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"Be careful with your Henchmen, however, as while they function like Champions in
many ways, they do die permanently if you lose them."
Is this a change - I know this was the original stated design but in the beta Henchmen simply got injuries like Champions and continued to survive..?
So it would be a good idea to train them with default equipment that's pretty good, and don't give them the really good custom stuff until they've got 50 or 70HP or more. I think when they die you lose all their equipment, so you'll have to be a lot more careful with them. And you'll definitely need to give them some good starting equipment and lots of bonuses from a high essence city (especially HP, defense). 
It'll be good when they fix the "no traits for extra levels" bug that exists for Henchmen and Sions when they trained above level 1. 
Just make them backline Archers/Healers, since the last update and the improvement to designing non-henchman units I mostly use them as a support unit (bow and life magic) to heal and shoot.
A tooled up sov with a couple of melee unts is enough to wade in and keep the enemy away from your vulnerable rear - I find.
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