[geo981010]

I mainly agree with Truper!

1) If you only have level 3 holy commanders, you really want to empower one of them. If you only have holy 2 (like some themes of Ulm and Man), you should try and take a low encumberance troop as they will get Holy 3 (even if they have Holy 2).

If you have undead summoning troops with Unholy Power, you may want to make them the prophet to get the better undead summons.

If you have access to 4th level priests, getting level 5 is largely useless! Smite has a MR check and is of limited range, so isn't worth much. So either make a cheaper level 3 up to level 4 for early expansion, or use them on assasins/SCs/etc

(Edit: I initially goofed on this and thought Smite had no MR check and stunned, but I was very mistaken! Sorry )

A sneaky priest can be fun to get your dominion where it doesn't belong, but alert players will catch you. So I don't waste my prophet on that much, but maybe others do.

Or, a prophet gives you holy bonuses on a troop that usually don't get them. An Abysian Slayer can get all the bless bonuses (+attack and + armor are two great ones), and get +2 attack/defense and a big hit point bonus in your dominion. Great way to make a great fighter even better.

2) I agree with T about the dominion spreading. If you click on the temple button, you can see how much of an effect he is having.

3) I mostly don't have him spread dominion, but it could be useful if you are trying to stamp out someone else's dominion and get a kill, or you just want to mess with the temperature scales. For me, that is mainly secondary (or at least mid/late game planning) compared to the initial rush.

[ November 19, 2003, 00:14: Message edited by: geo981010 ]