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Although this topic may very well belong to the dead horse species, it can always be fun to beat upon those for awhile.

I belong to the party of people who dislike having large numbers of nicely mixed armies decimated by a few very powerful beings, both thematically, in terms of game balance, and in terms of "fun" (which is primary for me in judging any aspect of D2). I like the fact that this option is open as a possibility in Dom2, but think this option is a bit too "strong", both thematically and in terms of balance.

I would wish that the ability for doing so (making SCs) could be toned down, made more difficult, or at least have an option in a Game Setup type of screen which would allow for this to be up to the game creator (sketched in some of my Wishlist posts).