Newbie questions

[Patriot]

I'm a newbie and I have a question.

Since Gandalf Parker, the good man, put up a multiplayer blitz server, I can't wait to play a person, but I wanted to know generally how other people play.

I got the general feeling that a majority of people, at least those that post on the forums here create small but elite + blessed armies to massacre their opponents without taking any losses, while adding invincible combatants in the mix.

Is it possible to put up a fight by conscripting masses of trashy troops, keep morale up the best you can, and overwhelm an opponent? I was wondering if there is a good human wave strategy. I tried playing Late Ermor but the AI killed me. I don't like the undead that much.

Or should I try to go for spells like Leprosy and Black Death? I know how annoying those kind of spells are when the computer does it to me.