What are the strongest summons?

Originally posted by Joonie73:
The Djinn looks to be a front-runner so far. Any suggestions?

Also, a question on the Djinn: If I read the description right, all your opponent has to do is to create another Djinn lamp? If that is the case, isn't summoning a Djinn a waste? I mean, you don't even have to kill it to take it away from your opponent.

Not another Djinn lamp, the *only* Djinn lamp.
It's a waste indeed unless (a) you're the first to reach Construction-8 or (b) you're the only player able to control a (not-so-common) Fire-3/Air-3 mage.

What do you mean by "strongest" ? If you think of hp, the Abonomation (266hp) is probably the biggest ordinary summon (not counting the Rlyeh Void things). If you think of war machines, the Iron Dragon is probably a good candidate (150hp and 24 prot, immune vs lots of magic). If you want a mage, the Father Illearth is my fovourite so far (but I'd not the chance to call a demon lord yet)...

Cheers

[RadiantFleet]

With wish: Either a Vastness or another pretender god (ie sphinx).

Without wish: Depends on what you want. If you have good bless effects, the Jaugernaut is great! Otherwise Abomination or Iron Dragon. The Demon Lords are nice but have some side effect I don't like (ie lowering dominion) in my domain. You end up having rapidly resupply them with troops and move them back out.

[Joonie73]

You can wish a pretender god? LOL!

Originally posted by RadiantFleet:
With wish: Either a Vastness or another pretender god (ie sphinx).

Without wish: Depends on what you want. If you have good bless effects, the Jaugernaut is great! Otherwise Abomination or Iron Dragon. The Demon Lords are nice but have some side effect I don't like (ie lowering dominion) in my domain. You end up having rapidly resupply them with troops and move them back out.

[RadiantFleet]

Yep, it's funny. They show up as a regular unit, you have to use gift of reason on them to make them a leader. So no spells, etc. But it's kind of spiffy in the end game to have all the fun pretenders running around under your control.

[Joonie73]

But do they get spell casting abilitites back when you give him gift of reason?

Originally posted by RadiantFleet:
Yep, it's funny. They show up as a regular unit, you have to use gift of reason on them to make them a leader. So no spells, etc. But it's kind of spiffy in the end game to have all the fun pretenders running around under your control.

[Teraswaerto]

Nope, they don't. One fun thing to wish for is the Doom Horror.

[Endoperez]

In fact, you don't wish for a pretender, you wish for troop of rather special type. He MIGHT have become a pretender, but didn't. But so what, that Nataraja-prophet could still be an awesome super combatant...