Best bless for LA Marignon to make use of flagellant chaff?

[Fidine]

The bless i use usually is

blood surge
blood bond
Solar weapons
Righteous Wrath

Not sure if this is helping because it seems my flag are still not that effective.

[Professional Elephant Fister]

Try flight and death explosion.

[Kamiyama]

I would try a charged body bless or death explosion bless.

They aren't going to be actually good melee troops no matter what bless you give them. They just don't have the weapon or armor to fight well.

But they can make good delivery systems for a bless that deals damage. Mictlan does the same thing with its eagle warriors who are also a cheap sacred troop.

[Tzyder]

Flaggellets are not worth a bless. Your xbows are better in melee as melee troops than they are and easier to mass. They are not even good seige chaff. Use them for patroling blood hunting provs and guarding blood hunters and mages against assassination.

[Mathusalem]

fire shield?

[MadAsgardian]

I tested out death explosion for fun -- it's definitely that, but without additional protection they often explode before reaching the enemy.

Now blood surge on their cavalry, that's something.

[Sombre]

Originally posted by Mathusalem:

fire shield?

Fire shield is generally better on units that will survive being attacked multiple times, but it's definitely not a bad bless to take with MA Marignon if you're a new player, because it's very useful on their knights of the chalice and not too bad on flagellants.

[Chilli-Göttinger]

Originally posted by Professional Christmas Fister:

Try flight and death explosion.

have fun with exploding mages in the backrow then. death explosion only makes sense on a few nations with secularized mages apart from priests like ulm, machaka, late man or especially bogarus as those are fodder and have h3 to cover whole army instead of babysitting priests right close to them. exploding knights / hands / crossbows of justice is also rather ... suboptimal.

[Kref]

Generally marington is about palladins, not flagellants.
Also in Lucid's community mod I saw usefull blessing for them, fear + awe. Still do not think that it is worth it.

[Emphyrio]

In Dom 4 it was popular to put Blood Vengeance on them. Then they'd have a chance of killing any mage that dropped an evo on them. But mages have high MR and can usually resist it. Still might be economical as mages cost a lot more and can't be recruited as fast. Magic Weapons or Withering Weapons could make them useful at countering certain units.

You are not going to be able to make flags a core national strategy though. Their stats are too low.

[Chilli-Göttinger]

Magic Weapons is always good, also for the Crossbowguys.
You could also try out freezing mist bless on water 7 or 8 instead of explosion, but that just trades living bombs with cold aoe but makes Crossbows a nice missile unit.

[Emphyrio]

Originally posted by Chilli-Göttinger:

Magic Weapons is always good, also for the Crossbowguys.
You could also try out freezing mist bless on water 7 or 8 instead of explosion, but that just trades living bombs with cold aoe but makes Crossbows a nice missile unit.

Wow does freezing mist work on ranged weapons?

[Draken]

I got Reanimator on MA Asphodel. Letting my sacreds fire their vinebows into archers and both entangling and reviving some as soulless is fun. Pretty disruptive.
Though it's probably not the most effective.
My black centaurs also do like getting a bit chaff protection when they start murdering things.

Might work well on the crossbows too.

[Chilli-Göttinger]

Problem with Reanimators is that its expensive for incarnate Pretender only for when its available on a scales and points value it gets redundant quickly as soulless lose impact when crazier, other stuff hits the battlefield.
with magic/solar/vitriol? weapons it could wreak havoc for late marignon/piconye/ late c tis through.

Originally posted by Emphyrio:

Originally posted by Chilli-Göttinger:

Magic Weapons is always good, also for the Crossbowguys.
You could also try out freezing mist bless on water 7 or 8 instead of explosion, but that just trades living bombs with cold aoe but makes Crossbows a nice missile unit.

Wow does freezing mist work on ranged weapons?

I never tried it myself yet as i rarely play Marignon but others have written it already so it should work.