How to play Ermor

[Teleolurian]

SC means supercombatant.

Ermor is dramatically easy to play versus the AI once you get the concept. Basically, drop all of your scales and use the points on your pretender; alternatively, increase Magic to +3 to hasten your research. Most of your undead summons are in Enchantment, but some special summons requiring dual paths (like King of Banefires) will be in Conjuration. Skull Mentors and Nether Darts are useful.

As people die in your provinces, you will end up with hordes of cheap screen units. A cheap castle type will allow you to build several and use them to recruit cheap commanders to lead this growing horde, but you'll need something with more guts to destroy a well-trained army. Against the AI you can hold off enemy attacks and rush towards Tartarian Gate as an exercise in entertainment. This is likely not a viable MP strategy, though some may argue.

Other flavors of Ermor (Broken Empire, Soul Gate) require different modes of play, since BE is more like a near-undead Pythium and Soul Gate deals in spirits. As I have little experience with SG and none with BE, I'll leave discussion of those to wiser heads.