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Besides everything you all know about from the graphs/globals, I also had:-

All 3 air queens.
2 fire Kings.
2 water queens.
1 earth king.
King of Banefires.
4 fully healed, gift of reasoned tartarians.
Alot of unique artifacts, including the chalice, sceptre of dark regency.
I was going to cast Wrath of God in 2 turns as well.

All in all it was a little sick...how powerful I was... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I haven't played many late age games, but it seems like either Ermor gets killed early or Ermor gets out of control. Especially with Utterdark available, Ermor is going to devastate everyone if he makes it to late game. I guess that is an interesting game dynamic, but I don't know. Or maybe I'm just not that up on late age.

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It's been like that since Dominions 1 with Ashen Empire Ermor. First, you kill Ermor. Then, you play the game with the rest of the folks. There's nothing in between. Never has been, and never will be. ;p

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I agree.

But also now even if you eliminate Ermor, you then have R'lyeh to deal with, for a more balanced LA game its probably best to exclude both nations.

Otherwise, your just repeating the same scenario over and over again. Its fun a couple of times but then it gets boring and there are some really good fun nations to play in LA.

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why is LA R'lyeh a similar problem? excuse my ignorance http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Well, LA R'lyeh has a Dominion that causes everyone in it to go mad, so that in itself makes no one want to invade R'lyeh. They also recruit chaff and Prophets without any effort on their part... they just pop up. And they also have access to the base R'lyeh mages... nasty folks. And since no one else is in the water in Late Age, they command quite a huge province base early.

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I did everything I could to try to turn Hako (Abysia) to fight Emor, but he was, for lack of a better word, stupid and continued to attack me. We would have been fine, but I had to defend myself, which gave him huge losses, and once he research fire arrows, gave me huge losses.

Jazzepi

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Yeah I vote hako biggest loser in this game. Even when it became massively obvious it was time to attack Ermor, hako insisted on spending about 6 turns conquering by-then AI Jomon rather than attacking Ermor. During this time his big army sat around sieging Jomon's capital while Ermor doubled in size. Then hako promptly went AI himself because he had a stolen key code that stopped working with 3.10. I think he attacked Ermor maybe once between wasting his time conquering Jomon and going AI. And all this was after he apparently refused to cooperate with the northern folks who were trying to stop Ermor early.