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Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:

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In the game you describe with your high death and nature gem income you were incredibly lucky.

I searched for death and nature sites very aggressively, and I don't think +13 and +19 out of ~30 provinces is so incredibly lucky even with the default setting. I got +5 nature from Pangaea's capital BTW, +1 from mine, so actually it's only +13 from random sites. So that's less than .5 death and .5 nature per province from non-capital provinces. [/QB]

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I think it is. Assuming the chance for site is 50% and the number of nature or death gems for each site is 2. For a rough estimation:
30 * 0.5 * 1/8 * 2 ~= 4
1/8 because I assume that there are equal chance for each type of site (not true) and I haven't counted holy or unholy sites. But even if we increase the number to 1/4, it'd still only about 8. And you're talking Arco, who has no native access to nature or death. Search by spell will be slow.

And it's Conjuration 9, Construction 6 and Thaumaturgy 4 (low). This is a lot of research. As I said, with such research and gem, you could probably do equally well with Juggernaut, Tarrasque or even 9+ ghosts per turn. Also, since Tartarian summons are undeads, you could in theory counter them with "Holy Pyre" or "Control the Dead"

But still, all these cann't disprove the fact that 10 gems (or 30 with GoR) for 100+ hp, undead mage is too much of a good deal; the funny, if not ridiculous, sight of tens of dead gods in an army.

I have the suspicion that the same trick is equally abusable for C'tis, Man or Pan. These nations have the advantage of a high nature gem income, the major bottleneck of the production line. Faery Queen is expensive but it's just 40 gems, merely the price of two GoR. They're also powerful air mage and generate free sprites. I won't mind having one or two of them just lying around.