Re: Ooh, ooh, new info on patch page!
Eh, Yomi is fine the way it is. Once you realize that it's all about the Dai-Oni (one of the best forging/ritual/combat casting units in the game - don't waste your time trying to turn it into an SC), and that all the other commanders/units are only there to support and protect it, Yomi is a powerhouse. Even the seemingly pathetic 1 Air comes in brutally handy (I'll just mention Rain of Stones for one thing).
But since I'm playing LA R'lyeh at the moment, that's the most troubling 'nerf' I see. R'lyeh "free-spawn" cost up-keep? Huge news to me - I totally did not think so (although I'd been wondering why my upkeep budget has been so high - didn't think I'd had that many Starspawn and mindflayers on the payroll)!
Do all of LA R'lyeh's "free" spawn cost upkeep? If so, how much? If not all, which ones?
And I can totally see how the new change will cripple them badly. Instant starvation and disease on a massive scale. No money at all (as it is, I haven't bought a new mage Starspawn in months, as my upkeep has been consuming well over 50% of my income for some time now - upkeep for so-called free-spawn?). Will your fanatics desert?
"Well, we do like the Dreams, but we like getting paid more, Cthulu F'taghn (just not any time soon)."
Rather than wiping out their population, I think a better "nerf" for R'lyeh would be tweaking their magic paths. Decrease their Astral and increase their Water? Or how about this - change their Earth random to Fire (or even Air)? Yeah, that will give them easier access to all those "acid" type crossover spells, but will eliminate their native ability to forge Crystal Amulets and Shields - without those two boosters (outside of Pretender forging), their goes their 'first turn' Master Enslave. That, or some other tweak to their current crazy Astral ability should be the way to go.
Just making their Dominion more deadly will just make them into another Mictlan, meaning a race that will have to contain their crappy dominion to a limited area (outside of which they'll presumably try to play like MA R'lyeh), but without the ability to blood-sacrifice and what not.
It will ruin all the insane fun that is LA R'lyeh!
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