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yeah sure but imho ( and one of the most experienced / best players who norfleet still is though he cheated shared this opinion too ) you have little other uses for water gems as nonunderwater nation .
you can forge a few boots of quickness , use some sea troll kings courts and 5 water are needed for a jade armor . but this is already almost everything else where it is good to spend water on .
so you gather a big surplus of water gems with many nations and then clam hoarding is the most profitable investition . producing 1-2 clam(s) / turn from midgame on doesn't hurt you but help you greatly . so lategame this is a huge advantage .
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Consider several possible situations:
- you're fighting non-cold resistant nation. Wolven Winter+ Murdering winter are very efficient, especially against opponents that rely on a mass of mages in the battles. This combo is quite costly though, so you're not likely to have any spare.
- you're SC intensive nation. Then you need *a lot* of boots of quickness and jade armors. In this case you'd want to have a lot of antimagic amulets and eitheri lucky coins or pendant of luck. This means that you need about 2 astral per one water, so I'd typically try to forge few clams to have such a ratio of gem income.
- if you're land nation and you're near the water, you want Sea Trolls and Water Queens (if you can get them in time), which again means water gems.
This leaves clam-hoarding strategy restricted to special cases. For example, if you're stuck in the corner, with nearby nations tough for you (Marignon for Ermor, or 2 allied nations for anybody), clam-hoarding (and any gem producing items -hoardig) is a good way to grow power without expanding. Atlantis vs land nations is essentially the same situation: difficult to wage aggressive war and easy to defend.