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[The_Tauren13]

Abysia is typically among the first nations chosen in MP... but that doesn't nescesarily mean anything. I think it has to do with getting 240 (!) practically free points for pretender design.

[Kel]

240 ? Not 120 ?

- Kel

[Alneyan]

Abysia does not lose supplies with scales of Death. It does lose population however. The same goes true for scales of Growth. The other 120 points come from Heat 3.

[Kel]

Ah, I only count the heat as free points since the other costs you something.

- Kel

[The_Tauren13]

Well, it costs you the population, but not the income. So i guess the Last 120 are half-free points... so lets say you get 180 free points

[Kel]

Fair enough
I wouldn't even worry about the population, except they make useful blood slaves and all...

- Kel

[Taqwus]

Skeptic prophets can be entertaining, at least if you have a twisted sense of humor. Theoretically, a Skeptic prophet with a Stone Idol, preaching, should have rather interesting effects inside hostile dominion. Unfortunately, they're not very stealthy (+0 ?), and are likely to die easily once caught unless you keep them in border regions only and have 'em set to retreat.

Regarding nation choices, you may want to be careful in games with few players, as some match-ups may be more unbalanced than others. Man versus Carrion Woods Pangaea on a fairly small map, for instance, might be somewhat ugly given that a longbowmen is one of the better basic units for countering CW base undead -- the latter don't have shields or armor, so die easily under massed arrow fire. C'tis Miasma dominion has a nasty diseasing effect, good for defense... but not against undead armies. And so forth. Some will have an easier time than others.

[Truper]

The_Tauren13 said:
Well, it costs you the population, but not the income. So i guess the Last 120 are half-free points... so lets say you get 180 free points

A death scale still costs Abysia income - 2% per tick, just like any other nation. And their income in a death scale
will decline throughout the game due to pop loss. The only benefit Abysia has re a death scale is that their supplies aren't affected. So lets say they get 120 free points - and actually, to my mind its somewhat less than that, as they lose income when their provinces aren't at heat 3 - so they would prefer a somewhat stronger dominion than other nations, to help keep things heated up.

[quantum_mechani]

Truper said:

A death scale still costs Abysia income - 2% per tick, just like any other nation.

Really? I'm fairly sure that they don't take a direct income hit from death.