Re: To kill the sphinx
 

Wouldn't Shatter work?

Re: To kill the sphinx
 

C'tis has lots of highlevel priests on their roster even in the middle age, so two rounds sounds about right if they are still a force to be reckoned with.

The pretender when called back appears in their capital province. If you control that province, the pretender will appear nevertheless and engage the province defenses, which is likely to get him killed.

That of course means you should never perform Call God unless you hold your capital, but somebody forgot to tell the AI.

Re: To kill the sphinx
 

I would say send some astral mages/sages and horror mark the fella a few times. From what I've been reading horror marks are very deadly right now.

Another suggestion is make sure to curse him... which will increase his afflictions in battle and thus easier to kill him.

Based on the information you've given it sounds like the game is in the middle or late stages, so you could also create a SC to send him to the graveyard.

Re: To kill the sphinx
 

I forgot to mention that this is Early Age.

Re: To kill the sphinx
 

It is entirely possible that you never killed the sphinx in the first place and that it appeared for the first time when it awoke from its slumber or broke free of its imprisonment. At about turn 12 and about turn 36 a god might appear and go on a rampage.

In any case, the sphinx has a crap tonne of hit points and a very good protection. Plausible methods of dealing with it include:

Incinerate it about a gajillion times (or otherwise dump armor negating elemntal damage on it).
Send in a bunch of guys with armor negating weapons.
Cry.

Re: To kill the sphinx
 

Ah, used lots of spells and strong commanders to finally take that sucker down and win.

It seems Ulm has really poor priests, and I really just had to sweep across the plains and take on C'tis face to face. They overwhelmed me at first, but after a lot of battles and me finally figuring out to hire mercs, I took the advantage and swept through the land to claim my true throne!

SO MUCH FUN!