Well, you could setup a beastlord sovereign for that, couldnt gear it up but its kind of like having a cavebear henchmen lol

I had a corpse spider named fluffy. A death demon(The giant one) killed him... so I used the kill spell and killed that bastard.

The japanese had their Onna Bugeisha, which fought alongside male samurai and were known to be capable warriors.

As for the thread topic:

I am all for it... we are able to design female soldiers, therefore we also should be able to design henchwomen

Love the Avatar, Niteshade

I hope the game Dev's are catching wind of the suggestion.

It just feels like something that totally compliments the games unit design feature immensely

I dont think a 4th tab would be absolutely needed, just let clicking the Henchmen tag randomly generate male or female. It'd b a start and I'd be more then happy to see it implemented.

Did you not even watch Mulan? For all you know your henchmen ARE women already.

T-t-t-trainable bears? oh god no.... OH GOD NO! If my enemy was sending wave after wave of bears at me I'd just surrender, too scary. Bears are voracious, ravaging beats who traveled to Elemental from the outer planes of misery . Desperately seeking out the vulnerable, devouring them hopelessly. Rubbing their bloodstained backs on all your puny man-outposts because the mindless slaughter gives them a great itch, unknowingly and gleefully reaping destruction across the lands. They are nature's assholes.

Yeah, I never played Tarth back then....

I have a temporary fix for the male only henchmen. I've added the female henchmen.

https://forums.elementalgame.com/436704

I've set it up so you are not changing any of the game files, just add this to your units and you can have the basic female henchmen. Basically the female bard, female sheildman and the female torch bearer. (It's like designing your own units in the game, put the appropriate file in your units folder in your (documents\my games\fallen enchantress\units) folder. No need to change core files.

You can edit the way they look, just not the triats. That is the cost of not changing the core files. I will try another format to see if I can do it without changing the core files... I just had issues with some memory problems (namely these units were equipmentless).

Ah gotcha, well not being able to edit their traits is a willing compromise id think until they "Hopefully" implement female henchmen.  Being able to edit traits on every other unit type kind of makes up for it, minus champions.

At least when they level up we're still free to edit the level up traits n skills as we wish though. Was having fun tryin interesting setups on the default henchmen, taking my torch bearer, sending em down the path of the mage, giving him a flame shooting staff n such, and i made a sniper bow using henchmen, just didnt get a chance to use him much yet

I still look forward to making that badass Valkyrie spear using female henchmen one day