[Nikelaos]

hey i'm a noob and i was glad to find this thread and to see everyone was having the same problem as me but after some experimenting i found my own little solution capable of taking down 20 double blessed mictlan jags.

try a W5 father of winters, with high dominion and scales

productivity-3 (a must for your good troops)
order-3 (i find it always helps)
drain-3 (the quality of researches outweighs this)
cold-3 (capitalise on father of winters abilities)

build the 2-3 mallai druzinhas you can each turn and set them to guard comander on your god. get a mage to build n enchanted sheild for your god to protect him from missiles and increase hi already boosted (through cold power and water magic lvl) defence. early expansion will have to be slow due too lack of a populous army. in the event of a mictlan dual bless rush on the 6th turn with 20 jags you should have by then around 15 druzinhas and some archers bought from any surplus resources and some mages to hold your front.

your druzinhas should be able to hold off any force short of elephants long enough for your lord of winters aura of cold to kick in (note that it is stronger because of frosty dominion). the enemy units will soon become fatigued and unable to act allowing your remaining druzinhas (partially protected from cold) a chance to wipe them clear and with the added potency of archers andd mages you should have little problem forcing back even an army of 20 dual blessed jags.

after the first wave simply get back to slowly expanding and re-enforcing your defences. you should also think about making a fivefold angel and some of your very weak but stealthy sacreds. their mere presence increases unrest and the fivefold angel can instil uprisings making them tacticly very dangerous, simply sneak them onto the enemies capital and other castles and watch the army production grind to a halt and so preventing further waves of attack and leaving them defenceless as their armies fall to attrition.

indeed with bogarus it is true to say, the night is darkest just before the dawn as you will find that after the early game you can become 1 to fear as your druzinha production rises and enemy unit production withers.