Re: EA TC help
 

Forget the inefficient horsemen, T'ien doesn't need them in EA. You can get a tower shield infantry AND a composite bowman for less. Not only that, but your protection will be greater, your hps will be greater, and your precision/damage will be greater.

So you throw up moderate-sized tower shield walls with lots of composite bowmen in support, and that's all you really need with the aforementioned archery boosters. Add a few more mages if you're up against a player.

Re: EA TC help
 

Celestial Masters have better Air, Astral and Water. Mot5E have fire and earth and nature. Of course, you search with both if you can.

Re: EA TC help
 

well... CM have better astral and water most of the time, the mot5E only has 2 in one.. meaning you'd have to search with 5 different ones..

Re: EA TC help
 

You cast site-searching spells with the ones that have level 2, once you have researched the spells and have the gems. You get the gems for that from the manual sitesearching performed by your first one or two Mot5E.

Every path has more 1st-level sites than sites of higher level, and more of those 1st-level sites are common. There are very few common level 2 or 3 sites. Check the sitesearching thread for more detail.