Kailasa VS Lanka

[LDiCesare]

Lanka are strong early on, while Kailasa is strong late game. This makes a blitz very unbalanced in favor of Lanka imho.
It you manage to last till you can summon Gandharvas and build lots of mage priests, Kailasa can win, but not against a rush.
I once played a Ramayana game myself, and Kailasa won because I wanted to see how the late game summons were, Lanka happened to have a crappy starting location, and I toyed a lot. So the game lasted longer than it should have due to 'let's try seducing with rakshasi' and 'I want to see all national Summons', which led to a big advantage for Kailasa late game. Early on, they suffered more than a little.

[Hadrian_II]

The bigger part of Kailasas defence in close combat comes from awe on the units, but as lanka is fielding morale 16 troops (blessed palanksha) this wont work very well.

Vfbs example is a bit biased, if you would fight the palankshas with the equivalent of yavanas Blessed with S9F9 lanka should take bigger losses than with a army of archers. Also mostly when you use archers with kailasa, they do more friendly fire than harm to the enemy.

Later on when kailasa has Gandharvas and Celestial music, lanka will be in pretty much trouble.

The problem with kailasa is, that you need arrow fend (or armys of gandharvas) to fight against enemy archery before that their arrows will just kill you. Also units with high morale (skellyspamming) can kill your units easy.