Major problem with Bless

[PvK]

Yes, good point. Perhaps a flag that denotes whether an independent can give blessings, although, as you say, very few would have the magic levels, anyway.

Some of the indeps do seem to be religious, though obviously not towards a current pretender. All of those who have religious units, naturally. I think at least one of the random independent attacks is described as a minor local pretender to godhood and his minions. Then there are the various independant clans who have priests and other religious units. Not all religious power need come from pretenders, just because that's the only way for the player himself to be a religious power. Maybe each independent should get randomized bless levels based on the type of magic their priests have, and/or random blessings.

Not that it's a huge deal, but it seems like it could be a nice colorful touch.

PvK

[HJ]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
The "placebo effect" explains the +1 to morale, so I wouldn't say independents get any actual blessing at all, or at least not in the same way the followers of a Pretender God do.

I believe it's +3 to morale for having no special magic path blessing. I thought that this applies to indies as well?

[Arralen]

Actually, as I'm reading this, I vaguely remember seeing some indi blessed units with "Airshield (80%)", and at least one of them wasn't a VAN (those have build-in airshield, haven't they?).

But maybe my memory is faulty, so I'll look out for something like that and try to pin it down ...

[SurvivalistMerc]

From a newb...so please bear with me:

I thought only sacred troops could be blessed. Is that wrong?

[Nerfix]

No.

Only sacred troops can be blessed.