Thugs and Super Combatants.
As a top research nation with many good summons in conjuration, Sauromatia can expect to get a few of the elemental royalties.
In this section we will go over how to make a cost-efficient thug, a strong super combatant, and the commanders that will fulfill those roles.
However, for many of these, a pretender with paths will be needed.
Elemental Royalty
King of Elemental Fire.
As an F5 spell, King of Elemental Fire will be cast with an F3 Flame spirit with Skull of Fire and Flame Helmet, or your pretender.
The Kings of Fire have high HP as well as heat aura and fire shield, which makes them very good Super Combatants.
They also have darkvision.
Queen of Elemental Air.
An A5 Spell than can be cast natively with a Tome of High Power and a Fairy Queen.
Queen of Elemental Water
King of Elemental Earth
Death Summons
Summon Shade Beasts
| School: Conjuration 4 | Casting: D2 Cast | Cost: 15 Death Gems | Summon: Shade Beast x 15+++ |
You can recruit a lot in a short time and they are ethereal.
Spirit Mastery
| School: Conjuration 5 | Casting: D1 Cast | Cost: 4 Death Gems | Summon: Dispossessed Spirit x 15+ |
Spirit Mastery lets Sauromatia cheaply create 15 ethereal chaff using any of its death mages.
Getting conj5 relatively early is a good way to overwhelm someone who doesn't have magic weapons.
Summon Ghosts
| School: Conjuration 6 | Casting: D2 Cast | Cost: 14 Death Gems | Summon: Ghost x 5 |
Summon Spectre
| School: Conjuration 6 | Casting: D3 Cast | Cost: 22 Death Gems | Summon: Spectral Mage commander |
Call Wraith Lord
| School: Conjuration 7 | Casting: D5 Cast | Cost: 40 Death Gems | Summon: Wraith Lord commander |
An immortal thug.
Legion of Wights
| School: Conjuration 9 | Casting: D6 Cast | Cost: 30 Death Gems | Summon: Wight x 20+++ |
Late game summon that gives you line-infantry worth a damn.
Tartarian Gate
| School: Conjuration 9 | Casting: D7 Cast | Cost: 10 Death Gems | Summon: Tartarian |
10% of Tartarians are commanders and 50% of Tartarians are feebleminded.
The non-feebleminded Tartarians can be made commanders with either Gift of Reason(20 nGems) or Divine Name(25 sGems).
What you get for your trouble is a Super Combatant that has a good chance at incredibly strong crosspaths.
Pale Riders
| School: Enchantment 5 | Casting: D3 Cast | Cost: 10 Death Gems | Summon: Longdead Horseman x 20+++ |
10 Death Gems for a ready-to-fight flanking squadron of undead cavalry
Revive Bane Lord
| School: Enchantment 5 | Casting: D4 Cast | Cost: 12 Death Gems | Summon: Bane Lord commander |
Lichcraft
| School: Enchantment 8 | Casting: D5 Cast | Cost: 30 Death Gems | Summon: Lich commander |
Nature Summons
Summon Leogryphs
Awaken Vine Ogres
Pack of Wolves
The Go-To patrollers. Around 20 patrolling wolves can support 3 B2 blood hunters.
Contact Lamias
Call the Worms that Walk
Faery Court
Awaken Ivy King
Blood Summons
Vampires
Heliophagi
Ice Devil
Arch Devil
Official Tart Random Tierlist
Top Tier:
D3S2F2