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It made empire purely range units for me, i couldn't justify getting any greatswords or mages just because of the sheer firepower. Knights of the blackrose gets buffs from landmark on nuln.
it's the inverse for Gelt, whose faction doesn't have anything to do with guns so doesn't have any faction mechanic related to them, but he himself as a gold mage buffs them to some degree.
Except for the upkeep she has no buffs for gunpowder units. The only thing good about her is her dragon. But i rather have a steam tank mount. Thats why in my campaign there is no magic girls with their silly gardens. She can go to heck. And her units??? I guess ok.... but i would rather have rocket battery shooting mini searing dooms or transmutations instead of her magic. It sucks hard that she who has no business with tech, gets the empire gunnery. Now i have to haul my butt to cathay to bring back Gelt to empire and give him a present of super upgraded gunpowder units.
when u use elspeth's army u feel like a master of shadow magic and if u use any nuln army including hers u feel like ur using a nuln army. she gets the best of both worlds, imho its not a lack its an character-flavored enrichment
u can also replace her with a master engineer for i guess more nuln themeing, but she already comes with the engineer hero who does character-based buffs to the roster so they covered that already as well
Her Amethyst units are a bit OP. In Auto resolve one of those Amethyst horse riders with grenade launchers got 800+ kills.
She not buffing the gunner units in a special way isn't really an issue when she can recruit some of the strongest one. Just get the normal red gunnery and artillery line and get the final buffs to all of them.
The Amethyst artillery just deal 70%+ damage on almost any unit blob when they are fully maxed out. Any siege can be done by that alone as long as you have some extra horsemen around with extra ammo.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3236306669
This was just a normal one that was buffed up.
She herself is great at just spamming life steal or the black sun spell which she can make costs 6 magic.
Late game I could auto resolve 2 stacks from Legion of Chaos with low casualty on Hard mode.
I guess you could willingly give up the option to cast Purple Sun super cheap like 15 times in a battle while on a laser dragon...but why would you want to?
Yes i do give up that for a fully classic gunpowerd army theme. I will only will use her units so i can upgrade the Nuln gunnery mission. Other than that, only trusty gunpower army with one mission. Shoot all in sight! Her whole faction is a mess. Imagine if Malacai gunpowder upgrades were given to Thorek. They guy who doesnt care about innovation. Well this is what Eslphet faction is. Her thing is Undead and More and her gardens. The gunnery is really there just as an extra because "oh she resides there" and Gelt would use it way better.
Who exactly would you suggest they have added instead? The number of Lords that can be added to the game is getting more and more limited, and if you're replacing her with an Engineer Lord, you're just purposefully gimping yourself lol
Elsbeth is about the Undead????
Huh?
"Oh she just resides there"?
She just lives there and picks flowers or what?
Who defeated Tamurkhan, protected the Empire and Nuln and with what army from which State?
And Gelt has what exactly to do with the Nuln Artillery School?
He is the Supreme Patriarch of the Wizard Schools, that's his primary theme, Boss wizard. Magic.
That he buffs Armor and Missile units is just because he is a metal wizard.
If there is a Lord of Artillery it is who controlls Nuln.
So there are two Options: Emmanuelle von Liebwitz or Elsbeth von Draken and between the two there is only one actual choice.
Plus, Emmanuelle, in the unlikely event that she was added, probably would have come with a mercenary mechanic, seeing as throwing mercenaries at enemies is her go-to solution for most of her territorial disputes, rather than using the gunnery school for anything (barring funding already-made deals).
Really glad we got Elspeth, and not Chronic-Flatulence Lady.