Lanka pretender design/strategy

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Gregstrom said:
I'm rather worried about N9 blesses in the late game. Earthquakes or other mass-damage spells sending all your decent national mages berserking into the enemy just seems like an expensive way to lose a battle.

Thats true, but since you don't get recruitable H3 casters until Mandahas(Blood 8), you'll be using Bless more often than Divine Blessing so you'll be able to keep mages unblessed if you like.

Also, in the late game you need to have your good mages (which are high hp) heavily armored and immune to bunch of things anyway because spells like Frozen Heart and Drain Life will preferentially target high HP units anyway, so worrying about battlefield attacks is a little redundant.