Noooo! I lost my avatar of Horus. Ah man, I've had that thing for years. 434 kills, heroic toughness with +142 health... all to a time out while fighting gift of healthed pangaeans who just could not be killed fast enough, in a province that looked to be easy pickings
. It's going to take a while to get over that. On the bright side I'm finally getting close to having the earth income to summon Ushabti Avatars, and if they're anything near as good as the hero was that should make this game a lot easier....
This is the game where I was going to try to use ushabti and anubites. I'm having a lot of trouble doing so though, as it is just too tempting to use Tomb Kings as SCs and they need mostly earth gem items. And my earth income has varied between 6-9 gems a turn for most of the game, so I don't really have many to spare. And since I decided to not use a bless in this game the ushabti aren't quite as tough as they could be. Anyway, I still think the Ushabti are almost too expensive to summon. I just keep thinking, I get 2 ushabti for the price of summon fall bears. They're basically the same level spell, and I would be quite willing to bet 10 fall bears are more durable than 2 ushabti, and probably do more damage. With a good blessing it would be slightly better, but I still don't think they would be worth quite that many gems, especially with their lab repair requirement. Anubites I think are more or less fine, I would consider buying them even if I didn't need non-undead soldiers as they can be quite deadly. The competition for earth gems is always going to be pretty brutal for this nation though.
Oh, I also managed to lose the awakened scorpion hero to pangaea as well. He served me well, winning many battles and greatly speeding up my expansion, but in the end he ran into too many centaur cataphracts and they were able to finally bring him down. First bone scorpion I ever lost to the AI. Next time maybe I'll buff him with something more than just the undying....