Help a newbie play R'lyeh

[Alneyan]

Death isn't too bad usually, as the population decrease will take a *long* while to really matter: you will need 70 turns to lose a third of your pop in the capital, even with Death 3, and you should have other sources of income by then.

R'lyeh will have a harder time getting those nice provinces with gold sites though, and Death does result in more common plagues, so I would only take Death if those 120 points could be put to good use (I picked Water 2 in exchange for Death 3, and +1 to Dominion, and I know it wasn't worth it).

[Zen]

Alneyan said:
Death isn't too bad usually, as the population decrease will take a *long* while to really matter: you will need 70 turns to lose a third of your pop in the capital, even with Death 3, and you should have other sources of income by then.

I think it's appropriate to say here that if you are playing the unmodded game of Dom2, this applies to all nations and regardless of playstyle. It's a good way to get points for not much drawback and thus, letting you build whatever type of Pretender/Domain you desire because of the feeling of 'free' points here.

This is more a factor of map size and opponents rather than cost/benefit.

Smaller maps or larger maps with lots of provinces per player make the end game in these types of scenarios almost-exclusivly based on magic and magical strategy (be it mages or summons).

[Goblin]

I haven't actually played them, but a very unusual thing happened to R'lyeh in a game I was playing - they vanished...

It would have been about turn 20, they had 4-5 provinces then the all to familiar message saying that the R'lyeh god has been killed and has no way of returning - but also that he had not a single province to his name in the end???

Looking at the game statistics they seem to have lost all there provinces in one hit. About 10-15 turns later I was able to walk through R'lyeh's old domain, as there was nothing defending it!!!

Anyone have any idea what may have happened? I know R'lyeh is meant to be mad, but mass suicide should be outside the game play.

Goblin.

[Nerfix]

They were dominiondrained.

[Goblin]

dominiondrained - the Newbie translation for that (is it the same as being Tinkabelled?)

[quantum_mechani]

It means they had not a single point of dominion left anywhere.

[Goblin]

Is that something sea based nations have a problem with? Given the large size of their provinces I assume that hostile domains are going to have more shots at them than your average land based nation...