[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Reverend Zombie:
If everyone hoarded clams, wouldn't that take care of the problem, as well?

It might, if every nation had identical access to water magic and the same gem producing site in their capital, but that would destroy the variety in the nations.

The real problem I see with the game is...troops. If you do not think having more troops than your opponents is unbalancing, I suggest you play a game some time where you build absolutely no troops, and your opponent builds hundreds.

That's a perfectly functional strategy if you've selected the magic paths properly on a vampire queen. No amount of normal troops can defeat her, so it doesn't much matter how many get thrown at her.

Troops also don't provide the resources for unlimited growth of more troops. To get an income of 100 astral pearls from territory, you'd would need to control something around more than half of the world map at 75% magic site frequency.