[Shovah32]

Sword of swiftness kills a max of 2 enemies per turn, 4 if quickened.
A fire/frost brand can kill 3 per turn(and hits 3 per turn), 6 when quickened.

One round of attacks, meaning 2 attacks with the sword of swiftness or 1 with a brand, takes the same amount of encumberance.


As for the SC, you don't make spellcasting SCs. You should have some equipped basalt kings who buff and then go into battle. If you want spellcasting from them, you wont be using them as SCs/thugs. As you said, bladewind is very high fatigue. Consider magma eruption.