Qm said

[TwoBits]

My point about Conj 3 was this - if you needed a special animal-command leader (say, recruitable national commanders would typically have Animal-10, regular unit-0 = no mixing
animals with high moral infantry for example), the potential rusher would not have an uber-animal commander (black hawk/werewolf with animal leadership of 20+) until they researched Conj 3.

Granted, a pack of 10 elephants is still pretty scary in the first year, but that would be the maximum size of the squad (w/o an experienced leader), and it would have no high moral stiffening available. Putting together that 20+ horde would have to wait until Conj 3 and the summoning (w/ gem cost - and perhaps Call of the Winds should be increased to more than 5 air gems?) of a better animal-leader.

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Regarding the bless-rush option, I definitely think a higher level priest should be able to impart a better blessing, being that much more "in tight" with God. Nations with great sacreds but crappy priests will just have to put that much more care into pretender design (perhaps spending more points on Dominion, and less on their killer magic paths).

Again, just my two pesos.