Guide: Bandar Log - you whipped me with what?!?

[chrispedersen]

Generally I agree with people that an a9 blessing is overkill. However, I believe kailasa is one of the exceptions.

Previous poster made note of some of the points for kailasa. A partial air bless is useful for kailasa. After that you have to look at what to do with your points. Since you are buying sacreds, you need a high dominion. You want a mobile pretender to start with to aid early expansion.

I happen to like the four arm deva that casts lightning bolts. And the way the points turn out, in this particular case, I believe the most effective thing is to run up Air path - the fact that your sacreds are now 75% resistant to the lightning bolts it slings around is just gravy.

PLUS with lightning resistant troops shockwave becomes .. well shockingly effective.

Kailasa can be quite fun this way - you have fun awe, archers - and later on you can cast rusting mist, or armor of achilles or the battlefield equivalent of same...

And then use hordes of markatas!!! to destroy armor - and anything other high prot units. Its quite fun to see markatas mowing through cavalry.......

[Gregstrom]

Add to that the likely investment required to get Arrow Fend on your armies, and an Air bless looks better and better.

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Gregstrom

Add to that the likely investment required to get Arrow Fend on your armies, and an Air bless looks better and better.

Seriously. I never understood why the argument against the Air bless, is to cast Arrow Fend - with no national access to Air magic at all.....

[vfb]

National access is through national summons at Conj 6, requiring pearls only.

[Omnirizon]

Originally Posted by vfb

National access is through national summons at Conj 6, requiring pearls only.

That's still a lot of extra researching on top of that already needed to get Arrow Fend. With an Air bless Kailasa is free to get Celestial Music pronto and then work on whatever they need most.

[rdonj]

Why get any bless at all then? Go conjuration 6 for the summon, enchantment 6 for arrow fend, thunder ward and strength of giants, get alteration 6(?) for celestial music, construction 7 for weapons of sharpness to get an ap attack far better than the f9 bless, GoR all your sacreds and empower them to 1S so they can cast twist fate and personal luck and equip them with a burning pearl to replicate the attack skill addition from the fire bless. Research thaum 5 for growing fury and toss in a ring of regeneration to cover the nature bless and boots of the messenger for the earth bless. Then all you have to do is equip them all with baneblades and research alteration 7 for doom and you've got a death bless also! By the time you get all this going you'll have the most powerful recruitable sacreds in the game. They'll be 30 times as expensive as anyone else's but they'll have the benefits of all 8 blesses, how can you go wrong?

Okay, that was a bit heavy on the sarcasm but taking an air bless would make your armies a fair amount less expensive to maintain. Which is always good.

[Trumanator]

For a moment I thought you were serious. Then obviously I read the bottom. I now believe that the biggest problem with forums is the inability of the written word to consistently communicate sarcasm.

[rdonj]

Hopefully that means I succeeded in preventing my post from sounding mean-spirited

[lch]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

I now believe that the biggest problem with forums is the inability of the written word to consistently communicate sarcasm.

That's always a problem. Interspersed smileys can help alleviate it a little.

[Omnirizon]

which is why some languages have a 'sarcasm mark'; most notably the Ethiopian Languages.