What do you think about ermor in dom2

[Lord Hammer]

Throw "Well of Misery" into that equation and who needs taxes? Besides, when you don't pay taxes you get..."Summons" Get it? Now you have TONS of cannon fodder in EVERY province while your cranking out Uber-Summons every turn.If your Dominion is 9 or 10 you get much better freebie troops popping up plus...well...there are SO many strategies Carefull use of tactics and planning is needed when playing against Holy opponents but Death is always near Bruhahahahahahaha!!!

[Gandalf Parker]

Of course Ermor is superior. It wipes the board in solo play against AIs. Let them think that until they get into a multiplayer game. No, thats a rude thought. Scratch that. Hopefully your friends figure out eventually that certain races such as Marignon is perfectly made to be the balance for Ermor. A human player who learns how to play Marignon will wipe Ermor. Other nations can do pretty well also.

Of course then they are bound to tell you that Ulm is way superior. Thats usually the second one. Or sometimes a water nation.

In any case, they will probably go thru each nation one at a time and find ways that they are excellent, and ways that they balance each other.

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[SurvivalistMerc]

Gandalf,

What nation easily wipes Pythium? Pythium seems rather superior to me. But then again I'm a novice.

There is no one nation that can 'wipe' Pythium. It is well balanced so it doesn't fall into that particular Category.

And you should say "Base Pythium" as opposed to the thematic.

[apoger]

Ermor [ashen empire/soul gate] are very potent versus the computer AI as it does not recognize the threat of the population killing dominion. In play versus humans they would be much less potent, as others have pointed out.


It is my personal opinion that the Ermor [ashen empire/soul gate] should be Banned from multi-player. Not because they are potent, but becuase they are unfair to the players that start adjacent. Nations starting next to such Ermors are at a huge disadvantage since they are near a population "dead zone". They end up with much less resource in the world near them, not due to anything they did, but due to the bad luck of their starting position. It's such a glaring disadvantage that I'd rather not see these Ermor's in multiplay at all.

Ermor [broken empire] is an excellent nation that combines very good troops with some astral and death magic. It is a very capable nation that is worth exploring.

[General Tacticus]

In my Mictlan AAR, Ulm has so far kicked both Ermor's and Pythium's asses, at the same time. Well, Ermor is still around in Africa, but it's missing its capital. And this has been my experience so far : but impossible AI's all around, and suddenly Ermor doesn't do better than the others...

As for death pretenders ruling the arena, I find they usually fall when faced with a decent prophet, and somebody is bound to send one...

6 priests, even basic ones, in an army, will kick undead big time. Or lots af archers. Or even enough heavy infantry, if you use morale boosters. Or fire magic. I hate Ermor, but because it destroys my (future) territories, not because it is harder to beat, at least with an AI.

Hi all,
I see in the manual that the "fear" bless bonus for Death-9 is only available to undeads. Is this a mistake ?
Cheers