Poll: Is Clam Hording Too Good?

[Velusion]

Warhammer said:
But if that is the case, why are people not ganging up on R'lyeh early?

A land nation has to expend many more resources to attack an underwater nation than the underwater nation has to spend to defend itself. As a land nation that means your return on investment in fighting a water nation is much lower than if you picked a fight with a land nation.

This means you really need some sort of alliance to make it worthwhile to go into the sea early and such an alliance is sometimes very difficult to form when there are so many other tempting (and easier) land targets.

The widely accepted MP method for dealing with medium/large underwater nations is to leave them until the very end when the resources you can bring to bear are overwhelming and you crush them with raw force.