actually, this hero is quite needed to speed up the army's movement. if u take the 'organized' trait, get some items/spells that increase movemet, or use teleport spells, u can move those powerful but slow unit fairly easily. mobility is, quite frankly, the only thing heroes excel at late game. however, having a hero with ~30 hp, 60 attack and 100 def isn't that hard, and atm i can't see how a caster beats that, when spells miss most of the time..

i hope that devs will put some thought into all those aspects in near future. it will surely take some time and effort to straighten everything up, but we're not in any kind of rush, aren't we?

The strange thing is that GalCiv2 used the same system being suggested here. Why would they change it to uberpwn system when the old system was tried and true. As I recall, first strike was also available in that game.

I strongly agree unis needs MORE HP - it is just too much randomness when a mighty hero is killed by a single arrow because he has so few HP and got unlucky once. More HP, and please less retaliatory attacks, which makes it even more necessary to build and then stack troops so that they kill the enemy on first strike. A melee fight should take a few rounds so that tension mounts - not like in Elemental where even your sovereign might die from a spider bite early game.