Worst Summon ??

Vynd · #1 May 17th, 2004, 05:50 PM

I have trouble picturing anyone raising Soulless or Longdead Warriors with a ritual spell, even if you do get 20 or 30 of them at a time. As a reanimation they're... well they're free. That's about all that can be said for them.

Graeme Dice · #2 May 17th, 2004, 06:11 PM

I think the wort summon is probably the corpse man. He's not much more than a stronger soulless.

Gandalf Parker · #3 May 17th, 2004, 06:50 PM

Now your going to set me off. Since anything "worst" or "weak" is my target zone. While others concentrate on testing "best" I like to test "worthless" and find new uses. I often can.

sergex · #4 May 17th, 2004, 07:09 PM

Ya, treelords seem pretty bad. What's their purpose? 50 Nature gems for that? You could have 2 Tarrasques, or 2.5 Ivy King Lords or Lamia Queens or...

As for the cheaper summons, I usually don't use them unless my castle is being seiged and I have a lab with some casters inside it. Then I cast as many summons of any kind that I can to help defend. It has actually helped several times. A bunch of corpse men or ivy men or drakes may not seem like they'd help but when you are defending a castle every little bit helps make the enemy route.

odd_enuf · #5 May 17th, 2004, 07:21 PM

i'll summon treelords at the oak of ages, when they only cost 25, otherwise they seem far to expensive.

odd_enuf

Wauthan · #6 May 17th, 2004, 08:06 PM

Though question to answer. There are a lot of units that I never bother to summon. That don't mean they are especially bad or too costly, just that I don't have strategies that need them. Out of the units I do use but find frustrating I would say that the Wyvern and the Corpse Man tops the list. The former is fairly expensive in the early game and lack staying power. The latter is perhaps best compared to mobile target dummies. Both have their uses but are very quickly rendered obsolete with a little more research or income.

PrinzMegaherz · #7 May 17th, 2004, 08:30 PM

I dislike those early game summons that only call one unit. It takes simply to lang / too many mages to produce enough of these summons to make them usefull. Take Vine Ogres as an example. They are good early game troops, however you need 10 nature mages with ivy crowns to summon 20 of them, which is the minimum for a decent force. Compared to the 2 earth mages that would give you 24 Clockwork Horrors, this is ridiculous.