Why does Desert Tombs suck?

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Didn't seem so very slowly to me. They died rather alarmingly fast in my book. By turn 40 or so, the place was a total wasteland.

Death 1 is a 0.2% population loss per turn. Over 40 turns in your capital, this would bring your population down to 27K people.

While the death scale of DT definitely kills somewhat more slowly than, say, Ashen Empire,that just means you suffer the negatives of having no population, without the positives of having no population:

The rates are nowhere near being comparable. Ashen empire kills thousands of people per turn. Death 1 kills a thousand if your initial population happens to be 500,000 people. With a population of 30K, you will lose 60 people per turn.

Killing all the population in a province is a bad thing. It means that ashen empire is at war with everyone from the get go.

With just regular death, they STILL die fairly quickly, but in the meantime, you're stuck dealing with their snivelling while gaining none of the benefits for a mass slaughter.

Ashen empire has no unbanishable troops without summoning them. Desert Tombs does not have this weakness.