Since the "alien" tag was added, wouldn't it make more sense to add that tag to Broot and Robbie? They're aliens too.

So 5 is "too many"? There are more animals, robots, elves, royals, and females than that. There are even more Leprechauns (4) than Aliens right now. Why would it need to be a "rare tag"? Right now, there are the same number of Angels as there are Aliens. If another were added, would that be "too many" Angels? Your reasoning escapes me.

IF we relied on the "source" material (Marvel's GotG), Spaceking would be alien as well.

I was thinking more in terms of formation bonuses, since SpaceKing gets a buff for aliens. President Billy Smithsonian only buffs Kizlblyp from the original event; this could be changed to buff all aliens, maybe.

But missions are important too. Like when the demon tag requirement shows up - there's only Sally, and fortunately I don't use her as much as I do others in her slot.

There are actually a few Crusaders that could at least have their tags reconsidered a bit:

First, let's look at the categories of tags. As far as I can see, there are 4 categories:
1) Gender (Male, Female, Both or None)
2) Roles (DPS, Clicker, Support, Healer, Goldfinder, Tank)
3) Race (Human, Animal, Robot, Leprechaun, Orc, Elf, Dwarf, Alien, Angel, Demon, Dragon)
4) Other (Supernatural, Magical, Royal, Event)

Let's look at some of these:

*** RACES vs SUPERNATURAL ***
Imo; The Supernatural tag isn't a "race" token, but more of a special token, to indicate that this Crusader is mystical in some way that isn't just trained magical powers.
And, there are a few Crusaders where this has seemed to become their "race", even though they could easily get a race token.

BROOT - Broot's race is currently only Supernatural, which doesn't say much. Making him an Alien as well as Supernatural could thus work. Another point of view; Jack and Frosty are both "environmental" (i.e. plants or elemental) and they are conisdered ANIMALS. Thus, Broot could also make sense (in CotLI's universe) as an Animal. Either that, or make a new tag for plants/elementals for Broot+Jack+Frosty (although that'd be a heavy nerf for Jack and Frosty, current Animal-benefits considered).
That said, while Alien or Animal both could make sense, he already has 7 tags. But, imo, that's a somewhat moot point.

HENRY - Henry is a ghoul. Depending on how you wanna look at a ghoul, he is either undead or demon. Making a new undead-tag could be nice, but if feeling lazy, he could easily get the demon tag too. Either one would fit imo.

ZOMBIE WINTER - Zombie Winter, is similarly to Henry, a strong case of promoting the undead tag, more than anyone else. That said, if stretching the imagination a bunch, the Demon tag could fit for him too (the Demon tag could thus be a catchall tag for both Demons and Undead, even though they are generally considered quite different, similar to how Animal is a catchall for animals+plants+elementals despite their obvious differences).

As for the Alien tag -> I think that the Alien tag only fits on a non-earthling which can't be considered some other race-token as well. For example, Robbie is both an animal-oid and an alien, thus the Animal-tag takes priority. For Broot, he could be considered an animal (as explained above with the Jack/Frosty comparisons) or an alien. Depending which priority he takes, either one would fit, but he leans (imo) more towards animal (due to Jack/Frosty).
If there would be, say, an Orc from another planet, he'd still be an Orc, first and foremost, thus NOT granted an Alien tag as well. That's what I think what they mean by the Alien tag at least *shrugs*


*** GOLDFINDERS (and HEALERS) ***
Bat Billionaire has two tags possible for him, although understandly arguable:
Goldfinder -> Considering his Smart Investing skill, which he even has specific gear for.
Healer -> Due to Alchemy's existance. This if far more arguable though, due to being cooldown restricted. This applies for Merci and Polly too.

At the very least, I think Bat Billionaire deserves a goldfinder tag on him.

*** SUPPORT (and TANKS) ***
So, to be a support, you need to do something that sticks out; Significant DPSboost for others (possibly for self too, but irrelevant), aid other tanks, or any other utility which is not directly healing, self-tanking or goldfinding.

That then asks quite a few questions for several Crusaders:

Bernard the Bartender -> Why on earth is Bernard the Bartender a Support? His DPSboosting is on about the same level as Kyle the Partybro (legendaries aside). Bernard doesn't do ANYTHING significant besides finding gold. If one then argues that he has Magnify, well so does Detective Kaine, who is NOT considered a Support.
Either buff his supportiveness, or remove his Support-tag (or give the Support-tag to Detective Kaine too).

Rocky the Rockstar -> Rocky can quite significantly increase the survivability of females, yet he is NOT a support?

Karen the Cat Teenager -> Incredibly versatile, capable of aiding in many ways, especially with things as tanking and supportive tasks. She is not only viable for the Support-tag, but the Tank-tag too.

Greyskull the Pirate -> He has his cannon attack, imo worthy enough to be considered of having a Support-tag.

Zombie Winter -> He also slows enemies down, on top of being a goldfinder. Definitely worthy of a Support-tag imo.

Petra the Pilgrim -> She buffs Pete quite significantly (similar to Robbie having a Support-tag, even though all his supporting is aimed at Broot), while also providing splash-DPS. She could for sure deserve a Support-tag.

Warwick the Warlock -> Similar to RoboRabbit (a Crusader with a Support-tag), but more powerfully so, Warwick grants a rather significant DPS-boost via clicking. He could also get a Support-tag.

So, TL;DR on the Support stuff:
Bernard - Buff to earn Support-tag, or remove his Support-tag.
Rocky - Add Support-tag
Greyskull - Add Support-tag
Karen - Add Support-tag + Tank-tag
Zombie Winter - Add Support-tag
Petra - Add Support-tag
Warwick - Add Support-tag

*** MAGICAL and SUPERNATURAL ***
These are all arguable, but still;

The Princess -> All this fire she does could arguably be magically created. She SEEMS to be a magician of some kind, no?

The Dark Helper -> All the stuff she does seems somewhat magic-oriented, or mystical. Or no? Doesn't she seems to deserve the Magical or Supernatural tag?

Jason, Master of Shadows -> I have two reasons why I'd consider giving him the Supernatural tag:
1) The Shadow Queen is oriented towards being (besides being a generally awesome support) a buffer for Jason. But one of the Legendary effect she has directly only benefits Supernatural crusaders, thus making her buffing-potential towards Jason completely pointless in the end. If Jason had the Supernatural tag, she could potentially actually remain a good buffer for him (and other Supernaturals too ofc)
2) While Jason seems very gadget-based (a la Bat Billionaire), he also has a whole lot of the "mystical ninja" vibe to him, which could arguably hint at him ALSO having some mystical powers. Thus, Supernatural seems fitting.



This became far longer than I wanted it to be! xD

Azamagon - Excellent post, very well thought out.

Andreas - I understand your concern. However, the fact that I need to have epic gear on crusaders I'm sending on rare recipe missions in order to have 100% chance does not make sense to me. Plus it really is annoying when they fail.

@LorinBardric
Hadn't really thought about those mixed tags, but it has always bugged me that supernatural "constructs" like Jack and Frosty should be called "animals" and not something else . . . like robots. So remove the "animal" tag and give them a combo robot/supernatural tag, perhaps.

And to balance the equation -

I know there have been times when I needed an animal tag for a mission and was completely out of them on the bench because it's a tag that's very commonly called for in missions, so I sympathize and endorse the concept of the robot/animal combos as well. I've had, for example, RoboRabbit on the bench and looked at him and thought, Why can't I just use HIM? He's a rabbit, right? What's the use in giving him gender if he's not even alive, except to add the animal tag? We have a robot/female/elf (Veronica), after all.

I have to admit your argumentation about the robot-cyborg-story makes totally sense to me. basically I asked for your opinion, because I thought that probably someone found a point of view in which it makes sense.

whereas talking about Katie the Cupid: I believe I have read about this discussion already in some other thread. If we want to be correct about the "mythological" part of it, then Cupid is a god, which is not really an angel. And going a step further, he is a Roman god - and I believe in Roman mythology there are no angels at all (only even more gods ;-).
[but I'm not 100% sure about the "angels in Roman mythology" statement, there I could've missed something]