Malleus Maleficarum

[Aezeal]

hmm it's a nice start when beginning with this nation IMHO, a nice quick review of the troops and advice on which to pick, a pretender advice, start advice for research aims, and a general strat for the start of the game. All I need really.. certainly some other guides are longer but when I'm playing a nation I only need some hints so I can get started quickly.. when playing I'll find out the rest myself.

Good job, personally I think that with that bless you mentioned and high dom flagellants aren't a real bad choice. You also might want to give your opinion on wether diversivication (?) of magic through a rainbow pretender might be worth it.
A thing I like to be stated more clearly is exactly which paths you can get with your mages (as a reference for site searching etc.)
unluck = misfortune btw
Also you migh want to give an advice on what to use as tugs and how you'd kit them out (is a recruitable thugable, and so what would be worth to give it, or is it better to use summons as thugs and sc only?)

And then what endo said.. saying something is usefull in communion without s magic is a very very wrong thing to have in a guide though, strats can be discussed, but facts should be correct.

Calchet, your point is taken, but as with all threads, if you don't like it don't come back after you read it first... enough to do on the forum

[Calchet]

Ah, but see, it's not that I don't like the thread as such, I just don't like to see a potentially good and worthwhile thread wasted by the sub-par "guide" as originally presented.
While my methods may be a bit (or a lot) blunt, I believe I did manage to get my important point across. (That is, the ones regarding content, rather than language.)

You'll also note that I never went out of my way to attack any person, such as the topic creator, but instead funnelled my annoyance at the problems I found with the post. Sure, this might be hurtful if it's a guide lovingly crafted over lengths of time unjustly assaulted, but this one was, as a guide, shall we say... less than excellent.

A guide is usually something one spends a little time on, and I'm sure even the original poster did this, if nothing else by actually playing the nation. Letting this work and experience go to waste by attempting to bash it out in five seconds flat, cutting the Ys and Os out of whatever words you can, is really quite a pity.