Who is the most powerful nation and why?

[Jurri]

LA Ermor, I could be wrong here since I have little MP experience with or against LA R'lyeh (Basically one MP game won by Jurri playing LA R'lyeh).

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Hell no, must have been someone else It's such an obviously imbalanced nation that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

I think that the most powerful nations without contest are those that have freespawns, that is, LA R'lyeh and Ermor (with R'lyeh better by a huge margin), and nations that have recruitable affordable reanimators, that is EA Lanka and MA Ermor. (Yomi has recruitable reanimators, but those are weak and expensive and capital only besides.) For obvious reasons, I would think.

[coobe]

i went for ea mictlan, ma ermor and la rlyeh

didnt have to think long to come up with this choice

[Reverend Zombie]

Lanka has lots of stuff they can do, but I find that they can't do it all in any given game, which detracts from their total power in my view.

You'll want to run up the Blood research ladder, for example, to get good summons, but that doesn't leave you with very good battle magic.

And running up the evocation ladder for Lanka's battle mages seems underwhelming. The really good air spells are pretty far up, and I think between a choice of Blood or Evo, you want to go Blood with Lanka.

[Kamamura]

ULM! And all who deny it must die!

[Cor2]

Ah! So the culprit is exposed.

Looks like I am the only one who voted fro LA pythdom, sacred hydras people! Comeon!

[Xietor]

Looking at the MA, I do not think ctis belong in the top tier. They are too vulnerable early to solar rays, high level priests, and paralyze(which stops skelly spammers cold).

Their troops/mages can be somewhat neutralized by the cheap spell wolven winter cast in the province before the fight occurs. Ctis is certainly above average though. Very strong research and powerful death magic.

If they make it to the midgame look out. Banelord armies.


Arcos is also very good, but i give pythium/ermor an edge because of the weak national summons and arcos weak castle bought troops in the midgame.

Against an astral race elephants are less deadly. Though they have lots of s gems and mind hunt, they do not get to spend their gems on Angels. And nothing laughs at elephants quite like a hydra.

So while Arcos is definitely upper tier, i would not put them above Ermor or Pythium.

[Falkor]

EA: Nifelheim, for 3 SC's on turn6.
MA: Pythium, for nice balance between strong magic and decent troops.
LA: Ermor, for all the design points by pretender creation.

[B0rsuk]

Atlantis > Pythium. Principes are slaughtered by coral armor infantry .
I know, I know...

[WraithLord]

Darn, my memory is not what it used to be. I checked the game thread (DDD) and indeed you played LA Mictlan

R'lyeh was played by okiN and although fared well wasn't a real threat to you.