[Squirrelloid]

Valerius:
Monstrum is perfectly useful as is, but its not something you want to GoR, and you want to be able to summon it predictably. When I've had the luxury of a squadron of Monstrum, I've been quite happy with them. Which is why I'm moving them to their own summon - so you *can* have the luxury of a squadron of them at your choosing. (Basically, its useless if you can't mass it, and its on a vastly different power scale than the rest of the tarts - it makes sense to split it out).

BG:
-LA Rlyeh is not OP, if anything its a little weak.
-LA Ermor does not seem to be OP to me. People just hate playing with it because it makes its lands worthless. MA Ermor probably has a better claim to being OP, but I'm not even convinced of that.

-TNN is better than Eriu by a significant amount. Thus they aren't a priority yet.
-If I have any clever ideas for Hinnom, Ashdod, or Nieflheim, I might do something. Clearly just increasing the price of their recruitable SCs hasn't been sufficient, which probably means its insufficiently clever.
-LA Man is a perfectly fine nation with good magic diversity (and paths), interesting special abilities, and is tailor-made for over-taxing as a strategy. If anything, the only change that needs to be made is to its national gem income.
-I could look at the Vanheims. As I recall its MA that is the weak one.
-EA Abysia is not a priority because I don't have any clever ideas on where to even start. Quite possibly, the problem is that fire is too easy to counter, which is a much more general problem. It wouldn't be very thematic to make them not be about fire... even I can't really justify that.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm ok with changing themes as necessary. But that means I need a thematic idea I'm embracing to replace the old one).

I will be happy to look at national summons (Dai Oni is already on the plate because its overcosted). Rudra aren't getting cheaper though, sorry. They're well-costed at 55 pearls.

(Lanka's blood summons are probably undercosted. If nothing else Davana are far too cheap. Mictlan's blood summons are almost certainly undercosted. If some people who are true afficianos of blood nations could make some comment about typical #s of slaves harvested/turn in early, mid, and late game, that would help. Most of my experience with blood is via nations who are dabbling in it, so i don't have a good benchmark for 'typical' behavior in an MP game).