I've picked up the Ascenscion plot for the beastman lord. I am wondering what would be the best way to do this: There is very little hop in winning the final battle if I let the heroes get to gold, so I need to force them to try their luck ASAP, but for this, I need semi competent lieutenants, and it hardly looks like they cut it out:

If I upgrade humanoids (I have the beastmen upgrade card, and they are my prefered spawn), that won't help my lieutenants much: The Farrows would be better protected by beasts, and even the specific beastman lord heroes don't have an humanoid retinue.

Gata looks like the most incompetent lieutenant ever: 40 wounds at silver? no minions? What is he supposed to do? sure he can kill one hero from time to time, but that's hardly reliable, and once they ake up (after Landrec the sentry has blasted them with the shopkeeper blast), he needs to run away.

Do you usually upgrade the humanoid monsters (that is, before the other)? Maybe they'd be worth it for lieutenants with a massive investment in red treachery.

Well, if you want to raze, then Beast upgrade is the way to go. Those silver razorwings eat landrec pretty fast. Munch up the shooters, and then Kratz can mop up the heroes at his leisure. If they have the cassic tank tank ranger mage party, you can dogpile on the ranger and mage to make them flee, or even go for TPK.

And Gata? He is still good for adding that extra siege token, plus, if the heroes fight him, it's another hand of treachery cards you can dump on them.