Dominions 3: The Awakening

Dominions III: The Awakening is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with strategic planning phase and automated tactical combat. It has been released as of September 29, 2006. It is the third part of the Dominions series from Illwinter.

The game provides both scenarios and randomized play; however, it does not include a campaign. Dominions 3 is designed for multiplayer including both PBEM and TCP/IP, although it does provide AI opponents for single-player.

See story for a more atmospheric text about Dominions 3.

Table of Contents

 * Complete Table of Contents
 * The basics
 * God Design
 * Magic
 * Units (Commanders & Troops)
 * Treasury
 * Buildings
 * Magic Items
 * Logistics and Movement
 * Gameplay
 * Nations
 * Eras
 * Things to know
 * Expansion Strategies
 * Tactical Battles
 * Special Tactics
 * Walkthrough

Official links

 * Illwinter Game Design - Homepage of Illwinter Game Design (developers)
 * Shrapnel Games, Inc. - Distributor, official Web-Forum, official Downloads (patches, demo)
 * Actual 3.04 Patch Downlad at Shrapnelgames
 * Linux and Mac fix for 3.04 Patch


 * Dominions 3: The Awakening - Downloads - Demo Download page


 * Conceptual Balance Mod 1.0 - The successor to a popular mod for Dominions 2. Look also on the Shrapnelboards - Map and Mod Forum for comments and newer versions.

Fan sites

 * Dom3minions.com - Dominions 3 Fan Site
 * Sunray's Virtual Library - Many Dom2 and Dom3 documents (the best ones being the complete "national" unit lists !)
 * Dominions 3, wallpapers &logos - Dominions 3. wallpapers made by DFan (Christian Norbert Tassy)
 * orkut Community about Dominions3 You have to be a member of the orkut Web-Community to join this group.
 * Research Calculator from Maltrease for the first turns. See also this thread at shrapnelboards.