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The concept is basically this: You find a nation with a good, 2 recpoint, anyfort holy mage, even better if they're stealthy and/or flying, or can magic phase. You pick an awake rainbow and tank every scale and buy a fuckhuge bless. The rainbow researches you into early buffs so fast that you can expand with exclusively mages, getting 1 new party every turn from the start of the game. You might need to occasionally use a gem for a key buff against harder provinces (like getting sidhe lords to cast regen). Get forts up as soon as you can afford them, which should be pretty quick because your expansion should be strong.

Basically, forget about normal troops and sacred troops, use anyfort holy thugs for everything. Use items and gem spells to build purpose-made counters to enemy compositions. If you have summonable sacreds or enough temples to boost your dom up and get sacred recruitment going or find indie sacreds then that's a bonus. Here's an example using jann emirs.

The biggest problem is actually finishing anyone off because you have to take forts somehow.