Just to make it clear to everyone, if the area around a settlement is surfaced then, it will grow bigger making it harder for enemy units to destroy it and will allow more units spawn from it. Furthermore the more population you have the faster your mana replenishes for you to cast spells.
Achilles bathed in a sacred river and so that he'd be protected, so how are you supposed to die? Lol, Y U NO READ STORY BEFORE MAKING GAME?! Only his heel is supposed to get hit.