EA Vanhiem advice

[Sir_Dr_D]

I would advice not to take sloth 2. The Vanhere are capital only and cost a considerable amount of resouces. You risk not being able to make very many Vanhere, with sloth. You don't need production, but I would not take sloth.

I advice a water bless with these guys. They already do so much damage that the extra fire attack is unneeded. With water they get 4 attacks a round instead of 2. Extra attacks bring down the opponents defense so the attack bonus of the fire isn't needed as much either. They kill things very fast with water.

I like your idea of include e4 in the bless.

[Revolution]

As I understand it, the quickness you get from a high water bless gives you a multiplier of 1.5 attacks...so I think my Vanhere would just get 3 attacks a turn instead of 4 (I could be mistaken there) If I went with the water bless. With their relatively high encumberance I'm worried about my vanhere's dropping due to fatigue from a high water bless as well as hitting things less often. Yes each attack reduces defense, but they won't be attacking at an overly high value. Now with the fire bless they have their 2 attacks at a very high attack value and with the attacks getting that 8ap bonus fire damage, I figure they will probably do as much or more damage as the water bless...better ability to cut through high protection and high defense.


Now if you're correct that they get 4 attacks though...I'd probably change my mind because that combined with the fact that glamor + high defense has clear benefit.


I could probably be convinced to go up to sloth 1 and maybe misfortune 2....just on the chance that I only end up with 3 neiboring provinces to my capital and no forest/mountain.

[Sir_Dr_D]

I think how it works is they get 4 attacks the first round, and then their normal 2 the second round, and then back to 4 the next, etc. Thats what the 1.5 means. It only takes effect every second round. Thats at least how I believe it works.

With a water bless they tend to cut through one battles square or more per round. Its their beserk that makes them a real killer.

I just saw that the vanhere have a smaller resource cost then I thought. Sloth 1 should be fine then.