The issue is there is five of them.

Just give them enough ogre-blooded onyx rings and they are unstoppable. 

Courage and plain leveling up also have a very strong impact on their performance.

But please, do not cut down their number. They are unique unit this way. May be fame reqirement should be higher and initiative could be lowered so player will have to invest in initiative instead of damage.

Oh, they're coming in as a 5x? Weird. That would explain it. They level extra strong on attack as well (they get +1 physical +1 lightning every level).

I think I'm going to leave them as is for now and wait to see if another fix (delaying trait reward events so you don't get them on turn 5 or whatever) solves the issue.

Thanks guys!

Don't downscale units.....up scale units. That was one of my biggest gripes about LH. Designers kept taking away stuff.

Can this unit be OP? Yep But I also have two Urxen and Two orcs in my pocket by the time they show up. That's a killer stack.

And still I got smoked by a drake.

I see no problem with powerful unique units. Problem is they are relatevly easy to get.

I agree BUT in defense of SD they are the few we are the many and we only have to play not do all the other stuff.  that said, there are many bugs reported that fall into the category of ... how could they have missed this

hope i wasn't the one being antipathetic

By the looks of things, no.

I've watched almost all the streams and I've seen a lot of things that I knew exactly but Adam and Scott wandered about or were unsure of. And I have "just" 100+ hours in the game, while the guys play/think/develop the game as their job for a couple of years at least.