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Many thanks for your informative and sociable answers (and comments).

> Also there is a wiki (that goes up and down alot) at
> http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Main_Page

Yes, I had noticed (and used) it...

> In full disclosure, I am biased. Im mentioned in the credits as a beta
> tester which due to continued patching and upgrades I still do. And Ive
> worked for the publisher. Altho I dont think it would have changed my love
> of this game. But I no longer have any ties or benefits from sales. :)

I wouldn't mind if you did, in fact :-) And I have dim recollections of 
several posts on the matter, in some dim past...

> The standard game tends to be a King-of-the-Hill regular old wargame
> strategy thing. Or in more RPGish terms "There can only be ONE!". (I like
> naming some of my gods "Juan, for there can only be Juan!"

A bilingual pun! (I had to read it 3 or 4 times to get it - but I'm no 
native speaker of  English nor Spanish).

> Newish players often ask the chat
> channels "why cant my god bless himself or use holy powers like my
> priests" and the answer is "Because they get it from belief in you but you
> know that you are not a god. Not yet. Just a pretender."

A sort of "degré zero" of theology (this is French, but you asked for it! - 
and wait: I may get to Latin!): it is the faith that matters, not the god! 
It's temtping to speculate on a mod that might let you do entirely without a 
real pretender - a conspiracy of high priests, a pretended pretender, all 
the more present because absent, entirely shrouded from the faithful, 
impossible to destroy because it doesn't exist in the first place... its 
form, probably, a sort of spaghetti monster...

>> 2) Is there, at least for the sake of learning & experimenting, a way
>> to go back to a previous situation and try something different? -

> For solo gaming there
> are various player-made utilities. I have a really simple WinXP shortcut 
> on
> my site http://www.dom3minions.com/utilities.htm

Thank you. I have downloaded and already used it (I did something very 
foolish - with hindsight - and lost my pretender...)

A last question (if you know and can be bothered): is there a way of paying, 
downloading the game immediately, and still receive the boxed version with 
the printed manual by mail later ?  I did that with GalCivII from Impulse, 
but can't find this piece of info in Shrapnel's site, and transoceanic 
shipping to Italy can sometimes take really long (when GalCiv box finally 
arrived, I had had the time to decide that I didn't much like the game 
anyway - which, by the way, I should have known, after playing GalCivI).

Thank you again, and happy gaming

Alfredo