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Boron said:
nice attempt .
and who leads the fiends of darkness and is stealthy ?
there is no item to make a leader stealthy .
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There's the - Black Heart? - blood item that turns a leader into an assassin.
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mictlan + abysia don't have stealthy leaders who can fly .
furthermore the mictlan scout has 0 ldrship
the abysian slayer has 0 stealth too .
of course abysia has flying armies with the demonbred .
but they are not stealthy 
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I don't know Abysia so well, and was under the impression that Demonbred was stealthy. But I speak from experience when it comes to BF Ulm, who can launch massive stealth raids using Vampire Counts leading Fiends in the air, and Rangers on the ground.
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that is true of course for caelum too but they have stealthy flying scouts + stealthy preachers so this is a big advantage .
the main difference between abysia + caelum :
caelums mages are not capitol only .
furthermore summoning fiends with blood earlygame is time consuming : only 1 per mage summonable .
so your research suffers and you can only use your capitolonly mages for that as abysia .
so abysia has to spend a demonbred per flying army + use blood for this
caelum has only to spend a cheap mage who is not capitol only .
so who can do this easier earlygame ?
abysia can field midgame 2 or 3 scary devil flying armies but only 2 or 3 .
caelum can midgame attack every low protected province with stormbinders mentioned combo .
sure the 1 mage attack doesn't hold the territory . but that is not his purpose .
as long as that forces your opponent to keep significant amounts of garrison/countertroops at home it is a big success already .
furthermore you just need to tax every this way captured province to 200%.
repeat that a few times and your enemy is economically broken 
prevents recruiting , taxing and bloodhunting .
so only the gemincome is left
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Only if the victim sits there and passively accepts that sort of attack. As Arryn pointed out, he will - or should - be hitting back in ways that suit HIS strengths, not playing to Caelum's
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and the knowlegde that caelum can do this forces caelums neighbors to madcastle + keep significant defense forces at home .
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You're stating theory as though it's happening in real games. In practice I don't see this happening, and would see it as precisely the wrong reaction to the Caelum threat.
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the only other races which can do similiar things are the ones with spies so ulm + marignon + tien chi with the unrest command .
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Apart from the ones that I mentioned and you ignored
BF Ulm
Ermor (Dusk ELders & raise skeletons)
The Caelum player also has to worry about defending his own territory if he wants to be able to afford to maintain all these Seraphs. More to the point he needs a strategy that's a bit more complex than relying on a single tactic for defeating PD. It's not that I don't think it sounds strong; it's just that it isn't the whole story, and anyway doesn't seem to me to be grounded in much real MP experience.