Well they do have an immense range indeed, but I speak about early expansion now. If you hire like 30 archers and tell them to 'fire enemy archers', will you overshoot them all? Will it help you, when enemy infantry (or worse yet, cavalry) will reach that puny light infantry of yours? Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but sidhe seem to be more effective.
I have tried to set the Sidhe to 'fire closest'. Some idiot or two still run(s) ahead and dies. With these sidhe, 35 gold each, sacred, capitol-only, it hurts. And yes, it's one large squad.
Can you give me a sample Fire9/Water9 pretender for the Tuatha theme? It seems that you'll have to ruin your scales completely. You can't have misfortune 2 with the Tuatha. So as somebody wrote already, yes, your blessed warriors will rock. All 9 of them.
