Umbrals & Agartha Balance (v3.08)

[NTJedi]

Edi said:
NT Jedi, the question is, are Umbrals enough to make Agartha unbalanced? And I'm not talking about SP games here.

In SP games the Umbrals are unbalanced mainly because the human player knows to mass summon these units whereas the AI does not mass summon these units.
From my MP experience I would say the Umbrals provide to great of an advantage now being amphibian as well. When playing Agartha and needing to summon units they are now the overwhelming obvious choice. These undead units are the most powerful and least expensive undead units based on a gem per gem and spell level basis. Their strength and high life allow their default weapon to be very powerful, their high life and good magic resistance makes banishment very difficult, their statistics and being stealthy and amphibious makes them very nasty on land and in the sea whether its a direct assault or stealthy backstab. The unit is not only powerful but an almost perfect do_everything package.

What I enjoy about Dominions is how a player has so many different strategy options, yet with these Umbrals being so powerful there's less strategy for Argatha as a whole whether its singleplayer or multiplayer.