[Amorphous]

My first impression is that the nation needs a power-up.

The capital gem income is a little on the light side, even if you place the nation in the late era and the Wu Jen being tied to a capital site means that your only mage with paths in non-holy magic is capital only.

The first thing you should do is probably make the Wu Jen recruitable everywhere and up the capital gem income to adequate levels (standard is 6 EA, 5 MA and 4 LA).

Furthermore as the only mage, the Wu Jen is not good enough. You have no access to astral, nature or death (or blood for that matter), which limits the nation severely, but it could probably be handled if the presence in the elements were stronger. Instead you have no fire access and the chances for a powerful caster in the three paths you do have are too small.

Adding a little astral or nature magic would go a long way, but if you insist on keeping the access to air, water and earth, you should probably make the paths less random.


When it comes troops, you seem to lack anything usable against ranged attackers. Considering this, the spell making attacks armour piercing should probably have a greater area. As is, your troops will mostly have trouble going through armoured foes. With multiple attacks they will not have much trouble hitting, but with 10 strength, fists and kicks will not do enough damage. The katana-wielding monks have better damage but not multiple attacks, so a lot of their hits will be shield hits. Taking down medium to heavy infantry will take quite some time and since all you have is lightly armoured troops without shields, this is time you do not have as bows will make very short work of you.

Have you considered this? I find it very much harder to evaluate troops than it is magic, so I may very well just have missed something blindingly obvious.

However that may be, you nation seems rather interesting.