Help Design my EA TC Setup?.(CBM 1.71)

[LDiCesare]

I don't know if there were changes in latest CBM to the summons, but basically demons of heavenly rivers are sacred berserkers who kick ***, and demons of heavenly fire are extremely powerful flying fireball throwers that your flying celestial masters can move along the map as they like.
Planning a 125% shock resistance is a nice idea, but that won't be very helpful since that will only help capital-only commanders.

Regarding archers, TC archers are expensive, but their bows are composite bow, so I would say they are inferior to Sauromatians and Kailasa (but the latter are expensive in gold). Maybe Yomi's aka-oni if you see them as firethrowers. Otherwise, they are rather better than average.
Ulm has warrior maidens: short bow/prot 11 for 11 res or prot 4 for 4 resources.
Sauromatia has composite bow/prot 4 for 7 resources, and poison archers.
TC has prot 9 composite bow for 14 resources. Plus a good helmet.
Caelum has short bow plus prot 5 or 7 for 5 or 9 resources.
Kailasa has 9 gold/3 resources prot 1 shortbows and 20 gold/10 resources prot 3 9 precision longbows plus sacred longbowmen.
Yomi has 9 gold/2 resources prot 2 shortbows.

Composite bows are precision 1, have a range of 30, deal 12 damage. They are far better than any other bow in this era, except for poison bows and sacred Kailasa bowmen. The ape longbows are twice as expensive and have crap precision (9 vs 10+1).
Overall, I'd say TC archers are not very massable but are the best in the era.

[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by LDiCesare

I don't know if there were changes in latest CBM to the summons, but basically demons of heavenly rivers are sacred berserkers who kick ***, and demons of heavenly fire are extremely powerful flying fireball throwers that your flying celestial masters can move along the map as they like.

Don't the demons of heavenly fires have 0 prot? Everytime I used them, they dropped like flies. Or are they supposed to sit back like archers?

[rdonj]

How about w9/s9? That would be a pretty all around useful bless, and give them and all your other sacreds quite some offensive power. W5E are actually *very* powerful sacreds, and can be quite effective even when they're in the low hp part of the year. And if you really want to play with some heavy lightning shenanigans later, you can go up enchantment until you get the thunder ward spell. The elemental resist spells have been buffed nicely in cbm as I recall, and while that obviously means taking longer to ramp up to it, you'll probably be considering enchantment strongly anyway. My suggestion is just to play around with blesses for them until you're happy. And use some arrow catchers.

[LDiCesare]

Originally Posted by Warhammer

Don't the demons of heavenly fires have 0 prot? Everytime I used them, they dropped like flies. Or are they supposed to sit back like archers?

Yes, they are supposed to sit back like archers. They shoot flame wheels that have a good range and can be quite devastating.

[rdonj]

And if you need them to be melee-capable, that's what protection buffs are for.