taking on ulm

[Edratman]

If he has elephants, the most effective spell is to spam soul slay. But if you are Abysia, you have trouble getting access to it and I am not familiar enough with them to help. There's one guy with astral plus an astral random, but IIRC you have trouble forging astral boosts.

Soul slay is an level 3 astral spell that seems to always target the largest opponent and is a guaranteed killer of elephants, or anything else. It requires a MR check, but it kills, it does not do partial damage and it has 100% precision IIRC. I love it. A coin and a star cap can get any minor one astral mage up to casting it. Throw in a crystal shield and 2 pearls apiece and 5 or 6 six buffed up 1 astral mages placed in the back row will evaporate virtually any trampling army and also get the large sized commanders as a bonus.

But it is also like everything else in DOM3, that is, it has its time and place where it is great but times where it is the wrong thing. When you are facing hordes of skelly spam you will lose your mages and equipment, as one example.
Of course that is why this game is so much damn fun. In CIV, tanks are always tanks and always work the same way.