Blessing with weak priests

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Ok, so playing a bless strategy with Marignon is cool, because the High Inquisitors can cast Divine Blessing, so as long as you have one in each fight your sacred units all get blessed.

How does a bless strategy work with a nation without recruitable holy-4 priests? Races like Vanheim and Jotunheim, Pangaea and Machaka - all have viable bless strategies, but can only have one or two holy-4 priests (prophet and maybe a hero). Pan barely even has those (you have to make the hero your prophet!).

Is it my imagination or is only the first Blessing spell in a script ever going to have any effect? It has AoE 10, but still seems to bless only half an army of 8 giants or vans.

If I script my priests to cast Blessing more than once, the 2nd one always seems to be targeted exactly where the first one was - either hitting the same units, or hitting empty space if they've moved.

Is there a cunning trick to this, or do you just have to have one holy-2 or holy-3 priest per 4-6 sacred units, arranged in little groups??

Yours in confusion,

CC