'DomiNations': Top 10 Tips & Cheats You Need to Know

Here are the top 10 tips/tricks/cheats you need to know for DomiNations. You can also check out this new strategy game on Google Play for Android.

1. Explore!

• When you start out, your settlement is surrounded by a wilderness of forest. Each section of the forest can be cleared away to reveal huntable animals, chests of gold, even ancient ruins which provide crowns! As you advance into the iron age and beyond, you’ll unlock a lot of new buildings to build which can leave your growing town feeling crunched on space. So it’s best to plan ahead to give yourself plenty of room to build — which helps a ton when you finally decide to reorganize.

2. Expand!

• Build new houses whenever they become available, as each one increases your citizen count by 2 and this lets you do more things at once. The more citizens you manage to keep busy at once, the faster your city will expand. However, keep in mind if every citizen is busy then that will prevent you from hunting animals or upgrading walls.

3. Exploit!

• Each time you login remember to hunt animals and mine your mines if they’re available. These are a nice steady source of resources, but more importantly, they drop Rare items like Fur, Leather, and Metal that power your Mercenary Camp and Temple. You can activate a gathering blessing from your Temple for a +20-percent boost to these activities.

4. Exterminate!

• Generals have long understood the advantage of combined arms in warfare. Now it falls to you to discover the best mixes of soldiers, archers, ballista, knights, and sappers. Each unit is strong against some types of situations but weak against others, which means the best armies will be composed of several unit types that nicely complement one another. Pick a theme and organize your army around it!

5. Raid!

• Raiding other players is the absolute fastest way to earn resources. Players tend to settle on a favorite army that fits their playstyle. One of the less common playstyles is to mass a lot of cavalry raiders with 1-2 sappers. This army hardly ever achieves a victory, but it sort of depends on how you define victory since it’s one of the best army types for rapidly making successive raids to steal enemy resources — you may lose the battle and some medals, but you’ll gain the most important thing: resources. You can also use a few heavy infantry to pick off outlying resource collectors; again, you won’t win, but you can sometimes get a good return on your investment.

6. Research!

• Construct a library in classical age and remember to keep it upgraded and active. A strong technological advantage will give your city a distinct advantage in economy, defense, and offense. Be on the lookout for techs that enable you to build additional buildings (there are technologies for increasing your limit of catapults, farms, caravans, and more).

7. Upgrade!

• Your blacksmith is one of the best buildings to upgrade immediately after advancing an age. It provides new unit upgrades, which in turn lets you field more powerful troops to raid your opponents for more resources to afford all the other upgrades you wish to purchase.

8. Command!

• Constructing a castle in medieval age not only serves as a powerful defensive structure, but it allows you to train famous historic generals like Cleopatra and Alexander the Great. They’re tough, hard-hitting units who are great for leading the charge into the enemy base.

9. Hire Mercenaries!

• To further bolster your attacks, you can add mercenaries to your army. These temporary troops only last for one attack, but are much stronger than regular troops, and also don’t count against your regular troop limit.

10. Strategize & Co-operate!

• Blessings at the Temple are often overlooked by players but provide extremely powerful temporary bonuses like +30-percent troop hitpoints. These cost the same trade goods as your mercenaries though, so often there are tough tradeoffs to choose between — is it worth more to bring a war elephant mercenary on your next attack, or do you want +20-percent hitpoints for all of your defensive buildings? The choice will vary depending on your situation.

• Picking the right Alliance can be a real force multiplier. Try to join an active Alliance where you can get troop donation requests filled immediately. Almost as important, try to pick an Alliance with a wide variety of Nations, so you can benefit from a range of unique units from those Nations.

‘DomiNations’: Top 10 Tips & Cheats You Need to Know