Favorite Marignon bless effects?

[fahdiz]

Just out of curiosity, I thought I'd ask what your favorite bless effects are for Marignon, and why you like them so much.

Personally, I like either Water 9 or Air 9.

Water 9: because it helps your Flagellants live a wee bit longer, and that Quickness effect is devastating when conferred on Knights of the Chalice.

Air 9: simply because it keeps the Flagellants from dying when your billions of Crossbowmen lay into the enemy ranks.

Your thoughts? Fun combinations which are a bit "unusual"?

[archaeolept]

the trouble w/ flags is that they are so junky you need to invest a heck of a lot in bless effects to make them viable.

Water9 is always great, but usually the most expensive. Fire9 is easier to get, and gives them a serious punch, but they still die like flies. Astral 9 is very nice, especially if you may be going up against hordes of norfleet's Squiddies.

[PrinzMegaherz]

I go with fire 9.
I think it suits the Marignon theme best.

[CayseP]

I second fire 9. It is both thematic and allows your pretender to be a holy burninator from day 1 with the "Holy Pyre" spell. Then I usually split my troops up into either x-bow/magic ranged squads or pike/flaggelant/chalice mêlée squads. Because you have access to elite intelligence gatheres, it is (mostly) easy to pick the fights best suited for the specific type of troops...

[Peter Ebbesen]

I like using a Virtue with air 9. It just seems so appropriate.

It also means that you fire straight into melee with you excellent crossbowmen without slaughtering your Flagellants or expensive Knights of the Chalice and that you can use mass-damaging air spells like wrathful skies without electrocuting your own forces.

[Wauthan]

I second using a Virtue Pretender but I push the blesseffect all the way to 10. Knights of the Chalice are very tough and backed by massive numbers of crossbowmen there's little to stand in their way. They even get the cheap flagellants to tie up the infantery while 5x10 crossbowmen rain bolts on their heads. Since lightningdamage is reduced I craft such items for the support commanders.

Marignon can get a really good advantage in the early game using this blesseffect.