Pricing of Mages ... is it balanced?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Sheap:
Let's take a militia event - discounting that sometimes you get a priest with them, or flagellants, which actually does make for a useful event.

The priest is so-so, but the flagellants are just crap, unless you already are playing a blessing effect involving flagellants or some other similar unit, in which case they might not be a total loss...but they're not exactly speedy units, and they tend to spawn in the most inconvenient places.

To make matters worse, it can take you a lot longer than 5 turns to dispose of the militia, because they are very cowardly and will often flee after losing only one or two men, and as a result, have to be rounded up, and then marched to their deaths AGAIN.....