your favourite 2.12 vq nation

[nakomus]

First of all, let me say, I really don’t want to start a flame war about game balance here. Just expand on my own poll response, mainly. I’m not exactly an expert at MP. But my vote would be for the VQ to be left alone for now.

I’m one of the people who voted that they built there strategy around the VQ (with Abysia). By that I meant that the VQ was an integral part of the strategy, not that she was the whole point of the strategy. The Last time I played with a VQ and Abysia I used her for early expansion and extra defense in my dominion so I could focus on getting my blood economy going. I didn’t choose Abysia because they have extra points to dump into a VQ; I choose the VQ because I wanted to focus on Abysia’s magic and she let me do that.

I said that I based on strategy around the VQ because the strategy as a whole would not have worked well without her or something similar.

It seems to me that ones strategy should be based around your pretender god; they are afterall what the game is about.

With the VQ forbidden to Ermor now, Pan CW is probably in first place for disposable points to sink into a VQ. From reading these Boards, I get the impression that CW is a weak theme. Even with a tricked out VQ, is CW really overpowered?

forbidding her for most nations . only allow her for thematic natioins :
pan cw , ermor , bf ulm , abysia .

I don’t really agree that the VQ is thematic for Ermor and Pan CW. Although she is undead, she feeds on the blood of the living. A vampire in a killer dominion will starve (I know I’m not the first to point this out, but I forget who brought it up first).

If you do want to poll about balance, I think you should put it in the context of specific nations:

Is Pan CW with a VQ unbalanced?
Is Abysia with a VQ unbalanced?
Would Ermor with the patched VQ be unbalanced? (although its removal was I think partially thematic)

Even if the VQ is a little better than her competitors, I’d rather see the effort spent on improving the worst pretenders rather than dragging down the best.