EA arcosephele - bless strategy?

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Kuritza said:

I'm really qurious where are strengths of EA Arco btw. Sure, research is there. But their troops are simply bad, and mages, while nice in their own way, have no endgame paths (weak astral, no death, no blood). And no national summons... Of all things, ancient Greece has no summons - its just not fair in my opinion.

They've got good recruitable thugs (Onead <sp> with natural awe + mistform + personal regeneration properly outfitted is a threat to most anything) and they're the communion posterchildren with some of the best research in the game to power some of the best communion mages in the game (mystics). Their troops are decent for what they should be used for - meat shields while the damage is laid down from mages. True, nations with weak astral, blood and death (of which Arco is hardly alone) can have a hard time in the end game if you don't plan ahead (starting with pretender design), but Arco is a very solid nation in all eras.