Re: Weakest nation
MA Argatha is definitely worse than MA Ulm. Troops are worse, they lack the improved HP and str and have similar enc for lower prot. Pale Ones and Ancient Ones are useless thanks to their atk score. No missiles in vanilla, xbows in CBM are 24 res which is the same as Ulm's arbalests. Stone Hurlers in CBM are useful if expensive, but they aren't in vanilla. No mounted troops, no niche troops like guardians. The E2 W1 F1 H1 mage isn't much good for anything, no astral access (2.5% in CBM) to make matrices, meaning they're difficult to boost in battle to take advantage of cold/fire/acid. You have E2 and E3 mages, which gives you E access about on par with Ulm's, but paying 400 for E3 (350 in CBM) is a huge rip-off. And no forge bonus, no iron blizzard (which is amazingly good), your statues are easy to counter and in a bad research tree for Earth, and the Marble Oracle doesn't compare favorably to the Iron Angel.
Oh and while the CBM changes help, no blood stones is a big blow to both nations, and IMO definitely offsets all the little advantages.
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