[Corinthian]

Currently I think the power balance in the game is quite even. Although I agree that Marignion is most likely the strongest.

I see a lot of things with my scouts and diplomacy and I think there are five nations with a good shot at victory.

1) Marignion: It is the biggest nation. But it is also caught up fighting two of the other power nations. And both of those nations have tartarians. Also fights Atlantis still, but I dont know how much forces atlantis have left in its forts. Is also a blood nation. Purgatory global probably keeps Fomorias Morrigans at bay though. Used to have the Gale Gate global.

2) Fomoria: Was the scares nation for a while due to crazy blessed morrigans and Tartarians with artifacts. But they have lost land to Mari so I guess they are not invincible. Probably have most of the artifacts. They have the really high priority stuff like the sword of Auglemer and the Chalice so I'm guessing they also have the hammers. They seem to have an agreement with Patala were patala sends markatas and and Fomoria kills them with the Sickle Whose Crop is Pain for 30 D gems per turn. Also have the Well of Misery, bought with gems from the Sickle no doubt. If he pays Patala half of the D gems from the markatas then he'll get 35D per turn from non-site income. Morrigans cost 2 D per unit for reference. Also have the Chalice witch grants him tart access.

Fomoria is less scary than he looks though because he got screwed on the starting location. He is big, but also in the middle of the map witch means that he borders(d)a lot of people. If patala wants to stop turtling and start invading people then they will probably have to go through Fomoria if they want to do anything more than raiding.

Could become strong again if EA Agartha attacks his old nemesis LA Agartha though. Or if he can beat Mari with Caelums help.

3)Caelum: Not as big as Fomoria or Mari but he got a lot of tarts and he also holds Ermors 15d capitol. He attacked Mari recently, but its too early to tell if he is winning. Though he have taken a fort. GoH global.

4)Patala: Patala seem to be sitting on its arse most days and does not make a lot of waves. But I know from experience that Patala is one of the scariest late game nations and he seem to be building up a blood economy. Also gets (?) 15d gems a turn from Fomoria. Have also not spent many resources on wars so he probably have a big war-chest.

5)EA Agartha: If you read my previous comments then you know that I feel that EA Agartha is the single most overpowered nation in the game right now. Worse than Ermor and R'lyeh even. Granted, he has been stalling for, what? 12 turns? But in that time his enemy Sauromatica have not been able ti kill him or caused him very much damage. Lets take that again: Not even with 12 turns of EA Agartha not doing anything can Sauromatica kill them. Thats how powerful they are.

They also have the earth blood global now.

Sure, they probably lost a lot of initiative from all those stalls, but they also do not have any scary neighbors that could oppose them. Sauro is weak and should be an easy kill, LA Agartha is locked in a life or death struggle with Fomoria and would be ill suited for a second war. Bogarus was badly mauled by a Niefelheim rush back in the days and would probably also have a hard time fighting Agartha.



Honorable mention: LA Agartha. LA Agartha have a scale build and a decently large empire, so he will probably get stronger with time. But it did not seem like he was winning against Fomoria last time I checked. If he can turn the war around and kill Fomoria with Mari and grab more of the lands then mari, then he might have a chance.

With Caelum attacking Mari it just might be possible for him if Fomoria have been weakened enough. Mari will not have enough forces to take the lands for himself and Agartha can reap the rewards.

A long shot though.