We all know Alazkan should be renamed 'the terminator'. However, in FF he has to give up his claim to the position of 'the most broken mass butcher'. The title goes to Mizquizli today. And here's why:
First of all, Mizquizli can be upgraded from either an assassin or a priest of Agruonn. I won't go into how dumb it would be to use the latter. So we stick to the former. Assassins are recon units, while Mizquizli is a disciple unit. So he Now a properly built mizquizli is only upgraded once that assassin has taken every promotion an assassin can receive. It takes some 950+ experience (less for a charismatic leader), when you include guerilla 2 and woodsman 2 (unrestricted leaders). I just wanted to be sure I did not end up missing one so I took the long way. The only thing he won't get that Alazkan does is subdue beasts. With Blood of the phoenix, sheut stone, great commander, valor and spamming the assassin with all the equipment (empty bier + nether blade + gela = awesome) you get your hands on, it is possible. At the first glance, it would seem as though you should strive to get him to worship Esus, but that is not such a good decision. Hidden nationality is useful for killing stuff while at peace but just declare a war and then use some nice stack for protecting your would-be hero. Esus gives him no spells and since he has divine and channeling 3, that's horrible waste. Rather, get him Empyrean, for the awesome crown of brilliance. Order is wasted since he will not hang in your cities (though he makes an awesome city defender). Kilmorph is not bad either but he does not really need earthquake. OO tsunami is only useful near water and requires only channeling 2 iirc, get it for one of your shadow priests (who are made from uber assassins like Miz) if you really want it. Veil gives nice direct damage too but once again, it only takes channeling 2 and is not as good as cob (which you don't have to recast every turn). FoL is worthless because Mizquizli does not build empires, he tears them down. And he does not need summons.
Now lets look at Miz himself. Invisible, marksman (though he already had), channeling 3, divine, shadow 1, body 1, medic 1. He can get march promotion to heal on move and faster in enemy territory, or cast regeneration on himself for even better. With medic 1, he already heals faster than Alazkan. He can haste himself too to score one more kill per turn. He only has -25% city strength vs Alazkan's -50% and that's a huge difference. Miz is inherently stronger too 8/7 +4 poison vs 6/4 +2 poison. Get the picture? He can go wherever he likes and does not have to care about open borders. And unlike hn Alazkan, he won't be attacked (and possibly overwhelmed by megastacks of (still) neutral parties. Once Miz is upgraded, he has access to disciple promotions. So he does not run out of promotions to get too quickly. He can immediately cure himself of poison and disease, which Alazkan needs help with (especially the latter). Finally his last free promotion, cannibalize. 10% heal after he kills stuff. With 4-8 first strikes and immunity to them, what are the chances he suffers more damage per combat? Multiple such combats in row? Just get him in some nice chokepoint city and he can probably take 200 unit megastacks alone.
So Alazkan goes crazy and attacks Miz and ends up gifting him a few xp and the uber mirror. Just think of how broken he will be then. However, this kind of a monster is so hard work to get he should not be nerfed any. If you ever get Miz this good, you deserve to steamroll to victory.
First of all, Mizquizli can be upgraded from either an assassin or a priest of Agruonn. I won't go into how dumb it would be to use the latter. So we stick to the former. Assassins are recon units, while Mizquizli is a disciple unit. So he Now a properly built mizquizli is only upgraded once that assassin has taken every promotion an assassin can receive. It takes some 950+ experience (less for a charismatic leader), when you include guerilla 2 and woodsman 2 (unrestricted leaders). I just wanted to be sure I did not end up missing one so I took the long way. The only thing he won't get that Alazkan does is subdue beasts. With Blood of the phoenix, sheut stone, great commander, valor and spamming the assassin with all the equipment (empty bier + nether blade + gela = awesome) you get your hands on, it is possible. At the first glance, it would seem as though you should strive to get him to worship Esus, but that is not such a good decision. Hidden nationality is useful for killing stuff while at peace but just declare a war and then use some nice stack for protecting your would-be hero. Esus gives him no spells and since he has divine and channeling 3, that's horrible waste. Rather, get him Empyrean, for the awesome crown of brilliance. Order is wasted since he will not hang in your cities (though he makes an awesome city defender). Kilmorph is not bad either but he does not really need earthquake. OO tsunami is only useful near water and requires only channeling 2 iirc, get it for one of your shadow priests (who are made from uber assassins like Miz) if you really want it. Veil gives nice direct damage too but once again, it only takes channeling 2 and is not as good as cob (which you don't have to recast every turn). FoL is worthless because Mizquizli does not build empires, he tears them down. And he does not need summons.
Now lets look at Miz himself. Invisible, marksman (though he already had), channeling 3, divine, shadow 1, body 1, medic 1. He can get march promotion to heal on move and faster in enemy territory, or cast regeneration on himself for even better. With medic 1, he already heals faster than Alazkan. He can haste himself too to score one more kill per turn. He only has -25% city strength vs Alazkan's -50% and that's a huge difference. Miz is inherently stronger too 8/7 +4 poison vs 6/4 +2 poison. Get the picture? He can go wherever he likes and does not have to care about open borders. And unlike hn Alazkan, he won't be attacked (and possibly overwhelmed by megastacks of (still) neutral parties. Once Miz is upgraded, he has access to disciple promotions. So he does not run out of promotions to get too quickly. He can immediately cure himself of poison and disease, which Alazkan needs help with (especially the latter). Finally his last free promotion, cannibalize. 10% heal after he kills stuff. With 4-8 first strikes and immunity to them, what are the chances he suffers more damage per combat? Multiple such combats in row? Just get him in some nice chokepoint city and he can probably take 200 unit megastacks alone.
So Alazkan goes crazy and attacks Miz and ends up gifting him a few xp and the uber mirror. Just think of how broken he will be then. However, this kind of a monster is so hard work to get he should not be nerfed any. If you ever get Miz this good, you deserve to steamroll to victory.
