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

[rabelais]

I decided to get back into MP after a two year absence and signed up for a nation I remembered incorrectly.


Essentially I thought I was getting MA's troops and affliction repair with EA's mages and forgot about the whole spring thing on EA's sacreds.

Other than CBM the only other relevant parameter is magic sites are going to be 60, presumably to help compensate for the lack of hammers.


So my initial plan was to get an a9-10 bless off the lord of sky (awakening to be decided later) have decent scales and well that's the problem really I don't have astral or death in any quantity.

Oh, the other problem is I don't have access to the a4 lord of the sky and cant find a cheap a9. I guess the closest I can come would be an a9e4 titan (when did these stop being a3?) but it really isn't cheap. the e4 is fine for my sacred mages, but I still don't have a plan. The map is asia twist, so I was thinking something that can go in the water (sacred statue, wyrm) might be handy, but I'm used to being such a scales whore that I will probably be out before it frees itself.

I also notice composite bows are range 30 now. I was playing sauromantia in SP and noticed their bows are range 35 with nonblockable poison. This makes me even less happy about the difficulty with the bless. In vanilla shortbows are 30 composite are 35 and longbows 40. Why was this done?

Nevermind it doesn't matter. Though in my opinion Mot5E should get a 10% extra path chance, while I'm whining about my nation, which I'm sure is fine, I just don't have the expertise.

Someone more versed in modern MP help me with a plan please?

Thanks,

Rabe