worth the trouble to call back pretender?

[vfb]

The PoD will lose some of the afflictions when he is called back. Maybe about 50%. But with just 2 H4 priests it will take 50/8 = 7 turns to call him back.

Your god is about 3 temple checks per turn, right? But if each H4 priest is sacrificing 4 virgins per turn, that's 8 temple checks. I don't think you should use those guys to call him back right now.

And sorry to say this, but from the point of view of a non-involved observer, that's a really funny story of your PoD's death by afflictions.

[Rytek]

Lol, yeah. I went the cheepie route and went for that 2hander sword. I should have alchemized some fire gems and made a blacksteel shield/fire sword combo. It was the crossbows that got him. I think the shield would have saved him vs the arrows. Although I wanted the bezerk to ensure he would stay the course. I have 0 earth gem income and no dwarven hammers. maybe i should have bit the bullet and made a wraith crown. but i didnt want to spend my precious death gems. now it looks like I will have to. This giant army is threatening 2 of my blood slave labs. I am gonna have to fly about 10 vampire lords with 4 death gems each for Lamshanka summoning to deal with it.

[MaxWilson]

4 death gems? Why not 3? Either way they'll only cast it twice, but IIRC if you give them 4 they'll use 3 on the first cast and 1 on the second, which buys you essentially nothing.

-Max