Ultimate Nation Balance Mega-Kawaii Answer-Question 105%!1!1

[Vicious Love]

Eeep! Halted, truncated, and interrupted! Had to rush through this, only posted the complaints I've read most frequently on these fora, plus one of the two new themes. Sorry, shall remedy it as soon as can get wid a computer. Either way, the discussion still stands.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Vicious Love:
Ashen Empire Ermor is, in my opinion, virtually indestructible, because that's what the restless dead legions of Armageddon are like. They always win. Instead of nerfing them to get smaller legions or weaker individual troops, and thereby crampin' the aforementioned STYLE

No, Ashen Empire Ermor is NOT virtually indestructible. In fact, Ermorian legions really suck it hard. Sure, they're totally expendable and sprout out of the ground in ever-increasing numbers, but run them into any real opposition, and it's quite likely you'll lose them all with less than handful of kills to show for it. A single SC can slay them by the hundreds at practically no risk to himself. Longdeads, soulless, and ghouls are dog doody. They ALREADY are individually weaker than normal units by far. I regularly lose a few hundred undead at once to a drive-by priesting of composed of cheap $50 priests. Stupid frickin' priests. Soul Gate Ermor trades off the really wimpy but absolutely enormous legions of the dead for somewhat less numerous, but more effective, ghost legions, that suffer from ubiquitous 0 protection and fold over and die to anything with magic weapons. In both cases, Ermor's national mages are somewhat narrow in focus, with only Dusk Elders having but a single random pick. This is made up for in part by a pretender that can afford to burn a lot of nation points on magics, but you can't be everywhere at once.

Take it from me, the board's resident Ermor fanatic: Ermor is not as impressive as everyone would have you believe. I like them anyway, though.

[Kristoffer O]

That was a strange poll. Most of the themes generally considered unbalanced were not available for voting and I found myself being a commie!

At the tenth of April (when I can inspect the strange results) the thread will probably be dead, buried and forgotten. Perhaps this is for the best

[Peter Ebbesen]

I definitely prefer Soul Gate over Ashen Empire. Slightly less micromanagement due to the reduced troop numbers, and the increased magic resistance on all troops means that enemy priests need to work much, much, harder on the banishments. It also makes Solar Brilliance less of a killer.

Even so, the casualty reports are staggering.

[Teraswaerto]

IMO, the only nation that seems "overpowered" is Pythium. Mictlan and Tien Chi are perhaps weaker than the average, but not by much. Some themes, like S&A and Carrion Woods, are quite weak though.

[ywl]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
I definitely prefer Soul Gate over Ashen Empire. Slightly less micromanagement due to the reduced troop numbers, and the increased magic resistance on all troops means that enemy priests need to work much, much, harder on the banishments. It also makes Solar Brilliance less of a killer.

Even so, the casualty reports are staggering.

A lot of the damage the Soul Gate undeads are not physical or negatable by MR. That kind of balance their advantages out.

Another ironical aspect of Ermor is even though you have a almighty pretender and a lot of gem incomes, you magical research is usually the slowest of the nations - even slower than the supposingly nonmagical Ulm .

[Tuna-Fish]

Vicious love, you have the best poll options yet on this board. But please edit it to show the results already, i wanna know how mnay commie friends I have