The Old God has left the world and the pretenders are awakening and coming out from hiding. You start the game by designing one of the pretender gods that will compete for true ascension to godhood. The type of god can range from a magically powerful arch mage to an ancient kraken or a mystic monolith that people pray to. Your pretender controls one of over sixty different nations and with the help of that nation he will spread his word and battle the other pretenders. Dominions 3 is a turn based strategy game. You can play single- or multiplayer (1 - 23 players) with simultaneous turns. There are more than 1500 different units, 600 spells and 300 magic items in the game. The game also features a medieval musical score by Erik Ask Uppmark and Anna Rynefors, both awarded the title of Musicians of the Realm by the Swedish Zornmärkeskommiten. Dominions 3 is a highly detailed game and a 300 page pdf manual is included in the download.

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THE STRATEGY INDEX

The links in this thread are colour coded to indicate whether or not they are external, and by association, the likely quality of the information contained in that link. I hope to eventually have all the links linking to threads on this forum, but for now there will be far more external links than internal ones. I hope not to link to any misinformation, but there is a big difference between a post that is accurate and genuinely helpful, and a post that is not misinformation, but which doesn't actually contain that much helpful info either. (eventually I will likely phase out the colour coded system for the strategy index, but it'll be in place for some time as it is also going to act as my to-do list for what entries still haven't got internal links)

Also note that a lot of the entries won't have any links for quite a while, as they are entries I've put in myself as I'm going along based on typical questions that might get asked about the topic at hand. With the idea being that as I go through old Shrapnel posts, I will either find threads that are relevant that I can link to for the answer, or I'll create a new thread here with cherry picked stuff from old threads, or I'll create a new thread here from scratch to answer the question.

Edit - And also note that this index will be a lot more condensed when it's finished than it is now, I'm just listing and indexing things as I go along right now (without any thought to keeping the size down). But a lot of the questions will either get merged, or I will create a mini-thread or post to cover everything. eg. All the stuff about Thugs and SC's might get put in a separate thread or post, and then all the various questions and links will be put in that mini-thread/post (to avoid them cluttering p this root index)
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Blue indicates a very useful post on an external website

Cyan indicates a useful post on this website
Brown indicates a useful post on an external website

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General Gameplay

New Players

  • Is there a newbie guide anywhere?

Thugs and Super Combatants (SC's)

  • How do I equip my Thugs and SC's?
  • What are some good examples of Thugs and SC's? Top 10 SC builds here
  • How do I design a Thug and SC?
  • What is the difference between a Thug and SC?
  • Why did my Thug / SC retreat when he had not even been hit yet?
  • How high should the MR be on my Thugs and SC's?

Forging Items

  • What are the best items?
  • What are the best Artifacts? Check out Frozen Lama&Trumanator's Artifact guide here
  • How do I make effective use of magic bows?
  • Will the Questing Knights attack a unit holding The Chalice? No (the text is a holdover from Dom2)
  • Do Magic Items stack? No

Early Wars, Rushing and Defending Against a Rush

  • What is the point of rushing an opponent?

Bogus and Friends

  • Why do they always attack me?
  • I killed Bogus once, so how has he attacked me again?
  • What do Bogus and Friends represent
  • How do I kill Bogus and Friends?
  • How do I captured Bogus and Friends?

Magic vs Brute Force

  • Why is Battlefield Magic so powerful?
  • I have far more units than my enemy, so why am I always losing my battles?
  • dhh
  • hhd
  • dhd

Pre-game

Nation Selection

  • What is a good nation for a new player to play in order to learn the basics of the game?
  • What are the best and worst nations in the game?

Pretender Design

  • Is there any general advice for new players regarding how to design a Pretender?
  • What exactly are Rainbow Pretenders and SC Pretenders?
  • Why does my awesome SC Pretender always get killed so easily when expanding against Indys?
  • Is there any way to see what Pretender I designed without having to start a new game? Yes, check here

Scales

  • Is there any general advice for new players regarding what scales to pick?

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Temp notes to self (new note to self, maybe using blue isn't so clever as the links are always in blue)

This is Black
This is the colour Lime (for Green)
This is the colour MediumBlue (for Blue)
This is the colour DarkTurquoise (for Cyan)
This is the colour DarkgoldenRod (for Brown)
This is the colour Red (for Red)
This is the colour MeduimOrchid (for Purple)

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Strategic View / Overland Map

Province Information Panel (province attributes)

National Summary Panel

User Interface

  • Why does the User Interface keep disappearing? This is the copy protection.

Commander Icons

  • The commander icons keep disappearing. Is this a bug? No, this is the copy protection.

End Turn

Options

Map filters

Statistics

Messages

Magic

Keyboard Shortcuts (Hotkeys)

  • Where can I find a list of hotkeys? List of Hotkeys on the Wiki

Message Log

  • Battle Reports
  • Inaccurate Battle Report. (the replay said I won the battle, but the battle report says I lost. Is the battle report wrong?)

Viewing Battles

  • I see some Crossed Swords in one of my provinces. What does that mean?
  • The battle replay shows me winning the fight, but the battle report says I lost. Which one is correct?

Recruit Units

Unit Information Screen

  • What do all the different stats mean?
  • What different attributes can a unit have?

Army Setup

  • How do I decoy enemy Archers?


Forts

  • I am besieging a fort and my Spy is reporting on my own army. Is this a bug? Yes and no, see here
  • I am besieging a fort, but how can I find out what units are inside? Yes, see here
  • Where should I build forts?
  • My enemy is constantly besieging my fort each turn. I keep breaking siege, winning the fight, but am still besieged the next turn. What is going on?

Laboratory

Temple

Magic Sites

  • What can I find in the Forbidden City?

Research

  • What should my early research objectives be?
  • What are the best spells to research?

Mercenaries

  • Is it a good idea to hire Mercenaries? And if so when should I hire them?
  • How many different types of Mercenaries are there? List of Mercenaries here

Movement

  • My flying units are suddenly unable to move more than one province. They could move three provinces before. What happened? (check for perpetual storm)


Expanding

  • Is there any help available for someone struggling to expand? Check out Fantomen's Expansion 101 guide here

Scouting

  • My Spy is giving me scouting info on my own army. Is this a bug? Yes and No. The text is wrong, but the report is right. See here

Orders Menu

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Mar 5 2013 Anchor

Magic, Spells and Rituals.

Remote Attack Spells (Rituals)

  • How do I effectively use Remote Assassination Spells?
  • How do I defend against Remote Assassination Spells?
  • How do I effectively use Remote Attack Spells?
  • How do I defend against Remote Attack Spells?

Globals

  • How does Dispel work?

Scripted Spells

  • Why did my mage not cast the spell I scripted?

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Battlefield and Combat

Battlefield Coordinates

  • How big is the battlefield?
  • How many squares are there between each side?

Communions

  • Is there a guide to using communions? Yes, courtesy of TheDemon. Check here

Expansion

Spell Scripting

  • Why didn't my mage cast the spell I scripted?

Battlefield Summons

  • Skelly Spam
  • How do I effectively use summon Special Monsters spells such as Call Horror and Summon Lammashtas?

Elemental Magic

  • I need some help fighting against Thunder Strike spam.

Archers

  • My Archers were scripted to fire but they attacked instead. Why?
  • My enemy keeps decoying my Archers. Is there any way of stopping this?

Flying

  • I ordered my flying units to "Attack Rear" but they attacked the nearest units instead. Why?
  • My flying troops are unable to fly in battle. Why? (check for Storm)

Turn Processing and Turn Resolution Sequence

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Mar 5 2013 Anchor

I will attempt #2 now then by deleting your last post.

Edit - Damn. If I'm logged in then I see no change apart from there being an "Un-delete" option for your post. If I log out then I see a rather ugly..." This post has been deleted." ... message with a greyed out post. And a bunch of those littering threads isn't exactly going to be desirable :(

Oh well, back to plan A.

(I have un-deleted your post now)

Edit 2 - Do you have any "super delete" options at all? Like you did in the comments section?

Edited by: Calahan.

Mar 5 2013 Anchor

No super deletion here, at least on a cursory look. I'll need to check into it more closely. However, I think we now have enough posts here to count for all possible indexing needs, so we can take the rest of this conversation to the moderator forum.

Calahan Edit - Agreed. No more posts needed now, as I have plenty of room to work with

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