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I think Elemental will be the best (to enjoy playing) once meta becomes a little more varied and the annoying aspects like Treature rushes are settled. I kinda groan whenever I gut put up against Chaos because Chaos forces you to keep your army split up and totally destroys you for massing, against Order and Elemental you don't have that pressure in the mid & early game, I enjoy playing against Order and Elementals, but Chaos isn't so fun for me to play against. You have to do way more micro just to compete the moment AoE gets involved, and I don't like that throwing a whole game during the early stages.

As far as I can tell the Chaos meta is very lacking in documentation compared to the Order meta too. Now that Gold Members are split between 3 empires instead of 2, I doubt we're going to get much documented Elemental meta, but I could be wrong.

Although, I would agree it looks like the Elementals have some very fun units and abilities that people could play around with and still be viable with.

Order has a lot of solid units for any range, and truly doesn't cut short.

However, I will admit that Chaos and Elementals both have cooler units imo (Juggerknight, Tree, Crawler, V, etc.)

well its just finding a good strategy with chaos to fight el atm soon as the el hype dies down ppl will start being more random with empires I suppose ;)

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As far as I can tell the Chaos meta is very lacking in documentation compared to the Order meta too. Now that Gold Members are split between 3 empires instead of 2, I doubt we're going to get much documented Elemental meta, but I could be wrong.

Although, I would agree it looks like the Elementals have some very fun units and abilities that people could play around with and still be viable with.

If you want well documented strats you should join a clan lol. Within clans we usually have better forums and things.

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As far as I can tell the Chaos meta is very lacking in documentation compared to the Order meta too. Now that Gold Members are split between 3 empires instead of 2, I doubt we're going to get much documented Elemental meta, but I could be wrong.

It works both ways though, the Chaos meta isn't so developed/documented perhaps, but then neither is the Anti Chaos meta. And you eventually get both from experience.

Order is the best, since it requires the least micro. Less micro = not affected by lag. Plus, less micro also = easier to use.

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Order is the best, since it requires the least micro. Less micro = not affected by lag. Plus, less micro also = easier to use.

Lets go with order is easy to use, but has less potential.

How does order have less potential at all...?

If anything, Order is one of the more versatile empires.

Best: Order
Looks: Chaos
fun-to-play: Elementals
( thought I didnt play elementals yet xD it just looks funny to play them ^_^)

But well, if I would have gold-membership, I would mostly play with Chaos, cause it feels somehow great to play them. Order is for me now a bit....boring. (ok, but maybe only cause I can only play with order xD)
Thought chaos looks more awesome then order, order has "better weapons" (xgun and bow ftw :3 guts? rly?)
(also, i like the buster sword most :3)
So all in all, I think Order is the "best" empire atm.
But rly, it actually depends on your play style.

Quote from ShadowGeneralChaos

Best: Order
Looks: Chaos
fun-to-play: Elementals
( thought I didnt play elementals yet xD it just looks funny to play them ^_^)

But well, if I would have gold-membership, I would mostly play with Chaos, cause it feels somehow great to play them. Order is for me now a bit....boring. (ok, but maybe only cause I can only play with order xD)
Thought chaos looks more awesome then order, order has "better weapons" (xgun and bow ftw :3 guts? rly?)
(also, i like the buster sword most :3)
So all in all, I think Order is the "best" empire atm.
But rly, it actually depends on your play style.

I maybe able to give you to try playing with chaos or elemental if you want to have a try
I think you may feel bored after playing other two empires and find that order would be the best lol

You are a bit out of your mind if you think order is less affected by lag. Take ninjas, who hang up often playing laggy people and stand there and don't attack even when a unit is targeted, lots of players have reported this - this is especially bad against laggy chaos players. Or electric wall, unlike chaos skeleton whose attack is across the field of play, wall is a straight line, and thus, if magikill is lagged, you completely miss and get nothing for the cast save a dead unit most likely. Order micro is far harder than chaos, as it takes two ninjas to take out either medusa or skeleton, who both can one off order units, order units are slower than crawlers and eclipsors, and the like.

Get youre facts right. Order ninja can kill a medusa with shinobi 2 and poison. It takes like shinobi 2 and one more hit to get marrows. Assuming they took absolutely no damage at all from any other units or anything, which is highly unlikely.

Order invokes a tactical playstyle; a balance of healing, damage, magic and ranged attacks. A solid empire.

Chaos encourages a brutality playstyle; little conjunction of units in general, but brutally tough units like Juggerknights and Giants to compensate.

Elementals promote a more active playstyle of consistently combining and using units to their potential.

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Just my 2 cents.