I just defeated the invaders after pressing the taunt raiders button for the 37th time
Normally, on this 3x turn, it is quite normal to lose 40-60 soldiers to defeat the invaders.
However, on this 37th turn, I only lost 25 soldiers, moreover, only 1/3 of the fortified gates were destroyed (normally 100%)
At first, I suspected that the buff caused the invaders to be weakened after reloading the save file, but after checking again, everything was normal (e.g., heavy cavalry still has HP 1440 with damage 143)
If you were playing in the early stages of the test version, there was a bug that allowed you to stack wins before even regular raiders. So the first wave of invaders after hitting the taint raider button would be buffed a lot.
On the first wave they are only 15% stronger than the strongest raid a settlement can face (ransom raiders that appear after year 80 in vanqushier mode). If you can survive this wave, you can definitely succeed in taint raiders (at least once)
There’s been a rebalancing of many military things. Not sure in which patch exactly, but the numbers have definitely move around a fair bit. It’s not quite finished, but I’ve scrapped together a lot of the unit data onto here (might be some mistake, there are a lot of interacting factors that lead to these numbers).