[TheMenacer]

I don't think that order 3 is actually all that necessary. I mean yeah you're going to want to be raking in gold for Necromancers, but your armies are gonna be small by virtue of their high resource cost anyway, plus you're going to be making the switch to upkeep free summons as quickly as humanly possible to get away from just how little killing power every single one of your units has.

I've actually had quite a bit of luck with turmoil/luck because you need all the gems you can get your hands on and the gold events kept me in castles and necromancers until I had expanded enough to offset the turmoil scale and transitioned into just outright not bothering to buy anything except necromancers and indie mages with any degree of regularity.