Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

Try bottles of water with your water gems on your commanders.

Also try to use that shark attack spell if possible.

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

I'm saying that even on LAND I have huge problems against these units.. and I don't have THAT much powerfull commanders who are fully equipped.. I''m pretty sure they can't beat a large army with some powerfull commanders by themselves though

I'm trying an eater of the dead next.. see what he can do.. and a wraith lord and a grand theurg and 4 normal theurgs.. and some army ..

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

Eater of the Dead is very very poor for it's cost/tech level. Invest in banelords/tartarians instead and try to see if you can empower to cast abominations. Also don't forget to spam antimagic

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

Do you have the:
Dom 3DB at:
http://koti.welho.com/ehalttun/Dom3/ ?

If you look up illithids there you will see they are a 50 gold unit. So while you make think you are fighting "only" 30 illithids, that is 1500 GOLD in units.

From what little I know of R'yleh I think the Greater Otherness and Vastness are SUMMONED or Void Gate or some such thing monsters.

The Mindless undead are probably doing better than you think against such a swarm of high cost units.

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

I also would like to bring to your attention the database at Sunray's virtual library.
http://www.freewebs.com/dominions2/
It's quite handy how the units are organized by nation.
I use both databases, but the one I hit first when facing a nation I haven't fought before is Sunray's. Edi's is good as well, containing (lots more) different info in a different format, but takes several times as long to load, and is aimed a bit towards modders and mapmakers, etc.

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

Only 30 or not.. I'm not even getting near them those blobs and whatever .. only 10 -15 of em are taking my army apart bone by bone

I'm summoning tartarians as we speak (2nd one coming in , I just got lvl 6 consturction too so am crafting a load of weapons, I'll be summoning a load of tartarians and wraith lords next.. that should do something..

PS what do you guys think of the ether lord (ether gate)

anyway I must admit to lord bob that once that army was out of the way (and I have no idea where they have gone since I've not killed them.. maybe he has retreated and I'll encounter them later..) that as of yet I've not encountered a similar army and I'm taking provinces of him by the turn

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

Good units, but not a cost efficent summon. I would only recommend it if you are in need of a high level mage with the specific paths the ether lord has (S3D3).

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

yeah I admit seeing my tartarians I can see much better use for them, a ****load of HP is just nice, combined with strenght and some slots for stuff... nice nice nice

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

Remember to cast gift of reason on any afflicttion free tartarians(or atleast those who aren't mute/feeble minded) to get some versatile mages and potential SCs.

Re: MA Ermor advice please
 

what is your most efficient build to reach D7 and casting Tartarians ?

A lich +1 skull face +1 staff +1 empowerment ?