[LintMan]

[quote]Originally posted by Heironeous:

Good point. I was reluctant to do this because independent priests only have holy-2, which is fairly limited. If I'm going to spend my gold on priests, I'd really like to get holy-3 for Sermon of Courage. However, if I could go back I'd definitely bite the bullet and build an indie priest banishment squad to counter Ermor's rapid rise.

Some other things to consider: if your Ermor opponent is hiring mercs, he probably doesn't have much money spent on temples and castles to protect those temples, since Ermor has limited access to gold income once it kills off its province populations. Further, Ermor's priests are unholy and can't preach, which makes it a fair bit harder for them to undo enemy domain quickly.

So you can take advantage of this by building up a strong dominion yourself to push your dominion and keep out his dominion, and also you can conduct raids on his templed provinces if he's not castling them. Low dominion for him means less auto-summons.