[Boron]

Graeme Dice said:

Abysia is cool because it's a nation of demons. Abysia has amazing national troops that make early expansion easy. Abysia has 120 extra design points by going to heat 3, death 1.

Whats so amazing about Abysian national troops ?
They are high protection but resourcewise extremely expensive .
With a Fire 9 Bless i personally consider mictlans troops even superior .
Imo any other bloodnation ( jotunheim , ulm , pangenea , marignon , vanheim ) has better troops than Abysia .
To add pain most of Abysia's troops have only stratmove 1 .
Most of Abysia's heavy inf costs 20 gold / 30 resources .
Marignon DF can build lots of x-bows which are useful later too by flaming arrows .
With jotunheim i don't need to say a single word .
Vanheim is not really cheaper but Vans are really good and skinshifters/huskarls etc. can be useful too .
Mictlan can use a few slaves as fodder and blessed sun warriors or eagle warriors etc. do the job .

If you play abysia do you play them with a cheap castle or an expensive one ? With something like a watchtower you won't get more than 3 HI / turn resourcewise . I personally have really not found a way how to use Abysian troops in large enough numbers that they are good .
They have rather low morale unfortunately so routing is really always for me a problem with them .

Btw : Does flaming arrows work with slingers etc. too ? that they hurl flaming stones ?