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Originally Posted by Dragar
I don't know that I agree with that. To be sure, I'm not for a second arguing that demonbred are not excellent units, nor that a reasonable person couldn't decide they're the way to go over warlocks for some situations, but I think warlocks are very, very useful early on and just get better as the game goes on. Now, I can't really argue with Micah's general plan of not recruiting them heavily until const-6 is researched, but if you bite the bullet and accept a couple losses from old age they contribute mightily from very early.
Consider where you're at around the end of the first year. Your heavy infantry is tough enough to ward off most threats, but there are a couple things you're vulnerable to if you don't have mage support.
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I'd argue that demonbreds work even better in that situation. It's easy to have 9 or 10 Demonbreds and blood 3 researched by the end of the first year. So you have casters that can cast Summon Imps, Blood Boil, Agony and summon devils. With a bit more research, you'll have Hellfire if you think you need it. Facing an elephant rush? Vector in a dozen demonbred to chain cast summon imp and fatigue them out in your heat 3 dominion. Facing ethereal opponents, bloodboil will kill singes, hellfire can wipe out whole groups. Facing someone with Glamour troops? Agony has a nice big area of affect for a cheap damage spell that ignores armor/defense. Facing an early SC, I don't think there are any out there (early game) that could stand up to a swarm of 20 devils.
As someone mentioned earlier in this thread, the advantage of demonbreds is their versitility and movement. They can switch from blood hunting to researchers to combat mages to devil factory to raiding (with a couple of devils) as you need them. Warlocks can do a lot of those things too (sometimes better), but you can't mass them for combat nearly as fast since they'll probably be scattered doing blood hunting.