My favorite unit...

[parcelt]

If I can pick any unit, it would be Lanka's Mandaha. It costs 133 bloodslaves to summon (at B8 I think), but its worth many times that.

How's this:
- he can fly.
- he can command large armies.
- he autocasts darkness at the beginning of each battle!
- he comes with air 3, so you can cloudtrapeze him anywhere, and have him buff with mirror image / mistform.
- he has 65 hps and comes with generally decent stats.
- he is sacred and priest level 3, so he can cast divine bless on himself.
- he is vulnerable to fire and is a demon, so you would want to equip him accordingly.

Properly used and equipped, there's really not a lot that can stand against these guys. Anything but other undead/demons don't have a chance to start, because of darkness. Second, his stats - with air magic buffs and the strong bless you'd probably play Lanka with anyway - are better than any tartarian, wraithlord, demonlord, archdevil, or anything else undead you can think of. These guys are as bad as they come.

[Atreidi]

Gandalf Parker said:

Do you have a specific build for that which we can toss into the semirand library? Something the AI could play fairly intelligently? Sounds like it would be interesting to run into in a solo game.

Do you see it best as an add to a specific nation?
Or as part of a specifically designed province?

A specifically designed province would work great. I always love fighting the "Vampire Crew" or the "Troll Crew", Maybe there could be a "Wraight Lord Crew". And as far as the the equipment he is very flexible unit. I usually give him two swords, some solid armor and boots and make them berserk. I pile them up in groups of 5. I mostly use them for suiside missions inside my dominion.