Ermor vs Pythium Hydras, help!

[Ironhawk]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

3. Thirdly, tactically, hydras are slow. Things like curse of stone, sleep cloud, terror+prison of fire (esp under cbm), can prevent hydras from ever getting to the front - so now you just need to make sure yours don't walkinto the poison cloud: set them to guard commander. Let your commanders spam undead or illusions.

Let him lose to time out....

This is a really bad idea. Players using Hyrdas tend to use time out strategies themselves since surviving is what hyrdas are really good at. You could find yourself playing the waiting game while your enemy has just cast Foul Vapors and then you are totally screwed.