Dominion Push

[Fantomen]

Dom pushing as a weapon and dominion kill as a strategy are not the same. For example you can dom push to boost morale, leverage immortals, wreck economy if your enemy has income scales and to push a specific dominion bonus like abysias fire power, niefels cold power, Agarthas statue hp bonus etc. If you can combine more than one of these benefits it can make dom pushing a part of your core strategy.

So there are many cases where dompush is a devastating weapon besides going for a dominion kill.

[Raiel]

Contrary to most of the posts above, I have seen Dominion Push and Dominion Kill by Pan in the SummerMadness game I'm in... As far as I know, Pan barely ever fought R'lyeh, but they've been eliminated from the game by Pan's dominion push. And EVERY other nation in the game is at risk of this... If you're doubtfull, here's a link to the scores:

http://www.llamaserver.net/showScore...=SummerMadness

Just take a look at the Dominion ratings.

So, it just depends on the situation.

Yes, it is possible to make an educated guess on your adversary's dominion strength (both starting and current). Familiarity with the Dominion chapter of the manual will help with this. As will knowing the scales, chassis and paths of your opponent's pretender.

[Gandalf Parker]

They may have meant that its often not a workable tactic against experienced human players in a multiplayer game. Altho even then I dont know if Id agree except maybe on small blitz-type maps.

Also keep in mind that even if you dont KILL a god by dominion it can often be quite helpful to push the dominion down. Taking down the extra boosts that a god and prophet gets from dominion can be very important if they have a super combatant god.

The tactic is kindof "built in" to certain nations. In discussions of balance Kristoffer often made an effort to point out that a nation had stealth priests. And some nations have stealth preaching on units which are vastly multi-purpose, so you dont have to spend gold on just that one tactic. For instance, the Centaur leaders of Pangaea can lead a large and capable stealth force on their way to doing stealth preaching.

Does CBM change the effectiveness of stealth preaching?