MA Man startegy

[thejeff]

Don't overlook the Spell songs either. I haven't figured out how to use healing or bravery, but Soothing song can be great for big battles. 3-4 Crones casting BEs and tossing Thunderbolts, + Mothers casting whatever and ~10 bards spamming Soothing Song. None of them build up fatigue.
Even after the script runs out, the Bards will do Soothing Song often enough to keep the real mages casting.

I've got some other thoughts, based on my experience in Priori, but that's going to be a long enough rant that I don't have time for it now.
Short version: You've got no diversity, so you need a pretender to handle that. You can't even forge your Air boosters natively.
You also don't have any easy SC/thug access, unless you go the bless route. Which with capital only stratmove 1 mediocre sacreds, I can't recommend. So you need your pretender to be an SC.

And then you'll be doomed, like I was, by a total lack of Air or Astral gems.

It's a fun nation, but not a strong one.