Warriors of the Five Elements.

[Renojustin]

I've always been partial to Fluorine for some reason.

[Meglobob]

In a MP game playing EA Tien Chi I centered most of my strategy around those guys.

Early game just recruit as many as you can, they take indies very easily.

Mid game, research battlefield damaging spells which your Wot5E are immune to such as foul vapours, wrathful skies etc and serpents blessing, storm warriors to make them 100% resistant. Few enemy armies can fight the Wot5E's while being posioned/lightning bolted etc...

When you add in all the other magic Tien Chi can throw around it can be a very fierce mid/late game nation but it needs a good start/luck early on.

Sadly, the host disappeared in that particular game so I never got to see how my strategy would have turned out, but I was in a good postion at the time.

[Dedas]

Sounds cool. I will try that strategy Meglobob, thanks!

[BesucherXia]

The 5 element of Chinese are:
Metal,
Wood,
Water,
Fire, and
Earth

IMO air is never supposed to be an important element for Chinese.

For the WOtFE strategy I perfer using them with A/W bless. W9+Double sword combination is well enough to overwhelm most high-defence units, and air shield is also critical because of the best Anti-WOtFE strategy: Arrow.
A high Dominion value is also recommended, that's why I give up F9 and turn to lesser bless like A6/A7.

I once used them in a MP game vs F9W9 vans. Though they had no bless bonus except D4(I am just the sub), they did take down quite some rivals before being flanked.

[kasnavada]

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The link I provide gives the right elements and I am wrong in my answer.

[Sombre]

Actually I think it's Wood, Water, Fire, Earth and Gold. Judging by the characters anyway.

[Reverend Zombie]

Gold=metal, perhaps?

[sansanjuan]

The fifth element would be Leeloo (Milla Jovovich ) from... "The Fifth Element" Willis & Co. A pretty lass indeed.
-SSJ

[Renojustin]

Sansan multipass?

But really, yeah, I originally used to take W9A9 but it became apparent to me that it just wasn't necessary... just torment opposing archers with your excellent composite bows and cavalry, maybe chariots, and you have nothing to worry about.

It works but you'll wish you'd taken just about anything else later on; you do NOT have points to spare with a high Dominion on top of a bless for these guys. You can protect them in a lot of magical ways as well, and they have 10 base protection and 5 on head, so they're not quite as vulnerable as they seem.

They're not really all THAT prone to arrow fire when you keep them in mind. They wear leather cuirasses so you can buff them pretty easily, Arrow Fend, it's just not worth the points. When you meet high DEF or high protection units the ATK and damage from fire really comes in handy. My suggestion for the bless would be F9W9.

[CUnknown]

The fifth element is Boron, guys! BORON!!!