I was reviewing LA Eyrtheia, and I’m not sure what to do with them.
They are half-UW nation but… they are actually ‘poor amphibian’, so it isn’t their strength, and it isn’t like it’s worth for them to go down the water because they have great units there (like LA Atlantis, Jomon or Uruk), their aquatic units are average. I imagine myself doing one UW fort to get the pearl cultivators and some extra gem income and not a lot else.
Their troops suck:
They have a pair fo militia level units.
They have a crossbow unit, but of inferior range than other crossbows, and we are in LA!. It’s nice they can work UW, but only being even closer, the fact they aren’t as good above water is a more important fact than the UW perk.
The sacred unit doesn’t seem bad at first, with their awe and formation fighter, but they are very slow, high encumbrance and high resources, it’s cap only, and their swords aren’t anything special (it’s nice to have something with magical weapons in case the enemy have ethereals, but it doesn’t have any extra secondary effect).
They don’t have any unit with a strong killing power.
You are left only with the Phalangites. Long Spear & Hoplon, Prot 15, Res 20, Formation Fighter. So decent, but as I was seeing they are lacking a hammer for this anvil. LA Arco has at least war elephants, cavalry, even the cerulan warriors.
And in addition, most units can only be recruited or in coastal forts or in UW forts, so be aware that limitation in the middle of the map, if it doesn’t have enough sea.
I guess the answer is obvious.
You are left then with a single tactic: a wall of spears and princes/princesss with random magic boosted by mystic communions. Although it’s kind of hard to plan what I will cast with the randomness. Some examples:
f2a1s1
f2w2e1s1
f1a1e2s2
f2a1w2e1s1
f1a1w1s2
Ugh, I hate having to think an efficient spell list for each mage, for a dozen of them. You can’t really copy and paste the spell script with this variation.
At least in my test I saw that they start with a 3cmdr. points capital fort which it is nice and the whole ‘princes kill each other’ is pure flavor, I had a single (failed attempt) after 3.5 years, and I had been recruiting 1 prince and 1 princess continuously.