[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

I just noticed something potentially good, so I'll report it to this thread.

If you cast "Summon Animals" on swamp province, you get a mix of Horned Serpents and Giant Spiders. What does this have to with anything? Those two animals are both big size, have big hp and are poison immune. This makes them perfect muscle screen for your poison slingers, keeping the foes concentrated in the deadly clouds until it's all over. They should also work well with C'tissian special.

Also note that W random Marshmasters can spam Ice Drakes by just borrowing Thistle Mace for Dragon Master (which you get nicely with animate dead/skeletons).

A small follow up on this: You have good access to "Spirit Mastery" and "Shade Beasts", both of which are size 1 ethereal undead. Sparkle them around with your spiders and serpents to increase their survivability (since all of the hits won't go to the big guy). This will also mean that occasionaly enemy banishments will go "waste" on squares that are only half-full of undead.

The Ice Drakes that have been mentioned are also good to bombard foes in the "death zone" in front of your spiders.

Your cold + poison damage combo is counterable by opposing undead spam, but you are a nation with H3 priests, remember? You can forge Void Eyes for some good old Banishment fun.