[Goad]

In the first game I played I was able to recover from having only 3 provinces with positive dominion, under burden of time that the AI recast every time I dispelled it, and I was playing Ulm Iron Faith.

Here's how I did it:
1. Because of BoT, I couldn't buy many priests or temples. Instead I built stone idols and put them on dark servants. I would target a small area, drive his dominion down, then preach up mine.

2. I rebirthed all my dead heros & equipped them, & summoned banes & bane lords & equipped them. All these units were immune to BoT. Some of them were quite powerful -- mummified black priests with heroic strength of 60+ with thunder bows, one with heroic toughness = 175 hp, a bane with heroic defence that became untouchable with some MR items. I summoned crushers & statues to absorb enemy attacks while my mummified heroes ran around with boots of quickness killing. I had a lab on the border with PD of 45, for equipping units and repairing crushers/statues. The computer wasted a lot of units trying to take that province.

3. I got the undead heroes inside enemy territory, and they ran around destroying temples, making no effort to keep the provinces they took, just finding temples to destroy. Since they were all wearing stone idols, everywhere they went they reduced dominion.

4. For quite some time I had to make do purely with summons and no native units, but that turned out to not be so hard.