[Osium]

My nataraja was self buffing quickness ethereal body and ironskin, then attacking rear. She had chainmail of displacement and some flying boots I was able to pickup as well as the luck pendant. I was trying to scrounge for a regen or reinvig item, I just couldnt come up with one. I thought the chainmail sounded cool, but im not exactly sure what it did if anything ;p

It's easy to say don't use elephants but I had no idea what he was using till it was too late so I had to make do ;p I thought my tactic was sound, just not heavy enough numbers wise. With another 2 units of Hyps/elephants It would have been pretty close.

Valks imo are just an extremely potent unit. Using blade wind sounds good in theory but because the valks fly, and he has them set to attack rear, I guess I'd need to bring in a massive horde of useless units stick them in the back somewhere and just accept any FF as a neccesary evil ;p For some reason it reminds me of Braveheart and the "send the irish, arrows cost money" ;p The trick is to get them to attack stuff they can't kill super fast, or just give them ALOT of fat to chew while you deal with the rest of the attack.

Im wondering if serpent dancers might be a viable counter, with a water blessing they'd have high defence. They are much cheaper allowing me to build more of the dancers for absorbing the valk attack, and a massive zerg of regular infantry for frontal attacks. Sauromancers terroring it up to disperse his other stuff. Go for high domain, that would allow me to eventually push out a fair wack.

I have another question, when using a fire blessing, on say a spider or a knight, does the fire armor piercing attack also apply to the hoof/fang attacks? High defence negates the armor piercing aspect of fire9 bless, but I wonder if the +atk gained from it would overcome the defence.