Hydra suggestion
 

If I remember correctly, Hercules had to burn out the hydra's head because they kept regrowing. Maybe Hydra's should get recuperation too. This would be especially beneficial for serpent cult which is, imho one of the weaker themes out there

Re: Hydra suggestion
 

Really?

I'm playing a game against Pythium Serpent Cult and it was winning (I'm abysya) til I get an army with twelve anthemats field artillery salamander to shoot them from range.

Even by not sacred better Abysya HI was getting asskicked by hidra (serpent cult ones are sacred too!!! even if expensive).

With a mixture of Hidras and Vine Men/Ogres he's keeping up the battle with few loses while I've lost a lot of Aby HI (I believe a number beetween 200 to 300 HIs in 5-6 turns, not so easy to replace at 28/30 resources each)before getting a standing army that can match his hidras.

However recuperation shouldn't change a lot, already is very difficult for an hidra to get an affliction since it has regeneration.

Re: Hydra suggestion
 

As I understand it, all Recuperation does is heal battle afflictions. Regeneration, which the hydras already have, greatly reduces the chances of getting battle afflictions. I guess if your big bad hydra surives enough battles it probably will end up with one or two afflictions anyway. So Recuperation would help a little. But I don't think it would have that much of an impact.

Mind you, I agree that Serpent Cult could use some sort of help.