Favorite nations so far?

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Agrajag said:

The Wraith Centurions with their immortality are still powerful by the time you get them if you can keep your dominion high, and they aren't that expensive.
And since Conjuration is LA Ermor's most important school anyway, it won't take that long to get them.
Also, now that you start with +15 death gems per turn, LA Ermor gets +6 RP per turn and another +6 every four turns, and if you are a bit lucky with searches, you can get much more, so LA Ermor isn't as handicapped as it used to be as far as research goes.

Ok, let's start a separate thread on LA Ermor one of these days. Mind you, noting that Ermor gets 50% more gems on normal difficulty allowing for more researchers (~50% more in the early game but not scaling +50% with increased gem income from site-finding as you expand) without noting that gold income has been doubled, which could result in 100% more researchers if other nations kept the same troop/researcher ratio as in Dominions 2 (and this scaling does continue when a gold-researcher nation expands territorially once he has enough labs to recruit max mages desired every turn) seems a bit weird; With this taken into account, do you really believe that Ermor is better off vs. other nations research-wise in Dominions 3 than in 2? As far as I can see, despite being able to research faster than in 2, they are considerably worse off compared to the opposition in 3. (This may or may not be a good thing - I'm not decided on that - but certainly I cannot see Ermor's position as improved on that account)