lategame balance . are my concerns true ?

[Thufir]

Boron said:
i think immortality is a bit too powerful .

how do you beat a vampire horde lategame ?
on turn 100 ...

While I enjoy reading these tactical analyses, I am not yet experienced enough to comment one way or another. But I have played enough strategy games to say that the statement that late game is unbalanced in no way, shape or form means that the game is unbalanced.

It's perfectly reasonable from a game design perspective to pull 3-4 nations out of 17, and say these nations will be the strong in the endgame. It's perfectly reasonable from a game play point of view, to know going in that if you're playing Ulm or Jotunheim (those are strong in the opening game, right?), that if Abysia or Caelum are in the mix, you had better have them eliminated or crippled by turn 80 (or whatever turn it might be), or your endgame will be hopeless.

Much as I find these arguments very educational, and useful for getting through my own endgame learning curve, this in no way sounds like a cause worthy of changing this game.