So after thoroughly reading the manual, and going over the different factions a few times I finally settled on wanting to play as Gilden for the all mighty Iron Golem! I mean heck in the manual the dev notes on Gilden even state "...Also, Iron Golems rock." and hey, they made the game so they gotta be good right?
So I slowly start fuddling my way through my first game working my way up to the tech I need to make the all mighty Iron Golem, and at last! I have them unlocked! Do I stop there and just start churning out the basic Iron Golem? Oh no, I go a step further and unlock more weapon/shield upgrades for what I dub the WAR Golem! I build up 3 of the brutes, and put them in my primary adventuring party with Lord Markin and Tallywhacker the Beggar or whatever his name is and start wandering about the land looking to start a fight. Lo and behold I find some earth elementals, time to introduce them to the iron fists of fury that belong to my Golems! I start combat, and am impressed by the imposing stature of my Golems, and how they have a slow and powerful "I mean business" lumbering movement as they go forth to crush mine enemies. One of the elementals is daft enough to come at my golems it seems? Time to see what these bad boys can do! I instruct my first available Golem to pummel the elemental into dust, he raises his mighty fist and brings it down on the elemental for an earth shattering.....
2 damage.....
What? This is the mighty Iron Golem spoken of in tales of legend? Must have just been a bad roll, I instruct the next one to attack. A mighty swing lands for....
3 damage....
Okay, I figure maybe these earth elemental guys have awesome armor, so I blow them up with a fireball and move on to a new target. I find some spiders nearby and think hey, spiders are bugs, bugs are squishy right? Lets see how they stand up against the mighty boot of the Iron Golem!
I begin combat, lumber my mechanical monstrosities over, and hit them for....
5 damage....
Ugh really Mr. Golem? Did they run out of iron and make your fists out of nerf material? I grab my unit of 3 spearmen that I've been traveling with since my kingdom first set roots and they run up and squish the spider for 17 damage.
What's the deal with these Iron Golems? is there a switch on them somewhere to deactivate tickle mode? They have a good deal of health but sweet monkey butt they hit like little girls. This definitely goes against the description in the manual which states that "Iron Golems Rock". Do they have any combat viability at all other than essentially being roadblocks?
