I have never won a sp game...

[shovah]

if your playing as ryleh go for maelstrom and arcane nexus if playing witheasy research and lots of sites and when you have around 20 or so mages crank out priests.

with that maestrom running if your worried about getting crushed, summon loads of krakens/sea trolls or something like that.

if you like ryleh (which i do) then try playing as atlantisatlantis, their mages are very cheap for what they can do(try clamming with atlantis) and with maelstrom you can pump out troops like nobodys buisness (try getting the 3 water queens and then start kraken spamming, if i did my maths right with maelstrom and your main province you can really crank out underwater nastys(for atlantis i suggest a pretender with 6 water 5 nature and some earth and atleast 3 astral for dispel)

atlantis are really underestimated and with those big preiests spread around and focused in your capitol its hard to get dominion drained. and yes i do have an obsession with gem making globals(hugs gem making globals)

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