[Septimius Severus]

Originally Posted by DrPraetorious

Is there a thread for us to sign up for the new game?

Ulm cannot be on the same team as either Jotunheim or (especially) Ashdod! Even if the rest of the team is made up of the weakest nations.

I agree those teams are strong thematically but still not well balanced. I'll follow up on this later.

Haven't started signup's yet. I need to crystalize these teams and nations first.

I think there were some concerns about the Haleheim/Arborean team being competitive late game vs. Tartarians and vs. the Astral teams globals/wish and so forth, not to mention very early on. Giving them Ashdod may do this mightily.

I am diverging from normal team game format where every team has all the bases covered (or tries to anyway), in favor of strong themes. A certain amount of redundancy is of course part of the theme format, don't know that theme based games are intended to be balanced or anything. Having nothing but Markatas or Blood in a game is obviously aiming for something different. They are for fun and role playing I'd think.

Since the series is single age (moving from EA to LA to take advantage of an increasinly difficult AI) it has been a challenge for me to discover and fit 4 distinct themes (that have real differences in capabilities) into a single age without using the multi-age mod. I think I've succeeded as best can be done with that matchup. But if DrP or Chris or someone can come up with a better matchup, with strong themes, and giving each team a dominance in one aspect or area, that makes it unique, lets have it.