Looking for a good PBEM setup. Post your favorite

[Glock30]

Wow....thanks Al....awesome help there!

[Alneyan]

A couple more points I had forgotten:

- This setup is vulnerable to flyers, as most (if not all) combattants relying on spells to have a fighting chance. You should stay clear from provinces with flyers (Raptors and Tritons mostly) before you can get a Staff of Storms.

- The Virtue can also be used as a spellslinger, relying on Orb Lightning or Shockwave. In this case, she should have some reinvigoration, either in the form of an item, or the Summon Earthpower spell. If a commander is too fatigued, anything can be a threat, including Ghost Wolves: fatigue lowers defence and protection, and that's never good news.

- That setup also results in a few minor boosts for blessed units, namely a weak Air Shield and a +2 bonus to Magic Resistance. It is nothing to write home about, but +2 to MR is nice enough, especially as it stacks with all other bonuses to MR.

[Boron]

Take Mictlan, do a F9W9 moloch, turmoil 3 sloth 3 heat 3 drain 3 growth 3 luck 3, dominion 7, watchtower.

Just build hordes of jaguar warriors and eagle warriors and overrun your enemies with sacred hordes of doom .

As long as the map is not bigger than around 80 provinces and unless you don't fight caelum/man/vanheim or pythium your opponents should have nothing to beat you in the first 20-30 turns.
I mentioned those 4 nations because they are all 4 airnations and thus can research seeking arrow quickly which will hurt your priests and thus eventually stop your advance or at least delay it significantly.
The longer the game continues the more vulnerable you get.

But playing with a dualbless is great fun and very exciting in the earlygame and midgame. Can you overwhelm your opponents quickly enough? Or do they find something to delay you long enough to develop countermeasures?