[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by ywl:
The strategy sounds fun. But are you sure it's practical?

Try it yourself, then tell us what you think. I tested in a rather competitive environment (Inland with max indeps + 9 impossible AIs), didn't neglect my military, my expansion, or even the other research areas - and still managed to start summoning, healing & equipping 1 Tartarian critter/turn shortly after turn 30.

If you have a PoD with Death 6 or 7 and rush the research at Conjuration, you could have a "Ghost" factory (9 gems, 1 ghost for each level of death) at Level 6, or a "Bane Lord" (42 hp, not a bad unit for 10 gems) gernerator at Level 5.

And that's exactly what I did. But summoning Ghosts or Bane Lords doesn't prevent your other mages to research Conjuration 9, does it?

But yes, 10 gems for the Tartarian Gate sounds very cheap to me. 15 or 20 gems seems to be a more reasonable price.

It's a reasonable price for other nations. The loophole really exists only for Arco.