what should i be using my dwarf thane mainy for? as an agent?

[ZEEK (Trained Navy Seal)]

what do they excell at??

also i have the same question for the master engineer and runesmith


please and thanks

[Saint Landwalker]

I mostly used my Thane as "run around and do random actions until he maxed out the Training skill", and then embedded him in an army.

Runesmith's have a great Growth skill that makes them valuable for developing provinces. I just did random actions until I could max that out (it's an early one, so it doesn't take long), then used him as provincial support. It's now later in the game, so I've given him a few rune skills and am also using him as battle support, too.

Master Engineers are useful for slowing down enemy armies and also have great battle support skills for missile units and artillery.

[ZEEK (Trained Navy Seal)]

thanks, so guess dwarfs dont have a dedicated assassain agent? to get rid of other agents?

[Saint Landwalker]

Not really. I used my Thane, but even the Thane only has, I think a single "rank" in an assassination skill. Dwarves aren't great at it.

[ZEEK (Trained Navy Seal)]

ok thank you very much

[Kufesska]

does master engineer's buffs affect gyrocopters?

[Blackfyre]

Not sure on Gyros..The Lord has Thoppa Whoppa for the gyros..so you could save your points for that instead of using the ones for missile and artillary, and let the engineer take care of that.
He also has an extra bonus (small radius) to rof and damage.

[Sultschiem]

Depends on your armies.
Thanes train your armys if you embed them, they will earn xp every turn. They are also decent melee-fighters. But I mainly use them as agents and embed them when I recruit new units.

Runesmiths are great to use in combat but only after you got the rune of smiting, which is a great damage spell.

Otherwise I use them as agents to get rid of corruption.

As for Master Engineers: Good ranged-fighter, but their construction reduction is pretty valuable.

If you have armies with gunpowder, then use them , because they empower all gunpowder-units around them, they are also decent fighters to shoot down armored units.

Otherwise use them as agents.