Re: Defending Rushes, a primer on avoiding the awake SC pretender
Threatening blight spam with Agartha can also be a good deterrent.
A blood 9 blessing could also work against an early giant rush like niefel jarls. The automatic cursing + chance of horror mark would be somewhat crippling.
Re: Defending Rushes, a primer on avoiding the awake SC pretender
I don't know the cursing effect is 100%. The horror mark chance I don't know. It wouldn't stop a rush, but the rusher would have a lot of cursed and horror marked units afterwards. I would need to experiment a bit.