Best MA sacred unit

MaxWilson · #1 April 9th, 2007, 08:59 PM

I ran a quick test, 15 F9W4 Vans vs. 45 F9N4 Heart Companions. Lost exactly 80% of the Vans and 80% of the Heart Companions. The Vans wound up with the province but that was just coincidence since they both routed the same turn. To me it looked like roughly parity, at least for those blesses.

On the other hand, it took 3 times as long to amass the Heart Companions as the Vans, and the Vans have tremendous strategic advantages. And the Vans could have afforded a W6 or W8 bless without giving up much of anything.

-Max

Sombre · #2 April 9th, 2007, 11:10 PM

Anyone feel like running a test based off the Conceptual Balance Mod values?

I know the gap would be considerably less.

Xietor · #3 April 11th, 2007, 04:11 AM

White Centaur can be double blessed e9 n9 with an imprisoned gorgon, and scale are dom 6, 3 order, 2 sloth, 2 heat.

Scales are not too bad, and the n9 berserk stacks with the berserk the white centaur has already.

With 22 hp, these have regen 4, and a fair protection from earth bless and 5 berserk. Pretty tough unit, but takes 2 9 blesses to make it so. And it is capital only.

Not sure how these stack up against vans either.

Shovah32 · #4 April 11th, 2007, 05:15 PM

N9E9 gorgons are great. You can also turn the heirophants into decent thugs.

Xietor · #5 April 12th, 2007, 01:56 AM

Once protection is researched(and alt 3 is the 1st thing i research with Pangaea), those double 9 blessed white centaurs are murder.

I eat crow on these. I saw the prot 9 and 70 gold price and never bothered with them. But with e9n9 they are worth 70 gold, and once they have prot on top of that, they are a terrible unit to face, especially with recuperation.

If you are careful and they get 2-3 stars, they may fair decently against a van.