Ack! Do I need to restart?

[OG_Gleep]

Of all the lousy....

Turn 7 I get an earthquake destroying my temple in my home provence.

Not so bad right? Well, I didn't build a priest yet....

Can I recover from this?

I'm playing Vanilla Ulm (again).

[shovah]

make a prophet

[RonD]

Though you'd think a god could build him/herself a temple...

Maybe that's how to tell the winner early in the game - the one real god is the one that *can* build a temple

[archaeolept]

as shovah says, just emprophetize a commander, and he will then have holy magic and be able to build a temple.

[Cainehill]

Could be worse - imagine losing your labratory on turn 1 with a no-magic pretender, before recruiting a mage, and having to wait for a mage mercenary or random event giving you one.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

This is why I always recruit a priest-type on turn 1 (one with magical abilities preferred to cover all bases).

[OG_Gleep]

Always forget about prophets getting priestly abilities. Thanks guys, I can go back to that game. I am getting my arse handed to me by a roaving Spider army in this new game. I can't catch these mofo's.

[shovah]

lol, try either a stealty (spie) tough (black knight) or versatile (smith), all depends on your playstyle

ps: iirc you like troops so go black lord

[Cainehill]

Another thing I something consider when making a prophet, is making a profit.

IE : with some of the really expensive non-sacred commanders, you can save a decent amount of gold by making it your prophet. This is especially important if you're going to have a bad gold income : for instance, Carrion Woods Pangaea. The Panic Apostate costs 320 gold, for an upkeep of 21. Making him the prophet, er, should halve that, but seems to make his upkeep 0, perhaps thinking he's undead or some such since he can reanimate undead. (Both base 2.16 and CB 5.2)

[Wick]

Sacred is half upkeep, blessed is none -- does this apply to Shroud of the Battle Saint?