Serious Suggestion: Dominion Victory

[llamabeast]

Arcane Nexus, Utterdark and a couple other spells are already effectively "I've won" spells - if they aren't dispelled quickly there's no stopping the caster.

[Fate]

Actually, I have had experience with an actual Dominion loss. I was T'ien Ch'i against my friend's Abysian sacred rush. He is good at it, but he prefers to claim around 2/3 of the map and then turtle (which defeats the purpose of the "rush").

I eventually push him off with masses of crossbows + celestial soldiers on the front lines. Then I realize he has Dominion in every province except my capital. I start marching to his capital while spamming temples and setting my entire stack of celestial masters to preaching, but it is too late.

My measly 6 Dominion and 2 temples (I was building more) are defeated by my opponent's 10 Dominion and 10+ temples.

Obviously this can only happen on small maps, but I have been wary ever since...

[Sensori]

llamabeast said:
Arcane Nexus, Utterdark and a couple other spells are already effectively "I've won" spells - if they aren't dispelled quickly there's no stopping the caster.

Somehow that doesn't seem right. I've seen nations with these "I win" globals lose more often than the nations without. They are more like "I wanna win!" globals rather than direct victory ones. Sometimes people cast them when they've already won, which doesn't make 'em "I win" globals, but rather "I already won, I don't care about yous!" globals. ;p

[thejeff]

Well, they seem to be "I'm going to win if you don't stop this" globals. In MP, they tend to be viewed as a declaration of war on the whole world and everyone attacks/dispels them.

Have you seen games where nations with the "I win" globals lose without being ganged up on or having them dispelled (usually by a joint effort)?

[Humakty]

For a spell mastery victory, having five globals up could be sufficent. I guess human players use dispell a lot.