Holy Flachulants of Flaggellenting!

[Jondifool]

flags are build for fire 9 thats it! Offcause there is other options aswell, but if fire shines anywhere its on the flags.

it has been discussed a few times try search the forum.

but it comes down to that flails has 2 attacks, and that the fire attack is good against hard to hit units , either high protektion or ethereals.

to keep the flags alive mix in some heavy inf in the front line.
and leave your archers home (or get some lightning blessing aswell)

[LintMan]

Water 9 gives a sweet quickness effect (plus a defense boost.) I think the quickness means Flags get 4 attacks instead of 2. Plus, all Maignon's mages/priests are sacred, so they also benefit from the quickness.

Air 4-9 blessing is pretty good for Marignon too if you go for crossbows, as it drastically reduces the friendly fire effect.

In my recent Marignon game, I used massed blessed Flags up front center, masses of crossbows, and a few blessed Paladins/Knights of the Chalice on the flanks. Once I had the gem income, these were supplemented with summons. I didn't use any of the other Marignon combat units at all - resources were too scarce for me to spend 20+ res on a pikeneer when I could get 4 flags for the same res cost (or use that 20+ res towards a KotC).

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by LintMan:
Water 9 gives a sweet quickness effect (plus a defense boost.) I think the quickness means Flags get 4 attacks instead of 2. Plus, all Maignon's mages/priests are sacred, so they also benefit from the quickness.

The water 9 blessing effect is 50% quickness, so they act twice every other turn. Water is also a very expensive blessing to get, as there are few good water magic based pretenders.

[wolfkinsov]

Not commenting on Water but easy to get water 9 nature 4 with Lady of Fortune.

[Firebreath]

How about fire 9 and death 9, then your masses of flags would be twice as effective?

Or does 'life after death' simply raise un-blessed, unarmored soulless armed only with their fists?

[archaeolept]

yah, life after death just creates some dreck. quite useless. Death 10 is better, though not worth it either, IMO.