Pythium: newbish Vestals question

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If you are going to go with water I'd really suggest going all the way to 9, the added speed for your flaking sacred troops is very nice. Also if you have sacred mages (priests are all sacred arn't they?) They will occasionally (50% of the time) get 2 spells per turn. This does lead to fatigue problems, but you can ease those in a variety of ways. Take some earth for reinvig, equip them with reinvig items, or get some nature mages to cast relief... As pointed out in some other thread, quickened lvl5 priests (typically your prophit if you chose it) that smite 2+ times a turn are quite useful, and being able to get all/most of your buff spells off in the first turn speeds up your mages ability to rout the enemy, or just hammer them before they close on your own troops.