HINNOM EATS EVERYTHING

[MaxWilson]

Ming said:
I think one way of reducing the power of Hinnom without changing its complexity is to drastically weakens its PD. It might be thematic too. A population that needs to sacrifice their own to pacify their rulers would need a lot of persuation to stand up and fight for them when they are not around.

It might also be a good idea to reexamine the resource cost of Dawn Blades and/or the gcost of Dawn Guards w/rt similar units of other nations. The thing that comes to mind there is def 16 / base defense 13. I suspect they're pretty okay (Kala-Mukhas cost 65 and are sacred) but it's worth looking at, since I believe KO assigns unit abilities before gcost/rcost.

-Max

[Ming]

I just took a look at Hinnom vs. Niefel (inspired by Baalz's post). What struck me immediately is that Hinnom's starting army is roughly twice as strong (or at least would have cost about twice as much to recruit) as Niefel's! No wonder I have always found it worthwhile to gamble and sent Hinnom's starting army out on turn one (I use normal indie setting)! This is a very great advantage. Second, my inspection confirmed my suspicion that Hinnom's units do not seem to be particularly underpriced.

Based on the above I think

1. cutting Hinnom's starting army by half and

2. replacing its PD by 1 Horite per point from 1-19 and 0.5 Horite Champ + 0.5 Horite Hunter per point from 20+, as well as giving Qedesim as its additional leader at 20 instead of Kohen (Horites don't see much action otherwise as they are very expensive goldwise).

should be sufficient to cutting Hinnom down to size without changing its dynamics very much.