A general inquiry about Dom 3 gaming habits.

JaghataiKhan · #1 June 24th, 2007, 05:58 AM

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Gandalf Parker
-- After years of playing Dominions I have not come up with a winning strategy, but I have found hundreds of ways to lose in creative and interesting ways.

I laughed hard.

For a Mod, you seems to be very active in forum likewise.

Anyway, you guys are interesting gamers.
Celestial Goblyn's "Roleplaying" style opponent setting is a good one.I do the same, with Playing R'Lyeh against Atlantis and Oceania.

Crafty · #2 June 24th, 2007, 09:59 AM

I'm very much like the OP.

Large maps get very tiresome.

On the other hand, small maps are boring, and the AI is very weak on it. You swamp and kill them before they can even do anything.

Medium maps seem to best compromise. I like to play 3-4 opponents medium automap. I wish there was a custom map with about 60-80 land provinces. The automap takes a while to generate.

Silent seas is close with 45 provinces, but a bit too small if i want to play with more opponents.

Forrest · #3 June 24th, 2007, 12:01 PM

Archonsod you are a man after my own heart.

There is nothing like the joy of sneaking the infantry while the archers go in for battle. I like to imagine how the archers look around and say "Aw crap, he did it to us again. The infantry is hiding in the woods". The look on their faces as certain victory become total defeat before the first shot.

I like to let the mercs that I built my plans around to go away right before the battle. If they were really loyal I would not have to pay them. The best part is when the other guy hires them and I get to kill the turncoats who were the core of my battle group the turn before.

What brings pleasure like buying shieldless troops knowing Man will attack from the other side in 10 turns. As your troops die in droves to the archers you laugh at how you knew it was going to happen.

SAVING MONEY IS GOOD. You can spend it on big things later. I like to pretend I forgot to buy troops and watch the money build.

JaghataiKhan · #4 June 24th, 2007, 01:53 PM

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Forrest said:
Archonsod you are a man after my own heart.

There is nothing like the joy of sneaking the infantry while the archers go in for battle. I like to imagine how the archers look around and say "Aw crap, he did it to us again. The infantry is hiding in the woods". The look on their faces as certain victory become total defeat before the first shot.

I like to let the mercs that I built my plans around to go away right before the battle. If they were really loyal I would not have to pay them. The best part is when the other guy hires them and I get to kill the turncoats who were the core of my battle group the turn before.

What brings pleasure like buying shieldless troops knowing Man will attack from the other side in 10 turns. As your troops die in droves to the archers you laugh at how you knew it was going to happen.

SAVING MONEY IS GOOD. You can spend it on big things later. I like to pretend I forgot to buy troops and watch the money build.

Um... What? WHy? Why?

Valandil · #5 June 24th, 2007, 02:40 PM

Seconding Forrest:

"Wait? My flame storm caster is BLIND?"
"Now that I think about it, the forbidden light WASN'T a great choice for my ermorian lich pretender. Ah well.
"Wait... wishing for "death" doesn't give me the angel of death? Wheres my god? D'oh!"

Meglobob · #6 June 24th, 2007, 03:05 PM

I know lets equip my destroyer of worlds (19 MR) with the stone sword.

Wow 999 damage, wow, look at him kill everything around him, wow...errr where's my god and all his expensive equipment gone?

Salamander8 · #7 June 24th, 2007, 06:30 PM

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Meglobob said:
I know lets equip my destroyer of worlds (19 MR) with the stone sword.

Wow 999 damage, wow, look at him kill everything around him, wow...errr where's my god and all his expensive equipment gone?

That was hilarious! Glad I wasn't drinking when I read this one!

I used to build large armies with few leaders as I always played SP games. After some discussions here and trying MP games, I tend to have large armies early, but concentrate more on leaders once I have decent items/spells to use. I'm also experimenting a lot as I do not like using the same strategy to win every time. I like to mix it up and try odd things to spice the game up. You lose some and you win some, hopefully you always learn though, whether you win or lose.

Archonsod · #8 June 25th, 2007, 01:19 PM

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Valandil said:
Seconding Forrest:

"Wait? My flame storm caster is BLIND?"
"Now that I think about it, the forbidden light WASN'T a great choice for my ermorian lich pretender. Ah well.
"Wait... wishing for "death" doesn't give me the angel of death? Wheres my god? D'oh!"

My favourite so far was my cyclops pretender:

"Bwa Hah, Me crush puny flying thing!"
"Ooh look, puny flying thing has shiny eye, me likes shiny things"
<splut>
"Why it all gone dark?"

Then there's the ultimate Caelum anti archer strategy:
"Behold men, with such a storm they won't be able to hit the blind side of a barn! To the skies, death from above! oh, bugger..."

Also fun is annoying your mages prior to battle so all those lovely wide area spells land among your own troops...

Edratman · #9 June 25th, 2007, 01:57 PM

I have yet to figure out a perfect game situation for myself. I have at best about 2 hours a night to play so I have to figure out what game style works for me.

1. Small maps are too small and the game is over to soon.
2. Medium maps are better, but they still don't allow enough time and/or sources of researchers to get to level 8 or 9 spells.
3. 100+ province maps allow you to research the highest level spells but require too much time to do your turn. By the time I read all the messages, move my major armies, tour the provinces for troop builds than "n" my way through all the leaders I've spent 20 or more minutes on the turn.

I tried faster research speed on medium maps but the rythem of research wasn't right. I had access to far more magic and forging than I could support in gems. (This isn't the usual situation on normal speed where you have to budget gems or certain gems, it was more like "I can't afford anything".)

Right now I'm playing a large map because I've never cast "Wish" or "arcane Nexus". The turn length is killing me, but I figure I'm within 5 or 6 turns of completing the research for both spells. I'll be well short of victory conditions then, but I figure I'll go 2 or 3 more turns just out of curiosity.

(I'm going to wish for "victory" and see what happens.)

Anyway, I am open to suggestions for play style from others who have similar time constraints yet who desire the full experience of the game.