[apoger]

I'm not really sure about the whole new sacred/bless paradigm.

The old system allowed many sacred troops to be made and gave everyone a good benefit for blessing.

The new system limits the number of sacred troops by dominion and only allows them from the capital (except by Marignon). Further, in order to get good bless effects, you will need a huge amount of magic on the pretender.

I suspect that a bless-pretender strategy will only be viable for Marignon, since they can get efficiency by making many troops that get the benefit.

I have not seen the game yet so I could easily be wrong, but my gut feeling is that the new sacred/bless system is fun, but not viable for competitive play.