[Ironhawk]

I've never really had a problem with the undead which are regularly used as troops: longdead, dispossesed spirits, longdead horsemen, banefire archers. They are all good troops but are quite fragile if you manage to hit them. And all of those are banishable, IMO. Can't say the same for banes and higher, but then again those are high value commanders and it might unbalance them to give them a serious weakness beyond the normal Flambeau/Herald Lance type of attacks.

Don't agree that death gems are any more common than any other gem. In my experience, all gems are equally likely, you just normally find more of whatever path your nation is good in.

I do agree that it is odd that all the really serious undead-killer spells are *only* in the Death path. It seems to me that there should be more spells like Holy Pyre out there. And maybe some more Holy or Astral spells which specfically target undead. Like a Holy Greater Banishing that was bigger and did more damage. And a high level Astral or Holy spell that was like a slightly beefed up single-target banishment, like Smite Demon?