I can't seem get Vanheim to work. Need some help.

[Truper]

quantum_mechani said:

eh.... say that to an army of f9 w9 blessed vans knocking at your capital on turn 10

Yep, all 3 of them

[Huzurdaddi]

I totally disagree with FrankTrollman here. Sacred troops with the matching bless ( Truper did a good job describing a few ) whomp normal troops very, very badly.

The only national troop that is cost effective aginst a highly blessed troops is crossbows. Every other troops dollar for dollar gets whomped and whmoped badly. For a demonstration come to the IRC channel and play one of the bliztes. Some yahoo is always trying out a bless stragetgy and they generally rock for blitzes.

[Boron]

Huzurdaddi said:
I totally disagree with FrankTrollman here. Sacred troops with the matching bless ( Truper did a good job describing a few ) whomp normal troops very, very badly.

Exactly. Especially with a f9w9 bless you get a ****load of attacks and any normal melee troops, even good ones like Principes have a hard time hitting the f9w9 blessed troop while during a quickness round this blessed troop dishes out up to 8 attacks with a really good attack rating of 14+.

Huzurdaddi said:

The only national troop that is cost effective aginst a highly blessed troops is crossbows.

I find targeting with X-bows difficult if the bless troop user uses a few decoys.
Then you can't target the main bunch of blessed troops and with the quickness bless they usually need not long to get to the X-bows.

[RibbonBlue]

Heres somethig I Have found effective, 9w 9n cu sidhe, the wolfs, with just a few of em you can stomp indies every easily. In maps that are small like sundering(?) it is really powerful. Is it possible to get three 9 blessings?

[quantum_mechani]

RibbonBlue said:
Heres somethig I Have found effective, 9w 9n cu sidhe, the wolfs, with just a few of em you can stomp indies every easily. In maps that are small like sundering(?) it is really powerful. Is it possible to get three 9 blessings?

Yes, I have done it, but it is not really worth the total trash scales (other than maybe with dead nations, but they don't have very great sacreds).