Sheaim Torture Chamber (Dungeon UB) and Tortured Souls Unit (additional Sheaim unitclass))

Torture Chamber -> 120 hammers, Masonry Tech

-50% War Weariness (instead of 25%)

Has a 50% chance of adding 'Tortured Souls' promotion to new Units. (coded like the Asylum's chance to add crazed to units)

Tortured Souls promotion -> Functions similar to 'Stigmata'

gives a strength bonus of AC / 2 (between AC values of 0 - 100)

This somewhat ties in to a slight buff of Stigmata, granting Stigmata itself not only the AC strength boost but also 20% death/poison resist, 10% fire resist, 50% unholy resist.

Planar Gate summon with Torture Chamber presence. (Fury)

Fury - 8 str +25% city attack (cannot use metal weapons)

or 6 str +25% city attack, can use metal weapons

--> Starts with Crazed. Creates Chaos Mauraders with Victorious combat

(Old Version -> Tortured Souls unit)

Sheaim can now build two types of adepts. The typical 3 str, 1 move living adept with KotE + Mage Guild ... and they can also build the Tortured Souls unit. a 4/3 str, 1 move demon race adept requiring KotE + Torture Chamber. They are separate unitclasses, with the souls requiring Torture Chamber as a specific building type requirement, RATHER than dungeon as a buildingclass requirement. This allows the unitclass to not be blocked from other civs manually.

Tortured Souls is a Demon Race unit and will use the Mane unitart.

4 attack, 3 defense, 1 movement, Arcane unitcombat, Channeling 1, 90 hammers. The unit will also gain +25% city attack, and can upgrade into Mages at level 4

I would say that the +25% city attack is fairly moderate considering that alternative city-attackers (for most civs) are far more hammer efficient.

This unit does 2 things for the Sheaim. It gives them a bit more power in the early game, and more importantly, to get the Demon Racial into the Sheaim arcane line, so that Sheaim arcane are more resistant to the Armageddon than most.

The typical civ gets 4 str warriors at 25 hammers apiece, and 5 str axemen at 45 hammers apiece.

Calabim Moroi are still at 60 hammers, BUT they get a bonus to direct damage, which can increase their chances of surviving the combat. Pyre Zombies on the other hand only become 'special' when they are killed. Which is why I am inclined to add some collateral damage to the unit, to gain some additional functionality for when they are actually successful (and, most importantly, it still makes sense, since a giant fiery man is charging into an army and killing some people). Adding collateral to the PZ makes more sense than removing the damage cap to the PZ. That damage cap is there for a damn good reason.

So typically you have 4 at 25 and 5 at 45 ... but with the Sheaim you have 3 at 25, and 5 at 60. And possibly 3 at 90 if you take into count 1 skeleton for each adept.

What I want for the Tortured souls is primarily to create demon mages and demon archmages (by upgrading Tortured to mages), but it also has great potential to add a bit of strength to the Sheaim arcane line. These attack bonuses DO NOT carry over into mages and archmages .... so Tortured are better attackers than mages, but only when attacking into cities. At 90 hammers they aren't what you'd call 'efficient' attackers, but it could come handy in a quick pinch (during a bloody war where suddenly you ask yourself ... do you start risking your adepts in combat?)

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