I agree, they are lousy!
I agree with you 100%.
You play 3/4 of the game and you get these guys?
You get Dragon Riders way before you even get them and they are just terrible and pretty much a joke.
Now if you got them for use in Portland, then maybe that would have been interesting, but getting them so late in the game is ridiculous.
So to answer your question: I found no use to them whatsoever!
Maybe someone else will post differently, but this whole questline needs to be changed to be completed way earlier in the game or the units need to be dramatically improved.
/C\/C\
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