[Shovah32]

For MA ermor getting death globals up helps immensely. If your using many undead with few living units both utterdark and burden of time are useful where-as any ermor strategy can be greatly helped by the global well of misery which increases your income and gives you 21 death gems per turn.

Pale riders, wraithlords, banelords, tartarians, legions of wights and spectres/black servants are all good summons which ermor can get access to(although tartarians may require your pretender) and shadow blast, nether bolts, ghost riders and life after death(and many many more) are all good spells to aim for.

Magic is very important to ermor and to help research those spells quickly they can forge skull mentors, greatly speeding up their research and, with their very useful magic they can also forge lucky pendants, antimagic amulets, horror helms, robes of shadow are various other items to kit out thugs/SCs.