Mass-produced Reanimating Priests: Exploit?

[AreaOfEffect]

Originally Posted by Nikelaos

i really don't see the problem here, the freespawn undead are utter chaff and can be handled very easily with the usual undead counters. There are many more effective tactics which can be employed much earlier in the game.

Just to chuck in one such strat which could tear right through this 'Exploit'.

10 fire+water blessed hydras (can only be blessed playing middle age pythium) under the influence of 'gift of flight'. Ah watch the undead dissolve under 180 blazing poison bites upon their rearmost troops and commanders, YES there will be blood.

I didn't think longdead and souless had blood. I also beleive it is late age pythium that gets sacred hydras. As for the "exploit", I agree. You get a lot more effective undead combatents out of a black servent prophet. I've never heard of that being refered to as an exploit or as unthematic.

[thejeff]

On the gripping hand, as battlefield wide spells become more important, the actual quality of troops seems to matter less than the number of warm (or cold) bodies. With Army of Lead, Fog Warriors, Will of the Fates, etc 100 longdead a turn seems much nicer than the 20-30 chaff troops I'm able to afford in one game. And they're immune to cold, which helps, particularly against Frostbrand wielding thugs.

Still a lot of work and risk and opportunity cost for a fairly minimal advantage.

As as theme goes, there are very few nations that should be outright opposed death magic and everybody winds up summoning at least Banelords anyway...

[Sombre]

Not an exploit. It makes sense and it doesn't even reward you that much.