LA Ermor - myth, legend, or overrated tripe?

Sombre · #1 March 10th, 2007, 03:50 AM

On the other hand your lands can be a pretty nasty place to try an invade - anyone looking to lay into you is going to have to accept little in the way of gains. If you point that out you can play diplomacy a little more.

KissBlade · #2 March 10th, 2007, 04:19 AM

LA Ermor is actually not that strong in dom3. Annoying dominion effect, a decent nation but not overpowered as it was in Dom 2.

Shovah32 · #3 March 10th, 2007, 10:50 AM

As kissblade said it isnt as strong as it was, mainly because of the increased gold and supplies from dom2.

DrPraetorious · #4 March 10th, 2007, 11:21 AM

I actually think that LE Ermor is slightly underpowered.

Ermor now gets just as many troops as everyone else, but only gets mages by spending gems - and since Ermor has approximately the same gem income as everyone else (a little bit higher, but not much), this is a big disadvantage once magic becomes highly important.

The upshot is that I think all of the LE Ermor nationals should be *half* as expensive or less. This wouldn't make a big difference in the early game, but your forces would stay roughly comparable as the game goes on. It'd also enable Ermor not to fall so far behind the research curve, as they generally do.

The increase in price on spectres hurt them a lot more than it hurt other positions - which would've been fine in dom2 when they were so devastating, but now that they're not it's an over-correction.

Nick_K · #5 March 10th, 2007, 12:06 PM

LA ermor is incredibly potent in SP. Try playing as them and you'll find that the AI simply cannot deal with you at all.
However, the general belief is that this is due to limitations with the AI. I don't play MP, but it seems that the ashen empire in MP is a shadow of it's single-player self

Sombre · #6 March 10th, 2007, 12:23 PM

Playing against an AI ermor is also more challenging than otehr nations - it seems to eat lots of territory up and cn be harder than normal to go on the offense against (still not exactly hard).

TwoBits · #7 March 10th, 2007, 12:32 PM

I suspect you'd need to insist on keeping the LA magic site frequency setting at "default" in order to make LA Ermor worthwhile in MP. That way, your starting gem income (15 vs 4 for everyone else) is more telling. But since I've never actually played them in MP, I'm probably just blowing smoke...