🎯 Tag Versus Kit

A siege tag on a hero card only answers one question, where the hero can be placed. It doesn't tell you which troops his formation skills actually boost. Flamel's guard and assault formation lines both key off archer troops, so a siege-slot placement paired with an engine-heavy march leaves that part of his kit doing nothing.

🏹 Making Archers Work

Run archers alongside him and the formation bonuses activate the way the skill text describes. His personal skill line adds a flat effect on top of that, separate from the formation piece, so the archer-march choice is specifically about the formation bonuses rather than his whole kit. A siege-heavy composition still uses his card slot fine, it just leaves the archer-formation lines sitting idle the whole fight.

Know the Counter

Archers built around Flamel's formation bonus still lose to infantry that manage to close the distance and force a stand-up fight, since the base cycle is infantry over cavalry, cavalry over archers, archers over infantry, and hero skills stack on that cycle rather than replace it. If the archer line gets pinned down before it can fire, the formation bonus on Flamel's card does not change the outcome.

Do you run Flamel with an archer march to chase the formation bonus, or keep him with engines for the siege slot itself? 🛠️