Bidding on Nations

[MaxWilson]

Dedas,

Glamour is quite hard to address on the strategic map. The only counter I can think of is lots of scouts, attacking each province every turn and then retreating. According to Kristoffer, glamour will be altered in the upcoming patch. Details have not yet been divulged except that it's a change to battlefield glamour, not strategic glamour.

The spear-wielding Helheim Huskarls we've mentioned before--sure, a spear can be a decent weapon for repelling, but that Huskarl is three times as expensive as a serf warrior with a spear and IIRC the same defense, and almost the same price as a Hirdman with 5 points higher defense. In order for the Huskarl's repel to be better than the defense boost, you'd need to be facing a foe with a defense and morale so low that 2 out of 3 attacks were repelled. (And his weapon has to be longer than a broadsword or else the Hirdman repels him, too.) Does such a unit even exist? And if it did, is there any reason you wouldn't be fighting it with cheap serf warriors and indy light infantry, or even better with mounted Hirdmen? Mounted Hirdmen have javelins, too, cost about double what a Huskarl costs in gold, have 11 Prot instead of IIRC 9, defense 19 instead of (14?), and have a weapon the same length as a spear and so equally good at repelling. Unless I'm misremembering the Huskarl's stats I'm still not seeing a situation where you'd want to use him.

Edit: to put it another way, if we were bidding I would cheerfully offer a spear Huskarl with Prot 11, just like the Hirdman, in full confidence that it wouldn't help you at all.

-Max