Well this is absolutely true. But to the more experienced player, "power" is relative to the amount of options, so if one tactic fails or just isn't applicable to a particular foe, you have something to fall back on.

This is why nations such as Ulm and Abysia should tend to rate consistently low, as they are more 1 dimensional than other nations, and are more easily defeated. But by the same token, since Early Game has much to do with expansion against indies, they'd do well there, since they have cheap and heavily armored troops, but then their relative "power" begins to drop off somewhat compared to other races who can more easily change gears to counter an unexpected threat.
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Default Re: Dominions Nations Evaluations ;)

Thought I'd give this a little nudge back to visibility. Personally, I'm becoming experienced enough to feel comfortable adding my own ratings - though perhaps not QUITE as extensive as QM's list.

Maybe some other people have more content to add? Would be nice to eventually actually be able to tabulate some sort of average.
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Default Re: Dominions Nations Evaluations ;)

Are there really not enough ratings to tabulate?
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Old August 23rd, 2008, 09:40 PM
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Default Re: Dominions Nations Evaluations ;)

Most people only submitted a small handful, other than QM. I haven't looked back in awhile, but as I watched the posts come in, it seemed like very few nations had 3 or more people rate them. You can average 2 numbers, but it's in no way representative of an actual statistical examination.

Granted, it'll be hard to get enough to really give anything excessively accurate - but it shouldn't be hard to get a lot more ratings than we've got so far.
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