Are heavy bless strategies the best ones ?

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Graeme Dice said:
If you want to get a massive early game advantage over every other player, then the only way to do that is to use a dual-bless strategy.

[...] national troops are obsolete from the very first turn in Dominions III [...]

[...] magic plays virtually no role in Dom 3 [...]


[...]Death 3 has almost no effect whatsoever on your game[...]

[...]the no-brainer choice of drain 2[...]

So, why do people bother playing dominions if it is so formulaic? is winning MP games so important that people are willing to throw out the variety in the game to use the same duel bless strategies over and over?

I think you have a pretty cynical outlook on the game.