Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

Size, I believe. could be balance.
Either way its not a bug, its WAD.

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

I think I recall now trying to teleport the Sphinx in dom II, and getting some size related message. I had forgotten it.

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

Don't sell the war lobsters short. In the perpetuality game I (EA Oceania) went to war with MA Atlantis, and those lobsters were the only thing that gave me pause. With Triton knights with W9/S6 bless, and outnumbering the lobsters 1,5 to 1 (while the triton knights also cost a lot more) and with Thug support I defeated them without too heavy losses, but I think 1 on 1 they could have beaten my Triton Knights.

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

Exactly. do not think you need the wyrm for early expansion with lobsters.

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

Have the kings of the deep been nerfed since Dom1/2? They used to always get their randoms in the same path, so you could easily get level 2 in other paths... I haven't played them since Dom3 and the changes to the random system, though.

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

They still get matching randoms, in fact, they even have an extra 10% chance of a random now.

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

This is probably as good a thread as any to point this out; the answers to a question like this would be really well-suited for the woefully inadequate dominions 3 wiki (hint, hint).

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

If its inadequate then why don't you go fix it? (far less subtle hint, hint)

^_^

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

War lobsters are good for early expansion. Just use them as indicated in the manual.

Re: MA Atlantis...am I missing something?
 

This is off topic of course, but I'm the last guy you'd want to hear advice from on playing this game well.