: True, but there aren't nearly as many Myrks available as
: Myrms. Maybe I'm just getting better, but I know my
: dwarves and archers were very glad to see the backs of
: the myrms. They may not have made spooky noises like
: the myrks, but in M2 I had a much easier time of it
: since I didn't have to worry about one myrm getting
: away from my zerks and slicing up my dwarves.
Actually, I think there were always more Myrks than Myrms. The Myrms consisted of a tribe or two; the Myrks were a continent-spanning race. And, of course, the effective number of Myrks may have been infinite, as long as the Summoner could resurrect the dead ones.
: Ok, as for SB: he seems to have been pretty thorough in
: his recruiting, since he got all but one of the old
: races and a couple new ones to boot. If he thought
: ghols were worth keeping around, even though they've
: plainly gotten stoopider since Myth I (remember how
: they used to run away and then sneak back around? You
: don't see much of that proactive thinking anymore),
: surely he could have found a place in his heart for
: the myrmidons. Maybe they just took one look at him
: and said, "if anybody's going to get us our faces
: back, this guy ain't it!". They didn't strike me,
: however, as the kind of wise fellows who would see
: through anybody.
Well, my thought is that the Myrms don't even listen to bargains anymore. I agree, they're not going to sit down and carefully dissect any offers presented to them, but that doesn't mean they'll automatically accept them; quite the opoosite. As soon as anyone offers to make a deal, they think, "Deal BAD! Deal make Myrmidon ugly! Myrmidon smash puny bug-man! Myrmidon is strongest one there is!" and so on, and so on. Ghols, on the other hand, are still very numerous, very useful (given Myth 2's emphasis on the Dark trying to blow things up) and very willing to join anyone who wants to beat up the Dwarves. Recruiting them would be effortless.
--SiliconDream
