Overview
New to the game and totally confused what to do? Check out this very short guide, then go conquesting!
Prewords
First, if you are new, congratulations for trying this game! Dominions 4 is a great strategy game, and while you won’t get good in only five minutes, I hope you can get general direction in how to play this magnificent game and know its game flow. How in detail you can achieve things written here, you ask? Well please check the other guide lol, they are all amazing.
Select Map
Select a map you are comfortable with. I suggest Land of Rampaging Roaches with three additional player or AI. It is small-ish and the indipendent armies are not too hard to beat.
Select Your Nation
When adding players, click on your name to select available Nation for that Era (this confuses me the very first time playing lol). I’d say choose a Nation that interests you the most. Later you should learn its units, commanders, priests, and mages, so playing a Nation that you like will greatly help this process.
Create Your Pretender
There are a lot of strategy to think to create a good pretender, but as you are just starting:
- Pick a cool Pretender form.
- Set it to dormant, it will appear later, but it will be more powerful.
- Raise its Dominion to 6-ish.
- Give it good scales (like order, productivity, growth), but don’t spend all of your points yet.
- Use the rest of the point to improve its magic, at least to level 4 for each of its magic, so you can give your sacred unit good blessing. (If your point is not enough to do this, reduce a few of your good scales)
- Click ok and give it cool name, and start the game.
The Early Game and Beyond
Things you can do:
Appoint a prophet. The prophet is excellent in helping you defeating independent armies nearby.
Hire mages to start researching spells.
Train a group of army that is strong enough to defeat independent armies near you. Try to not build too much, as you should also save some money to build buildings. You should keep training mages to improve your research. Then, Expand your territory as much as you can.
Build an additional fort or two. Try to give it some space from your first fort. Then when it is almost finished, move one of your mages to the new fort to build a Laboratory there. With new forts, you can build more army and mages. Do pay attention to your upkeep though. You don’t want to have too little income because you have so many troops and mages.
Move some of your mages to forests, mountains, wastes, or swamps in your territory to search for magic sites, so you can get magic gems to do the following:
- Research cool spells
- Summon mighty creatures
- Forge useful magic items
When you are confident with your army and spells, go out there and conquer your enemies! (bring your mages with your army so they can cast battlefield spells)
Took control of necessary Thrones, and ascend to victory!
Notes
- I don’t own the brand image of the guide, its from deviantart but i’m unable to know who made it
- I am not a “pro player” at all. I never win a multiplayer game (yet!). I merely hope to share some insight I thought I have. Good day!