Death by Dominion
 

I'm in the end-game phase of a SP game. I hold 2/3s of the territories. I have a temples in more than half of my territories and a half-dozen stone idols in enemy domains in land I hold. My total dominion keeps shrinking. Any ideas why?

Even my capitol, with a stone idol is slipping into enemy dominion.

(I am playing MA Ermor and the remaining opponent is Man.)

Re: Death by Dominion
 

Stone Idols hurt dominion, period

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Yes, I realize stone idols hurt all dominion. I have been putting them in provinces with enemy (black candle) dominion. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be knocking down the number of black candles.

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If you are fighting a nation that can blood sacrifice, that may be your problem. Each slave sacrificed is a temple check.

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Ps. If your base dominion is lower than theirs, even having a lot of temples won't help you.

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Man has stealthy preachers, and inquisitors it can use in it's own lands, but more likely your base dominion is much lower and he has a good amount of temples.

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I've had very bad results with stone idols. Namely six scouts with stone idols in one of my provinces couldn't lower enemy dominion below 3 candles in several turns. He was certainly blood sacrificing, but still his dominion didn't spread so fast in other parts of the map.

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I think dominion spreads after the idols.

You probably have low dominion. You need to build temples and have preachers preach.

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I have been building lots of temples. I guess I'll need to switch some of my researchers and animate undead to preaching.

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Temples by themselves don't do anything to spread your dominion. You still need somebody preaching. Just in case that wasn't clear.