Good blood summoning spells?

Taqwus · #1 February 14th, 2011, 05:49 AM

The Lords of Civilization (Hinnom national, and limited quantity) should take the prize. Nasty buggers.

Mandehas (late-game Lanka summons... quantity unlimited) come to mind. Decent magic, high hitpoints, flight... and autocasting Darkness, which is /very/ nice if you've got a lot of demons (which you quite probably do if you've done that much Blood research and have the blood income to get Mandehas).

Crossbreeding is nice for the instant volume (quite the bulk summons); even chaff can be fairly nasty with large-scale buffs. One might laugh at at a few hundred chaff... but perhaps not so much if they're Army of Lead + Mass Flight.

Lower-end, frost/storm demons are nice for flying shooters.

Gaslov · #2 February 15th, 2011, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Taqwus

Lower-end, frost/storm demons are nice for flying shooters.

Sorry, noob here, but what are flying shooters good for exactly? Two rounds of arrows then melee?

rdonj · #3 February 15th, 2011, 04:19 PM

Flying archers are good because they offer very good strategic flexibility. Storm demons are just very good in general, though.

Kobal2 · #4 February 16th, 2011, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Gaslov

Sorry, noob here, but what are flying shooters good for exactly? Two rounds of arrows then melee?

Yes. Or *ammunition* rounds of shooting, then melee. Or directly into melee. They're excellent switch hitters, which makes them unpredictable. Unpredictable is good in Dominions.

Back on topic, I think the only bad Blood summons are the bone fiends and the flying snakes (venom fiends I think ?), and they're only bad in the sense that they're not 100% awesome. Everything else is just groovy.

OK, the cross-breeding spells are also meh if you have neutral or negative luck scales. With positive luck however they'll generate some insane units for the price, not to mention a cheap wall of arrow catchers.