AAR - EA bless (Helheim) owerpowered on med+ map ?

[KissBlade]

You're Helheim, Sloth is free points.

[CharonJr]

Hmm, there goes the noob

Thank you, since I have not played Helheim before I was unaware that I could get away with Sloth with them. Or do you refer to the bug that Helheim can recruit its blessable/glamor cav outside its home-province ?

If this is the case I plan to avoid using this bug.

CharonJr

[KissBlade]

Nope, though I'm aware of the bug and would abuse it liberally as well. Helheim's sacreds are woefully underpriced in terms of resources and you can easily get away with sloth 3. Taking just one neighboring mountain/forest province will let you have enough resources to field max sacreds.

[KissBlade]

Oh yeah I like Magic 1 instead of drain 2, Helheim's battlemagic is so uber ...

[Shovah32]

Drop down to sloth 3, misfortune 2(would suggest 3 but its a big map so..) and with your 160 free'd up points go with kissblades magic 1 (bladewind rocks, air magic is nice aswell) and then either go to either cold 1 or misfortune 1 again.

I was going to say you can expect a bit of trouble with abysia (fire resistant and high prot) but remembering your very high defence and great air magic you should be fine (try to keep in your own dominion though, if your lands get hot then his troops get better)

[CharonJr]

Thank you again, will drop Prod to Sloth 3. And yup, I like magic, because of that I went with Drain 2 instead of 3 and took Cold 2 instead of 1

I will NOT use the bug.

Since I am no great writer this should be more of an educational than an entertaining AAR - due to this using a bug would be wrong

CharonJr

[Shovah32]

Not using the bug is fine, even before any temple spammage you can still produce over 500 golds worth of sacreds per turn NOT including the commanders needed to lead them (also note that 5-7 helhirdlings is enough to take most indies...)