[st.patrik]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
I've been thinking about sanctifying normal troops into holy troops.



Those are my thoughts...

-Cherry

I really like this idea too, but I think it could be done much more simply that what you were suggesting.

My suggestion would be that any priest could 'sanctify' troops, so long as he's in a province with a temple, and he would only be able to sanctify as many troops as his priestly level. The way I would envisage it would be that when in a province with a temple the priest (or prophet) would have an option to "sanctify troops" much like the Arco Priestess option "heal troops". Then 2, 3, or whatever the priest's level is troops randomly would become sacred. Note this would be instead of preaching, etc., and would be a relatively slow process, unless you had masses and masses of priests, because you're only sanctifying 2 or 3 troops at a time (for most nations).

Note that this *would* perserve the weaknesses and strengths of different nations when it comes to things priestly, because someone like Ulm could make troops sacred only much slower than a nation like Marignon, because he can only make level 2 priests - which is only 2 troops turned sacred per turn per priest (as opposed to 5 or 6 for Marignon). [although you might want to boost the cost of lower-level priests a little to prevent mass sanctifying ]

You could limit it to the prophet, but that seems like a too limited conVersion to make any difference at all.