[Ironhawk]

Yeah those are the really big questions when designing SC/thug summon spells for the AI. Without knowing how it chooses one ritual from another it will be very difficult for me to figure out how to incent the AI to cast this particular spell. My worst fear is that the AI will assess a summon spell based on the number of effects which would pretty much shoot the whole idea in the foot. But then... iirc, I remember the AI using cave and fire drakes occassionally so it must have some understanding of summoning.

My current thought on the topic is to make it a 0-level national spell with 1 gem cost to summon a thug. And then just see how many of them the AI ends up casting. If I am overrun immediately by thugs then I will have my answer. But honestly I'd rather have some more solid data from people who have played a lot of SP games...