[Boron]

Yeah we see that now in our special teamgame too .

My question now is what countermeasures do you have against false horror with the same research ? With twice as much research ?
Caelum / Pythium , the 2 nations which can run such a strat very effective are probably the 2 fastest researchers too . Pythium is not as effective here as Caelume because it lacks the flying ability and has 2S on their theurgs so Ryleh / Arco could counter that with mind duel quite a bit .

So please tell me how you can counter the false horrors in early-midgame effective with any other nation ?

Truper is very right with saying the false horror is strong . 16 att/def is really good and combined with etheralness this way he is not easy to kill by most normal troops . Then he is not targeted any longer by your mages or they kill your own troops .

But the main point is with a staff of storms you could probably take away a lot of fear from the false horrors because they would be slow then . BUT we are mainly talking about the caelum raiding strat with 1-3 seraphs + a few decoy archers . You can't have everywhere a commander with a staff of storms or a SC .

So you are reduced to 3-4 provinces and can't do much against by the time caelum can do this . Meanwhile they just need e.g. to tech to the Airqueens and finish you with them .

So give me examples with which you can defend against this earlygame . I myself don't find too many and most are extremely expensive .