[Dedas]

I always speed up my early expansion when playing Agartha using the Risen Oracle pretender (and sometimes also regular oracles) scripting the low level spell (alteration 1) "fists of iron". With high strength and high earth magic you can obliterate loads of enemies in one sweep. Can be very useful for taking out those pesky independent heavy cavalry units for instance. Though you have to take up the initial charge with some chaff first.

A rule of thumb when scripting for close combat is to learn how battlefield movement works. Great help here is the combat grid (activated by pressing "g") and the manual. Another thing is to use scouts to observe your enemies scripting (especially human) in combat. Some players never change their scripts and that is something you can use against them. It is a gamble of course, but then again, so is everything in this game.