Re: Machaka in CB
Gryphons don't stay after the battle. Nor do serpents, lobsters, or wolves. I can't think of anything except Giant Spiders and Hunter Spiders that do. (I'm not counting the various shapeshifters.) The others are just vengeance attacks. With Black Hunters the Hunter Spider is what you're buying.
What you're buying is almost twice the hit points of a Jotun Woodsman for 2.5 times the cost. Low strength but the poison and, especially, web makes up for it. Protection and defense are better. What you're buying is 4 times the hit points of a Knight of the Chalice while giving up 4 prot and 3 def and paying 1.39 the cost. Like any big troop they are vulnerable to masses of f9 Flagellents or Jaguar Warriors but I'd expect them to dominate an equal cost of Niefel Giants. They seem competitive.
They do tend to get afflictions since the blow that kills the rider tends to have a high damage / current HP ratio but a N9 blessing stops this.
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