[SelfishGene]

I'm not uber enough to tell whether Hellheim is "overpowered"; they're extreme easy to use, it's true.

However, as capital only, the number of sacred troops you can produce as part of your army starts to get smaller and smaller in proportion to the number of troops in your empire as the game progresses - and they have to come from your capital to the front lines.

Also, many bless nations have some fairly junky magic skills. Hellheim has a hard time researching now that sages have all but disappeared.

This doesn't mean, though, you can't rush a human player and have completley conquered him in less than 10 turns, which rather sucks for the receiving player. EA nations are generally much more powerful than their LA counterparts and other nations can use things like Body Etherial ect to improve their own Sacred troops, as well as have (probably) a much more robust research base.

But i'd agree with the observation that Hellheim is one of the - if not the - most powerful EA nation w/re to it's national troops.