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Endoperez said:
I don't know Nephilim, but I'm eager to meet them. 
About the balance issues:
IIRC, you can give unit negative supply bonus, making it eat more than its size would suggest.
One obvious limit is random picks. If your Nephilim mages only have elemental OR sorcery randoms in addition to their base picks, they will be limited at least a little.
You could make Fallen Angel national spell, only accessible to Nephilim, and balance it only for them. That would allow it to be very expensive. Or you could replace Ulm and make the Black Forest's Sanguine Heritage spell the one summoning Nephilim's Fallen Angels.
If they already are unbalanced, try not to give them cheap, good and cost-effective mage-types. At the most, give them two of the three. Cheap crap with Sorcery random as their ownly cheapish Blood hunter would be easy replacement of Vaetti Hag, but could be e.g. 85 gp. to make it more expensive. Or give them mages that only excel at Blood, or summoning (ala Machaka, but with less offensive paths). Or make their good mages very expensive or very weak. Vulnerability to element would make them more suspectible against enemies. Weakness to lightning?
Also, read through the modding manual and see all the possible negative abilities you could give them, starting from enc. etc.
There is no easy way, but I have figured out one way to snatch graphics. It includes taking a screencapture of non-filtered, windowed Dominion showing unit description, editing the almost-back background to truly black and, to magenta for shadows. It only gives you the spr1 files, and you can't get a good capture of spr2 because it has to be taken in battle. Spr1 can be edited slightly to make working, if crude spr2.
I can snatch the spr1's for you, just tell or PM me the units' names or preferably numbers. If you want, I can also try to make some kind of spr2's. The work isn't hard, but it takes some time, so you might have to wait until my exams are over (two weeks) until I get to work on this.
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Thanks for the feedback. I already have negative supply bonus on the creatures that need it.
They have a blood-only mage with a research penalty, an elemental random one path mage (I think I'm gonna change it to wear some armor for encumberance), and the ridiculously expensive Fallen Angel.
I saw the website with the sprites, and downloaded a few as well. I have the Niefel Jarl sprite color-shifted and resized (need to add magenta), but it wasn't included because when colorshifting, the background got shifted as well so I need to re-shift that color back (and it was very late). So later, in a few days, I guess.