What was your first nation?
 

I had better make this post before everyone forgets. What nation did you first play the game with? I realize this might make it biased towards the demo-enabled nations, so say if it was the demo or not.

Mine was Vanheim, full version since I was so excited to see an entire nation of just vans, no wimpy humans - and I grew attached to the theme after the Council of Wyrms game. My first Dominions game ever I started with Man (Dom2), since I usually start with "terrans" or "humans" or whatever when I get a new game, since you can appreciate the differences of other races that way.

So what did you pick first (Dom3 and/or Dominions in general) and why?

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I wrote it down. It's titled "The Second Christmas".

First, some basic stuff. Oh, a city! Benchmark stats. A small graphical bug fixed since.

First Day

Ulm, Enigma of Steel

RANDOMS?!??

Antler Shaman ?0 - 10% chance!!!
Holy 1?! What's this? He has Frost resist 50? Oh, and STEALTH! Stealth 0, hmm, not that good...

Shamans have Holy 1 too! Have the Holy spells changed... Yes, but... Word of Power?! What?

Some confusing comments about battle. I scribbled this one down VERY fast. Then: Damage numbers?! This is good! Throwing axes? Cool!

Hey, a new heroic ability! A third eye! cool!



I think I changed nation then, because next on the list are Life for a Life, with a smiley-face next to it, and Brimstone Boots.

Any way, that's my first impression of a new Dom3 nation. It's written something like this on the papers. It's got some Finnish words and sentences here and there, and there are disfigured smiley faces instead of some some ?s and !s, but that's most of what I wrote down.

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I played as Pangaea MA in the full version, because in Dom 2 they were kind of like "my" nation, if you know what I mean. I think their story is what I liked the most, but I digress. I chose them for my first game, because I knew them well and could thus focus on the smaller changes that you might not normally notice when trying an entirely new nation.

As far as my first Dom game ever goes, I think it was C'tis on Dom 2. I had learned of the game in the Tom vs Bruce article in CGW. I chose C'tis, because why wouldn't I want to play a nation of lizardmen? Of course, I later found out that their troops are not very good. I chose a Wyrm for my pretender, because that just felt right. Ah, the good ole' days.

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In Dominions PPP I first played Ermor (ashen empire, not that there was any other kind), because undead hordes are cool. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif My first MP was with Man.

With the Dom3 demo I first tried Agartha briefly, then Atlantis for next few games.

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Man LE

Wanted to see what the difference were

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Atlantis. Wanted to see the Basalt Kings and Living Pillars. I was too "ZOMG SQUEE!" to form any coherent way of doing things. My frogzards got slaughtered by lion tribe archers. Then I tried Agartha... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

The very first nation I played in the Dominions series C'tis. I played the "europe map" of Dom I. I captured the province next to mine and found the Cedar Pillars there...

...I was 120% Sold.

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Full version. LA R'lyeh, as the concept of insanity appealed to me.

Went from them, to EA T'ien C'hi, to MA Mictlan, now experimenting with EA Niefelheim.

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My first Dom:PPP nation was Arco
My first Dom2 nation was Ulm (standard)
My first Dom3 nation was Bandar Log EA in a press preview version (2.79) that did not have all nation finished.

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In both Dom II and Dom III the first nation I played was standard Ulm (MA). Just to get my feet wet I like the more military less magic strategy. I also began both games with an immoble pretender (Statue in Dom II, forget already what I used in III).

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heh my first dom II nation was Ulm. And first dom game ever actually.

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Dom 3 demo - Agartha, full game I really like MA Man, tower of avalon. This is probably because I have developed a really good strategy with them.

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Dom-I - Atlantis, I remember playing the demo for many months befor I've ordered and how much, oh how much I wanted to recruit their best mages and units.

Dom-II - Pythium, I like their Byzantine flavor and their astral royalty.

Dom-III - Pythium, I think it wasn't changed at all but I like it no less. I'm a bit disappointed that they don't have an early and late ages. I am forced to change my strats of playing them due to the old age mechanism, but its actually not that bad.

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Dom-I, Ermor.... for like, the first 9 games http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Dom-III, Abysia EA. My first time playing abysia since Dom-I. I saw the demonbred assassin and the weird lava-warrior replacment and panic ensued, "What have they done to my abysia?! Noooo!" then I started a middle age game and all the oldies were back http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif.

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Dom3 - Arcosophele

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Besides Atlantis in the demo, my first completed game (which I finished yesterday) was EE Ulm. They are pretty cool, though the lack of good priests threw me off a bit, and the C'tis dominion spread like wildfire.

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I can understand why Pythium doesn't have an early age, as they are a splinter from Ermor, but I don't see why they couldn't have a late age version. Maybe with a middle eastern/Turkish flair, since historically the Byzantine Empire was conquered by the Turks. The units wouldn't really be legion troops, but it would be a cool extension of the historical theme, and would introduce a culture to the game that I don't think it in it at present. The whole serpent angle can be kept in for consistency.

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Dom II : Ermor Soul Gate
Dom III : Ermor Broken Empire

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Dom 2, R'lyeh. - Cthulhu F'taghn baby!

In Dom3 I first made a lot of test games to check out what kind of units and spells the different nations got. Then I loaded up Pythium... and promptly lost 3 Grand Theurgs to old age diseases before turn 10..

Switched the long term strategy with Pythium because of that, but I think I got them rolling now.

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Dom II : Man
Dom III : Ermor EA

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For Dom 3, both demo and full version, it was Kailasa (EA) - the idea of attacking the enemy with hordes of monkeys amused me no end.

I haven't a clue what it was for Dom 2 (demo or full), or Dom 1 (demo only). There's a chance it was Ermor as I tend to gravitate towards dark/undead forces in fantasy games, but no guarantee.

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Arco in Dominions - PPP
Ulm in Dominions 2
Dom3: None yet, since I need to order it first. I just got myself a shiny new Core 2 Duo based computer in September after the old Celeron 500 system died, and I have quite the backlog of games to play. As soon as I get Dom3, I'll get working on a comprehensive unit DB and other stuff...

Edi

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AE Ermor! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Pangea (Early Age). Still trying out strategys. It was Pangea on the Dominoins PPP Demo that convinced me to buy my first dominions game. The whole idea of forest animals striking back fascinate me.