The biggest problem with Dom III

[Xietor]

In Dom II if you want to play ulm or another race, you have a couple of options. In Dom III, you are limited to playing the race in a certain age. This is all well and good-except for one thing.

If you want a greater challenge, you should be able to select
ermor death mode in the middle age. Ermor is not nearly the challenge in the MA as they used to be with their death dominion. I happen to like playing Pangaea MA, but would like to play against neifel giants, death mode ermor, and no i should not have to mod it.

I think the base game should allow you to select any opponents you wish to fight, regardless of what age you play. If you put random, then ok it will default to a race of the same age, but if you want to manually select Ermor EA or LA, you should be able to do so.

It is all about choice, and I think many options are removed by the limitation of your opponents to the ones in your same era.