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I found they don't kill fast enough that way. If you want to pursue them as a main strategy, it's more than possible, it's powerful, so I feel I must add it to their arsenal. And they can keep up with the reinvig with +7-10, which is cheap to obtain. The only time to really need to "worry" - hah! - is when one of them gets Heroic Quickness as their ability... which no less than THREE of them actually got, as you can see from the picture above! And this is all very early in the game, as soon as you can research Alteration 3 and Construction 4, it's on! Then of course Enchantment 4 for Cloud Trapeze.
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Oh, I don't doubt the ***-kicking capabilities of your thugs.
I'm merely suggesting you might get better overall result if you opted for 80% of the power for 50% of the cost.
Your current lords need at least 25 gems worth of equipment(frostbrand, rainbow armor & vine shield) to be usable in combat. For the same 25 gems you could equip one E9N4 lord with frostbrand+vine shield and two E9N4 lords with frostbrands and use them together as a team, they certainly kill stuff faster than any W9E9N4 lord. Or alternatively they can raid three diffrent provinces simultaneously thus gaining three times more land than single W9E9N4 lord. You even have more money to build sidhe lords with E9N4 because of the better scales. Of course these weaker thugs may die a bit more often but they are so cheap to equip it doesn't really matter.
Before joining these forums I used a lesser version of this tactic Baalz covered in his Eriu guide, with vanjarls and single E9 bless(so no regen or nature buffs) and they only had firebrands for equipment. The games were SP but them jarls worked great.