[Anglachel]

For Vanheim I like the Phoenix with Fire 9 and Air 9. Vans already have a revoltingly high defense so I think that water 9 is kind of redundant especially with the glamour ability. You need them to survive arrow fire, which defense does nothing against, long enough to deliver their initial shock hit and since they don't carry lances the Fire 9 flaming weapons helps to make up for the lack of the initial shock impact from lances and the addition of increased attack makes sure their hits get through, plus the 8 ap fire damage is not just for the initial hits unlike lances. Add the additional 75% lightning resistance and the natural glamour mirror image and you have a unit with a lot of artillery protection till it drops its payload on rear or front line units. In other words, with this blessing you can just field Vans and not have to worry about lugging along fodder.

Add all the above together with an immortal pretender that only costs 50 points and has flying or cloud trapeze for point defense or mass destruction spell raiding in friendly dominion without fear of pretender loss. Plus innate fire resistance and awe helps out with staying power. Only a head and two miscellaneous slots kind of bites but at least you can pop whatever resistance miscellaneous fits the bill for the situation and a helmet slot is just icing.

An added bonus to this is that because this blessing combination allows Vans to operate effectively without fodder to take missile hits you can fire up 5-10 man deep cover raiding parties that can pound any province defense out there including Jotun. With the super stealthy glamour ability and small size you can get deep into enemy territory and coordinate raiding strikes in several locations and all hitting at the same time.

The blessing strategy with the Phoenix Air 9, Fire 9 is my all time favorite and it is fairly cost effective for a double bless.

[ June 27, 2004, 16:46: Message edited by: Anglachel ]