Starting w/High Dominion vs. Using Temples

[Dragar]

Originally Posted by Fate

If you want to dom push, you might not want a full 10-dom because then you need to "fill" all your home provinces to or close to 10 before they will really start to spread (meaning it takes longer for your dominion to start overriding your opponent's). 6-8 might be more effective

That is possibly true if you are going to push in a general sense, relying on natural flow of candles into enemy lands. If you are doing so you want to be preaching in your own lands to maximise the outwards spread of auto-checks.

If you are directing a push, however, higher is always better. Blood sacrificing at the borders and stealth preaching are the obvious ones, but even building temples at your borders and preaching your own border provs to max dominion will benefit a lot from having higher dominion. Certainly plonking your high dom pretender next to enemy lands will speed things up substantially.

[MaxWilson]

Taking 10 dom will not hurt the effectiveness of your dom push. It takes 10 turns on average to generate 10 candles with dom 10, right? and 10 turns to generate 6-8 candles with dom 6-8.

-Max

[Dragar]

Only exceptions are the automatic candle from your pretender and if you are preaching to fill up your own lands