What are the strongest summons?

[LordArioch]

Spirits of the wood might be decent, but being unable to move to other provinces seriously limits the usefulness of hama dryads. In terms of low level summons I'd have to go for behemoth for death, although wights might be decent...maybe.
I think I like the Kithanironic lion for nature/earth, although vine ogre mass production is great and economical. Maybe pride of lions? Costs a bit, but lions are pretty sturdy and it lets you spend gems fast. The scorpian beast isn't so costly as a drake, and the wyvern is cheaper now for spending air gems...
I don't really see much in earth...earth magic just strikes me as weak overall really. Besides blade wind its battlefield spells are weak or hard to cast, and its summons are not great either, except for some high level construction.

And blood of course has a wide selection of demons..I like the area damage on frost fiends against light troops, but the rest are more pratical it seems.

In high level summons, tartarian gate is awsome...you get a undead pretender god/mage for 10 death and 20 nature (Gift of reason). And some of them are pretty good mages too.