[Saxon]

One thing to mention about taking level four in the paths you are expecting to search. That can play into a bless plan. If you have decent sacred troops and they have five or six minor bless effects on them, while you are able to search early on and then retire to the lab, it might work out.

If you are thinking of going down this route, look closely at the special site frequency in the game set up. If you put it low, you might want to avoid this plan, but if you crank it up, it becomes more powerful.

As a comment, I use the "radar" spells as heavily and as early as I can. The sooner you get the site, the sooner you start getting more gems. You have to invest to make money as they say...