[Beorne]

My two cents.
I'm palying a 5 players mp and one is Ermor. The game started before the patch. None attacked Ermor early but soon we formed an alliance of four vs Ermor. Now, around turn 40, it's too late. We started attacking him around turn 15, but the combination ermor plus gold is unstoppable. He has lot of castles, lot of temples, lot of indy mages. If he had only huge undead armies and death spells he would be manageable, now isn't. Btw, I'm R'lyeh and I would be a good anti ermor having cheap fodder and good spells. I had very good start too. But now there is no match.
I agree with increase of pop death in ermor so to have (at least) its income crippled.