High Bless rush strategy :(

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Wendigo_reloaded said:
How about this to counter the 9F,9W vans:
-Any SC god with high protection and some fire magic: take the field, cast fire resist, fire shield and either evocations or attack.

Many of those are also bless strategies, or limited to a certain nation... But this one is easy. Cyclops is immune to fire! Of course, Helheim can eventually forge a Vision's Foe, but that'll take too long for an early raid.

Earth Meld can be nice. I haven't yet gotten to test it properly, but it shuts the Vanir down, and lowers their defence. The manual states that Earth Grip shuts a creature down until it makes a STR + 2d6oe roll that exceeds 22. For even a 14-str Van, that's 8 or more. Unfortunately, it seems that it isn't an opposed roll with two 2d6oe, one on each side. In that case, the chance of a Van succeeding would be just few percent. Now, it's probably something like 50% chance.