Re: Integrating Strategies
I think most players tend to make too big armies. Don't use a sledgehammer to kill a fly (the advisors on Romance of the Three Kingdoms used to quip me that all the time. I still remember it after all these years).
first, try reading Baalz's BL guide.
I can offer a little general advice:
With the right kind of army, even very small ones can kill anything the computer throws your way. For SP, you can just roll this way through the whole game. For BL early on you might want a big bless, but not Water (you get Celestial Quickness, making Water partially redundant). I'd go E9 (perhaps S9 too). Use White Ones with markata chaff and elephants. Have mages spamming Healing Light and some berserk invoking spells on the elephants; they work pretty good that way. You can cast Mossbody on the markatas.
Later, get Yakshas and Yakshini, Gandharvas, Kinnaras, ect. Get Celestial Quickness. Even very small groups of Gandharvas with E9 and Celestial Quickness can survive a lot of what the AI throws your way. Outfit your Yaksha/shinis as battlemages (cloaks of etherealness/invulnerability, penetration items) outfit your Kinnaras and Siddhas as thugs (firebrand, charcoal sheild, dragon helm, something for luck, something for regen, either boots of flying or the messenger. they have four arms, you can be pretty creative with that). Siddhas are the ultimate raiders, and can even provide very flexible support (they can jump into a battle with just about any army.)
You can have a big army for plowing through to capitals, and use small elite groups or even single thugs for raiding and holding onto your provinces.
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