Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

Lamias are nice.

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

Mid-Level Summons... Pale_Riders spell gives you 20 longdead horsemen for 10 death gems.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I would have to disagree... the earth kings are awesome. Lots of life, regenerating and poison immune! Easily made into supercombantants with more regenerating items and a wraith sword. Being lvl_4 earth mages also allows them to cast invunerablity(30_Protection). Of course elemental kings are not mid-level summons... this was clearly a response to a previous post.

[ December 15, 2003, 15:49: Message edited by: NTJedi ]

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

I consider "Mid-Level Summons" to be of the troop type not Kings, Arch-Devils, Ice Devils, etc that are commanders/SC's. Some of my more common Favorites.

All the Seasonal Spirits have their place and position (I don't know what our cutoff for Mid-Level is here).

Summer Lions - Expensive but powerful. A good unit be bait; force attention on them while you tear at their army from a different direction.

Fall Bears - See Summer Lions, but not as effective because they do not have radiation.

Spring Hawks - The equivilant of a battlefield assassin. They are fragile but get the job done, don't expect them to survive long. Just have them do their job.

Winter Wolves - Cheap, radiation effects and ethereal. What's not to love? Of course you have to have a matching dominion or they might as well be Spring Hawks.

Spirit Mastery - 4 Death Gems for some fodder that have the chance to paralyze everything they can hit.

Lamias - Cheap cavalry type of unit that has multiple units per cast (my favorite) so it doesn't eat up too many mages time.

Mandragoras - See Lamias.

Clockwork(s) - Fodder against magic heavy nations and armies and good for defending a castle entrance. Plus they are cute.

Behemoth - No Morale Elephants for everyone.

Reanimated Archers - Fast firing free Xbows, even some disease thrown in for good luck.

Blood - I like Devils and Demon Knights personally; though if you don't have access to heavy penetrating missile using troops and do have access to Frosties or Storm Demons, they can fill a gap.

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">They might come if you cast a high level spell (e.g. Wish) while the Global Ritual Astral Corruption is active.

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

Summon Ghost at Level 6 Conjuration is not bad if you have a high-level death-mage. The number is 2+ at 9 gems. If you have a level-9 death mage, it'll be one gems per ghost in each casting - cheap and efficient.

Blood Rite at Level 7 Blood is not bad neither but it's more research.

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

Has anyone seen the computer opponents cast WISH?? And if they have what was casted??

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

A mage under a Dome of Corruption, casting spells during Astral Corruption, wielding the Banefire Sceptre and Magebane, wearing a Robe of the Archmage, Boots of the Planes, the Forbidden Light and Horror Harmonica should have a decent chance of seeing more horrors than he could ever want. No bets on his longevity 'tho.
Seriously, if you want a guaranteed-friendly horror, use Wish + Gift of Reason. Otherwise, well, you place your bets and take your chances with enslave/charm spells.

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

I forget another one. The second level spell "Hell Power" also summon Horror in combat. If I remember correctly, the longer you survive, the bigger will be the summoned horrors. The horros are not necessarily friendly and they have a good chance of attacking you though.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">just for fun?
no...
it's a map-move 10,fly,76 life,25 prot(vastness 0),+15 fear,NO ASTRAL MAGIC' creature..
i prefer to wish D-H instead of vastness/abo*4 ^^

Re: What are the strongest summons?
 

my Favorites:

* clockwork' horror
* spirit mastery
* winter wolves
* army of the dead
* wish: doom horror