High Bless rush strategy :(

[Arameyan]

Hi all,

I wonder how to beat high bless strategy in MP. It seems that blessed elites like F9W9 Vans and N9 Niefel Jarls are very powerful in small to medium maps. Are they balanced?

Even when knowing it at the beginning of the game, I appear to me that its hard to duel theses strats. Maybe a Super Early-game SC pretender?

I know all strategies have weaknesses. With N9 jarls you can take D9 (another bless strat...) to cripple them (or spam stellar cascade), but is it really a weakness?

In the long run other strats (summons, battlefield magic, etc) can match the Bless one. My point is just that High Bless strat is really esay to use and effective at the firsts turns of the game.

Last point: Dominions is the best game in the world (besides Chess and Poker) and I'm a huge fan.