OpheliaImmortal
Chieftain
Just more thought on Religions..
The religions that give no economic bonues (Empyrean, Esus, Overlords), are all inferior to the others. Esus being the worst of the three, its only real redeeming feature is how comfortable picking it up on the tech tree is, but I don't really see any civilization that would want to use it. Perhaps some sort of synergy with the Svartalfar? There is no real reason for them to not take FOL. As it stands the religion grants weak units, some... extremely situational promotions.. and Gibbon. The lack of a temple is even more killer.
Empyrean comes next with .. basically the same boat, except with IMO the games best hero, Chalid, and a fine enough temple..and basically nothing else. At least they have a civilization that plays them
Octopus Overlords is better then the other 2.. but.. falls short compared to other bigs ones. Their priest has a spell that is really situational, their melee line has no special strength, just weaknesses (compares Crusaders to Stygians). The tower of complacency..is so.. expensive, for effectively a lesser economic benefit then the unique civics the other big religions get. (cept White Hand, which is fine..well.. Fiacra is awful)
That being said, Overlords is very close to balanced, for culture and the cheapness of its inferior melee line.
This is more of a FFH2 design flaw but
The religions that give no economic bonues (Empyrean, Esus, Overlords), are all inferior to the others. Esus being the worst of the three, its only real redeeming feature is how comfortable picking it up on the tech tree is, but I don't really see any civilization that would want to use it. Perhaps some sort of synergy with the Svartalfar? There is no real reason for them to not take FOL. As it stands the religion grants weak units, some... extremely situational promotions.. and Gibbon. The lack of a temple is even more killer.
Empyrean comes next with .. basically the same boat, except with IMO the games best hero, Chalid, and a fine enough temple..and basically nothing else. At least they have a civilization that plays them
Octopus Overlords is better then the other 2.. but.. falls short compared to other bigs ones. Their priest has a spell that is really situational, their melee line has no special strength, just weaknesses (compares Crusaders to Stygians). The tower of complacency..is so.. expensive, for effectively a lesser economic benefit then the unique civics the other big religions get. (cept White Hand, which is fine..well.. Fiacra is awful)
That being said, Overlords is very close to balanced, for culture and the cheapness of its inferior melee line.
This is more of a FFH2 design flaw but