Golden Era is a harder nut to crack than most.

It has the best commanders availiable to Arco (The Priestess and the Mystic) but also has some other useful niche commanders.

The Skeptic falls into this Category. You need to have 3 or 4 in one place to really see the Dominion drop consistantly.

Another perhaps overlooked unit is the Engineer. Once you have a secondary fortress I usually build 5-10 of these for take and hold measures.

Golden Era is only really very usable with a Pretender that plays into the Mystic strengths. Since you can equip a Mystic fairly easily with Earth Boots and a Starshine Cap, you can make Golembatants which fill in nicely with Chariot/PetLast armies.

Edit: As BT said, I did a comparison of the Pegi's vs others and found that they are just too prohibitively expensive for my particular taste. That doesn't mean you can't equip just the Commanders and use them as flying hammers, though they don't do as well as Vanjarls or other comparable troops for other nations. It's a semi-meeting of the minds of flying troops along with the strengths of Arco.

With the ability to communion up Mystics to cast whatever Battlefield buffs you need, I feel it's important to use the large armies of chariots to hammer into enemy territory based on the survivability of such large armies with support Mystics.

[ June 08, 2004, 15:46: Message edited by: Zen ]