[Ironhawk]

Sorry to rain on people's parades but if you are looking for a fix to the arena that can be done with the tools at hand then the only thing available is item modding...

I still think that a ritual summons is the best way to go. One thing that really stands out about this method is that in order to get the full benefit out of the item, you would need to assign your commander to monthly summoning, which prevents him from researching or fighting, etc. Its an interesting balance point, since you will not want to send your ultimate SC to the arena, only to have him come home and sit in the lab till the next event doing rote summoning.

The question now tho is what should the trident summon? I was thinking that it might be fun if we modded up a special unit like a gladiator. Make it a *really* solid heavy infantry unit. And then make the spell summon a handful a turn - enough so that if you summoned from one arena event to another you would end up with like 20-30 of these guys. Additionally, if you summon in this fashion you time-delay the effect of the trident, since it would take a good amount of turns to build up a full squad of infantry.