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Originally Posted by vfb
I don't think EA Oceania is pathetic. I agree that clamming is boring. So don't dump all your W gems into clams, use them for more summons. Foul Vapors will sicken the enemy while your trolls rampage, and Sea Kings are great thugs. Forge fish ammies for your Amber Clan mages, give them a water bracelet, and you've got access to all the acid spells. You'll accumulate a ton of E gems underwater, and once you've got a beachhead you can easily pile them into some Mechanical Men or have a Spectre cast Hidden in Sand a couple times.
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In my experience, you really won't have the gems for all that. Voice of Tiamat drains your early-mid game water gem supply pretty effectively, even if you are not clamming. Forging amulets of the fish isn't that easy too, air gems are nearly impossible to get underwater and forging them also drains your water gems. Getting the Dwarven Hammers for your forging needs isn't an exactly easy task, but you can often trade for them (often completely draining your earth income, since you have a lot of stuff to forge in addition to amulets of the fish).
Court of the Sea King is just a waste of gems. Sea trolls don't go on rampage, they just stand there trying to hit opposing troops and taking damage. If you need troops, your water gems are better spent on bracelet of water + amulet of the fish + robe of the sea for some epic living water spam with a Triton King. (Ice elementals rule!). Foul Vapors + Quaqmire is okay, but isn't really that scary as some posts could make you believe. Besides, enchanment isn't really a research priority for Oceania, you need Construction + Conjuration + Evocation first.
You will never be able to get the kind of battlefield magic a land nation can wield, since all of your serious mages need expensive amulets of the fish just to act while he can just make them walk there. Triton Kings make okay thugs, but not anything to write home about. 45 hp isn't that much and Water isn't exactly the best buffing path (they have encumberance and often need to wear armor to cover their prot 3, so quicken self is out of the picture).
Pathetic might have been a wrong word, but it doesn't look exactly good either. There is no way you can go 1-to-1 against a land nation early-mid game and be able to maintain your beachholds.