[Baalz]

Well, let me preface this by saying I've never played EA Atlantis, and don't even have a crystal clear idea of what they have so I may be a bit off on this. I did write guides for MA and LA though, and some of the thinking on those nations might be relevant (or not). I think Micah's comparison to Dai Oni misses an extremely important facet...well, not so much misses it as downplays it. The Basalt kings are amphibious. This is a defining characteristic even moreso than Dai Oni being demons. I go into this in a good amount of detail in my MA Atlantis guide, but the way a game with EA/MA Atlantis must go you've got really three different games to play (if you go all the way to a win) - underwater vs R'yleh/Oceana, attacking from the water to the land, & holding a big piece of land. For the first two stages the comparison between Dai Oni and Niefels isn't appropriate because of the difference in how the units are used and what they're fighting. For underwater/early fighting the basalt king with light equipment and buffs is the best recruitable SC chasis available to any nation. For sea to land attacking (before end game) the comparison still isn't fair because the water attacker almost always has the luxury of choosing his fight so having half a dozen Basalt Kings ready to blitz one of three coasts pending a good opportunity is a very different thing from how Dai Oni or Jarls are deployed. You have to play Atlantis like a submarine and hit your opponents with overwhelming torpedoes when they don't expect it. Slugging toe to toe with a land nation on the land you're usually gonna lose, so don't do that. A submarine attacking a battleship.