Undead retreated?

[ywl]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Life drain attacks inherent to monsters -- ghosts, vampires, horrors, et al -- are generally melee-only. The life drain spell, on the other hand, has some range. Wielded against undead, neither provides the usual healing and reinvigoration side effect.
Ghosts are not terrifically strong against undead, particularly undead with magical attack forms since the magical weapons ignore etherealness. I'd probably prefer undead archers, for their ability to hit the undead masses before meleeing, and since banefire arrows are conveniently magical; it might be possible to do fire-and-run attacks with them.

I apologize. I've forgotten about their undead status...

Somebody has to check whether the life drain of ghost is effective versus SG undeads. They're undeads but they're not inanimate or lifeless. Most of the weapon of SG require a check versus MR. Ghost's MR is quite high. That will be a plus.

For fodder, it's probably easier to just used "Dispossessed Spirits" that you've already researched. 4 gems for 15 of them. It's a good buy. Since you also get nature, you can crank up the protection of Vine men or Vine Ogres. They're lousy junk. But they're cheap. There is no point fighting mass of undeads with elite troops. It's your priests who will be doing the job any way.

Bane lords are usable but you need some way for him to kill the ethereal undeads in massive number before being overwhelmed. SG's dispossed spirits will be extremely nasty in this case, because after enough hits, they might eventually paralyze your Bane Lords. I think they can even paralyze mindless summons like Winter Wolves - don't ask me why . "Charcoal Shield" might indeed the only economical way.

The battle will be cute as it would be an two almost identical armies of undeads fighting each other .

What I meaned hopeless is more because: if you're down to the Last one or two provinces, his troop production will overwhelm you sooner or later unless somebody else step in and attack him now.