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Gandalf Parker said:
3 shades for 5 gems.
Looking at an old game I remembered that I dont know how many times they have saved my mages from assassination. In most cases I cant think of anything else Id use that I wouldnt rather use front-line instead. And as I said, its often the only stealth or aquatic troop I have available early in the game that an draw fire so my mages or priests or leader with a a nasty weapon can do their work.
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Well, first of all, there are few assassins shade bodyguards can kill that national troops ones can't. Second, you can for the most part only use them for death or blood mages, which are pretty tough to assassinate in any case.
I don't see how it could possibly the only stealth or aquatic troop available often, reanimation and black servant are both level one research. And for both cases you still need a leader to use them for the purpose.
I'm not saying that shades can never kill anything, I'm not even saying that their abilities can't be useful, only that you can virtually always accomplish the same things better in other ways. Just because the hammer you paid 100$ for works for pounding in nails doesn't mean you weren't gypped compared to the 25$ hammer that does the same thing.