[Taqwus]

Dislike.

- Magic must be researched. Holy spells are available from the beginning. This adds a considerable cost to the use of magic, as you need to pay to recruit the mages and then to maintain them, plus it stops you from recruiting another commander that turn in that province.

- Mages are generally more expensive than your basic H2 priest. Mages that can cast the interesting globals certainly are, because they frequently require 5+ levels of power.

- The more useful globals also cost one heck of a lot more than their list cost because others will dispell them.

- ANY nation can get an H3 priest from the start by assigning a prophet, most can get at least H4 through a prophet, and some can get H4 recruitable and H5 through prophet. Two get native-H5 heroes!

- What does holiness have to do with poison? Or production, for that matter, unless the god cares about Productivity? You want resources from religion, spend the 40/80/120 points.

I don't think you really want to see Ulm/Iron Faith or Abysia (in particular, with the gold income from alchemy) using priests to crank out lots of high-resource heavy infantry,do you?