A human cow would easily have been fireballed in this war, if not nightmared, and we've have either lost him or had to withdraw to prevent losing him to simians' bigs. Human would also have been smaller, due to the lower income - he could not have explored as many acres as quickly as the faery did. Faery gets +87.5% wpa versus human which is absurd. They landed 5-10% of their fireballs with the faeries, and the occasional explosions or MS, before giving up. Later they just did periodic explosions, which was fairly damaging really but just forced the cow to train or pay dragons. For most of the war it would have taken the cow 9 hours to pay a dragon solo, the same amount of time it took simians' kingdom. Slaying a dragon income-wise would take about 12 hours, however getting the soldiers would take 24 hours (on emergency and putting half the cow's income into training). Despite previous claims, faery is much better at slaying than another cow would be, because ospecs are far superior for slaying than dspecs. If a human trains dspecs, it's probably because they need the defense; training more dspecs than you need is costly. Training more ospecs than you need, lets you hit with them while you wait for a new dragon. Even so, slaying more than one dragon a week isn't really viable - it just takes too long to redraft.
Faery is just absurd in general. Sitting in postwar now our cow has 150 gc/acre net hourly income, with about 10 non-peasants per acre. That will rise once BE maxes. We should have land lusted more to get to baron though...farming 1 honor/op from a province 1/100 his networth just didn't cut it.
