Why no love for Caelum?

[Boron]

you missed my points too kel .

first with norfleet i said too that lots of fear for ermor / caelum may come because he played them a lot .

i never said that you use lighning / orb lightning / lesser horrors for early game indy expansion .
but you can research this in the first 10-20 turns easy and then overwhelm 1-2 of your neighbors with that because they have really problems to defend against that .

and earlygame you can expand good with e.g. archers + mammoths or mammoths + the wingless .

i agreed with stormbinder that they are most likely the scariest early-midgame opponent .
furthermore they are quick at expansion too with their mammoths etc. but there might be other nations even a bit more quick .
but they really shine at crushing their first opponents and then with the extra resources + clamhoarding can become the strongest fraction lategame too .