I dont think Patalas troops are that crappy other than it seems like its being examined by a bunch of Ulm players.
OK I took a look. The bless thing sounded interesting.
2 blessable units?
They also have 2 pretty decent stealth units and a stealth commander.
But I will stick with the bless thing for now. 6 blessable commanders, all priests and mages. OK this seems workable. But why look at army blesses. I think I will look more toward mage blesses.
Code:
Pretender: Great Sage (paying 35 to get 10 extra research points)
4 astral magic resist +1
4 earth reinvigorate +2
4 water defense skill +2
4 air air shield 20%
1 fire
Dominion 4
Order +1
Productivity +1
Heat +3 (2 were free)
Hope to land near the water to make good use of those aquatic troops. Use the great aquatic priest/mage to try and discover a castle underwater to cement my foothold.
Create a couple of stealth armies to move outward and possibly take weakly protected provinces during a players initial expansion when he has no way to hurt me back. Rape those provinces to death. I gain, he is damaged early in the game.
Make use of the 27 research on my god to rush into some heavy spells. Use the rainbowness of my mage to create magic boosting items for those great mages