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Originally Posted by Baalz
Yes, but I just used that as a very commonly occurring case for illustration. The exact same mechanics work if you're using non-PD troops against, say an enemy pretender with a dom-10. Depending on the troops in question sermon of courage could certainly be better support than a mage. This is one example, but plenty a fight was won by once side sticking around one more turn. Certainly not always the case, but it's not that uncommon for sermon of courage to be very much carrying it's weight despite the opportunity cost of a mage.
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Given that you can only have a finite number of commanders (mages/priests) on the battlefield, I think the below holds true.
I would rather trade a mage slot for a single H2 priest spamming sermon of courage (remember that it has a pretty big AoE and costs the priest no fatigue) over the course of a battle than have NO H2 mage. This would be true for just about any nation.
So, generally, if your nation has access to H2 priests. I would stick one with every large army. They'll buff the fighters first if you stick them near the front, and then the archers later, and then they'll probably spam it some more on the fighters getting any they miss.
At the very least you can send that preacher around to preach. something that most newer players don't know is that if you don't have at least one white dom candle in a province you own, all the positive scales have ZERO effect, but all the negative ones are still working at full force. Sometimes just preaching yourself up to 1 white candle can give you half again in income from a province (if you have good scales, or if the dom of someone else does), which easily pays for the H2 priest.
Jazzepi