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Originally posted by tinkthank:
My newbie impression is that most nations with strong magic and lightish troops would fit the bill of "strong endgame / weak beginning"; I would thus like to name Tien Chi S&A as a somewhat challenging nation but one with one of the strongest endgames around. But that is only my experience so far.

Edit: Mictlan and perhaps to a different degree Machaka could fit that bill as well.

Tien Chi S&A is not weak at the beginning.