[HoneyBadger]

Yomi isn't fine the way it is.

Once you've realized that it's "all about the Dai-Oni", you're free to start to question why that is, or why it should be, all about a single Capital-only commander unit. If nothing else, that's boring, and Yomi's too cool thematically to be built around a single, boring, tactic-I won't bother to call it a strategy, strategies are complex, overarching plans, that require a bunch of elements to come together and work.

Yomi might be "fine" in the sense that it's possible to win a game or two with them, but there's not a whole lot of different ways to do that. The Dai-Oni, just for one narrow example, looks like an SC and walks like an SC. Either they should *be* SCable, or there should be good SC access for this Nation. Big giant demon kings in Samurai armour *not* being good SC chassis is rather confusing and frustrating for anyone trying to play them. Their Oni generals don't even make top-of-the-line thugs.

Yomi's also not "fine" in the sense that they're a demon Nation with no demon summons. There's just something wrong about that. I don't think they even get demon heroes, just some psycho cannibal human guy. Maybe they do, but nothing too special.

Surely, it's reasonable to expect that there have to be other types of demons wherever the Yomi demons come from, and it's just as reasonable to expect that they could be either brought to the surface with applicable rituals, or bribed to fight for Yomi with gems-however you want to imagine the process works. Or occasionally, a unique demon crawls through the Yomi "gate".

It's a really cool Nation, with great graphics, interesting types of demons, and a fun part of history and mythology to draw ideas from, but it's just not where it should be, in terms of gameplay.

It's the exact same situation with EA Aboleths. They have 1 fantastic unit-that's also not SCable-a few ok but not spectacular units, and the rest are marginal. And they don't have *any* National summons, which again is strange, considering that they're a very unique Astral Nation.

They don't even get the Void Gate, like the rest of R'lyeh, which would go a looong way towards making them competitive. I know it's not quite "thematic" for them to have it, but it wouldn't sacrifice the theme to give them some sort of "proto-void", or something.

For that matter, both of these Nations remind me of R'lyeh, without the Void Gate, except that both R'lyeh MA and LA get better recruits than Aboleths.

Oh and I'll second Tifone's idea, I'd love to see an "acid nation", but if it's going on a Vanilla Nation, I'd like to see it applied to Aboleths, who are even more monstrous.