Talk:Heroes/@comment-93.219.55.70-20140501101613

What would be the overall "best" or most times used retinue units?

What i would choose:

Healing: White mage. While being just a lvl 4 unit (depending on your version of game), he,s a general that supports your army with a powerful healing spell (better than the fire magic equivalent), can remove poison and disease and has a medium damage but low range electric attack.

Of course you can also use a unicorn - but those tend to go into close combat and don't have an "rare" elemental damage type.

Don't forget to put him on magic defender or warden for your hero so he can auto-cast.

@Elemental Damage and Utility:

This is actual a hard choice- the wood elf druid does little damage but its magic damage (most units dont have magic resitance), he has one of the most impressive anti-mass spells (thunder) and can change the weather from day to night vice versa. Even an undead or dark elf should consider this.

The scorpion lord does a lot of elec damage, can cast two rings of fire or summon a fire elemental....

The Darkmage (general, ice shards x 2 or drain mana) does the most elec damage next to the sorceror of the dark elf (Zombie + Fire pillar) and the summoner (general, summons demon, banish)

@Raw damage and tanks

This position might be heavily influence by your personal taste:

Possible candidates:

Ork Giant: general, does fear and splash damage (Crushing!)

Minotaur King: general, highest slashing damage in game - ties in health with bronze golem and t-rex

T-rex, not a general but high hit points and will cost less setup points than a minotaur or giant

Bronze golem: this is a tank! Hit points like a minotaur king, Crushing Damage! high armor and reistance and will give you ressources from enemy buildings left over

Reaver - the fast hard hitter, he will out run the previous mentioned ones and does triple damage against them - this would be a good counter unit like the dark mage