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You can send just a Warlock apprentice if there's no fliers. Summon the horrors and retreat.

For uncooperative armies, you need a humanbred screen, with enough salamanders behind that they can burn up the opposition before they run out of gas. Add in a few Demonbreds to cast Fireball and Fire Blast, or wands of wild fire on indies, or lifelong protections.

I micro my lanterns. It has nothing to do with Luck scales. The first time he gets a horror mark, and that's it for the mage, no more lanterns for him. That mage can go preach somewhere or blood sacrifice or forge or site-search H2 or in the worst case give me 3RP a month.

From the F1 screen you can click on each mage and if he has a mark you can drop the lantern in the lab right away, without leaving the F1 screen, and rename your mage "hm f2h2" or whatever you want to call him. Then exit the F1 screen and find some mages you hired last month (tribals are good too) to drop your excess lanterns on. Obviously Warlock Apprentices and anyone else who works with horrors should not be given a lantern (they should be blood hunting anyway, not researching).

You gotta be down with OCD though I think.