[jutetrea]

I ran the mod on a 22 human player map, just to check out the heroes and summons. These are initial impressions only and have not been playtested. I'm very excited about the mod and loved what I saw. Any nation I do not make mention of means I love the hero and how it fits and have no comments other than Schweeet!

Very strong, too strong?
Ulm, Man, Arco, Bandar
These seem to be SC's in their own right. Just by looking at the stats and not play testing, they seem to be more powerful than most summons and quite a few semi-sc pretenders. The low hp are their biggest weakness, but they would still dominate SP (probably defeatable with SC specific MP strategies, but pretty much all are). This is mostly off just stats, some of the items are really cool but pretty crazy - and then there are the summons. Essentially free gold for fantastic troops.
32 prot!

Summoning sacreds.
I think the Mict hero is damn cool, but 5(?) free sacreds a turn? that's 120 free gold right off the bat, no hit on the max dominion-based recruiting, and pretty much sweet units to begin with. Maybe just warriors.
Arco - not too terrible, but I think should be regular hoplites and not sacred HC's.
C'tis - sacred serpents, were never very impressed by them to begin with, but still sacred, low upkeep and blessabel.

Machaka - what a sweet ability! love it! Almost too powerful, but very, very cool. Does decay have a max amount of aging/damage or do they age till their dead? If till dead I actually think its too powerful. If he gets one shot off on a 300 hp unit and it dies.. that's a bit much. Maybe use the sharpest tooth's poison?

Black phoenix - looks real cool, love the artwork. Possibly weak?

Weak heroes, IMO (or maybe still good, but not up to snuff with the others)
Caelum - bit average, did i miss anything?
Pan - bit too nerfed? or is it still a gangbuster?
Van - compared to the others this guy seems very weak. Does he have a special I didn't notice? Essentially just a free 200g mage.
Oceania - bit average it seems, did I miss anything?

Ry'leh - scary, very much like the lack of slots. How does this guy do in melee?

Shin - love the hero, appropriate summons (good but not as fantastic as above), cool abilities

Tien - would dropping 1S and adding either 1F or 1E break him? Astral isn't a huge problem and can get randomly, cannot get 3F or 3E randomly.

Love it and definitely want to get in on your first game. I'd almost recommend random nations as well.