Luckily the AI has quite the troubles with smaller groups of stronger armies, so having one Sovereign as the powerhouse, and optionally another hero with a dragon or two solves the problem. Also, there's no multi, and the AI doesn't seem to care about disabling your source of deathly powers.

Fighting Resoln is very annoying now. Guess this is an "indirect" buff to accuracy skills

Honestly I always thought accuracy was slightly set too high (base accuracy).
And I think this bonus doesn't fit the way I think Resoln or Wraith should feel or play like.

Could have been cooler if Wraith's healed whenever a spell was cast in combat, or whenever they used an ability.

I usually prefer unique and interesting abilities rather than raw numbers in a faction.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

But... "wraith cloaks" should I think have something to do with wraiths... no?

I was about to post the same thing as Trojasmic. Wraiths are usually ethereal things so I think Dodge is fitting for wraiths. On the other hand the wraith implementation of Elemental looks like living things in flesh so they don't look very ethereal.

No offense to anyone, but I don't see how this is even slightly balanced. There's no need to research anything deep in the tech tree, just get to warg, a shield, and a brilliant sovereign with death for blindness. You basically just won the game because 90% of the units won't be able to hit you. My shadow blades (sword+shield warg riders with dodge traits and cloak of night) are virtually invincible without needing blindness... how is anyone finding this balanced?

If you want to make the wraiths ethereal, they should just make them resistant (20-30%?) to physical (cutting/blunt/pierce) damage, and maybe give them a slight vulnerability to elemental damages to make up for it. That way, you'd have a unique race that is resistant to normal damages and should be countered with mages/magic/magical weapons. The mechanic is already in the game, they just don't use it.

Nothing can touch my resoln sovereign and I have not researched anything under military.  But I am not really clear on how dodge has anything to do with this.  My sovereign is holding a staff of souls, wearing adept robes and riding a horse (purchased from a neighbor).

Then again, the Gilden sovereign that I defeated can also solo most most battles, including most cities, typically getting only slightly scratched in the process.

Note that I am not saying that my game properly represents anyone else's game situations, but I feel that dodge is not all that unbalanced when compared with other mechanisms in the game.

That is a fairly late game scenario with a leveled up champion. You're talking about the strength that champions can gain once they have been trained. I'm talking about soloing orges and what not within 30 or so turn so that you can GET to that point way easier. There's a very big difference.

Dodge stacking wouldn't be so unbalanced IF the AI actually knows what to do against it (use skills/axes/stack accuracy), but as it is right now, in the player's hands it is extremely potent.

Never!

Spears spears spears, and a bottle full of spears.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

I've not tried the new wraiths yet, but as it is said above, it seems that we've got a new strong (maybe OP) tactics: wraiths stacking dodge.

Where is the fun in having untouchable units?

If wraiths had a unique unit, that had that +20 doge (+stacks) I could understand it. A unique unit is submitted to economy management (let's say it requiere mana to build it, or something else) so it makes a special unit that requieres eco management. But if all units can stack the dodge so easily...again, where is the fun?

Now, I'm not sure if trying a game with them. Because if I start a game with them, is for stacking dodge...

Imho maximum to-hit (for both attacks and spells)  and to-dodge (as well as to-resist) percentages should be capped at 95%.

You always have a 3% chance  to hit, unless Derek (or the other boys) changed it.
Its one of those hidden features

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

I don't think you understand how dodge vs accuracy works. When you have 30+ dodge, and your opponent has 75 accuracy, they have at best a 45% chance to hit (accuracy - dodge = hit chance). They don't have 25% chance to miss, they have a 55% chance to miss. This, by the way, is without any dodge traits or accessories. If you add in Lithe, suddenly you have 40+ dodge, and your opponent is down to 35% chance to hit. Toss in Balance or god forbid, Acrobat, and it becomes a dodge tank.

Take this build, for example:

Blood (20) + Warg (10) + Kite Shield (6) + Monk's Robe (5) + Lithe (10) + Balance (5) + Cloak of Night (10) = 66 dodge. Balance for ease of example, acrobat is usually prefered, 3rd trait = muscle for damage and weight capacity (an acrobat will go well into the 70s very easily).

Without Cloak of Night, and perhaps using a Round Shield instead of Kite for early game, you'd still get 54 dodge. Or 52 if you're talking about REALLY early game (with a Wood shield - although if you got warg, this probably won't be the case.) This is still more than enough, when combined with blind to take even the most accurate of units to 3% to hit.

By the way, your assumption that blindness strategy would work just as well without the dodge bonus, is ... well, rather off. Due to how dodge stacking works, the more dodge you can get, the more effective it becomes.

The 20 dodge at the end drastically changes how often an enemy will hit you. Take the above example, instead of 54 dodge, you'd have 34... an enemy that would have hit you 3% of the time, could be hitting you 23% of the time instead. That's roughly 8x the chance. Of course, that's a pretty extreme example, but I hope you understand. Certainly, 23% is still very good, which is precisely why it doesn't need the extra help to get to 3%.

Oh, and BTW: it's not that I don't like wraiths, it just feels completely cheap. Right now, playing Wraiths feels like playing Tarth or a custom super faction. Maybe I just like to have some challenge in my games *shrugs*.