Ermor AE findings

[Graeme Dice]

Tyrant said:
Upstreamedge, in answer to your simple question, yes- AE Ermor is unbalanced. This is well known and accepted.

Accepted by whom? Ermor is a powerful nation, but is hardly unbalanced. It can be easily countered by the use of magic.

Have you noticed Burden of Time yet?

Burden of time is a powerful spell that you will be lucky to have last for five turns at most throughout the course of a game, unless of course, Ermor was already winning before it cast the spell. Ermor cannot afford to spend its death gems
in sufficient quantities to keep the spell from being easily dispelled.

They are not unbeatable or anything, but they are very strong, especially in the early game, and there are some nations that have sepecial problems with them.

Ermor is at its weakest in the early game. In the first ten turns, Ermor can only summon 10 D2 mages, or 7 D3?1 mages if it wants to completely ignore reanimators (Which is probably the strongest long-term strategy). Ermor doesn't become truly powerful till turn 20, peaks by turn 40, then diminishes rapidly as other nations overtake it's slow research.