Dominion

[GrudgeBringer]

I am having a problem I have never had before, I am playing Arco and have Dom 9. The problem I have is that I seem to be getting run over by some critter that is eating my Dom up.

This is even with a Temple and 4 or 5 Priests preaching in the province, I have 5 red candles. I am the one used to doing that (with skeptics) but it MUST be pretty strong to overwrite 5 preachers and a temple. This isn't one border province but quite a few in places it shouldn't happen.

I have Flying Patrols to try and catch one of these guys but to no avail.

My question...(crispederson is a big proponent of this), Can I use Skeptics in my own province to kill HIS domain and at the same time use preachers to jump start my Dom?

It would seem that the skeptic part would work (if I had enough), but will Priests help it along...OR will it even work.

I hope someone understands what I am trying to get at.

Thanks

[thejeff]

Both will work together, as long as you have enemy dominion. Obviously once it's yours, the skeptics will counteract the priests.

Since he's getting his own dominion up, not just killing yours it pretty much has to be stealth preachers, right? Assuming it's not leaking in from the borders, in which case I'd guess blood sacrifice. Stone Idols would drop his as well. Juggernauts aren't stealthy. What else is there?

[Knai]

Originally Posted by GrudgeBringer

I am having a problem I have never had before, I am playing Arco and have Dom 9. The problem I have is that I seem to be getting run over by some critter that is eating my Dom up.

Well, you're playing Arco. That's your problem right there.

[Ferrosol]

Originally Posted by Knai

Well, you're playing Arco. That's your problem right there.

Arco is awesome at least in EA and MA anyway.

[Knai]

Originally Posted by Ferrosol

Arco is awesome at least in EA and MA anyway.

They have a lot going for them in EA, but it doesn't all pan out well. There is a reason they were in the first Cripple Fight, despite the easy access to powerful nature globals due to the Oreid, the power of the skeptic, and the communion capabilities of the Mystic. But troop wise, at least in vanilla, they suck. The slinger is near useless, while Cardaces and Peltasts are easy to mass, they aren't very good, Chariots are just too resource heavy to mass easily, though doable (Cash isn't a huge issue, EA Arco should have a lot), and they have near worthless flying units because they are too expensive. Furthermore, Death access isn't, and EA Arco has trouble getting decent astral.

Now, MA Arco has some real staying power, not the least of which is the ease of a mass priestess mass astrologer Mind Hunt spam, and relatively early, which can do some real damage, and counter late game SC strategies if you keep it up to power.

[GrudgeBringer]

Guess it depends on how you play them.

I am in 2 games turns in the 80's and 90's and right in the hunt and we just finished one from exhaustion that was in the ninties that had another 50 turns to get to a winner.

What you say is basically true about troops, but sometimes the parts can become bigger than the whole if you know how to use your strengths.

Anyway, I have always played Arco and have had good success in games and have enjoyed this nation immensly.

Wanna have a good time....try playing with some of the best players and play against Helheim, Sauro, Caelem, Niefl etc and out last a lot of them.

It doesn't matter if you win the game, just being there at the end is good enough with a nation like Arco for me.

[chrispedersen]

I rate EA arco as somewhere around the 5th strongest nation in EA, and a lot of fun to play.

[Calahan]

Originally Posted by Knai

They have a lot going for them in EA, but it doesn't all pan out well. There is a reason they were in the first Cripple Fight, despite the easy access to powerful nature globals due to the Oreid, the power of the skeptic, and the communion capabilities of the Mystic.

It was LA Arco that was in the Cripple Fight game, not EA Arco. As EA Arco has a few wins under its belt.

[Lingchih]

Dom spread tends to one of the buggiest things in the game. Just keep doing what you are doing.

[RadicalTurnip]

Just to be clear, this isn't dominion that could have spread in from a border? Like, you have dominion all around it, but this is still happening?

Does anyone know how that astral spell works that "makes people fanatical, and then they attack" or whatever? Does that increase dominion of the caster?