Offensive Rituals vs Summoning?

[Meglobob]

Well I use offensive rituals where needed all the time. Fires from afar, mind hunt, blight, hurricane, rain of toads, send horrors, raging hearts, locust swarms etc...

I have even developed 'killer' strategys around a few of them.

There are two however that need a power boost for Dom3, those are imprint souls and arouse hunger. Neither of which are worth casting anymore, because there is more money in the game and both of those spells struggle to take out PD 10 defense. Indeed I recently tested both, imprint souls failed to take out 75% of indie 5's. Well 3 arouse hungers at the same province failed to take out LA Mictlan PD 10, which isn't the best PD in the world.

[Nick_K]

I wouldn't recommend using multiple flames-from-the-sky on the same province in the same turn. A proportion (50% IIRC) of the units in that province is immune to such attacks and these immune units are immune for /all/ such attacks in that turn. So, if the enemy has 20 mages, 10 are vulnerable and your first casting kills 7, then there are only 3 left that the second can target.

[Teraswaerto]

The mages might have so many hitpoints that a singe casting wont kill them, but two or three might.

[DrPraetorious]

The best use for offensive rituals is to drop them on an enemy army the same turn you fight - since they start combat wounded.

If half of his mages start combat wounded, you can drop a battlefield cleaner (fire storm or flame storm, whichever one it is) and his mages will generally die first, even if you've both got warriors of fooheim up.