If you were the defender you probably won because the turn limit attacker auto-retreat or die kicked in. But yeah, a few paralyze spells will knock out niefel giants...of course you could take an astral bless also but then the scales get too bad.
I bet curse then xbows would mess them up pretty fast too, even with regen.
The real question is whether they allow too fast expansion early. I haven't figured out their proper use yet so I can't really say. I'm much more entertained by vaetti hags + magic 3
Research!
And then make the nature ones summon vine men, the blood slavesearch, the astral...cast star fires? or you could make them desperate magic duel fighters...a chance at losing a 55 gold mage for a decent chance of killing a more expensive one? Sneak to his mages and do a mass magic duel with all your astral vaetti.
And the death are decent skeleton summoners I guess to accompany your stealthy armies.
Plus those new jotun spear huskarls are lovely troops. I couldn't get jotunheim to work before without them.
[ November 13, 2003, 21:39: Message edited by: LordArioch ]