[Lord_Bob]

I would like to bring things back to my main two points, which only some of the posters seem to mention.

1.The fact that you can build a more powerfull army of sacreds if those sacreds are more powerful(expensive) before hitting the sacred dominion limit. That Vanheim is very good at this and that is part of the reason it is so good. A part that can be fixed without messing with the Vanheim concept.

2.That Van may very well have fatigue problems in large fights with many more high defense, cheap units. Since they are 75 gold, it is very easy to have them outnumbered by an impressive amount.

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that should be

if (race==Vanheim)

in your code all races become Vanheim.
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Which is yet another way to make Vanheim balanced!

Your right for C. I did say it was a while since I had coded in it. HOWEVER, it is likely the Sacred Limit is imposed when people use Recruit, ie. you hit try to recruit more and the game doesn't let you. This would only be one place in the code.

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You can't leech "good" scales from your neighbour - they don't take effect in your provinces. The best you can hope for is an effective "+/- 0" if your neighbour does not have any negatives, what is highly unlikely.

E.g.
With Order-3, Misfortune-3 you'll end up without order, but with full misfortune. Good luck ..
With Turmoil-3,Luck-3 you'll end up without luck, but with full turmoil. Try to get that straight ..
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Since Van rushers will probably only have order-3, Misfortune-0 with Sloth, Cold, Death, and Drain you have 4 negatives to lose, a zero, and one positive.

I wouldn't hold your breath for "a devastating loss of scales"... especially since the Van Pretender has been benefitting from weaker dominion in all his captured provinces during the entire expansion phase.