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[The Panther]

Actually, the sauro/marsh masters are probably OK, and certainly not as bad as the High Seraphs. It is mostly the fact that the best C'tis mages can be recruited in any castle which makes them terribly unbalanced.

That is pretty much the ONLY reason that C'tis is greatly superior over a nation like Man, which has the penalizing restriction of having its good mages being capitol only. Were this to be balanced, both nations would be much closer to equal. The Crones are a powerful mage indeed, just as good as or better than a sauromancer (though more expensive).

I would even go so far as to say that Caelum just might not be the best nation in the game if the High Seraphs were not recruitable everywhere. Getting only one per turn just does not scare me like an opponent getting 4-5 per turn. I won my only game I played as Caelum by doing precisely this.

But as it is, Caelum and C'tis are pretty much in the top 4 of the rankings of just about any experienced player and Man is usually near the bottom. In fact, Man has no chance against either of those nations in a 1 on 1 except on the smallest of maps.

Unfortunately, I don't think this can be changed in a mod, though I could be wrong.