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	==Gallery==		==Gallery==
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	File:1459738966963.jpg\|The series in a nutshell		File:1459738966963.jpg\|The series in a nutshell
	File:You are approaching me Mekone.png\| Obligatory JoJo reference		File:You are approaching me Mekone.png\|Obligatory JoJo reference
	File:Burden of time 1.jpg \| Pucker up and hoard them pearls for dispelling newfag.		File:Burden of time 1.jpg\|Pucker up and hoard them pearls for dispelling newfag.
	File:Burden of time 2.png \| what is a few more decades to an elf.		File:Burden of time 2.png\|what is a few more decades to an elf.
	File:Harvard Mage teaches one weird trick.jpg\|Let it rain		File:Harvard Mage teaches one weird trick.jpg\|Let it rain
	File:What I played berytos.png\| Picture inaccurate, not enough Melqart Inferno spam rape		File:What I played berytos.png\|Picture inaccurate, not enough Melqart Inferno spam rape
	File:Ermor check in.png\| It's worse in Sceleria		File:Ermor check in.png\|It's worse in Sceleria
	File:Summon Lords of Civlization.png\| Oddly specific for a meme, and hauntingly accurate		File:Summon Lords of Civlization.png\|Oddly specific for a meme, and hauntingly accurate
	File:Re'lya Vs Ulm.jpeg\| [[Dawi\|Germanic taciturnness translates into magic resistance]]		File:Re'lya Vs Ulm.jpeg\|[[Dawi\|Germanic taciturnness translates into magic resistance]]
	Dominions Exploding Dice.png\| Nothing is safe from RNG		File:Dominions Exploding Dice.png\|Nothing is safe from RNG
	Pierre-yves-mikus-dom5-logopaint6-pymous-min-804x971.jpeg		File:Pierre-yves-mikus-dom5-logopaint6-pymous-min-804x971.jpeg
	Dominions iceberge Lua0c7olwsr61.png\|The iceberge		File:Dominions iceberge Lua0c7olwsr61.png\|The iceberge
	</~~Gallery~~>		File:Blitzserver pretenders.png\|Dominions lets you name your pretenders and commanders whatever you want. Some people use this to roleplay and set reminders of who can do what. Anon uses it to shitpost.
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	~~Yomi Daioni cutdown.png~~
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			== External links ==

			* [http://www.illwinter.com/dom6/index.html Official page for the latest game]
			* [https://illwiki.com/dom5/ Illwiki] — Player-run wiki, be sure to read this before playing lest you eat shit sooner than usual
			* [https://beta.blitzserver.net/games Blitzserver] — Web service to automate creating and running play-by-email games with turn timers and LFG support. Just without the email. Run by an anon from the Dominions general.

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

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	The [[Dwarf Fortress]] of [[Total War\|turn based province conquering strategy games.]]		The [[Dwarf Fortress]] of [[Total War\|turn based province conquering strategy games.]]

	Dominions~~, 1 through 5,~~ is a fantasy game about gods ~~wanting~~ to become the supreme lord of creation. And not the lazy, stay-at-home gods that get fat off prayer and nota blambrosia. No, it's about angry gods who are willing to take a shit on the entire world to become head honcho. Much like the Soviet Union, the various nations despised each other but were held together by a powerful ~~leader~~ known as the Pantokrator until he disappeared. By killing everyone else or claiming the Thrones of Ascension, ~~they~~ can become the true god. Your life is measured by your ~~belief~~ dominion (represented by white candles) and the number of provinces you control. Once you hit zero in either, it's game over. ~~You may also lose if any enemy captures enough Thrones~~ of ~~Ascension~~, ~~or win if~~ you ~~capture said Thrones of Ascension~~.		[[Dominions]] is a fantasy game about national gods fighting to become the supreme lord of creation. And not the lazy, stay-at-home gods that get fat off prayer and nota blambrosia. No, it's about angry gods who are willing to take a shit on the entire world to become head honcho. Much like the Soviet Union, the various nations despised each other but were held together by a powerful overdeity known as the Pantokrator until he disappeared. By killing everyone else or claiming the Thrones of Ascension scattered across the map, you can become the true god. Your life is measured by your divine dominion (represented by white candles) and the number of provinces you control. Once you hit zero in either, it's game over. The current installment is '''Dominions 6: Rise of the Pantokrator'''; each installment is more like an expansion pack and balance patch than a proper sequel, but unlike [[Rage\|the usual response to something like this]] 4chan largely doesn't care as the game is still cheap relative to the hundreds of hours you can waste on it and the devs aren't [[Hasbro\|complete dickheads.]]

	Anyways, what's unique about these gods and the factions they lead is that they tend to be more based upon world mythology and culture than your [[Tolkien]]-esque elves and dorfs (though it could be argued he stole it from Norse myth anyways). So there's your Irish Fae, Greek Hoplites, Roman Legionaries, German barbarians, tribes of Gaul(Ancient France), Phoenician demon-worshippers, Egyptian Lizardmen and their mummies, Irish giants, Norse giants, Biblical giants, Sumerian giants, Japanese oni, Russians, and more! The exceptions being most noticeably R'lyeh and their [[Aboleth]]s and [[Illithid]]s as well as Abysia.		Anyways, what's unique about these gods and the factions they lead is that they tend to be more based upon world mythology and culture than your [[Tolkien]]-esque elves and dorfs (though it could be argued he stole it from Norse myth anyways). So there's your Irish Fae, Greek Hoplites, Roman Legionaries, German barbarians, tribes of Gaul(Ancient France), Phoenician demon-worshippers, Egyptian Lizardmen and their mummies, Irish giants, Norse giants, Biblical giants, Sumerian giants, Japanese oni, Russians, and more! The exceptions being most noticeably R'lyeh and their [[Aboleth]]s and [[Illithid]]s as well as Abysia.

	~~Add the fact that every~~, ~~EVERY unit has its own stats~~, ~~afflictions, sicknesses and status~~(~~simply like having thorns~~ or ~~being hungry or diseased~~, ~~or regenerating~~, ~~hundreds of unique statuses)~~, the game ~~rivals Toady One in terms of coding detail~~.		And yes, you can have totally ridiculous battles like [[Cthulhu]] vs Spanish Inquisition vs Monkeys vs Zombie Jesus vs Jewish Cannibal Giants of Apocrypha vs Tibetan Legendary Shadow Umbrals. And yes, you can cast totally ridiculous spells like making a second sun (or turning it off), freezing the oceans, accelerating time so everyone ages to death, etc. Battles in the game tend to start off pretty tame with small armies hitting each other using puny mortal sticks, then big armies throwing magic artillery at each other, and then huge armies led by insane ancient undead gods while the sun goes off or goes up twice, and entire cities are nuked off the map via horrors inspired by Earthdawn (Shadowrun's ancestor).

	~~And yes~~, you ~~can have totally ridiculous battles like [[Cthulhu]] vs Spanish Inquisition vs Monkeys vs Zombie Jesus vs Jewish Cannibal Giants of Apocrypha vs Tibetan Legendary Shadow Umbrals~~. ~~And yes, you can cast totally ridiculous spells like making~~ a ~~second sun~~ (~~or turning it off)~~, ~~freezing~~ the ~~oceans, accelerating time so everyone ages to death, poisoning all the magic~~ in ~~the world so otherworldy horrors eat all mages (except the bloody ones~~)~~, etc~~. ~~Battles in~~ the ~~game tend~~ to ~~start off pretty tame~~ with ~~small armies hitting each other using puny mortal sticks~~, ~~then big armies throwing~~ magic ~~artillery at each other~~, ~~and then huge~~ armies ~~led by insane ancient undead gods while the sun goes off or goes up twice~~, ~~and entire cities are nuked off~~ the ~~map via horrors inspired by Earthdawn (Shadowrun~~'s ~~ancestor~~).		It's primarily a multiplayer game, since the AI was too moronic to comprehend what to do and just throws shitty units at you... until Dominions 5. Now it's competent for a knife fight in a phone booth (especially in Silent Seas, the iconic starter map in Dominions). With the last patches it can make reasonable "thugs" (Above-average leader units kitted with efficient magic items to be on par with a giant or a dragon, mass producible) but no supercombatants (Insanely invested single commander units kitted with extremely powerful items and often imbued with specific magic paths, LITERAL one man armies. Cast Claws of Kokytos on one for extra trolling) It also has a small but dedicated modding community, with mods existing that nearly double the game's (already massive) total content, and even some that port over factions from Warhammer Fantasy into the game.

	It's primarily a multiplayer game, since the AI was too moronic to comprehend what to do and just throws shitty units at you...Until Dominions 5. Now it's competent for a knife fight in a phone booth (especially in Silent Seas, the iconic starter map in Dominions). With the last patches it can make reasonable "thugs" (Above-average leader units kitted with efficient magic items to be on par with a giant or a dragon, mass producible) but no supercombatants (Insanely invested single commander units kitted with extremely powerful items and often imbued with specific magic paths, LITERAL one man armies. Cast Claws of Kokytos on one for extra trolling) It also has a small but dedicated modding community, with mods existing that nearly double the game's (already massive) total content, and even some that port over ~~factions from Warhammer Fantasy into the game.~~		==So why is /tg/ creaming its pants over this vidya?==

	~~==Game Mechanics~~, a.k.a ~~Why~~ is ~~/tg/ creaming its pants over~~ this ~~vidya?==~~		Every game starts with creating your divine avatar, called a "pretender god" by the game and "tendies" by everyone else. You do this by picking out a base "chassis" from a list determined by than nation you will command, which could be anything from humans on ridiculous amounts of magic steroids to dragons to fertility titans with giant mommy milkers and even inanimate statues that simply anchor you to the world but can't fight in combat. Bigger chassis will spread dominion farther and have lots of innate combat or magic power, but pay for this in both versatility and character points. After you've decided on a chassis you get to pimp it out with bonus magic paths ([[Linear Build Quadratic EXP\|buying a path your chassis doesn't already have costs more than upgrading)]] and dominion attributes that affect everyone who worships you at the strategic level. This is also where you choose blessings, combat buffs that are applied to units with the "sacred" tag (including you) and can be invoked by your clerics. All of this shit comes from the same points pool, so it's perfectly viable to [[Powergamer\|actively penalize your civilization to get better combat stats]]. If your pretender dies your nation will have a sad and need to pray you back to life like Tinker Bell; this is a good reason to take a chassis with the "immortal" trait so you can respawn faster.

	Everything is turn based, and battles are concluded rapidly with a very complicated calculator which takes every bit of detail of every unit, formation and spell into account. ~~(Which is like Dwarf Fortress on crack level detailed, but you need to pre-program a combat routine that can't be changed after end of turn)~~ And we mean every unit with its uniqueness: yes, it is possible the 102nd nondescript human archer in your army might have his arm amputated due to an infected wound from an incoming arrow or spell, and you might see him in a siege stabbing people with one arm if you actually care to read the details. Every unit out of millions in the game has its own character sheet and experience.		Everything is turn based, and battles are concluded rapidly with a very complicated calculator which takes every bit of detail of every unit, formation and spell into account. And we mean every unit with its uniqueness: yes, it is possible the 102nd nondescript human archer in your army might have his arm amputated due to an infected wound from an incoming arrow or spell, and you might see him in a siege stabbing people with one arm if you actually care to read the details. Every unit out of millions in the game has its own character sheet and experience. The drawback to this [[Dwarf Fortress]] on crack level of detail is that you have to effectively write an AI script to issue orders to your army before each battle, which can't be changed after you submit your turn.

	Armies move similar to those in the Heroes of Might and Magic series, heroes followed by armies of dependent on their leadership limits. The "heroes" themselves aren't necessarily badass, sometimes it's just a dude with some leadership and maybe magical skills, but they can be outfitted in every part of their bodies.		Armies move similar to those in the Heroes of Might and Magic series, heroes followed by armies of dependent on their leadership limits. The "heroes" themselves aren't necessarily badass, sometimes it's just a dude with some leadership and maybe magical skills, but they can be outfitted in every part of their bodies.
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	You don't do much in terms of empire building. Basically, it's the strategic map of the (Shogun/Medieval 1) [[Total War]] series where you buy units in each territory and attach them to heroes or leave them to defend. Your national units can only be raised in fortified territories, and you can recruit unique quirky units in territories you inhabit and if you like, add them to your national ones, for example Niefelheim giants joined with the local human territory's cavalry since giants don't come with fast horses but could use a few supporting swords. You can fortify a territory to boost production and buy national units, buy a temple to spread your Dominion (which is your primary goal), or a laboratory for using magic rituals and recruiting mage commanders in said territory.		You don't do much in terms of empire building. Basically, it's the strategic map of the (Shogun/Medieval 1) [[Total War]] series where you buy units in each territory and attach them to heroes or leave them to defend. Your national units can only be raised in fortified territories, and you can recruit unique quirky units in territories you inhabit and if you like, add them to your national ones, for example Niefelheim giants joined with the local human territory's cavalry since giants don't come with fast horses but could use a few supporting swords. You can fortify a territory to boost production and buy national units, buy a temple to spread your Dominion (which is your primary goal), or a laboratory for using magic rituals and recruiting mage commanders in said territory.

	That's it, destroy neutral unit filled territories and spread out. The rest is up to you to be the One God.		That's it, destroy neutral unit filled territories and spread out, get in fights with other players, claim Thrones and probably get taken to the bone zone if you were unlucky enough to spawn next to Ermor. The rest is up to you to be the One God.

	==The Modding==		==The Modding==
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	The only school you can't research, as all the spells are researched already. While some nations have their own unique Divine spells, divine spells are generally blessings, banishments, and smites. Blessings are the real thing here, as depending on what your Pretender has for magic, it can either be a minor aid or the focus of your nation. Used only by priests, though some priests can be mages too, and now can cast elemental-hybrid prayers and blast their way to victory. Blessings only affect sacred units, however, the variety and availability of which varies from nation to nation.		The only school you can't research, as all the spells are researched already. While some nations have their own unique Divine spells, divine spells are generally blessings, banishments, and smites. Blessings are the real thing here, as depending on what your Pretender has for magic, it can either be a minor aid or the focus of your nation. Used only by priests, though some priests can be mages too, and now can cast elemental-hybrid prayers and blast their way to victory. Blessings only affect sacred units, however, the variety and availability of which varies from nation to nation.

	In ~~the latest game,~~ Dominions 5, divine spells get even more attention in form of hybrid schools, like water-proficient gods giving their priests power to drown land-based units, stellar-able gods' priests invoking starlight to burn undead and so on.		In Dominions 5, divine spells get even more attention in form of hybrid schools, like water-proficient gods giving their priests power to drown land-based units, stellar-able gods' priests invoking starlight to burn undead and so on.

	===The Paths===		===The Paths===

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	In Middle Age, a star smashes into R'lyeh, bringing...You guessed it, Illithids! They replace Aboleths, but one or two linger alive, and don't mind rolling along with similarly brain raping amoral assholes from beyond. Not much changes, but the new bosses are amphibian and can blast your brain either way. Shore territories, when fortified, spawn free half-spawn, Deep Ones from Innsmouth, and can pay to train stronger half-spawns with armor.		In Middle Age, a star smashes into R'lyeh, bringing...You guessed it, Illithids! They replace Aboleths, but one or two linger alive, and don't mind rolling along with similarly brain raping amoral assholes from beyond. Not much changes, but the new bosses are amphibian and can blast your brain either way. Shore territories, when fortified, spawn free half-spawn, Deep Ones from Innsmouth, and can pay to train stronger half-spawns with armor.

	In Late Age, it's Middle Age with an extra twist: population dies in your Dominion, and is "raised", brought to your army as crazed Cultist swarms. Have fun juggling 100 territories in multiplayer and ~~get~~ starvation reports when ~~no one tends the fields and~~ busy ~~drooling and chanting and~~ shitting themselves, including your leaders, and eventually even your own God! Yes, madness is a mechanic in game, every turn your insanity rating may cause your leaders to freeze in their province and shit themselves, babble, or jack off, and no, it's not R'lyeh specific~~. Your commanders~~ who eat mercury as a ~~Chinese cure may grow younger...or~~ go ~~nuts~~. ~~We told you the game has every cultural aspect in history!~~		In Late Age, it's Middle Age with an extra twist: population dies in your Dominion, and is "raised", brought to your army as crazed Cultist swarms. Have fun juggling 100 territories in multiplayer and getting starvation reports when everyone is busy flailing around shitting themselves, including your leaders, and eventually even your own God! Yes, madness is a mechanic in game, every turn your insanity rating may cause your leaders to freeze in their province and shit themselves, babble, or jack off, and no, it's not R'lyeh specific as anyone who does stupid shit like eat mercury or play around with dimensional bullshit has a chance to go wacko.

	~~For~~ the ~~record~~, ~~their unique God avatar~~, ~~Uttervast~~ which ~~is an expy~~ of ~~Yog~~-~~Sothoth~~ is an utterly ~~indefeatable~~ combat monster and can never ~~start in~~ the game ~~before five years' time~~.		As you might guess from the above quote, picking R'lyeh isn't likely to win you friends in multiplayer, at least in MA. Not only do you start underwater which lets you expand and research unmolested unless someone else counterpicked Atlantis or Pelagia, you have good access to Water and Astral, most of your best troops and mages are amphibious, and you can train Star Children (stealthy mind-blasting assassins who can research when they're not dunking on enemy heroes) from any fort. Their unique pretender, Uttervast, is an utterly undefeatable combat monster (being Yog-Sothoth by another name) and can never spawn earlier than five years into the game.

	====Lanka====		====Lanka====

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	[[File:Aboleth Trap.png\|thumb\|right\|Even Aboleths can be seduced according to game mechanics. ]]		[[File:Aboleth Trap.png\|thumb\|right\|Even Aboleths can be seduced according to game mechanics. ]]
			{{topquote\|Kill squiggers. Behead squiggers. Roundhouse kick a squigger into the ocean. Slam dunk a mindslayer into the trashcan. Crucify filthy illithids. Defecate in a squigger brain. Launch squiggers into the abyss. Trample squiggers with an elephant. Turn squigger provinces into active volcanoes. Urinate on a squigger's god. Judo throw squiggers into a doomstack. Twist squigger heads off. Report squiggers to the pankoman. Karate chop squiggers in half. Fireball pregnant pink squiggers. Trap squiggers in caves. Crush squiggers in pincer maneuvers. Liquefy squiggers in a rain of acid. Eat squiggers. Freeze squiggers. Exterminate squiggers in the foul vapor chamber. Stomp squigger skulls with enchanted bronze boots. Cremate squiggers with 99 2F mages. Lobotomize squiggers. Mandatory coalitions for squiggers. Process squigger fetuses into blood slaves. Drown squiggers in freespawn skeletons. Vaporize squiggers with a meteor. Kick old squiggers into elemental planes. Feed squiggers to werewolves. Dissect squiggers for research points.\|Anonymous}}
	In the deepest of oceans lives the strange fishlike race called the [[Aboleth]]s. These beings are highly intelligent and the older Aboleths called Mind Lords can enslave lesser beings with the force of will alone. Having this power means they have enslaved Mermen and Deep Ones to do the daily work and to fill up the ranks of their armies. In a deep gorge the enslaved workers have built a score of small but magnificent cities for their rulers. In this gorge live the greatest of the Aboleths. Shore regions, if fortified, can train Androleths, [[Grimdark\|Aboleth spawn inserted in human bodies for a painful puppeteer warrior.]]		In the deepest of oceans lives the strange fishlike race called the [[Aboleth]]s. These beings are highly intelligent and the older Aboleths called Mind Lords can enslave lesser beings with the force of will alone. Having this power means they have enslaved Mermen and Deep Ones to do the daily work and to fill up the ranks of their armies. In a deep gorge the enslaved workers have built a score of small but magnificent cities for their rulers. In this gorge live the greatest of the Aboleths. Shore regions, if fortified, can train Androleths, [[Grimdark\|Aboleth spawn inserted in human bodies for a painful puppeteer warrior.]]

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	[[File:~~1459738966963~~.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|right\|~~The series in~~ a ~~nutshell~~]]		[[File:Dominons.png\|thumb\|right\|Watch closely for this image. It signals a Dominions thread.]]
	''Not to be confused with the more directly /tg/ related card game '''''[[Dominion]]'''		''Not to be confused with the more directly /tg/ related card game '''''[[Dominion]]'''

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	File:~~Dominons~~.~~png~~\|~~Watch closely for this image. It signals~~ a ~~Dominions thread.~~		File:1459738966963.jpg\|The series in a nutshell
	File:You are approaching me Mekone.png\| Obligatory JoJo reference		File:You are approaching me Mekone.png\| Obligatory JoJo reference
	File:Burden of time 1.jpg \| Pucker up and hoard them pearls for dispelling newfag.		File:Burden of time 1.jpg \| Pucker up and hoard them pearls for dispelling newfag.

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	The people of Berytos are the descendants of a civilization created by the Telchines, titanic storm demons defeated by a previous Pantokrator. The Telchines taught shipbuilding, sailing and metalcrafting to the human ancestors of Berytos. When the Telchines were defeated, the humans fled to the sea, led by the Storm Callers, disciples of the Telchines. With the knowledge of ironcrafting and the magical might of the Storm Callers, new colonies were founded on distant shores. Like a phoenix, the dying empire was reborn. But the Telchine gods were dead and the humans sought divine leadership. They found the Melqarts of Hinnom. One of the colonies was situated near Ashdod and the bloody cult of the Melqarts soon spread through the Phoenix Empire. In the capital colony of Berytos, a great temple to the Melqarts was built. But soon another power found its way into the cult. Refugee Colossi, great men of the Machakan royal family, arrived in Berytos and established themselves as rulers of the bloody cult. Their sorceresses claimed divinity and called themselves Brides-in-Waiting. Now Berytos is a seafaring people led by sorcerer queens from the great temple in Berytos, and ruled by King Ba'al Hammon of the Melqarts and Queen Makelo, one of the three remaining Telchines.		The people of Berytos are the descendants of a civilization created by the Telchines, titanic storm demons defeated by a previous Pantokrator. The Telchines taught shipbuilding, sailing and metalcrafting to the human ancestors of Berytos. When the Telchines were defeated, the humans fled to the sea, led by the Storm Callers, disciples of the Telchines. With the knowledge of ironcrafting and the magical might of the Storm Callers, new colonies were founded on distant shores. Like a phoenix, the dying empire was reborn. But the Telchine gods were dead and the humans sought divine leadership. They found the Melqarts of Hinnom. One of the colonies was situated near Ashdod and the bloody cult of the Melqarts soon spread through the Phoenix Empire. In the capital colony of Berytos, a great temple to the Melqarts was built. But soon another power found its way into the cult. Refugee Colossi, great men of the Machakan royal family, arrived in Berytos and established themselves as rulers of the bloody cult. Their sorceresses claimed divinity and called themselves Brides-in-Waiting. Now Berytos is a seafaring people led by sorcerer queens from the great temple in Berytos, and ruled by King Ba'al Hammon of the Melqarts and Queen Makelo, one of the three remaining Telchines.

	In Middle Age, Berytos is pawned by Arcoscephale and Phaeacia is founded by surviving Machakan Lion Men and refugees from both Berytos and Mekone. An Island kingdom, it's a crazy gameplay with Phaeacia as your God's dominion freespawns magical black ships that transport all units across seas as long as the majority of a region believes in you, letting you conquer EVERY shore in a year if you build underwater temples at shores as well. Pirate Carthaginians married to giant Africans who eat immortality apples and use magical linen armor strong as chainmail. ~~Illwinter, you rock~~.		In Middle Age, Berytos is pawned by Arcoscephale and Phaeacia is founded by surviving Machakan Lion Men and refugees from both Berytos and Mekone. An Island kingdom, it's a crazy gameplay with Phaeacia as your God's dominion freespawns magical black ships that transport all units across seas as long as the majority of a region believes in you, letting you conquer EVERY shore in a year if you build underwater temples at shores as well. Pirate Carthaginians married to giant Africans who eat immortality apples and use magical linen armor strong as chainmail. It's as fun as it sounds.

	====Sauromatia====		====Sauromatia====

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	File:1459738966963.jpg\|The series in a nutshell		File:1459738966963.jpg\|The series in a nutshell
	File:You are approaching me Mekone.png\| Obligatory JoJo reference		File:You are approaching me Mekone.png\|Obligatory JoJo reference
	File:Burden of time 1.jpg \| Pucker up and hoard them pearls for dispelling newfag.		File:Burden of time 1.jpg\|Pucker up and hoard them pearls for dispelling newfag.
	File:Burden of time 2.png \| what is a few more decades to an elf.		File:Burden of time 2.png\|what is a few more decades to an elf.
	File:Harvard Mage teaches one weird trick.jpg\|Let it rain		File:Harvard Mage teaches one weird trick.jpg\|Let it rain
	File:What I played berytos.png\| Picture inaccurate, not enough Melqart Inferno spam rape		File:What I played berytos.png\|Picture inaccurate, not enough Melqart Inferno spam rape
	File:Ermor check in.png\| It's worse in Sceleria		File:Ermor check in.png\|It's worse in Sceleria
	File:Summon Lords of Civlization.png\| Oddly specific for a meme, and hauntingly accurate		File:Summon Lords of Civlization.png\|Oddly specific for a meme, and hauntingly accurate
	File:Re'lya Vs Ulm.jpeg\| [[Dawi\|Germanic taciturnness translates into magic resistance]]		File:Re'lya Vs Ulm.jpeg\|[[Dawi\|Germanic taciturnness translates into magic resistance]]
	Dominions Exploding Dice.png\| Nothing is safe from RNG		File:Dominions Exploding Dice.png\|Nothing is safe from RNG
	Pierre-yves-mikus-dom5-logopaint6-pymous-min-804x971.jpeg		File:Pierre-yves-mikus-dom5-logopaint6-pymous-min-804x971.jpeg
	Dominions iceberge Lua0c7olwsr61.png\|The iceberge		File:Dominions iceberge Lua0c7olwsr61.png\|The iceberge
	</~~Gallery~~>		File:Blitzserver pretenders.png\|Dominions lets you name your pretenders and commanders whatever you want. Some people use this to roleplay and set reminders of who can do what. Anon uses it to shitpost.
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