A good guide to what themes are ?

[liga]

Hi, I'm looking throught the manual and this forum Posts ... also the nice newbies guide, but I'm not been able to find a good explanation of what themes are and theyr influence ... I have red the post about spells and themes ... but in which way selecting a specifi theme will change your nation ? probably the information is somewhere but I wasn't able to find ...

good play
Liga

The only real way for sure is to choose and create a pretender and look through the nation/themes at this point. A theme can dramatically change the generic play style of a nation because most have a required scale setting that must be compensated for. Also themes remove some units (depending on the theme) and add others. Jotunheim (Nieflheim) theme is a great example of this; as it removes the cheap goblins of the Iron Woods theme but adds the older, colder giants of Nieflheim making you change how you play and cope with your nation. (I.E. The inherent weakness of the giants in being swarmed by smaller units is more prominant with Nieflheim because your nation has no little guys to surround them and keep them from overwhelming the giants. That and the fact you have no cheap mages; and thus have to sacrifice more gold in order to research. Sometimes choosing between research and fielding a more powerful army.)