Re: Rock and a Hard Place - LA game - finished - Abysia wins
 

As soon as a D2 Anathemant was hired, I put him to manual site search duty indefinitely. And when I had some initial income I did pretty thorough remote searches in all paths available. My D income was actually quite good early on, that must have influenced my troop strategy as well. Much worse luck with astral, earth and nature.

Re: Rock and a Hard Place - LA game - finished - Abysia wins
 

You broke into earth?

Re: Rock and a Hard Place - LA game - finished - Abysia wins
 

The Warlocks have a earth random. I got the Pebble Skin Suit, then Bloodstone and lucked into a E2 Spectre. Later on I had Belphegor and Pedoseidon.

But there just weren't many earth sites in my lands so I never did much else than some minor forging. Girdles, Crystal Shields etc.

Gem diversity of course improved with conquest. :) In the end I had enough air as well for battles, items and domes.