Conceptual Balance Mod v1.92

[curtadams]

Originally Posted by RonD

But "balanced against tarts" does not have to mean "identical to tarts". It could (does, actually) mean "not as good as tarts, but available at earlier research level." That is, obviously, a harder balancing act, but I don't think anyone has advocated just adding a bunch more Conj 9, cheap, super-multi-path, 200hp, 0 encumbrance summons.

That's a definition of "balanced", but not for an *endgame* diversity mod. By that balance, Tarts are still the trump of the endgame; you've just added *midgame* options which may pre-empt Tarts. That's a lot of the complaint in the post that started this subthread. There certainly isn't much need for diversity at research level 6 - IMO that's the period of the game which already had the most diversity, with a lot of different magic options and still some possibilities for mildly boosted regular armies.