[SurvivalistMerc]

I have heard that heat and cold scale don't affect water provinces. This was posted on Sunraybe's excellent site.

So if you play a water nation, I don't think your heat/cold scale will affect your home province or some of your first conquered provinces.

For some reason, Sunraybe indicates that Atlantis and Ry'leh tend to prefer a cold scale. But I think there are more cold-preferring nations than hot-preferring nations, so to hurt the other guy the most I might go with heat.

Water also has easy access to wolven winter, which I suppose you could use on your most important provinces to neutralize your heat scale if you wanted.

Of course I'm a newb...what do I really know?