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I think the problem wasn't with the pans, but the maenads. You had hardly anything else in your army. Maenads are like any other freespawn, they are just chaff troops. You need to back them up with heavy hitters. Earth magic isn't really good for you since the only really good earth-only combat spell is blade wind, and that will kill more maenads than Abysians. Blood has bad combat magic and always has, and Pangaea isn't really much of a blood nation anyway. IIRC you also have access to Death, and death is chock full of great summons and even has one or two battle spells you could make use of.