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EA Hinnom, Sons of the Fallen

Lore

Hinnom is a dry wasteland inhabited by giants. At the dawn of time, one the sacred Mount Hermon, six Angels in full celestial splendor descended to aid and instruct the land's giants. The Avvim were a people strong and beautiful of mind and body. They were adept students and their culture flourished under the tutelage of the Grigori, the angelic Watchers. But before long the Angels became enamored witht eh Avvim and taught them things that should not be taught. Tempted by the beauty of the Avvim, they took their daughters as wives and sinned before the Celestial Powers. Their offspring were Nephilim, giants of godlike power, abominable to the world. The Angels were imprisoned in the infernal Realms for their sins, but the Nephilim were partly of this world and could not be banished by the Celestial Powers. The Nephilim made themsalves kings over the Avvim, and they fathered sons who became known as the Rephaim. The Nephilim and their sons had unnatural appetites and consumed food, livestock, beasts, and finally their own offspring. With time, the Nephilim left Hinnom searching for a purpose and left their sons to rule the Avvim.

"Hinnom, Ashdod and Gath are heavily influenced by ancient Israelite, Canaanite and Philistine concepts. I have always been intrigued and fascinated by biblical mythology, and had long wanted to include the Nephilim and biblical Genesis myths into the game. However, I was worried that I would not do the sources justice, so it took a while before I finally got down to finish the nations. The Bible, the Book of Enoch, the Dead Sea scrolls, and the Ras Shamra texts of Ugarit and interpretations of these texts are the nations' main sources. Hinnom draws more heavily on the biblical and Enochian tradition, while the veneration of the deified dead kings of Ashdod draws inspiration from the Ras Shamra and Canaanite/Ugaritic concepts the dead. The Rephaim/r'p'm of the Ugaritic texts are ghosts or deified dead rather than giants, so Ashdod turned out a bit different than I first intended, with death magic replacing blood. The shift from blood to death gave the nation a different and interesting mood. I have looked a bit at Sumerian and Babylonian history when designing Hinnom and Ashdod. Gath, on the other hand draws more heavily from Israelite and Philistine concepts. Early Israelite religion and history with a centralized cult at the temple and Israelite tribes, combined with David and Goliath's legends are obvious sources for the late iteration of the nation. I wanted the nation to be an abomination, slowly becoming more civilized throughout the ages. Hinnom is perhaps more than any other nation in the game an evil nation. I'm not very fond of the concept of evil, but it would be difficult to claim that the cannibalistic giants of Hinnom are anything but." - Illwinter

General Overview

EA Hinnom has a variety of tough size 3 giant troops, a broad selection of magic paths, affliction healers, recruitable Super Combatants, national blood summons, and national longdead giants. Horite Shamans, Ammis, and Achas are strong and versatile mages in their own right, but the show's real stars are the Rephaim! Kohenim fuel your blood economy, Ba'alim are powerful mages who can sabbath and boost their way up to cast a great variety of powerful spells, Rephaite Warriors are some of the best sacred giants in the game, featuring 2 attacks each, high prot, amazing stats, and even magic weapons, lastly the Melqarts are Hinnom's recruitable Super Combatants, which Hinnom can buff, fluff, and equip to be among the best Super Combatants in the entire game.

While Hinnom has many paths available to it, 7 paths in total, 6 of which are at level 2 or higher, crosspaths are a rarity, only the Rephaites and the Horite Shamans have any cross paths, and the Rephaites only ever mix blood with Earth, Astral, or Fire. While depth in a given magic path is rarely an issue for Hinnom, their lack of cross paths can seriously cut down on the spells available to them and the items they can forge; notably, Hinnom misses out on Earth/Fire and Earth/Astral crosspaths for the Shield of Gleaming Gold and the Cyrstal Coin as well as Gifts from Heaven and Magma Eruption. Hinnom's Rephaites also suffer from their great hunger and eath the population they are and raise unrest, Melqarts doing so at the prodigious rate of 80 population and 8 unrest per turn each! With even their basic blood hunter, the Kohen Eating 20 population and causing 2 unrest each to turn their blood economy will be particularly disruptive to their gold economy and will burn provinces to the ground in short order. Were it not for their Need Not Eat tag so that they can be safely sent to a barren wasteland when not needed elsewhere, Rephaites would soon ruin Hinnom's capital.

While Hinnom's Rephaite Warriors are generally inferior to their successors, the Ahiman Anakites they are still strong sacreds for much the same reasons and can easily be made into nearly indestructible demi-gods. Hinnom also has the blood economy to make extensive use of its national Se'irim summon to supplement their capital only giants. Unlike Ashdod, Hinnom does not need to expand with its sacreds and can easily produce expansion parties each turn composed of Avvite Charioteers, though they will rapidly become obsolete against players.

EA Hinnom is a powerful nation in all stages of the game and can be played with a focus on scales or bless, and under either strategy will experience a strong early, middle, and late game.

National Features

Hinnom has a temperature preference for +2 heat and is able to sacrifice blood slaves to spread their dominion. Hinnom also has national longdead Rephaites. These are well-liked because they are larger and more dangerous than generic longdead. These national longdead can be most easily accessed through the Enchantment 1 ritual spell Reanimation which can be easily cast by any Horite Shaman.

Special Race Attributes Military Magic Access Priests Buildings
Giants!
Prefers Heat Scale +2
Wasteland Survival
Blood sacrifice
Adept sacrificer
Strong Medium Infantry
Powerful Offence
National Longdead
fire 33 (Rare 4)
earth 33 (Rare 4)
astral 33 (Rare 4)
blood 33
nature 22
air 22
death 11
National Heros
astral 44, air 44, fire 44, earth 44, nature 44, blood 44
National Late Game Summons
astral 55, air 44, fire 44, earth 44, nature 44, blood 55 (requires blood 88 )
Weak Priests (holy 11) Giant Forts
  • Mercenaries are 25% more expensive.

Capital Special Sites

Mount hermon Gomorrah

2earthgem2firegem1astralpearl

Enable recruitment of:
Melqart
Ba'al
Rephaite Warrior
2bloodslave

National Units

As a Giant nation, your units have greater Strength and HP, but the army has fewer units in a square. They have above-average moral and MR. Horites are Nacked Giants with bad MR, but Resit Heat and Cold damage.

Your Size 5 units "got the nasty habit of eating people alive." They will Depopulate forts quickly if left stationery, so keeps them moving or park them to a province you don't care about.

Commanders

Commanders are giants, so mages are more expensive but have higher strength and HP, so less likely to die.

Img Unit Name —-SpecialAttributes—- Comments
Avvite Scout
40
15
1
Stealthy(50)
Wasteland Survival
Mountain Survival
Forest Survival
Giant Scout for expensive scouting.
Can raid very light pd.
Qedesim
65
2
1
holy 11
Sacred
Wasteland Survival
Giant Priest with more HP.
If you have a really good bless, they can thug.
Qedesot
70
2
1
holy 11
Sacred
Wasteland Survival
Qedesim but with 10 ld.
Can shuffle troops and lead Rephaite Warrior Parties.
Avvite Commander
85
26
1
Sacred
Stealthy (40)
Wasteland Survival
Giant Commanders with 80ld.
Horite Shaman
90
2
2
earth 11death 11nature 11 5
Resist fire(5)
Resist cold(5)
Darkvision (50%)
Supply bonus (10)
Wasteland Survival
Mountain Survival
Primarily a site searcher and forger.
Starting your site searching, they prepare you for climbing Death if you have it on your pretender.
They get better If you can boost their Nature or Death magic.
Ammi
120
2
2
random2200% 9
Wasteland Survival
Fortune Teller(15%)
Main research mage and reduces bad events.
Whatever path they random, they are all useful.
Acha
170
2
2
nature 22 9
Wasteland Survival
Healer(2)
Supply bonus (20)
One of the rare true healers and is a Nature 2 mage to boot.
Can cast Mass Protection for two Nature gems.
Keep around your supercombatants to heal up their wounds and to also Fluff them.
Kohen
250
8
2
blood 11holy 11random1100% 9
Sacred
Resist fire(6)
Wasteland Survival
Gluttony(10)
Kills Population (20)
Cause Unrest (+2 Per Month)
Need Not Eat
Raphite Priest mage that you can recruit from any fort.
Not the best thug because of their lower stats, but can still thug, especially if there are two to buff each other.
Are your best mass blood hunts but their Raphite nature will reduce the possible yield.
Ba'al
455
3
4
Capital Only
blood 22holy 11random3300%
10%
15
Sacred
Fear (5)
Resist fire (8)
Wasteland Survival
Gluttony (15)
Kills Population (30)
Cause Unrest (+5 Per Month)
Need Not Eat
The super casters of Hinnom.
They do big Fire, Earth, and Astral with Blood crosspaths.
Melqart
485
101
4
Capital Only
blood 33holy 11random2200% 15
Sacred
Fear (5)
Adept Sacrificer(3)
Resist fire (8)
Wasteland Survival
Gluttony (20)
Kills Population (80)
Cause Unrest (+8 Per Month)
Need Not Eat
The warrior version of Ba'als. Recruitable supercombatant chassis.
Fast blood hunters but cause a lot of casualties in that province.
They are also strong mages in combat and labs.
Being Adept Sacrificers, they can expand their dominon like a lv4 priest.

Troops

Sprite Unit Name Special Attributes Comments
Enkidu Slave
11
2
3
Slave Are bad at fighting but are gold efficent siege chaff, Great a cracking forts quickly.
In battle, keep them in the back, having a lot of HP in reserve can stop your other units from HP routing.
Horite
20
1
4
resist cold(5)
resist fire(5)
Darkvision(50%)
wasteland survival
mountain survival
Horite are mere naked men of the wild.
During the early to mid game they work out as high strength glass cannon units.
Their clubs outdamage the prot of most units.
They resist the fatiguing effects of hot and cold, fast map move, and are even more respectable units when fighting in the dark.
They fall of by late game because of their low MR.
Regular Horites are the most spammable of the three, mix Horite Hunters in your units to reduce enemy Att and Def (especially when facing Elves).
Horite Champions are improved Horites in every way.
Horite Hunter
23
3
13
resist cold(5)
resist fire(5)
Darkvision(50%)
wasteland survival
mountain survival
Horite Champion
25
2
10
resist cold(5)
resist fire(5)
Darkvision(50%)
wasteland survival
mountain survival
Avvite Light Infantry
25
14
15
wasteland survival Expander unit with a javalin.
Avvite Spearman
25
23
15
wasteland survival Alternative to Swordman. Light Infantry with more armor.
Has a ranged weapon to disrupt enemy formation but may also disruptd your own lines when they throw.
Pierce damage is situationally better than slashing against high prot targets.
Avvite Swordsman
25
25
15
wasteland survival Cost efficient line units, two in a square will win most matchups against another square of most other line units.
You will start to feel the upkeep later in the game as you mass more of them.
Avvite Heavy Archer
25
35
15
wasteland survival High prot, high damage, longbows.
Devastating second line, especially when buffed.
Avvite Horn Blower
35
25
24
wasteland survival
Standard(1)
Siege Bonus(5)
Boosts troop morale even higher and cost effective siege strenth.
Are not fighters, so mix them in with fighters.
Slightly slower then other melee troops so less likly to get killed.
Dawn Guard
40
32
28
wasteland survival
bodyguard(2)
Avvite Swordsman with magic weapons and are bodyguards.
Expensive but still a good unit later game where magic weapons bypass spells like Fog Warriors.
Bodyguards with Magic weapons are good at their job when Ethereal assassins start coming out.
Avvite Charioteer
75
31
51
trample
wasteland survival
A great expander, able to trample over indies with ease, while javelins also dealing with barbarian indies.
They are still expensive and players can counter chariots.
fine to get a few for early game expantions.
Rephaite Warrior
130
53
29
Capital Only
Sacred
Resist fire(7)
Wasteland Survival
Gluttony (10)
Kills Population (20)
Cause Unrest (+2 Per Month)
Need Not Eat
Expensive but realy good troops, high stats, two high damage attacks with one being magical.
You have to be aggressive with them if you mass recruit them, to prevent them from devouring all your tax payers.
Very strong in the early game will eventualy fall off when the game transitions to late game with all its giant counters.

Heroes

By midgame you have the chance for the Nephilim, Children of Watchers, fathers of the Rephaites.
They are all lager Melqarts with the following features: Sacred, Fear (5), Resist fire (15), Wasteland Survival, Gluttony (50)
Kills Population (120), Cause Unrest (+12 Per Month), Need Not Eat

They even more destructive to your population, so Keep them in the Rephaites parking lot.

Img Unit Name —-SpecialAttributes—- Comments
Son of Azazel
Minimum hero arrival turn: 20
fire 22astral 22blood 44holy 22 21 Dec
Son of Semyaza
Minimum hero arrival turn: 20
nature 44blood 33holy 11 19
healer (3)
Resist poison (22)
Dec
Son of Ezekiel
Minimum hero arrival turn: 20
air 44blood 33holy 11 19
Resist shock (22)
Dec
Son of Shamshiel
Minimum hero arrival turn: 20
fire 44blood 33holy 11 19
Resist fire (22)
Dec
Son of Kokabel
Minimum hero arrival turn: 20
astral 44blood 33holy 11 19 Dec
Son of Arakiel
Minimum hero arrival turn: 20
earth 44blood 33holy 11 19 Dec

Magic

National Spells & Summons

Does Hinnom have 5 national spells, Summon Se'irim, Summon Shedim, Release Lord of Civilization, Summon Mazzikim, and Summon Lilot.

Enchantment 1's Reanimation is effectively a national spell, as many of the troops it will generate are Rephaite longdead. These longdead are considerably superior in both damage output and durability and can support Hinnom's conventional forces. 50% of them are Longdead Rephaite, Longdead Rephaite, or Longdead Rephaite,

  • Summon Mazzikim nature 11 Conj 3 for 3naturegem ( Mazzikx8). trades nature gems for Imps and can be a useful way to harass opposing mages or to force them to take troops away from the front lines to act as guards.
  • Summon Lilot nature 44 Conj 5 for 15naturegem ( Lilot). Discount Succubus that use Nature gems. Sadly Succubi use dream seduction instead of normal seduction and so are less useful than one might hope (target gets an MR check in addition to a Moral to resist). Still, at only 15 gems, they are not unreasonable to summon to harass enemies trying to besiege your forts.
  • Summon Se'irim blood 22 Blood 3 for 23bloodslave ( Se'irx2). is a national staple which produces outrageously good sacred demons called Se'irim and should be cast frequently throughout the game; any Kohen with a blood thorn can cast it.
  • Summon Shedim blood 33air 11 Blood 4 for 28bloodslave ( Shedx3). Also produces excellent demons, Shedim, although they are not sacred their storm power and ability to do high, armor negating, shock damage more than makes up for that, their only downside is the difficulty Hinnom has in summoning them, often needing to empower and air random Ammi and give them boosters.
  • Release Lord of Civilization blood 88 Blood 8 for 177bloodslave. Release Lord of Civilization Summons one of the 6 outrageously powerful titular Lords of Civilization, or Grigorii, the Fallen Fathers mentioned in Hinnom's epithet. The Grigorii are so powerful that they can not be wished for, a property that even the Doom Horrors lack. Release Lord of Civilization is also the second most expensive spell in the game after Merkavah which summons not just one Chayot but also 4 Ophans along with it. Little more needs to be said about the Grigorii than that they are well worth their price and earnestly deserving of the no-wish tag. If Hinnom is in a position to Release the Lords of Civilization, then the game is likely already won, and Hinnom just needs to claim the last thrones.

Magic Access

Hinnom can access the following paths on their recruitable mages, without counting 10% randoms;

Fire 3

Air 2

Earth 3

Astral 3

Death 1

Nature 2

Blood 3

Combat Magic

FIXME What is the best spell you can use in combat. What spells the best support your national lineup, Is their weakness that you need to fix? Any tricks you should be aware you have?

Ritual Magic

FIXME What is the best ritual you could cast. Are their any globals you want up, any units you should be summoning? Are there any Generic rituals few nations can cast?

Magic Items

FIXME Do you have any National items(Construction Level, Price, and required Paths). Any unique generic items few other nations can forge? What item would be useful on your unit lineup (non-standard recommend thug gear)?

National Items

FIXME nation exclusive items

National Dicount Items

FIXME items you get national Discounted on (Reduced Price and required Paths). Any Reasons your nation may want to forge it?

Strategy

FIXME do you have a game plan? Anything you should always be working toward? Any National weaknesses?

Pretender

FIXME What kinds of scales dose your nation like? Do they require any to function? Any blesses your sacreds would like? Do you desperately need an awake expander? Examples of Pretenders?

Early Game

FIXME How to expand, potential pitfalls and how to get around them, obvious weakness strength, how much do you have to focus on war/infrastructure

Mid Game

FIXME what is the first big research rush, what is the first big powerspike, where do you shift recruitment to? what are the big magic diversity issues, are there particular globals you should gun for

Late Game

FIXME How do you close out the game if you are in it, is the high-level research stuff you can do uniquely well, does your nation fall off, aka do you have to force things to conclude swiftly

youtube of someone discussing the nation
guide page on steam??
forum thread or AAR

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