[Calahan]

Think this strategy is in serious danger of being rushed in the bless happy EA environment. Low Dominion and disappearing Gladiator armies says "please come and get me" IMO. None of your national recruits could stand up to even the weaker bless nations, plus if you are recruiting and sending out a Pontifex for the first 5-6 turns, you are not getting any research done. Even a horde of Ponifexes don't produce enough RP to suddenly burst out a few research levels in an emergency, plus if they're having to preach (due to your low dominion) they are not researching or leading armies.

Really like your idea in theory ChrisP, but think there are a few problems getting this to work in the MP environment. Done a fair bit of SP testing with EA Ermor recently, but kept coming back to the problem of how to avoid them looking like the easiest rush target, which I think is a problem that is only increased by your strategy.