[MaxWilson]

It's not a full simulator yet, really no better than working it out on paper, but the gold-equivalent is 3 Palankasha plus change. And yes, counting the Quickening blessing and fire weapons, +4 to attack, etc., it does look like 3 F9W9 Palankasha would inflict about 72 points of damage on a E9N9 Niefel Giant in two rounds, before the cold aura really kicks in. (Well, if he goes berserk the second round it drops to about 63, although I'm not totally sure the Protection is cumulative.) I suppose I was thinking of trying to fight them in a Cold-3 domain. Expected damage for two rounds drops to 44 points in a Cold-2 domain and 36 in a Cold-3, and two rounds of combat is basically all you've got before you're frozen stiff (especially if there are multiple units on both sides, like 4 giant and 12 Palankasha, because the cold aura stacks). But yeah, F9W9 Palankashas look like they could stand up to E9N9 Niefel Giants. I stand corrected. That doesn't make the KoA in any way bad, though, except for the high resource cost.

Edit: Python code attached.

-Max