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Originally Posted by JCD
Meh. What are you basing that on? As has been noted before, they are no better at combat then a Mercurian with similar Songs and Skills.
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When a Mercurian charges a gang of four demons and takes a couple down fighting, he's in Trauma afterwards. This is, presumably, a very unpleasant experience and thus, psychologically, the Mercurian is not as prepared to take this route.
The Malakim, by contrast, are ready to go immediately afterwards. The
only cost to the superior is a new vessel - the Mercurian means that he also has one fewer corporeal agents for a few days.
If you only have one angel in the area, and no reinforcements: the Malakim can kill a couple demons and STILL be around to interfere with their plans. The Mercurian needs to be subtle or else leave the remaining demons unchecked for a few days.
Plus, Hell will react differently just knowing Malakim are out there: demons know that every note of disturbance is another chance that a black wing drops them in to trauma. Without Malakim and their near-suicidal attitudes, I dare say the war would be a far noisier thing.
In short, Malakim can focus on making the war very, very expensive for Hell. And no demon wants to be the one explaining the expense report to his superior.
(I'd also argue that, in general, Malakim
are more likely to have 6 corporeal forces, fighting skill 6, numinous corpus: tail, etc. simply because their job focuses on "combat" whereas a Mercurian is probably assigned to roles where social skills are more important.)
Edit: It's also worth noting that a Malakite pretty much never has to worry about dissonance for smiting evil. A Mercurian who ends up smiting a sorcerer or infernal soldier by accident is in a world of hurt. Malakim just care that it's hell-sworn. (And Seraphim can't lie to demons, Cherubs in trauma can't protect their attuned, Kyriotates need to be paranoid about getting their body hurt... that leaves Elohim and Ofanim as the two others that can really have a field day with demons.)
(Huh, Elohim, really? I just never saw them as the bashing types, but destroying 2 demon vessels and sending both of them in to trauma is objectively worth the cost of suffering the same themselves... :))