Best sacred units?

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Sorry if this has been done before, but I can't find it anywhere. Following on from the thread about bless effects, I'm curious to see what people consider the best sacred units. This is overall best, not necessarily best bang-per-buck, because money/resources might not be a concern for some. Though a unit which is too expensive to produce is also not great.

I won't do a poll, because there are 36 sacred units, not to mention all the different R'lyeh spawns. Here's my obvious shortlist though:

Neifel Giant (Neifelheim)
Jotun Woodsman (all Jotun themes)
Lava Warrior (Abysia base)
Daoine Sidhe (Man LoT)
Knight of the Chalice (Marignon)
Dryad Hoplite (Pan NE)
Celestial Soldier (Tien Chi)
Van or Valkyrie (Vanheim)

Also, are all sacred units capital-only? I don't think the Jotun Woodsman is, nor Mictlan's Eagle & Jaguar Warriors. Not sure about others. Being able to recruit them outside the capital would be a huge boost (though the Mictlan units are pretty crap).

Finally, I've not listed sacred commanders - how many of you use blessings on your sacred commanders, and which ones? I can see that an astral blessing would be good for mages - anything else?

CC