[wilphart]

The strategy you've suggested (and the ones I read) is so alien to the way I've been playing that I can barely wrap my brain around it. And I use that strategy for most nations, really - just tweak the research and troops differently in my powerful armies. I need to unlearn what I have learned. With 1 PD, you wouldn't dare build temples, right? lots of cracks in the earth and Bogus raids and Admiral T and such. I'm used to building PDs that can handle all but a dedicated big enemy army. I usually pick a low dominion score that slowly grows as I increase temples. And my powerful armies are usually limited by my number of level 3 priests (divine bless). But I guess if you had smaller squads, a simple bless would get most of them. But I'll try throwing a couple giants against some indies to see what happens. And keep them there, too, right? Because no PD.