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Originally Posted by thejeff
As was mentioned above, that competition won't even address the debate about the air bless. Kailasa isn't an archer heavy nation, unless someone decides to forgo the bless and focus on the monkey archers, which no one is suggesting as a viable strategy.
So it's almost a given that in this contest a non-air bless strategy will prevail.
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no. I'd contest that.
Kailasa is, in fact, an archer heavy nation. They have a gradient of four archers. They have the world's cheapest archer. They have one of only two [or maybe three] (in the entire game) sacred archers. They don't have a lot of precision. But they have lots of archers. If a Kailasa didn't take an Air bless, another Kailasa with an Air bless is just about the perfect nation to wipe them out. Not only are they immune to all of Kail's archers, they are free to use all their own (depite low precision) with near impunity.
An Air bless is just as, if not more, salient in an all Kailasa game as in any other game. Otherwise your making your 25 gold recruit which you invested a 500 point bless into easily counterable by a 5 gold markata with no bless.
I actually make monkey archers central to my strategy when I'm using an Air bless. That's part of the beauty with that bless, you can make them a key component. Add to that that you have perfect mages for spamming Destruction and Iron Bane (and with, well what do you know, an A9 bless they can also sit right on the front lines with impunity so their Destruction spells can reach pretty much any target).