[Meglobob]

Shadow Vestals are excellent for early expansion, MA Ermor can easily grab a huge empire in the first 12-20 turns with Dom 10, S9/W9 bless. A thermaturg with 20 shadow vestals will slice through ANY lvl 5 indie. Like a knife through butter. Pump as many of those armies out and conquer indies like you have never conquered indies before.

However, when you start running into other players, your invincible shadow vestals will then run into serious problems. They have huge problems with any fire nation such as Marignon and Abysia. Vestals hate fire! There are also many other undead counters. So I advise, using them in a stealth, raiding capacity after that.

Switch to your human troops then, backed by your strong astral/death magic.

Shadow blast, later nether darts are great offensive spells. Remember, communion/communion slave. Banes/Banelords/Tartarians. Well of misery for extra death gems, other players normally will not try to dispel this global.

There are lots of other stuff to play with but I will leave that for you to discover.