Ah Welcome to another Battlereport , by me All-FeAr , you may recognize me from some other br's but that isn't important , im here to bring you a different battle report experience , let me introduce to you Dominion! ....

Dominion is a strategy like game that's is really similar to any paper R.T.S. game ever made. You can specialize in many different things , depending on your realm(allys), race , or any of the perverted little thoughts in your brain . You can build building A (ex farm) to get resource B (ex food) , and that's basically how it works. You don't know how u grow the food , but u know u have it , you use it and you like it. This Report is going to be based on my new adventure into this new game , right now your probably at the same knowledge level as I am . I randomly picked humans as my race , as they are ok in everything , once you find out your play style you can change your race next round (this is round 19 - each round resets the world).

Heres just a little information supplyed by the dominion site : Dominion is a medieval role playing / strategy / war game. You take control of a plot of land, called a "Dominion", that is within one of many Realms, each with a unique identification number, called "Realm Number." Each realm is comprised of at most 20 Dominions. When you create your account, you are randomly placed into any Realm that does not already have 20 Dominions. The other Dominions in your realm are your allies, and the ultimate goal of Dominion is to be the biggest, strongest Realm in all of the land. Individually, you are working both towards that goal and to become the biggest, strongest Dominion. The better you coordinate your efforts with the rest of your Realm, the better of you are at completing both of those goals. In order to accomplish this, you must be sure you survive the length of the round. The only methods of death in Dominion are losing all of your land, reduction of your peasant population to zero, or prolonged inactivity.
Accomplishing those feats involve understanding all the facets of the game. When you create your account, you must select a race for you and your people. The good races include Humans (and sub-race Nomads), Dwarves, Wood Elves, Gnomes, Merfolk, Firewalkers, Sylvans and Halflings. The evil races span Icekin, Trolls, Goblins, Dark Elves, Kobolds, Lycanthropes, Lizardfolk and the Undead (and sub-race Spirits). Each race has a unique set of bonuses and military units that are important to understand. And heres a list of race specifics that might interest you >>>>> http://kamikazegames.com/dominion/scribes/races.htm <<<<<
Your land does you little good until you have placed buildings on them. There are 7 unique land types (Plain, Mountain, Hill, Cavern, Water, Forest, and Swamp) and you may only place certain buildings on any given land type. You can, however, rezone your lands to convert one land type into any other land type. Once you have the right land for the buildings you would like to create, platinum (the currency of the world) and lumber may be spent to purchase the building.
Your castle, while not necessarily something you need to build up, is something that is integral to success later in the game. By improving your castle, you get added bonuses in a number of areas, including military strength, wizard strength, and income. These things can make or break a successful military operation or spell. Added income, on the other hand, is something you can always use, if not to build on your land, then to train your military.
Each race has a unique military. They all have a basic offensive unit that provides no defense, and a basic defensive unit that provides no offense. All races have 2 unique units that have special defensive and offensive powers, along with possibly other added special abilities. Each unit has different costs per race, and being able to calculate your offensive power versus a target's defensive power is key to succeeding in any battle.
Magic and Espionage are incredibly useful within the confines of the game. While neither will directly gain you land, they will allow you to do 2 important things: 1) Gain a slew of information regarding your enemies, including detailed analysis of their lands, military, and castle & 2) Hurt your enemies in ways other than direct military force.
How Things Work: Production (Platinum, Lumber, Gems, Ore), Population Gain, Drafting of military, Training, and just about everything else in Dominion occurs on the hour, every hour. What does this mean, exactly? Things occur in your Dominion whether you log in every hour or not. It doesn't mean that you have to log in every hour. "Turns" occur whether you log in to play every hour, or if you log in to play once a day. While it is to your advantage to log in every hour to spend your Dominion's resources to grow at the fastest rate possible, it is not necessary to do so. Most major actions, such as construction, training, and attacking take 9 hours to 12 hours to complete. This means after you, for example, attack another Dominion, your troops will not be available to attack again for another 12 hours. Thus, playing the game multiple times a day is helpful, but not integral to success.
Bonuses for production, military, magic and espionage depend on things like your castle, your race, and the buildings you put on your lands. Please note that Bonuses are cumulative and are then applied to the target value before the final numbers are calculated. The Monarch of your Realm, elected by majority vote, also gets: +5% platinum production. Of important note is that there is a 50% cumulative platinum production bonus maximum.
You should also be aware that you will be assailed with game information in the following pages, and it takes some time to fully understand the game and every little detail.