I actually sent a message to Amantalado about this but then after typing it all I realized, "Huh, you know what, this could be an interesting topic for all to read, and converse about." So I decided to make this thread, concerning those nasty little Sanguine henchmen.

I've been thinking about this since I first played this mod. I'd first love to say I LOVE the added challenge they pose. I'm a man who loves challenges, and putting myself to the test. But there is one problem I do have with the Sanguine.

Sometimes I'll find pit after pit being made due to, of course, my peasants, guards, and whatever else henchmen I have keep dying. Virtually in every single case this means it's early game for me, because monsters are roaming about in my kingdom killing most things, including heroes. I generally manage to survive and build back up, but then each time this happens, there tends to be a sanguine pit made.

These sanguine pits will just pool out peasants, and due to their intelligent AI (great job btw Aman) they go STRAIGHT for buildings, not caring about anything else. This normally at -least- ends up in one destroyed building, if not several, largely due to it being early game of course, I'm scrounging for gold, and the few heroes I do have can't kill them quickly enough. I have actually had more then five games now where the sanguine peasants are the sole reason for my kingdom's destruction.

I recall this one time that they alone even destroyed the palace themselves! That made me laugh, but it also can become frustrating due to the fact I can't really prevent it. The only method I can think of is to basically not build any guardhouses, and hope that the heroes defend all of my buildings. Another method if I wanted to be incredibly efficient, I'd build straight for a dwarven fortresss for those sweet, sweet towers, which not only don't generate henchmen, but also are exceedingly powerful, and are more then capable of defending themselves.

In the late game, they don't tend to be an issue of course, because either you've built up an incredible defense, or you have enough heroes that they tend to come to the rescue. But those are my thoughts, what's yours?

If I were to give a way to repair the issue, but maintain the challenge. Perhaps there could be a cap amount of sanguine peasants can be released with each, 'wave'? I'd also be fine if the sanguine guards scaled a bit higher as time went on concerning HP.