Not sure I'm getting mechanics right

[Corwin]

Ironhawk said:

Dunno about dominion mechanics, they were never as life&death a situation that needing to know all the gritty details was key.

Not true. Actually they were sometimes. One word - VQ. >


I know for sure that preaching takes place before the battle, at least in Dom2. Once I've lured fully decked VQ into attacking my army, which was traveling in VQ's dominion. Unknown to my enemy, I had several preasts travelling with the army. They spend the night before the battle praying to their God and asking him help them in this dire hour. When VQ struck next turn, thinking that she is safe, she found herself fighing outside of her own dominion. When she fell, she was gone for good.

[PhilD]

Corwin said:
I know for sure that preaching takes place before the battle, at least in Dom2. Once I've lured fully decked VQ into attacking my army, which was traveling in VQ's dominion. Unknown to my enemy, I had several preasts travelling with the army. They spend the night before the battle praying to their God and asking him help them in this dire hour. When VQ struck next turn, thinking that she is safe, she found herself fighing outside of her own dominion. When she fell, she was gone for good.

Actually, the Dom3 manual describes the turn sequence as:

6. Magic battles

11. Assassinations

14. Movement battles

15. Castle storming

24. Dominion

so it looks like this changed with Dom3.

[thejeff]

Missile Combat:

I read that as maximum deviation for a particular missile is:

range * 1.25 / precision

capped at a maximum of 10.

[Arralen]

PhilD said:
Actually, the Dom3 manual describes the turn sequence as:

6. Magic battles

11. Assassinations

14. Movement battles

15. Castle storming

24. Dominion

so it looks like this changed with Dom3.

Actually it looks like it is exactly the same order as in Dom2 - at least if you only look at the titles:

8. Prayers - Prophets are declared and gods awaken.

24. Dominions - All dominion spread (for whatever reason) is conducted now

[Corwin]

Arralen said:

Actually it looks like it is exactly the same order as in Dom2 - at least if you only look at the titles:

8. Prayers - Prophets are declared and gods awaken.

24. Dominions - All dominion spread (for whatever reason) is conducted now

Agreed, it seems to be likely scenario to me. If this is the case than 24's description may be slightly misleading, since it leads reader to believe that dominion preaching also falls into that category.

[Arralen]

It is explicitly state (at another point, though), that dominion increases from preaching do not spread to neighbouring, but only affect the provinces the preachers are in ...

[Corwin]

Arralen said:
It is explicitly state (at another point, though), that dominion increases from preaching do not spread to neighbouring, but only affect the provinces the preachers are in ...

I know. However some new players may be confused by this.
IMHO it might be better to distinguish more clearly in these descriptions between dominion *increase* from temples and dominion *spread* from the temples, if they indeed happen in different phases. That's why I said it may be slightly misleading.

[PhilD]

Arralen said:
Actually it looks like it is exactly the same order as in Dom2 - at least if you only look at the titles:

8. Prayers - Prophets are declared and gods awaken.

24. Dominions - All dominion spread (for whatever reason) is conducted now

Yeah, I had a close look at the manual when I wrote my post. The description for "prayers" only mentions pretender recalling/awakening and prophets, not "preaching". I don't think "preaching" matches "prayers". "Dominion spread", OTOH, does match "preaching", whose only game effect is, precisely, dominion change.