Hydra too OP???

[Vinter]

So I am playing a Head to Head against a Dark Elf faction and the Hydra levels to rank 9 way too quickly compared to anything else. Turn 5 and the Hydra is already rank 9! All while every single unit I have remain rank 1, with only my cavalry at rank 2.

[{PIX}EL]

ai sometimes comes with 6 to 9 stacks of hydras on hard campaign. you can kill or rout them before they can engage if you have enough archers. fire also helps.

havent finished the game with DE yet but the fast ranking may be due to the lord. HE for example, has a lord that gives 250xp per turn to all of its units. it could also be a recource in one of its settlements like vault's anvil in caledor.

hope this helps

[Ason]

Hydra levels up so fast because of all the killing it does. The same happened with my hydras playing as the Dark Elves. They were always in the thick of battle soaking up the exp because in most cases you can just throw them into the fray and forget about them for a bit while you manage other troops.

[Greldinart]

top tier ground monster are OP, they are more powerfull(and expensive) than heroe...its the game design. they inspire terror, and get serious tanky for survive low tier infantry
they are good vs quite all low tier troops, for defeat them 3 options, spell, ranged(cavalry of preference), and high tier unit...its same with slann who can have low tier monster who ar epain in the ass to beat...you need tier4 unit for face a mass monster.....i think its may be the limit of ia who send often infantry in frontline instead player who will preserve infantry loss by using ranged, or cavalry or monster just before engaging melee...thats why ia lost many troops in front of monster...i didnt try it, but do you tried to boost the IA in battle, you have 4 lvl of difficulty, may be if you change it, the IA wont suicide his troops on hydra >: