[Epaminondas]

How do folks generally play Pythium. I am about to start a game with them, and I am not sure how to approach it from a strategy viewpoint.

I am a huge fan of Bless strategies, but Pythium's sacred units are very fragile and do not exactly pack a punch either. So that's a no go. The heavy battlefield magic option, another among my favorite, is also problematic because the top 2 battlefield mages for Pythium also has Old Age problems. So is my option basically cranking up Order and Production scales and try to amass a lot of Pythium's above-average regular troops like the Emerald Guards and Serpent Cataphracts?