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Originally Posted by Immaculate
If you are spamming early earthquakes and have not yet developed fog warriors or other high-end counters, what kind of blockers do you use while your mages are casting earthquake?
Presumably anything with both high defense and high protection and preferably with regeneration so you don't accumulate too many afflictions, but is there anything else to look for?
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The fact is, earthquake doesn't do all THAT much damage, just 8AP. This makes it good for splatting lightly armored humans (like most mages as well as certain chaff troops like mictlan's slaves), but it doesn't really do all that much to heavily armored troops (I dropped six earthquakes in a row on MA Ulm recently and most of his blacksteel troops were just scraped up) or things with big piles of hitpoints. Just having one or two lumber constructs (from wooden construction) can draw enemy fire while surviving any feasible number of earthquakes. Giants, elephants (though be sure to give them a clear path to rout if that happens), or heavy infantry will weather earthquakes well. Also, anything ethereal will be untouched by 3 out of every 4 earthquakes, so just spam body ethereal a few times on some chaff and you're golden.
EDIT: Trolls (either normal or Sea trolls) will handle earthquakes well. And since you have earthmages capable of casting earthquake, you have earthmages capable of summoning a handful of trolls to act as a defensive line.