Tip: Ba'al and Unrest

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Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Ashdod has nowhere NEAR the quickest research.

Have you seen the rephaite sage?
Build anywhere without a lab 6 research for 175 gold; When Ashdod has forests it is the quickest research nation, they get 800g forts in forests.

That plus a native fire (fire has a forge bonus) and death casting for research items with the construction they usually go for early.

Other nations have trouble, comparatively, Arco's mystic needs a lab to be built and is a worse researcher, no nation can rely on cap-only researchers (and Oreiads aren't any better than Ashdod's Talmai Elder)). Bogarus expands slowly and their research usually suffers from it, though they have good potential due to the Master of Names. Shinuyama (who often ends up leading in research for the MA) suffers from having to build both labs and temples and having mostly expensive forts.

Ashdod is a research machine-gun, though of course, that's just spice; they are also giant nation.