I suck with Pythium ... please help!

[Truper]

Your Kung-Fu is weak! The numbers above aren't taking casting either quickness or summon storm power into account, and a horror-spammer would prefer *not* to have a storm in place, since horrors fly. Then somebody has to either cast the storm, or be holding a Staff of Storms, either of which is going to increase the cost of the strategy significantly, and require more research before it can be implemented.

And the true terror of the Caelum Horror-spam is not that it can be used to win large battles, but that single Seraphs, or sometimes pairs, can fan out over an entire empire in a matter of just a few turns, taking every province not defended by a major army. They require no gems or items to do it, and Seraphs are notoriously cheap. All they require is a handful of flying troops - just enough to distract the defenders until the spam gets started.