Oh. I didn't notice much of a change, but I don't think I did much playing before 3.0 either.
And Wiles, it's Hinnom, Ashdod, and Gath right?
General comment on the game: I love how over the top a lot of the endgame stuff is. A lot of games have ultimate weapons, but fear of unbalancing prevents it from really feeling ultimate (Yes, I'm talking to you, Civ 4 Nukes).
Dominions 3, though, seems to have recognized that when six or seven deities with huge nations and everything to lose clash, they tend to destroy everything. Astral Corruption, Utterdark, Second Sun, all of this is the kind of stuff they send you out to prevent in RPGs. I keep expecting Link to burst into the room in the middle of a ritual and try to fight me.