how to sitesearch effective ?

[Boron]

yeah i know that they are only fodder
but at the beginning i need my gems for other things and the early researches aren't that good too .

so if your enemy decides to attack you in the beginning and if you are worst case neighbored to someone with natural lvl 4 priests like marignon / atlantis .... how do you defend against him ?
if he just has 4-5 priests + some guard troops / perhaps seasonal spirits or something else which doesn't eat how can you defend against this ?
if you didn't take the PoD but a lich / ghostking even your pretender is probably not strong enough to kill them or it is at least very risky .
i mean of course in the first 15-20 turns or so .

edit :
because i like the arch bishops of AE which summon 5 or 6 undead horsemen / turn .
but they are almost worthless it seems to me now .
most likely i should try without bishops
trying to get conj 6 quickly is basically a good idea since the spectres are best ermorian researchers or ?

[ June 30, 2004, 21:23: Message edited by: Boron ]