[Squirrelloid]

err... what?

Absolutely untrue.

There is a set of spells which sees frequent use in lategame. However, this set of spells comprises multiple distinct strategies. Especially since mods like CBM and EDM have actually increased the range of plausible options.

FWIW, the SA community uses a rather similar array of options in lategame as this forum's community, with certain predictable changes based upon differences in mods. (Ie, stuff that sucks outside of CBM doesn't get used in non-CBM games. The awesome mod series by ninjadebugger has made certain units viable that weren't before).

Current CBM has multiple known viable endgame strategies.

Now, certain battlefield enchantments are basically required lategame, but stuff like Fog Warriors is simply too powerful to be ignored and nothing else does anything remotely like what it does (and it stacks with everything else). Of course spells like that are going to be used by everyone who can.

Midgame is even more diverse, with piles of different strategies.

And all of that is before even considering nation-specific spells.

Gandalf, afaik you haven't played an MP game in *years*, I don't know why you think you can say that MP games always end in the same spells being used.