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The problem is that when every nation does that they have to manually equipt/ forge hammer every turn and forge gem generating items a turn then you would have to either manually(because you would have some commanders carrying some gems in them) remove every gem that has been generated this turn by the gem generators or use collect all button and having to assing gems to your battle mages/commanders again.

Also late game the game doesnt boil down to who was the most active/conquered most, its about who played it safe and forged 1000000 calms. Also Tartarians would be the only SC you'd ever see(ecept for the occasional Seraph) making even elemenatl royalties obsolete. That gave armies more of a support role. Why have an army when you can steamroll someone in 1 turn teleporting/cloud trapezing 100 tartarians everywhere.

The problem is that if you were nation without earth, you'd have to make a pretender with earth to be somewhat competitive.

Also late game people were able to use the spell 'wish' like 2-3 times a turn which cries for an unfun game.

Also sometimes a nation could just try and stay out of harm's way, turtle for a whole game. get insane ammount of calms and then just claim the victory, while others who fought hard to gain territories and conquered other 2-3 nations just loose because their gem income was connected to the magic sites not the items their commanders wear.

All in all I really like how CBM plays making armies a bit more important(late game) than just vanity items. And also adds a diversity now people actually have to think with what to counter certain armies rather than the standard "equipt tartarian with fire brand and vine shield" and drop 3 of them on top of an army and you win.
It also made some items that were never used useful, so now you have a choice of what to use with its drawbacks and good sides.