Drakken Flying but no flying heroes?

[ppundy]

I'm relatively new, with only a few completed campaigns under my belt. Recently, i tried playing the Drakken but got stuck on the lack of synergy between their heroes and their armies. Why is flying missing on their heroes when its such an integral characteristic of the race? How do the Heroes keep up with their fast moving armies?

[NoGas]

The only flying hero is Tarosh. Done.

Flying heroes would allow way too much exploitation of early game exploration, considering you could move over obstacles and terrain without any issue.

In reality, flying heroes would also hurt some of the balance during combat as well. You could easily send the hero unit (theoretically the strongest of the group) after choice targets.

Or at least that's how I see it.

[Migz - DH]

Originally posted by ppundy:

How do the Heroes keep up with their fast moving armies?

If their movement is less, they don't keep up and force the army movement down to their speed.

[foetus sub mundi]

If you really want to make flyer-only armies with Drakken, which I don't recommend because Drakkenlings are really, really useful, you can always take advantage of the ability of heroes to "teleport" into armies. Leave a general unassigned while you travel, and only assign it when you want to fight.

Of course afterwards, you'll have to wait 5 turns to unassign him.

[ppundy]

Yeah, I'm finding myself in a near constant state of un-attaching heros from drakken armies, moving the army and then re-attaching the hero. wait 5 turns and do it again.