Hm, this month I've been hit by 1x horrors, 2x hawks plus a thugged assassin.
Maybe I'm not THAT familiar with the AI (have I stopped playing SP too early? =)), but I've never been that "mass attacked" by the AI when playing SP. Is it just that the AI usually doesn't research enough, and not in the direction of those spells, or is it always playing like that?
As for the firepower - I'm still bringing my militia chaff to the front, to let it burn (hahaha....), but I hope I'll make some advance.
I know I'm giving away much

, but does anyone know if the Arch Devil "Magoth" (3F 3S) always comes with a wound already? I'm trying to bring some artillery against the AI - at least it's sucking at scripting its armies
Well, we will see.
Another question - I had read that fleeing from assassination attempts is not a great idea, and that the same would apply to "special monster" attacks - however, in one of my provinces I was horrored and a commander fled + actually got away, so is that "flee=death" ONLY for assassinations? Or also for "magic assassinations, but not for the special attacks that attack the "whole province"?