Learning New Race (Machaka)

[Teleolurian]

Pretty good, I'd say. The Black Hunters look to be a tremendously good sacred unit- if their offense were higher, they'd be almost as good as the Wardens of Man (my favorite commando squad). I tend not to think of the summons, but I'd assume that with an offensive blessing I'd be liable to bring in a group of Fire Drakes early on, and potentially Vine Ogres (a Fire/Nature 4 pretender would be a viable blessing, and if I could spare the points I might even bring Fire up to 6). My natural fear of micromanagement usually leads me to make sitesearcher pretenders that can just follow my early expansion armies and check for sites, usually with enough of a guard to keep me from dying and allowing me to take small provinces when my main forces are waiting for reinforcements.

I'd completely neglected to notice that the Spider Riders (cheap) are essentially cavalry archers, I'd been using them as light cav instead. Probably my first fatal error.