Good Troop Summons

Sombre · #1 August 15th, 2007, 02:28 AM

Sorry but if you're summoning drakes for the vanilla gemcost without dragon master (they're pretty useless even with dragonmaster, because dragonmaster is such an abysmal spell) then you must be completely boned anyway. You'd be better off alchemising the gems for gold to buy more troops imo.

Aethyr · #2 August 15th, 2007, 05:28 AM

I have to agree with Dr. P on this one. Drakes can e very effective early, and under the right circumstances much later in the game...

Wyatt Hebert · #3 August 15th, 2007, 08:54 AM

Other good summons, which are probably mentioned already, are anything EA Agartha gets nationally. The Umbrals are nuts, but my favorite gems are the Earth Elementals and the Lava Children (right name?). The Earth Elementals can overrun lots of stuff, and the Lava Children are a good (great, imo) answer to glamored troops. Massing enough of them is the key, but once you have a good line of them, fwackooming entire ranks of Glamored guys is wonderful. They aren't as mobile as the Spring Hawks, but they hit a whole square at a time. Also, Van/Helheim are less likely to be able to get FR than SR, which may make a difference. Also, they don't have to make a to-hit roll. All good things to hose the glamorheims with.

Wyatt Hebert

Lazy_Perfectionist · #4 August 15th, 2007, 08:36 PM

Mind Elemental, Shovah32

How do you go about using Lamias effectively, and, more to the point, do you have any suggestions for using them with EA Ctis?

Tequilich · #5 August 16th, 2007, 07:53 PM

I like Kithaironic Lions in EA if you have the right mages.

Mind Elemental · #6 August 20th, 2007, 08:31 AM

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Lazy_Perfectionist said:
Mind Elemental, Shovah32

How do you go about using Lamias effectively, and, more to the point, do you have any suggestions for using them with EA Ctis?

Sorry for the belated reply!

Honestly, I'm mostly going more by their reputation -- I never had more than a few running around, so I don't have that much to offer from firsthand experience.

However, a glance at them reveals they have, in addition to their excellent regen and poison immunity, an AN and (IIRC) magical weapon. This suggests possible synergy with armour buffs (Nature or Earth, though if you use the barkskin line of spells, watch out for opponents with fire magic!), poison cloud spam, being used to bodyguard thugs with Snake Bladder Sticks, and use against ethereal enemies...