CleverPun
Since: Jan, 2001
Nov 3rd 2013 at 1:29:48 AM
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I think it's an aversion of Easy Logistics. Maintaining an entire army is a massive resource drain, and transporting them takes time. A summoning stone allows you versatility and compact resource use—why maintain 1000 soldiers when 22 will do? Why bring 10 swordsmen and 10 snipers when you can summon the ones you need onto the field?
This is especially true in the summoner wars 'verse, since most of the factions have not been wealthy or well stocked for ages. Ret-Talus is such a threat because he has both a summoning stone and a large army.
"The only way to truly waste an idea is to shove it where it doesn't belong."
CleverPun
Bully in the Alley
Since: Jan, 2001
Bully in the Alley
Apr 7th 2012 at 5:03:37 AM
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Could someone replace the image? Its rather tiny and oddly shaped...
EDIT: Starter decks have been released with a new cover, so it's also out of date
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CleverPun
Since: Jan, 2001
Apr 10th 2013 at 9:41:54 PM
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Thanks! :D
"The only way to truly waste an idea is to shove it where it doesn't belong."
Could someone explain why the Summoning Stones are so powerful? From what I understand, they don't let you create new soldiers, just summon soldiers from one place to another; so you still have to raise armies and have enough men to defend your territories and still go on the attack. All the Stones do is make moving troops a lot easier. Powerful, but not enough to "make armies obsolete."
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