[Micah]

Mari's PD is also some of the best in the game...you get a crossbow and a pike for each point, which is 20g and a ton of resources worth of troops that happen to synergize very well with regular armies, since the pikes will march forward and tie up the enemy and die to friendly fire like good PD units are supposed to, and the crossbows will possibly soak up enemy fire and gives you extra firepower. I won a game due to pumping my cap's PD up to 55 or so when I got elephant-rushed. I pumped a full turn's worth of income into it, but they held the line along with a few mages for casting bonds/prison of fire and flaming arrows.