Are heavy bless strategies the best ones ?

[jutetrea]

on a purely personal note, I dislike bless strategies. I enjoy well rounded way more.

I generally play SP (so far I suck at my first 2 MP games . My fav so far is Tien Chi with a rainbow pretender and luck scales - full magic access (although I'll take a couple slots of blood I only use it late game for a few items when I can take the time out to hunt).

Enjoyment > optimization in SP for me

[CharonJr]

IMO it depends on the nation you are playing.

Essentially that means yes for some (as has been said, I can not even start to think about EA Mictlan without at least a dual bless) and no for others.

If a nation has good sacred troops most of the time they should be way better with a decent bless in the short run than with better scales.

In MP games with "graphs on" this will most likely paint a big bulleye on them...

In games without graphs it will more depend on "normal" diplomacy.

But overall those nations DO have an advantage IMO even in fairly large/long games unless they get ganged up upon. You should be able to preserve enough of your early game advantage into the mid-/endgame despite slightly worse scales.

CharonJr