Some thoughts + a couple things that I think were missed: 1. Some of the angel summons got reworked. It's most important for Angels of the Host: rather than a naked guy with a big single target greatsword, they now wear super heavy body armour, and come equipped with a big shield and what is essentially a Fire Brand. With Awe +5, invuln 15 and resists, the guy would probably be a viable thug out of the box if he was a commander. Don't think I'd use the new singleton summon (7 pearls for 1 angel seems like a lot), but the remote summon that gives you an Arch Angel + 6 Angels of the Host is now efficient for both sides of the equation, I think. 2. All of the Amalgams have a death explosion effect, but the mod inspector doesn't have the abilities included. The Earth Guy explodes into an earth grip effect, so he might be useful for dealing with elves, especially since he can hit people very hard with the big cudgel anyway. 3. Big thing for your Mirror Mages early is Luck (which is Thaum 3 G1). Thaum 3 + Alt 3 seems like a big thing with all the buffs you can throw out between your Chartmakers and Mirror Mages. 4. I think many of the other magic changes benefit LA Mari. Early access to air shield on your troops, Foul Vapours getting pushed back, etc. 5. Mari doesn't get shiny new heavy cav, but Royal Guard/Swordsmen might be good against them (especially with the lance changes?) 6. The bless that I think might potentially tie all of your sacreds together is Slowing Weapons: Functionally, it's a 2 point swing on both attack and defence, plus it also halves the target's attack speed. That said, the vibe I get is that LA Mari wants to ignore big troop blesses for the most part and just take an awake.

thank you i have been looking for these types of videos covering the new La ages/reworks. Please keep this content up!

See LA MA a nation that wants to build a tons of forts just to build all your commander needs:One for early game imp distraction spam, plague doctors for your old men and nature fishing, a chartmaker fort, glamour fort and blood fort.

Great vid man, thanks! Would love to see your thoughts how Yomi fits into all the changes. I also appreciate how descriptive you are , you can almost listen without watching (wich i guess was not your intention).

Using imp pets to eat lance charges or prevent ranged units getting shots off would be quite useful

Cool vid. Are you gonna do some for other nations (maybe MA nations) as well ?

Yeah, this format I like. Can you make it for all other 100+ nations? Please? Just kidding, but if you will do it anyway, I will watch every one

46:18 it's not, don't forget how much Mictlain and Xibalba profit from it as well, and then there's combat summonable sacreds, as in the ancestors from Saromatiaand Tien Chi or Formorias Dane othe Morrigains, the temple trained snakes of C'Tis and Hydras of Pythium, as well as any god with sacred retinue, some efficient summons that I'm forgetting and maybe another efficient freespawn like Onaqui spawning bats that I'm not aware of, oh, remembered LA R'lyeh void creatures are all sacred to and those freespawn now more frequently without having to get a province to 0 population first (haven't tested in 6 yet, but basically a province without population shouldn't freespawn any madman or dreamers, thus more void creatures seemed to come out, did that one long ago in 5, so no guarantee)

Those imp pets should help vs gem baiters trying to run or those wind of death casters since they have a non-trivial chance to punish those.

What about staking strength for you sacred?

Right.

Why would this guy say another streamer sounds drunk? What is the point of that lmao. No thanks.

You from california or something? Ending every sentence your tone rasises up like people from california

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