I concur wholeheartedly.  I've been working on a video tutorial, in fact, espousing the wonders of Beastlord.  Hooray for a powerful military, no need to tie up researching military tech instead of magic or civilization branches of the tech tree, no need to tie up your cities training troops instead of making buildings or Wonders, and best of all, no maintenance on Tamed units.

I love going for the web casting spiders first, as they make it easier to tame others.  I play custom Pariden ... the magic affinities reall help the Tame.  40 mana is a lot for an essential starting spell!

Chibiabos, you've pointed out a few things I didn't notice before like zero maintenance for tamed units, that's great, thanks! I've created a custom Krax faction for my Beastlord tactics (probably because of a spidar in Krax blood shield) and I can't wait till the end of today's shift to get back to my little kingdom I wish there was a fully developed Beastlord faction and you could breed your animals and build beast armies.

I'd like to watch your tutorial, Chibiabos!

Quoting joasoze,

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Are you two getting married

Sadly, he refused me, I'm no Beastlady ... speaking of ladies, this game is helping me through the tough period of my life ... these social aspects of computer games are usually over-looked but for me the Fallen Enchantress will always be the game that helped me forget unpleasant memories ...

Beastlord is a lot of fun.  

it wiould be nice to see animals able to gain traits when levelling, but give them access to an entirely different trait tree. evolved carapaces and claws, venom sacs, adrenal glands, that sort of thing. give them abilities that compensate for their lack of equipment, and feel different to play.

I don't think that Umberdroths need any more to be useful, they are pretty awesome.  Some big ass spiders out there too.

Uh, if I'm not playing beastlord ad I get the collar, I actively look for the Hoarder Spider on the map.  Because Huge, Splash damaging spiders with 100+ HP are awesome.

I get an Umberdroth and name him "Mr Pickle" an he is my Sov's pet for the rest of the game.  

Seems like we all found the same ways to use beasts =D

Amazing to read the things i exaclty do ^^

Beastlord should be nerfed a bit, i guess. But while none does that - we pwn hard using it

Unfortunately cult of a hundred eyes spiders are significantly worse than the ones you can tame. Attack is worse, typically have no defense and the Hoarder spiders don't do splash damage.

Beastlord is fairly unstoppable. Get some spiders and a great wolf early. I had a custom faction and got the random event that drops huge groups of spiders around the map. I had a army that had two huge 300 plus hitpoint Horder spiders, three groups of 4 corpse spiders, a named spider, a great wolf, and Shieldman. That combined with a spellcasting sovereign dropping Horrific Wail was utterly devastating.