Communions

[MaxWilson]

Might not be a problem if you spread them out, especially given Helheim's good MR, but okay, maybe Reinvigoration is best.

On the plus side: everybody in this communion is Cloud Trapeze-capable, so you can drop them anywhere on short notice.

On the minus side: it's very gold-expensive. Approx 1500 gold for this one group, which makes it a bit too expensive for raiding PD, and the force isn't optimized for taking out SCs or thugs without forged equipment. In practice it probably wouldn't be worth doing unless you have a big Gandalf-sized empire that's having trouble moving Helhirdings to the front.

Or else, hmm, maybe if your opponent has lots of good single-target anti-SC spells--you can drop 20 inst-thugs on him for the cost of only a blood slave each and/or any air gems using in Cloud Trapeze. Taking out an SC with Disintegrate only requires one lucky roll; taking out a linebacker communion with 20 slaves requires 20 lucky rolls. And Blood Vengeance guarantees that he'll lose a lot of mages making those 20 lucky rolls.

-Max