I need suggestions ... Ulm against Mictlan...

[Cohen]

Well, I'm not so a good player and I took a poor Great Sage to improve forging and site searching for my Ulmish kingdom.

I'm now facing a Mictlan kingdom with a VQ ... and Fiends of Darkness.

Well ... I've counterattacked his starting offensive with my armies ...

12 of my Black Knights had meet in battle his 12 Fiends of Darkness ... I lost all knights, he lost only 1 Fiend.

About 50 ulmite men found death by his VQ, infantry of ulm, and black knights.

What the hell Ulm can rely on to deal with these things? I thought Ulm had good national troops cause the lack of serious magic, but it isn't so.

In other games too I founf my Ulmite armies slaughtered by summer lions, and devils (well I stopped summer lions by summoning Ether troops ... not Ethereal ... well they're ... the Ether Lord and his retinue.).
But however I've seen my armies trampled one by one.

Someone can help me in these situations?
However I'm starting to play next games with bigger pretenders.