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Cainehill said:
I'm also with Saber Cherry on this one. Yes, the black hunters are expensive - but I suspect that your 5 N9E9 black hunters will actually kill your 14 spider knights, halfzware. Regeneration, and better armor / strength, and they go berserk and so won't rout. Nor will they pick up afflictions as quickly as the spider knights.
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I have to disagree with everyone who is promoting the Black Hunters as a bless platform. While I will certainly not debate that a N9E9 (or other heavy bless) spider is quite formidable, the truth is that you simply cant deploy enough of them to have an effect. In the early game, sure you will do tons of damage. But in the mid or late game? Forget it - your spiders are WAY too juicy of a target for mages not to slaughter. A handful of Magma Bolts into a formation of black hunters and - oh my!! you just lost 350gp worth of units, so sorry! Or any of the one-shot one-kill spells like Soul Slay or Paralyze? They frequently target the largest units. Not to mention that un-mounted Hunters have horrendous MR.
No, Black Hunters are just not worth it. Any benefit you might gain in the early game will
rapidly erode as the game progresses. And then you will be left in mid/late game with bad scales and a blessable unit you can no longer use.