Upgrading Dragonslayers of Erin

[Chatterbox]

I've been experimenting with something to make this unit more interesting - as it stands, it's an exclusive unit that every quickly looses it's edge.


I had two options in mind:
Defensive: 2HP, dialing the unit size down to 80

Offensive:
Raise attack to 14, unit size 120

In both cases, making the recruiting cost about 1200 and maintenance cost about 400.

[Blackorc]

I agree that they need to be upgraded, Because you can never retrain them easy and in my opinion they are weaker then iron guard Giving them 2hp would'nt fix it because you make their attack weaker and they also get easy outnumberd.

[Chatterbox]

I've tested them with unit size of 120, and they absolutely own the field. They killed a unit of Olog-hai, loosing about 20 men in process.

[Point Blank]

In RR/RC they can get mithril armor upgrade (+6 armor), at Moria from Mithril Forge.

[P|A|ntZ]

I'd suggest morale_lock. Dwarven dragonslayers are renowned for having no fear, and even back to the First Age they have been unwavering on the battlefield against dragon-fear that sent hardened warriors running.

2HP might be a bit much, but I like the idea of raising their attack slightly. Improving their shield (they do have huge shields) from 6 to about 9 or 10 would be fair - would make them more resistant to arrows, javelins, and AP weapons.