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Originally Posted by Baalz
I wanted to reiterate how significant sermon of courage can be in *lots* of situations. Bandar Log, for instance, really suffers from not having one - from elephants to markatas pretty much all their units are drastically better with just a little extra morale. More generally for lots of nations, dropping sermon of courage can often make your nice, cheap light infantry a reasonable choice for early expansion opening up strategies for more slothful scales (Abyssia for instance).
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I can definitely vouch for this. With Arco, I use Priestesses primarily for Sermon of Courage and not for their ability to heal or their N1 magic. With a little encouragement, Barbarians (low rcost unit, so good for Sloth scales with EA Arco) stay on the battlefield long enough to dish out some heavy hurt rather than run away at the slightest scratch.
Also, I recently fought a MP battle where I had a squad of blessed, encouraged Heart Companions (which already have high morale for non-undead or non-mindless troops), and they fought down almost to the last man. Granted they didn't get to engage the fear-and-awe SC which I recruited them to fight against, but it was still impressive to see them re-enacting the Greeks at Thermopylae....
Sermon of Courage is a great buff. I've experienced enough battles fought with and without it to be a believer in the significant difference it makes. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't feel cheated recruiting some H2 commanders instead of mages.