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Archonsod said:
With something like Dominions I suspect any imbalance is more than likely the player misunderstanding the full implications of a particular strategy, nation or pretender.

While there is no doubt no shortage of such misunderstandings, it is far from saying most perceived imbalances are such. I could make a list a mile long of things in base dom2 experienced players simply would never consider using, and a much shorter list of things that were so useful the game could be said to more or less revolve around being the first to acquire the most of them.

It doesn't even take years of balance testing to discover that almost any use for death gems is better than summon shades, or that the slave collar is useless. And it only takes a few games to notice that people rushing for air queens/vine ogre hordes/spectres perform much better than others.