Summon demons

Summon demons is a special ability of Pit Lords, that enables them to summon a stack of dead creature back to life as Demons. Non-living creatures cannot be summoned as Demons. The ability is based on dead stack's health (see calculation), and therefore health altering artifacts Ring of Life, Ring of Vitality, Vial of Lifeblood and Elixir of Life affect the outcome of the summoning. Note that poison still affects a dead stack's HP (but aging does not).

Calculation

An individual Pit Lord can summon up to 50 health points worth of Demons. For example, because Demons have 35 hit points 7 Pit Lords can summon exactly 10 demons. However, total health of Demons summoned this way cannot exceed the total health of the dead stack nor can the number of Demons exceed the number of creatures in the dead stack. In other words, the dead stack must have had at least 35 hit points in order for summoning to work. A stack of one Pikeman cannot be resurrected while a stack of four will summon one Demon.

Formula: min(floor(min([dead_count]*[dead_single_health], [pit_lord_count]*50)/35), [dead_count])

In order to use the full potential of resurrection, [dead_single_health] shouldn't exceed the health of demon (35). If the stack consisted from imps, optimal count of units is 12.5 times count of pit lords; if the stack contained gogs, optimal count of creatures is ~3.8 times count of pit lords (provided no health increasing artifact is in place).

Strategy – Demon Herding

Demon Herding is a tactic that can be used for Inferno. The basic idea is, that the player deliberately sacrifices Imps and Gogs in combat in order to summon them back as demons. This is based on the fact that Imps and Gogs have a lower attack to defense ratings than demons, and therefore their hit points are less valuable. You can also herd demons from cheap low-level troops from other towns. Additionally, cloning hero's pit lords will grant an extra number of demon summonings. By using the Clone spell or having multiple Pit Lord stacks, it is possible to resurrect the same Demon stack several times during a single battle. Consider using Marius who specializes in Demons when using this strategy.

Note that Cursed Ground prevents Pit Lords from raising Demons.

Demoning table

		Number of creatures required to raise the correspondent number of Demons based on creature’s HP
HP=		4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
1	1	9	7	6	5	5	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
2	2	18	14	12	10	9	8	7	7	6	6	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
3	3	27	21	18	15	14	12	11	10	9	9	8	7	7	7	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
	4	35	28	24	20	18	16	14	13	12	11	10	10	9	9	8	8	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5
4	5	44	35	30	25	22	20	18	16	15	14	13	12	11	11	10	10	9	9	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6
5	6	53	42	35	30	27	24	21	20	18	17	15	14	14	13	12	12	11	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	8	8	7	7	7	7
	7	62	49	41	35	31	28	25	23	21	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	13	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	8	8
6	8	70	56	47	40	35	32	28	26	24	22	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	14	13	13	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	10	9	9
7	9	79	63	53	45	40	35	32	29	27	25	23	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	15	14	14	13	13	12	12	11	11	11	10	10
	10	88	70	59	50	44	39	35	32	30	27	25	24	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	16	15	14	14	13	13	13	12	12	11	11
8	11	97	77	65	55	49	43	39	35	33	30	28	26	25	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	17	16	15	15	14	14	13	13	13	12
9	12	105	84	70	60	53	47	42	39	35	33	30	28	27	25	24	23	21	20	20	19	18	17	17	16	15	15	14	14	14	13
10	13	114	91	76	65	57	51	46	42	38	35	33	31	29	27	26	24	23	22	21	20	19	19	18	17	17	16	16	15	15	14
	14	123	98	82	70	62	55	49	45	41	38	35	33	31	29	28	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	19	18	17	17	16	16	15
11	15	132	105	88	75	66	59	53	48	44	41	38	35	33	31	30	28	27	25	24	23	22	21	21	20	19	19	18	17	17	16
12	16	140	112	94	80	70	63	56	51	47	44	40	38	35	33	32	30	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	20	19	19	18	17
	17	149	119	100	85	75	67	60	55	50	46	43	40	38	35	34	32	30	29	28	26	25	24	23	23	22	21	20	20	19	19
13	18	158	126	105	90	79	70	63	58	53	49	45	42	40	38	35	34	32	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	21	20	20
14	19	167	133	111	95	84	74	67	61	56	52	48	45	42	40	37	35	34	32	31	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	23	22	21	21
	20	175	140	117	100	88	78	70	64	59	54	50	47	44	42	39	37	35	34	32	31	30	28	27	26	25	25	24	23	22	22
15	21	184	147	123	105	92	82	74	67	62	57	53	49	46	44	41	39	37	35	34	32	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	23
16	22	193	154	129	110	97	86	77	70	65	60	55	52	49	46	43	41	39	37	35	34	33	31	30	29	28	27	26	25	25	24
17	23	202	161	135	115	101	90	81	74	68	62	58	54	51	48	45	43	41	39	37	35	34	33	31	30	29	28	27	26	26	25
	24	210	168	140	120	105	94	84	77	70	65	60	56	53	50	47	45	42	40	39	37	35	34	33	32	30	29	28	28	27	26
18	25	219	175	146	125	110	98	88	80	73	68	63	59	55	52	49	47	44	42	40	39	37	35	34	33	32	31	30	29	28	27
19	26	228	182	152	130	114	102	91	83	76	70	65	61	57	54	51	48	46	44	42	40	38	37	35	34	33	32	31	30	29	28
	27	237	189	158	135	119	105	95	86	79	73	68	63	60	56	53	50	48	45	43	42	40	38	37	35	34	33	32	31	30	29
20	28	245	196	164	140	123	109	98	90	82	76	70	66	62	58	55	52	49	47	45	43	41	40	38	37	35	34	33	32	31	30
21	29	254	203	170	145	127	113	102	93	85	79	73	68	64	60	57	54	51	49	47	45	43	41	40	38	37	35	34	33	32	31
	30	263	210	175	150	132	117	105	96	88	81	75	70	66	62	59	56	53	50	48	46	44	42	41	39	38	37	35	34	33	32