[elbnar]

Iron darts is a much more effective version of flying shards, which is a weak spell on its own and is what your regular smiths cast in the early game.

More importantly, iron blizzard takes an already fantastic spell and makes it even better. It also decimates magic enemies. Both spells get even better the more earth levels your priest smith manages to get.

The reduced upkeep is nice, but is not the reason why you recruit priest smiths instead of regular smiths in your capital.


oh yeah, if you manage to find a nice sacred indie unit such as amazon gryphon riders, that lowly 1H suddenly becomes a lot more useful.