[MaxWilson]

Grudgebringer,

It might help if you could give an example of how summoning confuses you. Do you understand ritual magic? (Have you read the manual's sections on magic and ritual vs. battlefield magic?) Summoning spells are just ritual magic spells that create troops as opposed to e.g. raining fire on enemy armies. Like all ritual magic spells, they cost gems instead of gold.

Communions (masters/slaves/etc.) are a totally different story, and I presume that's what you mean by Baalz's Guide To Summoning. They have nothing to do with summons, but apply to the Thaumaturgy (Astral) spells Communion Master and Communion Slave. Since the manual is pretty sketchy on what they do, Baalz's Guide To Communions tries to flesh that out, but it assumes you've already read the manual descriptions of those spells. That could be why it's so confusing--or it could be the fact that communions are a fairly confusing subject anyway.

-Max