Underwater Nations!!!?

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Originally posted by UberPenguin:
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Thanks for all of you posting crap that doesn't matter AT ALL. (Note AT ALL.) I guess perhaps forums are more for the use of ****ting your panties and making them available for all to see rather than asking questions, and having them answered.

I thought Något Gick Fell answered your question early in the tread...

Nagot Gick Fell wrote:

I guess it's due to the way themes were introduced in Dominions 2. In PPP, Utgard was the standard Jotunheim, and Ashen Empire was the standard Ermor. Since these are the only 2 old nations which had their base theme changed, Iron Woods and Broken Empire had to be designed from scratch and got distinctive names, while the other nation's standard themes were just 'imported' from PPP unchanged.

PPP (or Dom:PPP) is Dominions 1: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders. Besides being the standard, what are now called Utgard and Ashen Empire weren't only standard for those nations. There were no themes, and they were everything that nation had to offer. Personally, I think it is thematic and wish more nations had better name for the base theme than simple 'normal'.