nice stuff, I'll give it a try

I'm assuming that these are just copies of the originals with your added background stuff to them?

Heavenfall is there a way or a flag that I can set to hide one version of the spell when people are using your mod and use the original when people are not using your mod. The only idea on how to do this seems rather silly but might work.

If a player is running a different modded game with a new definition for their elementals, I didn't necessarily want them to have to mod my files to get the desired results. Looking to be as modular as possible, but it matters not.

I'll be adding the units soon...as soon as my family get together is over

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when making mods compatible with your stuff... in another week I should have a building style mod... takes forever to make the 100 unique buildings...

Do you know how to get excel to read xml files and make them to?

Now I have a stormworld compatible version of the file.

Just the normal one unless it was summonez.

I have updated for stormworld compatibility.

Yes, of course.

But those summons are practically identical. If someone without Stormworld or the background unitstat lib runs those unittypes, they will be functionally identical to the vanilla ones.

Parrotmath. how many of those summons appear, any reasons to train more numerable squads? maybe link the number of squad size with level of the summon?

I've used this in a couple of games now and have trained fire, ice and earth summoners depending on which books showed up. So far everything has worked smoothly for me; I haven't yet seen the AI use them unfortunately so I don't know if they will use the summon spells. AI players seem willing to use most abilities, but I haven't yet seen them use any of the vanilla tactical summons, either from spells or abilities like Call Uteran.

So far, what has worked best for me is training up horse-mounted summoners with monk's robes & swords and then fling these guys forward with my regular cavalry and throw an elemental into the midst of the enemy, or even behind them to take care of pesky archers.

Is the ability available to Henchmen? A bunch of mage henchmen with a couple of levels of summoner could be interesting.

The Lord Ron is right. For stormworld use the stormwolrld version. He has special summons.

You can design henchmen with these summons ability. It is a unlockable trait and any unit can use this trait.

I figured the AI didn't know how to use summons in tatical battle maybe Frogboy will add that in at some point and then we will get these summoners to work out great.

There is really no need to train more numerable squads, except for a mage firepower back-up. I thought about linking it with squad size for level, but then Henchmen would be at a severe disadvantage. So I just did a weaker version of the summons spell and added a range to the spell... no mana cost though which may be a bit OP.

The original goal was to have these characters unlock when you picked the summoner profession. But that didn't work out too well, and so I tied them to the books, making the books more interesting and adding some power to the summoner profession.

I just have to up the AI priority for this trait to 8000 and they will cast them (these summon spells don't cost any mana at the moment)? I did add a range for these summons becuase I think it's silly to be able to summon something across a tatical battle map.