Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith Reviews

great depth and lots of wonderful lore

This is, like the rest of the entries into the Dominions series, a really odd game to try to review despite the fact that it's incredibly fun to play. The graphics are ancient, the gameplay is both detailed and hands off, and what actually happens during a combat is sometimes hard to figure out without doing a significant amount of maths on the fly. That having been said, I've spent hundreds of hours on this and its predecessors, and will pick up the most recent game once I've finally finished the three matches I have running on this! If you are the kind of person who likes putting plans into action and watching them play out it's incredibly fun, and although I've only played it vs AI the multiplayer scene is reportedly even better. There's just something indefinably rewarding about watching the right blessings turn merely average sacred troops into unstoppable juggernauts, or when a correctly geared SC wipes out armies of hundreds as they stand awestruck in front of him. Extra marks for the incredible array of mods out there, and if anyone's struggling to make sense of it all then there's a lot of information out there in LP's, the wiki and manual. It's also really worth turning on the most detailed level of combat report and setting the game to half speed to understand how the values for the various stats actually come together. There are a lot of ways to influence combat and it takes a while to work out if a combatant or situation would benefit from stacking defence or armour or repel, or adding stun or paralysis to reduce incoming attacks, or fear to debuff morale, or....