Neifel giants suck?

[Joonie73]

Do you think having such a low attack and defense skills (11 and 11) is justified on such a costly unit? In my experience, they miss so much against the better melee units and conversely gets hit too often (though it takes a lot of blows to take them down).

[NTJedi]

These Giants were actually peaceful at one time which is why the stats are low... they've spent centuries spending most of their time fishing and farming.
Actually I don't know if any of that is true I thought it would add some smile to the topic tho.

[Teraswaerto]

The main thing to do with them is bless them with nature 9 and they regenerate like crazy due to the high hitpoints (and have high protection too when berzerking). They seem pretty good to me, but what do I know...

[Treebeard]

Their att/def Ratings are cold dependent, so you have to take it in consideration.

Also, I don't see anyone playing with Niefelheim without nature 9, so once they go berserk their att goes to 14 (normal temperature province).

Still, I like to save the money and get the Niefelheim commanders. Much better units, IMHO.

You don't 'need' to get Nature 9, because the basic unit of Jotun is the Spearman; that makes up the bulk of your armies because it's cheap and very effective.

Try interspersing smaller units behind and around your Giants; the advantage of them is their strength. Even the normal units can kill most other normal units in one blow and have great hp.

[LordArioch]

Well if you don't have nature 9 or some other strong bless plan you're better of with another jotunheim theme than niefelheim.