Wow! Thanks for all the advice Endoperez.
To answer your Q's...
I had drain 3, order 2, and 7 dominion since it said their priests are weak, which they are. My preists were preaching to a deaf audiance. The evil reptillians of C'tis dominated the dominion side of things. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img] Now that I think about it I also totally forgot to make a prophet! Definatly need to work on dominion heheh.
In each of my armies I had mainly archers and heavy inf. supported by 10-15 black knights, a wizard and a master smith. Black Knights are some bad dudes
Two of my armies had an elite group of knights that collected experiance on loads of indies. C'tis was mowed down by them
Infact only those 2 armies survived with any considerable numbers left at the end. Would have been a lot easier if my pretender's death wasen't so ill-timed. He (master druid) commanded an army of vine ogres and crushers and supported a golem. The golem still went on to cause some damage but in the chaos of war I forgot to get him another wizard for support and he died. Some wasted potential there. I'll probably make more golems next time. They seemed powerful if used right.
I also tried to recruit every merc that had a big army. Often I didn't have the money to support them for long so I would send them on suicide missions just so C'tis coulden't use them.
One of the mercs was a really cool priest that banished tons of C'tis undead. He was a big help and contributed to the win for sure.
At first I had master smiths research and look for magic sites. Then when I found the wizards I switched them to item making, lab building, and a few supported armies. I made a few dwarven hammers, tons of lanterns, armor/trinkets for my main commanders and spys. Didn't think about buffing their earth skill, should have done that.
I really can't remember all the spells I had. There are tons of them. I know I had a few buffs and some summoning spells that helped. Don't think I had much offense spells. My prentender had battle fortune which was nice but I only got to use it once before the horror took him.