New to Dom 3

[sffrrrom]

I'm new to Dom 3 as well, but having bought both it and Elemental recently, I think you can guess which one I've been spending my time playing! So far I love Dom 3, although I feel a little pathetic that the AI has beaten me like 3 times in a row. Definitely a steep learning curve on this game.

I've finally put together a good playthrough as Agartha - I was lucky to start in a corner of the map and my first attempt at an immobile pretender seems to be going well, with maxed Order and Production scales I can crank out a lot of units every turn.

Maybe I might eventually look into Play by Email, since that seems to be doing quite well on these forums, but I'm not sure with law school starting imminently I really have the time, nor do I think I'm good enough at the game to not get stomped, very quickly.

[rdonj]

The dom3 AI may not be brilliant, but it is pretty brutal with those hordes of units it will produce. So don't feel too bad if you get beaten a number of times before your first win. Eventually you'll start learning synergies and the spell system a bit better and things will start to click.

[RadicalTurnip]

No mods are really needed, but no, there isn't anything that increases the graphics. The manual's guide for most nations is a decent build, but usually not amazing, so you can always try that out. For sure do the tutorial. Then it's just playing around until you get it and then very quickly you'll find yourself stomping the AI.

[Doo]

Originally Posted by sffrrrom

Maybe I might eventually look into Play by Email, since that seems to be doing quite well on these forums, but I'm not sure with law school starting imminently I really have the time, nor do I think I'm good enough at the game to not get stomped, very quickly.

Check out this link:

http://game.dom3minions.com/bin/vsAI_chk.cgi

Humans vs AI games with a "how to join" link at the top of the page. These games are good to learn to play on as you can team up on the AI.

Cheers GP for that one

[sffrrrom]

Thank you very much! I'm sure I'll use that in the future. I still need to be better right now though - I was so close in my recent Vampire Queen EA Mictlan game. I set up a decent blood economy but I was struggling to hold the frontiers, and eventually a nasty stack broke through and rampaged about all of my soft fleshy internal provinces, and that was that. Gonna try it again though it was fun. I think this time I'm gonna go all out and max turmoil scales and just go for straight blood production.

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Doo

Check out this link:

http://game.dom3minions.com/bin/vsAI_chk.cgi

Humans vs AI games with a "how to join" link at the top of the page. These games are good to learn to play on as you can team up on the AI.

Cheers GP for that one

Wow, never seen that one. Looks like a lot of fun. And a great way to start to learn the game. Anybody want to try one?

Edit:

And more on topic, read the strategy index. The guides are pretty good. And the ones from Baalz are pure inspiration.

[Gandalf Parker]

There is actually a number of them
http://www.dom3minions.com/HostedGames.htm

Any that have AIs included can be played solo. Or you can try to get a few people together for a game by posting a thread in this forum, or in Chat, or mentioning it in IRC

Disclaimer: I dont recommend the Chaos games for new players.

[Eximius Sus]

Chaos is Chaos. Only sneaky armies can handle them.