[HoneyBadger]

The graphics finally showed up, Burnsaber--they look great!

I also like your idea of the "tragedy of the queens". Personally, if it were me, I'd have the Queens be "involved" with the Pantokrator, possibly as his concubines? I think of the Pantokrator as the ultimate evil, myself, so in my mind he compelled them to love him through divine means. And ofcourse he also cursed them to lose their beauty and become hideous if they ever bestowed their favors on anyone else. Naturally, they loved the Triton Kings on sight--atleast they did when the Pantokrator's hold over them was finally broken--but by that time, the Kings had fooled around with other beings, out of sheer loneliness/frustration.


I have to strongly disagree about R'lyeh being fine, in any way, shape, or form, however. Not only are they not terribly interesting (sorry, but this is especially egregious, considering they're the most alien and evil Nation in the game, in my opinion), they're atleast extraordinarily difficult to use, if not underpowered.

Not that the ideas behind them are *bad*, and they're certainly fun to play, it's just that to play them competitively in MP (has anyone won a major MP game with them yet?), you have to sacrifice everything that makes them interesting.

If any Nation in the game should have summonables, I think it should be R'lyeh, the Nation based on a story cycle that pretty much revolved around the mysterious appearance-most typically by summoning-of alien entities. MA and LA already have plenty of that, but EA just doesn't really stand out. Nor does it tie in to the MA/LA Nations, so it might as well not be called 'R'lyeh' in the first place.

At the very least, they deserve more heroes. The one they have is nice, but there's 5 more slots available to be filled with all sorts of uniquely squamous alien abominations, and 6 slots for shudderingly bizarre multiheroes.