[Endoperez]

If you can choose, do you take 50 devils or 50 devils, 20 Knights (of any kind) and 30 Heavy infantries?

50 Devils will propably lose versus, say, 100 crossbowmen, or atleast be killed. If you have some shielded, heavy-armored units in the front, you will take less losses. Also, if your enemy is using mages+(staff of)storm combo, your knights will reach them before your devils.

Yes, you could argue that you can make Demon Knights as flankers, Storm devils to take out mages protected by storm, and get arrow fodder with Crossbreeding, but all of those cost slaves. You would have to be Mictlan to have that enough slaves to make even one army of them. And Mictlan is meant to rely heavily on summons.

Devils are good, but you can't get as many of them as you can get your national troops. And in most cases, elite armies will lose if they are put versus many times bigger armies that know what is coming and have had the time to get ready for it.


Just my 2 cents, or opinion, or whatever. I never understood where that saying came.