[Folket]

I do not think LA R'lyeh are as terrible as you say. I have played them in one MP so far and I thought people would die off to fast for national armies to matter much, which was a terrible mistake.

R'lyeh dominion do kill off people but at a far slower rate then Ashen Empire. My test show that dominion kills about 0.1% per step. Each step on growth/death is 0.2%. So for the price of slowly killing your pop you get free chaff with very low upkeep. My test showed that upkeep is about 1 gold for each 20 free spawns. That is very low upkeep. Upkeep for most troops are 2 gold for 3 units, and 1 gold for 2 militia.

Also your illithids are resistant to insanity. They do get insane but not as much as other commanders. My tests also show that your god seem to be immune to insanity.

In general LA R'lyeh should be played like MA R'lyeh, just that later on you should stop building lobo guards when you have enough free spawns.

A build that could work for R'lyeh is
Wyrm E3
Dominion 10
order 3
sloth 3
cold 3
growth 3
misfortune 1
magic 1

growth 1/fortune 1 could also work. This build is to assure fast expansion. If there is plenty of water, then a dormant god with order 3, fortune 3 and lower dominion should work fine.