[Mardagg]

you are right that nations which prefer Cold or Heat get more points to spend.
But there are a lot of things which make this advantage meaningless:

1.climate is not stable.

Even if you have high dominion you often get only cold:2 or cold:1 in your provinces,which then means income loss of 5 or 10% for you.

2.newly conquered provinces often get very high income losses.

Especially true if you are for example fighting a heat:3 nation with a cold:3 nation.this difference would mean income loss of 30%.
Most nations prefer normal climate and those provinces will give you 15% less income.

3. Troops,like from Abyisa(prefers Heat:3) or Caelum(Cold:3) get malis when fighting in other climate.And as stated above,you rarely will conquer new provinces which have your prefered climate.


4.because of 1.,2. and 3. you almost always are forced to go for a high dominion,which costs a lot of points,or even to take those "Desert Sun"/"Heart of Winter" special dominions,which cost again (50) points.
Also temples are quite important,I for example tend to build significant more temples/Priests for preaching when playing those nations,and thus spending more gold for this.

Also you often have supply problems,because of the climate differences,which may force you to go for Growth scales more than otherwise,thus spending points there.

Overall those nations are surely a bit better then normal if the victory condition is "Dominion" because everyone there will go for high dominion and Heat/cold nations can afford more points for it and they need it anyways

[ March 08, 2004, 14:43: Message edited by: Mardagg ]