2 small questions about horror mark

[Boron]

Boron,
Still using scouts with only 1 contract? For Abysia, I use indep. scouts all over the place to ferry slaves at most 2 turns movement to lab. But for the contracts I'm thinking about using indep commanders so that my building armies can guard commander. If my army fights or moves, commander is on his own for a couple turns. 30vs20 gold seems to be a safer protection for your contracts in my opinion. But are normal abysian troops going to do much? What about devils? I havent tried contracts yet in long games on anything but scouts.

to be honest i don't use soul contracts anymore . i prefer now vampires and with blood 9 then the infernal forces summon spell which gives you 7+ devils + 20 imps .
but i try to make my core blood army consisting of vampires because they are immortal.

a devil is tougher than a vampire yeah but both can't fly during a storm and the vampires are at least immortal