I was trying to play the necromancer but I feel like I'm missing something - what's the point of necromancer, when you have a necrarch? I feel like I am missing something major but can't put my finger on it.


Special:
necromancer - summon harbringer
harbringer contineously loses health meaning it has a limited time to do damage, so summoning it from a safe spot and charging the enemy isn't a good idea. Gives a bit healing and can get autonomous.

necrarch - netherball, can summon a wraith on impact, good long range AOE damage, no mana needed

Army:
necromancer can get a lot more units, but those will mostly be skeletons due to dark energy cost and needing the grave guard units to generate it.
necrarch - lower cost of wraiths plus natural dark energy generation.

Magic:
necrarch has a lot more options but frankly speaking... they're both bad.
The problem with magic comes from bannerlord itself - the mana penalty for wearing heavy armour is rendering magic very micro management heavy - do the battle, go to a city, take off the armour, recover mana, put armour back on. Rinse and repeat. One could argue about the magic being extremely powerful, but
- in this game you pretty much need some melee fighting to progress, else you're throwing away 3 skills which would give you a chance to level up.
- lack of armour means one stray arrow or minor cavalry breakthrough will finish you.
- staying behind the army is not feasible in the later game because most spells you cast have a very limited range - and enemy archers will be showering you with arrows from 4x the distance you can cast from.

Shy suggestions:
- How to make the necromancer live on and use armour without the cycle of strip-dress up?
is the mana recovery penalty hardcoded or is it in some file where I could cap it at say 50% instead of 85?
- since the final clan level is named "lichmaster" it sounds to me like liches are a thing in the old realm, would it be difficult to switch the body model to that of a skelatal companion (since the model is already there, no point in spending time on making new body models) and give say 33% wardsave to somewhat help with fragility?


Final note - I am by no means criticising, I think the team responsible for the mod is doing an amazing work and I really appreciate the effort put into this amazing conversion!