What's your favorite nation and why?

[Saulot]

Very much enjoy EA Niefelheim & Abysia & Yomi.
Agartha all ages.
LA Ermor, and LA Ulm.

So I guess mostly nonhuman.

[LDiCesare]

How can one vote for Marverni is beyond my understanding.
EA Agartha for their nice cheap national summons (earth elementals, fire gnomes, umbrals).
MA Arcoscephale for their strong astral magic, diversity and elephants.
LA Arcoscephale for their ARMORED elephants.

[mathusalem]

I voted :
EA Sauromatia
MA R'Lyeh
LA Marignon, I like LA Midgard too

[Endoperez]

Early: Agartha. I really like the nation, and the national units, even if I'm starting to accept that they suck. At least when you don't consider magic, and before you get Darkness.

Middle: tie between Ulm and Bandar Log. I voted Bandar because I hope MA Ulm is pretty well represented already. I like Ulm's faith in strength of steel, and I kind of link the MA Ulm's siege engineers with EA Arcos' engineering culture. Black Priests aren't quite Philosophers, though.

Late: Man wins, with Atlantis second. It has mage-spy-engineers, which is awesome, shielded, armored crossbowmen, which is awesome, longbows and knights and wardens, and it even has a good chance of making Gargoyles. Gift of Reasoning them is hard, though. Atlantis is just cool. Inuit necromancers, clay golems, sailing amphibians, all kinds of cool stuff. Also, FINALLY ice armor on beings who can actually fight in melee.

[Meglobob]

I voted:-

Ea Niefelheim - Big bad giants, great...played this nation 3 times in MP and always had fun even thou I lose every time. I like the fact you have very few (but elite) forces, easy to manage in the late game.

Ma Ermor - Shadow Vestals, what a cool unit and hordes of undead horseman plus death/astral, what more could you want?

La Ermor - Hordes of freespawn, everyone hates you but thats ok cause you hate everyone as well. Death gems coming out of your ears and if you lose you have the satisfaction that your conquerers are going to be left with worthless provinces and so unlikely to win, ha ha...

[DonCorazon]

Still many nations I have yet to play but here are my picks to date:

EA Niefel - Easy to manage as Meglobob says and I like how these guys can really rack up experience. I like the model of troops that last vs. disposable chaff

MA - undecided. Not Ulm

LA TC - Love the magic diversity, troop quality & variety (archers, tower shield infantry, heavy calvary w/bows), and the cheap sacred researchers

[Kristoffer O]

I kind of like Sauromatia. Probably because I like Skögu, the other heroes and their interlinked events. Sauromatia became more fun with Fomoria in the mix.

Shinuyama got a vote. Not sure why, but I like critters of nonhuman stock I think.

LA Atlantis got a vote. Probably because I'm playing them right now in MP. I tend to like the nation I play. Also the Angakut look cute in their annoraks

I'm also quite fond of the LA pythium. Probably because there is more history of religions (and not just myths) than in most nations.

[Hadrian_II]

EA: Kailasa, what else? (even with the monkey PD )

MA: Pangaea, what else? (sorry)

LA: Agartha, same as above

I just like nations with a nice theme, and lots of special national features.

btw. Pangaea could need more national summons spells, just to make the nation even more fluffier

[Wauthan]

EA: Lanka
MA: Shinuyama
LA: Atlantis

Since I mostly play SP games I have a great love for oddball nations. When I just want to win I play Pangea, but when I simply play for fun I go for one of these three.

[Omnirizon]

it makes me happy to see Argatha so well liked. They are one of my favorite too. Everything just comes together so beautifully in that nation.

I'm surprised to see LA Atlantis so popular. I'd always felt they were one of the more lackluster nations; both thematically and substantively. They have a good backstory, but I just don't feel it portrayed well in the troops and summons. There is something just missing with that nation, it isn't quite there for me. And their substantive ability, doesn't feel on par with some other nations; maybe its just me.