Thus, his enhanced leadership ability is somewhat justified (due to the weakening attack). Of course, we retrain the monks into cavalry, specifically assigning the leadership ability to them, and then add vampirism (+and also protection against various control and blinding effects). In my opinion, fighting against such opponents on a large map is, to put it mildly, quite challenging.
Thus, his enhanced leadership ability is somewhat justified (due to the weakening attack). Of course, we retrain the monks into cavalry, specifically assigning the leadership ability to them, and then add vampirism (+and also protection against various control and blinding effects). In my opinion, fighting against such opponents on a large map is, to put it mildly, quite challenging.