Re: How to fight Ashdod
You are Vanheim. They are Giants. You have already won by mythological example. And the Edda does not read "And in the days of Ragnarök, the Giants attack Valhalla and some crazy Werewolfs fight for the gods", so produce Einheres and more Einheres.
I just ran tests:
6 fights @500 gold: 4 Sheshik Anakite vs 25 Einherias
6 fights @1500 gold: 12 Anakite vs 75 Einherias
The Anakites are blessed with Earth 9, Nature 5, besides this, commanders did not interfere meaningful.
In all 12 fights Vanheim was the clear and honorable winner, in both gold classes with about 60% casualties average.
Model problems:
-The Anakites cost only 2/5 as much resources.
-The Anakites are capital only, the Einheres are not!!
-I guess, a Water/Nature blessing could be better against Einheres although it makes them more vulnerable against Vans and Valkyries again.
With these results, I won't even try to optimize the result by using a handful of Water9-blessed Vans as a wavebreaker to get the Ashdod combat line uneven and place the Einheres behind them.
Ashdod is very powerful because of their Magic: Earth/Fire/Astral 3 and reasonably often Death 4 to top it! Good national only conjurations and all that in middle era. It's insane, but their troops are "only" average.
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