Blessed troops should get bonus if priest present

[Teraswaerto]

Getting lots of troops blessed without Divine Bless is a hassle. You need more than one priest and even then some may not get blessed.

[Shovah32]

Divine bless is that level so that only some nations have access to it outside their prophet.

[Xietor]

Blessing only has a range of 10 also, and it would not make high level priests less useful. They still have smite and fanaticism. Smite is the key priest spell in any event. If you think about it, a priest would bless his troops before battle any way, not during the fight.

if you want your blessed troops to start as far to front as possible, and have priests out of arrow range, then you explain to me how you can guarantee that your troops will get blessed with level 1 or 2 priests?

I also think if your god is in the province, the troops should be blessed automatically as well. I mean how much more blessed can you get then being in the presence of your god?

[Wish]

I agree about the pretender having insta-divine bless, but smite is not the key priest spell...

clearly divine blessing is, otherwise you'd be asking for smite to be lowered to P1 instead of divine blessing. (since it is key, right?)

[Gandalf Parker]

Explain how to get your frontline troops blessed by low level priests without the priests getting smacked? It seems to me thats the definition of a low level priest. Short range.

Now the possibility of the pretender giving auto bless to everyone in the province, that I could see as being thematic.

[Cor]

First I want to say I would not be for the idea of autobless. It would unbalance the game, and make preists overpowered. It would take away alot of the stratagy.

However it does make sence from a role playing point of view. The battle is not a suprise, so couldn't the preist just bless them before the battle while they are getting into formation?

[lch]

Then mages should be able to cast summon earth/phoenix power, flaming arrows and all other kind of buff spells, too - No.

[Xietor]

Try playing ulm and tell me that smite is not the best priest spell! I guess it depends on the race you play and even what specs your god has.

When I play pangaea i do not even use the blessed troops, so it also depends on play style. When I play acrosphale, the backbone of my armies are heart companions with 9f blessing and regeneration. So with them divine blessing is crucial(but they have good priests anyway).

really the only race i play i use blessed troops and find it a pain to bless is man. But it is micromanagement to have 3 priests scripted to cast bless 5 times. And really, from a rp perspective, if you have priests in the battle, you should not have to worry about them blessing your sacred troops.