I have never fought Marverni before acrtually. I always end up allying with them, actually. It looked like you could get a massive amount of def 15, prot 12 guys pretty quickly. I am used to playing races with expensive troops, so when I see 100 troops that don't look like fodder, I shivver. That, and friggen barbarians destroyed my sacreds, giving me a bad impression of them.
And Ling, I indeed have no clue how to bless rush. Its just something I have never tried; and I didn't design my god around it. I just decided to try being aggressive early when I saw that out capitals were so close together. That, and I figured that if I failed, I could get into another game; with Abysia
. Its my favorite race and I havent been them in MP for too long
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