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Originally posted by Adept:
The tierfreund is not powerful enough to be capital only (I think anyway). Nor does the volkfreund seem overpowered.

Heck, it's very hard to be overpowered with strength ~ 5 and armed with a shorsword.

Surprisingly enough the hoburgs can sometimes manage to take on normal heavy infantry, but they do need 2 - 3 times their number.

With Fire 9 blessing, I had a 48 Volkfreunds plus Burgmeister Guards army routing a 24 Heavy Cavalry (8 of them killed) + Light Cavalry, Light Infantry indie (70 units total). It's not easy for any other nations I played.

With their low cost, lack of capital-restriction, I can easily field a 100+ Volkfreunds by turn 10-12. Horburg also has access to cheap Nature 1 mage and thus the spell "Protection" (Alteration 3 only), which add another 7 protection to the units. That's a mighty army.