Endgame

[MaxWilson]

In Master of Magic, I used to enjoy the endgame immensely, which was the point at which I was on top and winning and enjoying finishing exploring all the nodes and conquering the last bits of my opponent's empires. In Dom3, curiously, I find that I rarely play a game through all the way to the endgame. I usually don't research or use 9th level spells in more than one or two research paths, and I especially don't siege and occupy all the enemy forts. Frequently I don't even go to war with all remaining opponents, I just look at the map and realize that I'm bigger than all the other nations put together, start a new game, and never come back to the game I'm winning. Consequently, I have little understanding of the Dom3 endgame even against the AI.

The one thing I have noticed is that PD becomes more useful in the endgame because it's easier to buy 50 PD for a mage cadre than to move troops to the front. (Partly that's because I use the BI mod so it's hard to build troops outside of castles.)

So, any SP players out there, how do you play endgames? Grinding war of attrition with your vast armies and mage cadres? Teleporting squads of SCs guarded by Siege Golems? Build lots of temples and push for dominion kills?

-Max