Turtlers and Rushers?

[Gandalf Parker]

I always thought that some of the heavy research nations, particularly if they had strong bless abilities, made good turtlers.

[thejeff]

Taking a strong bless conflicts with turtling. The main benefit from a bless comes early. There are more counters as more magic is researched. And the bless comes at the expense of scales which would help a turtler, bringing in more money and growing population. Bad scales mean you need to expand faster just to stay even.

Getting a research lead is good, but it means nothing without the gems to support it. Which means territory, which means wars. Or it means clams. I still maintain that the turtling strategy in dominions is based around clams. Strong defense may discourage attack, good research is needed, but can often be gotten through items, but gems producing items are the only way to expand your economy without expanding territory.

[Atreidi]

Well its just like "they" say Defense is the Best offence. One of my favorite strats is the counter attack. When an enemy gives out a MASSIVE attack on a high Defence city you can easyly counter by attaking cities neighboring the place. It will usually be free of enemy army.

[moderation]

I'm pretty sure the saying is "A good offense is the best defense."

[Atreidi]

ahhhhhh the other side of the coin

[kasnavada]

The real saying is "A good offense is the best defense"... and that's exactly what a counter-attack is about : not defending but attacking instead, regardless of consequences.

Dominions favors turtling though. At mid and end-game it becomes more and more difficult to defend large armies when moving, forcing you to use troops as defense mostly. It's to be expected when a single unit can kill hundreds or thousands by itself.

[JimMorrison]

It is, in fact, the art of war. In reality, you cannot win without acting, however it is a dance of acting in a way which reveals no weaknesses, whilst forcing your opponent to make moves that will give his weaknesses away.

And without the actual loss of thousands of potentially innocent lives, it becomes a rather beautiful thing.