Strategy Index - Guides for Dominions 6

[Taorec]

“Knowledge is knowing ... or where to find out.”
- Alvin Toffler

Similar to the threads for Dominions 3, 4 and 5, this is a quick reference list to Dominions guides.

Did I miss a valuable reference? Just post them here or PM me, so I can add them.

Table of Contents

1. Strategy Indices & Information Sources
   
2. Dominions: What is new in Dominions 6? Is it worth it? Why play it?
   
3. Tools of the Trade & Hotkeys
   
4. Beginner Guides
   
5. Nation, Pretender and Scales Guides
   
6. General Strategy & Guides
   
7. Magic Sites and Site Searching
   
8. Magic, Spells and items
   
9. Combat, Thugs and Super Combatants
   
10. Multiplayer
    
11. Mods & Maps

1. Strategy Indices and other Information Sources

Information Sources

• Dominions 6 Manual[www.illwinter.com] (444 page manual, must read!)
  
• Dominions 5: Wiki[illwiki.com] (note that mechanics like bless, scales & mounts changed)
  
• Dominionmods Forum[dominionsmods.com]
  
• Dominions 6 Reddit
  
• Dominions Podcast

Strategy Indices

• Dominions 5: Guide Overview (dated, 2017-2024)
  
• Dominions 4: Guide Overview (dated, 2013-2017)
  
• Dominions 3: Strategy Index[forum.shrapnelgames.com] (very dated, 2008-2013)

Abbreviations & Terminology

• Dominions - Commonly Used Shorthands[illwiki.com]
  
• Dominions - Basic Terminology / Slang Guide[gameplay.tips] (by Shinuyama)

2 Dominions: What is new in Dominions 6? Is it worth it? Why play it?

What is new?

• Dominions 6 - Bless Overview[i.imgur.com]
  
• Dominions 6: New Features Overview[www.illwinter.com]
  
• Dominions 6 new Features and Changes
  
• Dominions 6 – First Impressions & Discussions of the Changes

Why Dominions?

• One rocks fight to become the top deity (by Tom Senior)
  
• Gods go to war (by Tom Senior)
  
• Wot I Think: Dominions 4 Single Player (by Adam Smith)
  
• Elvira: Drama Mama[devnada.wordpress.com]

Is it worth it?

Yes!

• Topic 1
  
• Topic 2
  
• Topic 3
  
• Topic 4
  
• Topic 5
  
• Topic 6
  
• Topic 7
  
• Topic 8

3. Tools of the Trade & Hotkeys

Software to help your daily Dominions needs:

• Dominions 6 Inspector[larzm42.github.io] (your first reference and most important tool, kudos to larzm!)
  
• Dominions 6 Pretender Calculator[caleb-distributive.github.io] (updated by Zollqir, now with bless point optimizer)
  
• Dominions 6: Combat Arena Mapgen[utils-dom5.com.de]
  
• Dominions 5 Inspector[larzm42.github.io]
  
• Dominions 5 Inspector - A Power User's Guide (by Lucid, highly recommended)
  
• Dominions 4: Combat and Communion Calculator[dedas.github.io] (by Dedasen)

A Short Guide to Hotkeys

Hotkeys can save you a lot of clicks and time! To view all available hotkeys of a screen press ?. For a full list see Illwiki[illwiki.com].

4. Beginner Guides

• Dominions 6 - New Player Guide (Youtube Intro to Dominions 6 by Lucid)
  
• Dominion 6 Tutorial for Beginners Series (Very detailed Intro to Dominions 6 by DasTactic)
  
• Dominions 6 Guide for New Players (Youtube Intro to Dominions 6 by Chazzy Burger)
  
• Dominions 6 - Army Formations, Basic Scripting and Battle! (by ChazzyBurger)
  
• Good turn habits[http//hhttps] (by Darkwolf)

5. Nation, Pretender and Scales Guides

5.1 Dominions 6

Nation Guides

• Dominions 6 – Nations At a Glance (by Zan)
  
• Dominions 6 – National Overviews (by TopGuides)
  
• Dominions 6 – National Overviews (by ChazzyBurger)

Pretender Design

• Dominions 6 Pretender Calculator[caleb-distributive.github.io] (updated by Zollqir, now with bless point optimizer)
  
• Dominions 6 Pretender Design (by ChazzyBurger)
  
• Pretender Types and Strategies (by Top Guides)
  
• How To Choose Your Pretender God (by DasTactic)

5.2 Dominions 5

Note: Dominions 6 heavily changed many aspects of the game and nations, thus some of information from Dominions 5, especially for pretenders, the bless system and elf nations is applicable anymore.

Nation Guide Collections

• Dominions: Nation Categories[dominionsmods.com] (by taorec)
  
• Dominions 5: Guides for 70 nations, with pretenders[dominionsmods.com] (by taorec, dated 2017-2021)
  
• Dominions 5: Nation Guides and others on Steam (dated 2017-2024)
  
• Dominions 4: Nations Guide Overview (by Hawk, dated 2013-2017)
  
• Dominions 3: Nations Guide Overview[forum.shrapnelgames.com] (by Valerius, dated 2008-2013)

Pretender Design

• Dominions 5 Pretender Calculator[pretenders5.testingmagic.ovh] (by bsielski)
  
• Dominions 5: Pretender Design and Bless Strategies[dominionsmods.com] (by taorec)
  
• Dominions 5: How to Pretender, Bless, and Thug Design (by CrabNicholsen)
  
• Pretenders And Their Uses (by Shinuyama)
  
• What Pretender Titles mean[dominionsmods.com] (by Indract)

Scales

• Scale Analysis for Dominions 5[dominionsmods.com] (by taorec)
  
• Dominions 5 - Temperature Scales (Math!) (by Lucid on Youtube)
  
• Calculating Luck - Statistical Analysis of Luck Scales[docs.google.com] (by SirToma#8442)
  
• Dominions 5 - Luck Scales Analysis (by Lucid on Youtube)

6. General Strategy & Guides

• Turn Resolution Sequence[illwiki.com] (must read, explains when things happen in a turn, e.g. magic movement then normal movement)
  
• Dom5: Temperature scales and turn order (by entropius, Guide to influence the temperature in your favor)
  
• Dominions Strategy - Unit Efficiency And You (Youtube video by General Confusion)
  
• Dominions 4: Tips, tricks & random mechanics thread, share[dominionsmods.com]

Economy

• Dom5 - Blood hunting Crunculator[/b] (by Crunbum)[docs.google.com]
• Dom5 - Blood hunting analysis[/b] (by Mandarbmax)[/list]Warfare
  • [url]Dominions – Winning Multiplayer Games
  [docs.google.com] (Youtube video by Lucid)
  
• A Guide to Blitzkrieg[forum.shrapnelgames.com] (by Baalz)
  
• Rej's Guide to Winning Wars
  
• An In-Progress Guide to "Snowballing"[dominionsmods.com] ( by TheDemon)

7. Magic Sites and Site Searching

• Dominions 5: Site searching and gem income[illwiki.com] (Magic sites and tips for site searching)
  
• Dominions 5: A Look at Magic Sites[dominionsmods.com] (Magic sites and tips for site searching)

8. Magic, Spells and Items

Magic Primer

• Dominions 4 - Basic Magic, a Primer (by Shinuyama)
  
• Dominions 4 - Blood Magic Primer (by Shinuyama)
  
• Dominions 4 - Communion Guide (must read if you want to use communions / sabbath, Note for Dom5: slaves now always take 1 damage for master spells when over 200 fatigue and fatigue can kill mages when casting big spells!)

Spells by Use

• Dominions 5: Art of Magic[dominionsmods.com](Useful mage items, high level spells, buffs & counters, rituals & globals)
  
• Transformation Chassis[dominionsmods.com] ( by Ohlmann)
  
• Dom 5: In Depth Video on Transformation & Twiceborn (by Attica)
  
• Transformation Results (by Wonko)
  
• Quick test of crossbreeding with bonus[dominionsmods.com] (by Ohlmann)
  
• A Guide to Wish[web.archive.org] (by Maerlande)

Spells by School

• Dominions 5: Spell Schools Videos (Yakri evaluates spells, sorted by schools)

Spells in Combat

• Spamming Elementals (A mini guide) by Shinuyama
  
• Magic Scripting for Beginners[web.archive.org]
  
• Spell Combos

Items

• Dominions 5: Magic Booster & Path Access[illwiki.com] (by MelficeBelmont)
  
• Dominions 4: Magic Path Booster & Mage Summons by telos (Astral Rings now S6/S7, Robe of Magi A5B5)
  
• Temporary Gem Items

9. Combat, Thugs and Super Combatants

Combat

• Dominions 3: (Very) Basic Battle Tactics[forum.shrapnelgames.com] (by Raiel)
  
• Combat Calculations
  
• Defense and Protection Stacking
  
• Damage Table[www.magmadev.com]
  
• Dominions 5 Damage table[www.magmadev.com] (by Silence, min. damage chance & avg. damage vs protection)
  
• Average damage against a given protection level. Average hits to kill. (By Kyso4ek)
  
• Dominions 3: How to deal with Elephants[forum.shrapnelgames.com]

Thugs and Super Combatants

• Zen and the art of Thugging[illwiki.com] (Building and countering Thugs & SCs by baalz)
  
• Zen and the art of Thugging (Youtube video by Lucid)
  
• Killing Super Combatants - 101 (Youtube video by Lucid)

10. Multiplayer

• Dominions – Winning Multiplayer Games (Youtube video by Lucid)
  
• Differences between SP and MP (by Lucid)

11. Mods & Maps

Catalog and Tools

• Modding Tools[dominionsmods.com]
  
• Dominions 6 Mod Catalog[dominionsmods.com]
  
• Map Maker - Automated Improved Dominions Starts[nuke-makes-games.itch.io]

Maps

• Map Nuke – Map Maker[nuke-haus.itch.io] (useful for balanced games)
  
• Dominions 6 Steam Workshop
  
• Dominionsmods – New Frontiers[dominionsmods.com]

[Chaika Trabant]

A kind soul updated the pretender calculator tool for dom6:
https://caleb-distributive.github.io/pretenders-dom6/
You should add it to your post.

[Taorec]

Originally posted by Chaika Trabant:

A kind soul updated the pretender calculator tool for dom6:
https://caleb-distributive.github.io/pretenders-dom6/
You should add it to your post.

Great find, I was really missing it for Dom6.

[Slice]

This thread really needs to be pinned.

[junkmail4mjd]

anyone know when the dominions 6 wiki is going to go up?

[Higgs629]

Is anyone working on written dom 6 nation guides?

[Antonim]

Hey there
Hope this tool is useful enough to be added:

https://utils-dom5.com.de/dom6/arena-mapgen/

It allows you to quickly set up test battles on the Arena map.
You can easily set up commanders, units, edit magic paths, assign gear, and generate a custom map that can then be used for testing.

[el Es]

The Dominions 6 Pretender Calculator (maintainded by Zollqir) seems to have moved. It's now at https://zollqir.github.io/pretenders-dom6/.

[sIg3b]

Originally posted by el Es:

The Dominions 6 Pretender Calculator (maintainded by Zollqir) seems to have moved. It's now at https://zollqir.github.io/pretenders-dom6/.

Thanks!

[sIg3b]

In the Pretender Calculator, the LA Cambions are missing apparently.

[sir_marmalade]

Originally posted by Chaika Trabant:

A kind soul updated the pretender calculator tool for dom6:
https://caleb-distributive.github.io/pretenders-dom6/
You should add it to your post.

The Link does not work, leading to a github 404 page