I do find myself curious how they're supposed to actually, like... win wars. Troop quality is decent, the sacreds aren't Knights of Avalon but they're pretty well statted and geared, but the mages seem... horrible, out of the cap? I mean, casting Luck never goes out of style, but A1 is a hard path to use, and I do not love the idea of gargling earth gems just to boost up to epower. I guess you can have a capmage throw Storm up to be able to paint mistform and throw lightning bolts, but it does seem like a pretty painful setup.

The Abbots have either G2 or A2. The idea is indeed to support the A2 ones with a Storm casting cap mage.

I do expect the player to leverage the stealth and glamour to raid the enemy, alpha strike him, etc.