[Sammual]

Other than Vine Ogres Iron Dragons give the best 'bang for the buck'. The only thing they don't have is a very high Magic Resistance.

Control is your best bet. I gem per cast and it has almost a 50% chance to take over an ID.

Arcane Domination seems to take control of about 25% of attacking Iron Dragons per cast.

Casting a spell that will kill off all the attacking mages causes the Iron Draons to fall apart (Bone Grinding, Fire Storm, Acid Storm, Rain of Stones, Astral Tempest, Heat from Hell, Grip of Winter).


Unraveling destroys almost half of the Iron Dragons per cast.

Master Enslave gets you about 25% of attacking Iron Dragons per cast (Plus most of the units with low MR) but does enough fatigue to kill most mages.

Personally I try to have more IDs than whoever I am fighting, If I don't I just cast Control a lot.
These suggestions only help if you know that you will be facing the IDs.

Sammual