[st.patrik]

By now means a solution in and of itself, but maybe you should think about researching to and casting "Wild Hunt" - quite a fun nature spell in which the lord of the hunt attacks a different powerful enemy priest each turn - keeps going until he gets defeated, which is hard since he's accompanied by a pack of wolves and Cu Sidhe. Best part is, you get to watch an enemy priest die each turn, without having to do anything.

The other thing is, if you're getting swarmed by numbers mainly (rather than magic) there are quite a lot of fun spells which can make your army an uber-army. Albeit you will need to empower like crazy to be able to cast them, but for example if you could cast the following spells, your troops would be a lot more hardy:
• Mass Protection/Army of Gold/Army of Lead
• Fog Warriors [gives your entire army mistform]
• Arrow Fend
• Mass Flight
• Life after Death
• Mass Regeneration

All of these affect all friendly units on the battlefield

I experimented with Mass Protection, Mass Flight, and Fog Warriors as Last of Tuatha Man, and combined with good bless effects those Daoine Sidhe were pretty much unstoppable.

All you need is one uber-army and you can go around from province to province, destroying temples and causing trouble.

If, of course you're getting beaten by good use of magic, the solution is different - the above is mainly good if you are facing superior numbers of regular troops.

[ March 01, 2004, 02:39: Message edited by: st.patrik ]