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I understand, so the skill becomes almost useless – because by the time the summoned beast starts moving, the enemy units should already be quickly defeated – the longer they live, the more losses you incur.

That's strange, in the campaign for Agrael (the second campaign), I specifically tried to summon archdevils, but it didn't work. I have a licensed version of the game, updated to patch 1.6.