Dominions 4 improvements

Here's a list with the most important changes compared to Dominions 3. I have a long detailed list with about 250 points too, but it is hard to keep up to date, so here is the short list instead.

• Teamplay, one pretender and one or more disciples per team.
• Thrones of Ascension. Claim thrones to gain extra powers and to win the game eventually.
• Many sprites have been redrawn and the 3d terrain is also improved.
• Many user interface improvements.
• Formations like line formation or skirmish formation.
• Fire and Flee order has been replaced by Fire and Keep Distance.
• Improved random map generation with wraparound maps, caves, rivers and mountain passes.
• Rivers that can only be passed when frozen, mountain passes that can only be passed by special units and when it's warm.
• Pierce, slash and blunt weapons have slightly different quirks. E.g. don't shoot arrows at skeletons.
• Darkness and dark vision plays a more important role. Notably in deep seas, caves and sometimes during assassinations.
• Range restrictions on magic rituals and items and spells that can be used to boost ritual ranges.
• Improved network support, turns can be resumed from any computer and turns can be marked as only half finished.
• Global random events
• Can build castle improvements like extra towers or extra supply storage
• Province Defence dependent on the local population and some nations have easier or harder to organize it.
• Newly caught blood slaves goes to lab automatically if possible.
• AI Improvements.
• Hundreds of new modding commands to open up new modding possibilities.
• Improved performance, very large games will run more smoothly.
• And of course many new monsters, spells, magic items, sites, random events and some nations too.

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