[Boron]

with starting gem income of 7n you will be able to summon every 3,57 turns a new carrion lord .
at ~ turn 10-15 you will hopefully find +1-3 extra nature gems from new sites . so in average you will have about 10 carrion lords at turn 30.
when they reanimate alltogether then than you can roughly expect 1 carrion beast elephant / turn .

so in the beginning you are a bit weak ( but your pretender + the gathered carrion beasts are enough to defend ) + your dominion works against high numbers of enemies . cold 3 scale will especially be evil for heat enemies like abysia and killer dominion normally grants you at least parity in quantity .
in midgame you are strongest and will keep that strenght until lategame when wishwars and the like start .

if you are lucky or take luck scale you can afford to mix some minotaurs or other strong national troops within the carrion beasts .
with a bit combat luck the carrion beasts hit first . then the minotaurs take almost guaranted hits against size 3+ units because of the two reasons :
-lowered defense by swarming
-lowered defense by fatigue
-at 100+ fatigue even chance for ap attacks

so the minotaurs can hopefully take out thughs or weak sc's like poor equipped banelords / firbolgs etc. together with the carrions .

because the carrions will be the main target of enemy combat magic some minotaurs will survive quite long and gain some further strength by exp.