Talk about stacked bonuses..

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Jazzepi said:
Have you found her brood spawn useful at all?

They are useful as fodder as stated, but ferrying them to the front eats either a lot of mage-time (movement 1) or pearls (gateway). Then again, Edi's db (Dom3_DB_Full_308, AllUnits tab, row 1275) lists them as zero-gold critters (no upkeep) so you could let them pile up...

And once the seas are secured, well... I tend to drown those little guys every once in a while. Just make a set of items that boost your magic leadership and gateway away.