Dominions 5 Basic Nation Analysis - MA Jotunheim

Jotunheim is the middle age successor to Niefelheim, and it shares many of that nation's defining characteristics; expensive giant troops, powerful shapeshifting Skratti, and cold preference. The differences, however, are even more interesting, and let Jotunheim carve out a very distinct niche. With the loss of the Niefel Jarls but the addition of cheaper Vaetti units and the supercheap Vaetti Hag for low-cost research and buffing, Jotunheim can alter their strategies and scales to lean more heavily on quick research and cheap raiding squads - and they'll probably need to, since their Gygja production is now much more limited.

[miniaturecolossus]

Couple of things:

I think the Vaetti hag deserves more praise. I think you missed to mention that 1 they are stealthy and 2 they can be recruited out of forests with only a lab. Stealthy means the N randoms can raid with some gems and cast swarm, and the S randoms can follow along your thug raiders to help against mind hunters. D randoms can be good dust-to-dust casters in case your fighting Sceleria/Ermor or someone who invested a lot into skeletons.

Also, Jotunheims heros are pretty important. Getting an A4 mage with Tjatse is pretty huge for a nation that otherwise doesn't have access to air magic. Angerboda is pretty great too, especially if you want to put up Astral Corruption. Since Jotunheim kind of has a claim to being the best blood nation in the MA that is definitely to be considered.

[Mewobiba]

Worth noting that the Earth Serpent is kinda iffy for Cold 3 nations due to being cold-blooded. Have found it to pass out and get killed down by crits sometimes, and it also limits its later usage for battlefield magic.

Also worth noting is that the Draugr have fear, but unlike wights they don't have magic weapons. Draugr aren't exactly better than wights in terms of combat; while their hit points are higher as you note, their protection and defense are lower and combined with their size that can be a real problem. Though the hit points do make them a lot less vulnerable to spells like dust to dust. So it's more of a sidegrade. As far as I'm concerned, the extra gem you pay for each is for the fear.

[vagrant]

I wish there were more goblin units in Jotunheim

[DepressedDiego]

I have been waiting for this since you started your nation series. Jotunhiem is my favorite nation. Thank you for this!

[robinbrennan]

Nice to see you back, and i love your Dominions stuff esp the national overviews that i always forget when i get round to playing them, , c'est la vie.

[richardsmit]

As a new player, I greatly appreciate the Strategy series you have produced. I'm even looking, in my first week of playing the game, at joining a MP game :) . I would like to see a nation analysis of MA Ermor.

[stephenlucas]

Looking back, soo many addendums to add, new units, Can summon niefal jarls as a spell

[bread]

My favorite nation that I have never played.

[raffelon]

it's sadly extremely out of date, while the biggest change for Nifelheim was mostly visual, Jotunheim has switched out troops (especially the replaced sacred is notable, otherwise I only paid enough attention to notice the new additions as I got the game only after the change and don't know how it was before beyond those videos)

[kyokyoniizukyo]

I know this is a odd question, but, lorewise...what do you think is the best nation? Not powerwise, but lore wise?

[zorrozalai]

The manual doesn't say anything about if and how combat speed effects trample. Could anyone explain it?

[ssummer]

This nation would be a lot better if it had trolls and bakemono

[imyearsold]

Shroud with a heavy bless is the most fun, though maybe not exactly optimal

[srsilver]

When you're so fast the notification shows up after you've started the video.

[LancelotLps]

Am i reading it right moose rider the shortbow makes 14 damage anyother shortbow makes 9 why? And when that is true they are a cool unit!!!

[rb]

I’m the asshole with a pearl and a dream

[FlawdaFootball]

Oh man Jotunheim is so much worse now than when this vid was made. For example, Skratti unnecessarily have a third form without full slots and they drop a bunch of items if you shape shift in a province without a lab by accident or the AI automatically does it.

And the change to the scared unit, bleh