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Having it on a a mage or elvish shaman (for example) make it easier to access to cure and heal +8 early. Can help to save some units from time to time and make it easier to other units to level up. Having it on a elvish captain or a drakan flare make it a LOT easier to colect enought XP to level it ...

I didn't read everything, so I may repeat what some of you say. I think that javelineers are basically a defensive anti-cavalry unit that is interesting to have against loyalist and is mostly for multiplayer games, not campaign. They are also quite good against archer, but it's not it's main role. A...