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I'm unclear about what you did encounter : in SP I've never seen the IA empower mages, rarely boost them and overall it doesn't have enough of it by far...If you're playing MP well that's life with a better opponent 
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Single player--I don't think about playing a game MP until I can consistently beat the AI.
It was a whole pack of mages with death 4. My troops would rout before they could close.
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Also make some Skull mentors to boost research, give them to Flamen or such that you can recruit anywhere.
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I never found a death gem the whole game.
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Then go Ench5 for Pale Riders, Ench6 to summon the dreaded Banefire Archers, and Conj5 for Bane Lords, those are even stronger and with some equipment can kill many foes.
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I never lived long enough to reach such levels.
I finally won one as Ermor. 4 opponents. One attacked me, basically the whole game was my cav stomping on him. I had two provinces with contact with other hostile forces, I put high defense in both and they kept wasting their troops on inadequate attacks on those. I dominion-killed both of those. As I was closing in on the guy I was dealing with he was dominion-killed by the remaining enemy--and then a few turns later I dominion-killed him.
The only difference I can see is that I started out with a more defensible starting point. I was on a peninsula and there was no water enemy.