Who is the most powerful nation and why?

[moderation]

Who is the most powerful nation and why? I have some guesses, but I'd rather not taint the poll results. What do you think?

[OmikronWarrior]

EA: Lanka- Does this one really need any explanation? Powerful blood magic, powerful sacreds, undead.

MA: I'm not terribly familiar with this era, but I still went with Ermor.

LA: Ermor again, even with the so called nerf this nation can just overwhelm the rest with free units.

[Velusion]

LA R'lyeh has LA Ermor beat hands down in my book.

[Xietor]

I really only play the MA, but fought some of the other eras in the Big Game:

1. EA Lanka insane bless, powerful summons, demons do not have as many counters as undead, and decent air magic.

2. MA-no race really strikes dread in me in the MA.
But Ermor and Pythium are likely the top 2.

3. LA Ryleh

[moderation]

How does EA Lanka stack up against EA Mictlan? I was reading a thread comparing who was the most powerful blood nation (I will post it if I can find it again). The gist of the arguments seemed to be Lanka is more versatile, but Mictlan is more focuses and has lower upkeep for it's primary blood hunters. Of course, perhaps you could switch to using summons for blood hunting and then not pay any gold upkeep, but I'm not sure how well that would work.

[Baalz]

moderation said:
How does EA Lanka stack up against EA Mictlan? I was reading a thread comparing who was the most powerful blood nation (I will post it if I can find it again). The gist of the arguments seemed to be Lanka is more versatile, but Mictlan is more focuses and has lower upkeep for it's primary blood hunters. Of course, perhaps you could switch to using summons for blood hunting and then not pay any gold upkeep, but I'm not sure how well that would work.

I was arguing in that thread (too lazy too look it up) that EA Mictlan has a tighter focus on blood than Lanka for a couple reasons. Not only are the blood hunters cheaper, so are their sacreds - and well pretty much everything. Mictlan also has greater motivation to focus on blood whereas Lanka could very well do a very effective weak or no blood strategy. Mictlan also has a good upkeep free national summonable blood hunter (who doubles as a leech spamming assassin) that pays for herself in about half a year. I'm not as familiar with Lanka, do they have a reasonably priced summonable blood hunter?

I think that Mictlan will be able to pull in more blood slaves and has more motivation to focus on blood research. I think they are the heavyweight champions of the blood game, but I don't know that I think they're overall stronger than Lanka.

[Jazzepi]

Velusion said:
LA R'lyeh has LA Ermor beat hands down in my book.

I agree, especially with the way that Ermor's death domain is now.

Jazzepi

[Shovah32]

Yeah, for me R'lyeh just has LA under control.
Only water nation? Check. Strongest astral magic in an age where a huge number of nations have weak astral magic on their mages? Check. Powerful magic, even compared to the other strong magic nations of the age? Check.

They are pretty much good all-round. Troops aren't great, but they have great magic compared to most LA Nations and magic that is great against many LA nations along with dominance of the sea. Sure, Ermor can send undead down, but R'lyeh gets some death magic, decent priests(who also make good researchers) and mind blasters who can tear Ermor apart.

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[Omnirizon]

Given the unanimous agreement on LA Ermor and Ryleh, what nations of LA, besides those two, are the most powerful?