Herakles : Veteran Hero [HER]

He just does not seem to be improved as much as veteran achilles, he loses as much usefull abilities as he gains.

He gets no extra activations or art of war cards, no increased movement either.

Herculean might is good, but also costs two art of war cards. His ranged attack will of course help and is a good improvement, the +1 extra defence is nice but he lost the phalanx ability which would have given him both +1 defence and +1 attack when with a troop.

Still a very good hero to have though.

He does lose Guard and 1 movement for some reason. I think that is far outweighed by his improvements though. Force of Nature can compensate for the lack of Phalanx. Range 2 changes everything especially with Mighty Throw, which I found sorely lacking from the original.
I think the main difference between the veteran versions is that Achilles stays mostly the same but gains some much needed mobility, whereas Herakles has a slightly different playstyle which is overall more powerful.