Most powerful nation

[Sombre]

Frostmourne27 said:
I haven't played Lanka extensively, but in my (SP) experiance, this could be a major issue. A province with an indie priest will usually kill one or two sacreds. I could see major issues with seven or eight of them. Yes, a nature bless helps, but regardless, the banishments still make it easier to kill them off some other way. An astral bless would be of huge help, but I doubt many people would take much astral on a lankan pretender - its possible, but I don't think it's the best bet for Lanka. Twist fate just isn't great on high hp units.

If one 50 gold priest could banish 1 demon sacred per battle, it might be worth it as a counter. But the priest isn't useful against much else, where the Lankan sacred is useful in a lot of different situations. By building loads of priests looking to counter the demons, you'd basically be weakening yourself against all other non undead non demon strats. Let's say the Lankan player just switches to Kala sacreds - they aren't that much worse. Priests are now pretty useless.

That's assuming H1 priests can actually do that and are a legit counter to lankan demons, which in my opinion they aren't. I've never seen banishment from H1s do more than make nature blessed lankan sacreds go berserk. I'd guess enough of them could kill quite a few sacreds, but you can't mass as many priests as they have sacreds and if you did, you'd have invested lots of resources in an easy to dodge counter.