Because harsh terrain (ruins, mountains etc) or water no longer slows you down. Their only downside is that the AI has no idea how to use them, which means you constantly lose siphoners in auto-battles, requiring you to play all battles yourself.Ī very big plus is that all Heritor units are floating, so if you can get your hero into something flying/floating until you get him into a High Lord or better, you have a massive strategical advantage. But they are also very deadly sharpshooters with the proper mods. While the Siphoners can restore APs of your heroes and other killing machines. The insanity is that you get access to all unit mods from Drained/Possessed enemy units without researching them. The Drained can be your immortal cannon fodder, or possess the strongest unit you can utilize.

you can play them exclusively with their own tech tree and skip your racial- and weapon tech.ĭrained are created from casting a spell on eliglible enemy infantry units and then killing them, so they are basically a 'necro' army similar to Xenoplague. Heritor are pretty much self-contained, i.e.

And I haven't really tried the new(ish) Heritor tech yet, so I'm curious what people think of that.

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