Balanced Nations

[LDiCesare]

Originally Posted by Rytek

I was thinking more about it and I think Ctiss is a better fit than TNN. I would keep TC over Abysia. I think Abysia is a much stronger early nation than TC. TC has good bless troops but they are vulnerable to archers, slingers and javelins which the other nations have an abundance of.

EA TC is much stronger than EA Abysia in my experience. I walked over EA Aby as TC in a game even though I didn't want to fight them in the first place and had recruited troops to fight another kind of enemies.
TC is very flexible. It's got good capital only sacreds that will eat Lanka's sacreds for dinner, and those of Abysia too. Won't be as useful against Niefelheim but still. Then it's got composite bows. If people bring in archers against TC, they're likely going to lose the archer vs archer combat so the vulnerability of sacred troops vs archers is not really a problem, particularly since they can bring in a few well-shielded decoys to help.

[Kadelake]

Originally Posted by LDiCesare

TC is very flexible. It's got good capital only sacreds that will eat Lanka's sacreds for dinner, and those of Abysia too.

I've never played TC. Are W5E really that good? Their damage of 16 seems kind of low against Lanka.

[LDiCesare]

W5E are very good. They have low damage but two attacks and good att/def scores, are quite cheap for sacreds. Their downsides are weak armor, low hp in the bad season (but then in spring/summer they have more), and being capital-only. Double bless them, double bless lankans and pit them against each other. W9 is particularly good for W5E as 2 attacks * speed means a lot of hits and some of these will be lucky/critical.