[thejeff]

Battery units are tricky to bring if your Rudra is cloud trapezing, which is usually the case.


Also remember, if you're cloud trapezing to attack and you do take the province, your enemy might be moving troops into the province. If he is, they'll arrive after the first battle and fight a separate one. If you're out of gems now, you're also in trouble.
Relying on gems to keep a raider's fatigue down or to get buffs off at all is risky. Not to mention a pain to keep him supplied with gems. Even with the gem use you'd be high on fatigue those first couple rounds of combat. A couple of lucky hits and you can be in trouble.
Going with weaker but cheaper buffs might be better.