Note : this page relates to Dominons 5 gameplay, if you don’t know much about it, you can skip it

When I decided to join that game, I was a bit scared by its scale. 31 players one against the other was a promise of slaughter and bloodshed and I had not any hope to win. I just wanted to have fun and survive as long as possible until my more experienced opponents would choose to put me to death …

So I told to myself “Why not try something I’ve never tried, something may be a bit extreme … who knows, with some luck, I could have some good results in the early game ?” And indeed, during my single player games, I had noticed how units with a high defence attribute had a tendency to take almost no damage during battles. Of course they were vulnerable to missiles or battle magic, but in regular combat they seemed untouchable.

Considering this, I wanted to have a bless to help my sacred units to have a very strong Defence bonus. That meant that the ideal nation would be one with sacred units having an already quite high natural defence. Especially the commanders as I loved having one single commander taking down entire armies just because no one could even touch him.

So I went through the nations that had both sacred commanders and sacred units with high defence, and only 2 came up to the top : Tir Na Nog and Helheim.  Indeed, both had commanders with a huge defence of 22 and sacreds with a defence of at least 17. However, looking deeper into it, Helheim had several advantages :
– It’s commanders with 22 defence where recruitable anywhere, and for only 2 commander points instead of 4 and cap-only for TNN
– Helheim had both flying Valkyries with 17 defence and Helhirding riders with 19 defence
– I like nations with good strategic mobility, and with the Dis commanders and Valkyries, Helheim simply has the fastest flyers in the game !
– And last but not least, I prefered the lore of Helheim other TNN …

So it was my first choice, my best choice, for the intended strategy. And the gods were already with me as, even though more than half of the nations had already been taken, Helheim was still available, waiting for me to lead them to greatness.