[LintMan]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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I quess you get Vaetti (vaetti hag atleast), so buy them. One giant and two vaettis can fit on one block (units worth 6 sizes can fit on one block, press g to see grid in battles). While Vaetti may die, they have shields to help them survive your archers and every hit killing Vaetti spares one giant.

That won't help him. Walkthru is Niefelheim, no Vaetti. Niefel doesn't get anything that isn't giant-sized as a national troop.

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Actually, I don't think it's Niefelheim - I'm not sure what the theme is , but I've got Vaetti, Vaetti Hags, Wolf and Moose Riders, and Chiefs. My captial-only units are Woodsman and Gygja.

Some follow up questions/comments for everyone:

My pretender can build 12 clockwork horrors for 12E, and/or 13 Claymen for 5E. (Clockwork horrors are fast, 5hp, 18 prot, while Claymen are slow, 15hp, regen, 6 prot) Would either of these serve as a superior "fill in the gaps" role instead of Winter Wolves or masses of Vaetti? (IIRC, I only get 5 Winter Wolves at a time, vs 12-13 constructs).

I've also forge a number of "Bottle of Living Water" water elemental summoning items in the hopes of having some "free" good shock troops in every battle. Are these worth it over, say building swords of swiftness/boots of quickness/blue scale mail/clam of pearls at the same cost?

Also, in Arryn's AAR, she mentioned the effectiveness of forging sceptres of authority for her priests... I'm starting to do this as well, but was wondering if it would also be worthwhile to construct some of the assorted magic bows/crossbows available (Thunder Bow, Just Man's Cross, Ethereal Crossbow, Longbow of accuracy, Black Bow, etc)

Would Call of the Wild and/or Call of the winds be useful for stealing some of Pan's presumably unguarded rear provinces?

Zen: my Jarls have no magic paths, just 2 Holy, so I don't know how they'd cast quickness and Breath of Winter (maybe that's a Niefel theme ability?)

Endoperez: I'm not sure about fire shields - the best I have is a sage empowered to 2F, and I don't see that item on the list of things he can forge.

Thanks everyone for all the tips. Alas that it's now almost 4AM here and I have to wait until tomorrow night to try any of them out!