MA ULM: expanding your dominion

[thejeff]

What do you usually have for starting dominion?

In SP, I usually build temples rather than have lots of priests preaching. Carpet the kingdom with temples. It's more effective than crappy priests. And you can build more priests faster.

[Micah]

vfb - what I was driving at was that keeping your scales in play in your "home" provinces was worthwhile, but that trying to actively push dominion along with a fighting force was not. The gains from such a venture are limited, especially if your opponent is raiding your new conquests, which results in unrest in the provinces (reducing income, and thus the effect of good scales) and displaced or dead priests.

Even in the cases of Rlyeh and Ermor by the time you get into most of their territory the population damage is long past done, and you'd be wasting time putting in order-3 scales in a 1000 population province. Not to mention the loss of banishers vs Ermor.

There's also the point that a level 1 priest supposedly can't even touch enemy dominion over 6 without a temple in the province, making it even more difficult to effectively push into deep enemy territory.