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Originally Posted by revenant2
The main reason we were able to stop you was because we burned nearly all of our gems to summon a wall of Wailing Ladies that were able to use their AOE soul-slay attack to destroy a good chunk of your melee troops -- especially those uber Ice Guards. Even then, we were only able to kill some of your troops before you cut down my ladies.
The skellispam did help by holding back your forces long enough for the fortress defenses to kill enough of your undead to force a route.
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I watched that battle several times, Wailing Ladies killed 15 soldiers tops. You needed to put them in single unit formations and hide them in the chaff. DtD made them cry for the last time. The biggest number of casualties was from those nasty ballistas, so it was the second reason. Really small fighting front - so yeah, I did kill ~20 skellies per turn, which was within your capability to replace. I played with the battlefield for a little. Even if you had no Ladies and almost no starting chaff (I killed them in the first turn of battle record), I had only so-so
chances to win.
So to capture your capital I had either double the number of mages or bring at least 50% more troops. There was no real means to do anything else - I had no research to speak of because of the DtD spam.
Well, it was a gamble. And the reason why maps with borders are so unbalances sometimes - in toroidal ones Ermor usually faces 3-person coalition.
Patala IMHO expanded too slowly. I expected him to do it better - with the ethereal elephants. Also, I have some suspicions that his dom scale was down to 4 (or less), which is pretty bad.