Tragic poor pretender design is limiting MA Van!!!

[Jazzepi]

I'll have to post some screen shots of this exact situation after it's all over. I'm playing MA C'Tis in a fight against MA Emor with a bless rush strategy. He has almost no dominion on the map, and only four in his capital, but I've got a prophet, pretender, and very shortly, 4 temples, pushing out dominion into his territory.

One other thing to note. It's not just bad scales which get pushed into your territory. If you don't control dominion there, you get no benefit from the good scales. Sometimes, even if your opponent has good scales, not having your order +3 or whatever in that province can be just as bad as terrible scales.

Jazzepi

[thejeff]

Hard to do to a bless-rush Vanheim though. His raiders can burn your temples. If the plan went well he'll have a lot of territory to soak up your dominion before it gets the last of his.

In a last ditch defense he can blood sacrifice as well.

And he's planning for bad scales and hoping to have other people's good ones to reach neutral.

It's a risky strategy, but could be fun. The biggest problem is only getting 3-4 Van a turn.