[Truper]

Keep in mind that we are talking pretender *gods* here. So the idea that they ought not to be able to smack down a bunch of poor joes with swords and spears just doesn't fly.

And on the subject of the VQ, yeah, she works great, but these days she's expensive. You've really got to accept some compromises in terms of scales, castle and dominion strength in order to build a real vq monster. As it should be.