What use is death magic?

[NTJedi]

Death magic is one of the most useful magic paths. When searching for magic sites you might get lucky and find a location where a death mage can recruit free shades or banes or mummies! Most other magic paths don't have sites where units can be recruited... and some of these death units are mighty powerful.

You don't want your pretender to spend his time casting death spells, so have him summon a mound fiend or two. The first mound fiend should then take a hammer for forging a death staff while the other mound fiend takes a hammer for forging some skull mentors. The mound fiend with the death staff should then summon a spectres to help with summoning. The mound fiend will summon pale riders while the spectres summon spirit mastery. Once a solid army has been developed the mound fiend should either summon a banelord or another mound fiend to lead the army.

Summon some revenants to keep looking for death magic sites to supply the growing armies. You can never have too many death gems.