cleveland:
Arrow Fend really negates all your longbowmen. I have tested it in that game
Long distance run with Man should be Gift of Health [to have mages alive], Charm [the only really useful spell your crones can cast] and Dark Skies. Dark Skies could work great with that dominion spreading. Btu remember - we played on higher gold than normal, so it was easy to spam temples. I guess the one that took Man over you didn't make enough knights and his mages were well... dead due to old age, so he couldn't field many of them.