High Bless rush strategy :(

[Ballbarian]

Just a crazy idea: maybe priests able to dispel Bless?

That is a great idea! Would be a nice 'rock' to the bless 'scissors'.

[Boron]

Graeme Dice said:

I'm sorry, but that's an absurd exaggeration. There is no way that the forces those nations could gather on a 10 province per player map would be able to capture the C'tissian castle by turn 8. This is especially true with the imprisoned pretender necessary for a dual bless strategy.

Recent blitzes had quite a few pre turn 10 eliminations with bless rushes.

Vanheim + Helheim have a good chance at killing 1 player before turn 10 and then they can use their gold advantage to also use their excellent mages + slow down the remaining players with raiding.

Niefelheim's giants and jarls are strong enough to have a good chance to kill any SC.

And Mictlan and TC EA are quite scary too with their bless hordes.

Those nations might really be a little too good for blitzes.

[DominionsFan]

Graeme Dice said:

I'm sorry, but that's an absurd exaggeration. There is no way that the forces those nations could gather on a 10 province per player map would be able to capture the C'tissian castle by turn 8. This is especially true with the imprisoned pretender necessary for a dual bless strategy.

Just an example. Turn 4: QM has rushed my niefel capital with a mictlan [IIRC] uber bless strategy. The map was silent seas, and the game was a 5 FFA.
I've also rushed many players before turn 5-6 with high bless sacred builds in blitzes.