Overlords - Game Thread. (playing)

[Baalz]

Originally Posted by rdonj

Baalz has convinced me that it was a bad, bad, stupid idea to have water overlords :P. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to allow water nations period if we do overlords part 2, but I could maybe be convinced to take a water nation that wasn't an overlord. It is just too hard to balance them for this format, and early on the other water nations are fairly easy prey.

Haha, to be fair though, MA R'yleh is a serious powerhouse under almost any circumstances if played by an expert player. I don't think I'd be in too much of a different position at this point if I had started as a non-overlord (attacking more than one province per turn would make up for the slower start), and would be in a vastly stronger position at this point if I didn't have the overlord restrictions. As I mentioned, the advantage I gained leveraging the gatestone to gain easy territory was balanced by the fact that my territory is quite spread out. I've got temples in about half my territories (probably the most temples of any nation, with a dom score of 10)...and that's roughly how many have friendly dominion. Hopefully not to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but if a non-overlord were to get it together enough to push a decent raid underwater I could conceivably lose half my territories with no recourse at all to reclaim them. This would be rapidly compounded if said raids also destroyed several of my temples. Given the defined restrictions there are some serious drawbacks to being a water overlord just due to how dominion interacts with general water layouts.