[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Cohen:
If you go for a scale or bless pretender ... you're beaten by a fighting one.

That's not my experience. Many of the bless pretenders can qualify as SCs. An air 9 titan, for example, can work very well. So can an earth mother, or any other unit with a large amount of hitpoints. The equipment that you choose to put on them can make a huge amount of difference in their effectiveness.

As for the scales, they are extremely useful throughout much of the game. National troops only become less useful when they aren't that impressive to begin with. Ulm, for example, has only middle-range troops, and therefore needs to develop magical abilities to overcome this weakness.