What are the strongest summons?

[HJ]

Originally posted by LordArioch:
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.

And sometimes you don't even have to cast Gift of reason, as they come in a commander form. Awesome!

However silly it may sound, I see Spirit mastery as rather useful. You get a huge amount of cannon fodder for only 4 gems that is not completely useless either. If you have something to deal the actual damage after the paralysis kicks in, it works like a charm. For example, I found it to work great against knights and similar otherwise nasty units. Masses of ghosts both soak up the attacks, and evenutally succeed in paralyzing whoever they are fighting against, and then the rest is easy. Plus you don't mind if they die in droves, as you can summon droves just as easily, and they have a size of 1 so there are a lot of them per square, meaning a lot of chances both to succeed in paralyzing and to soak up attacks. They are also ethereal, and the sheer amounts mean they won't rout like the rest of the cannon fodder units.

[ November 25, 2003, 10:05: Message edited by: HJ ]