Lords of Civilization

[WraithLord]

Fielding squads of giants has its weaknesses too. For example, probably the most efficient way to play Hinom is take strong bless and expand/fight with small squads of giants and/or SCs. In the early to mid game a competent player can counter this quite effectively. For example a human nation can field armies designed to swarm the giants backed by mages scripted to stop them (with entangle, fire bonds, false fetters for example).

They don't have stealth units so a stealthy nation like Pangaea can give them extremely hard time.

The Hinom SCs flavor text implies that they may hurt their own population.

Are their mages better than EA TC?

Having said that, I think we need to wait some more time for MP evidence to start coming regarding the new nation's strength. The fact that the AI plays dead to strong bless nations is largely irrelevant to MP.

[Endoperez]

WraithLord said:
The Hinom SCs flavor text implies that they may hurt their own population.

They devour population. I don't remember how much, exactly, but it's something like 30 pop/month/Rephaite in EA. The Rephaite Warrior units, Kohen (priests), Melqarts (thugs) and Ba'al (mages) all do this, and because they're all capital-only, you probably want to take Growth to keep your capital from dying.

[Aezeal]

DO they do that standard or only if there isn't enough food though?

[Twan]

I've forgoten that, didn't noticed it in fact when I tested Hinomm (I'm so lazy in sp that my balz were blood hunting in the capitol... so losing pop looked normal). But it's an interesting disavantadge in the long run (but as main researchers don't do that it's probably not a big one).

[Endoperez]

It's every turn even if they have enough normal food. I didn't test if they eat more people when they run out of food.