Been romping with my Undead until...

[Psitticine]

Your dominion strength, type (as in theme), and the presence of unburied corpses all affect what kinds of automatic summons you receive. I believe temples don't have a direct effect, but they do boost your dominion, and I am also pretty sure you need a higher dominion in a province for the better auto-summons.

[Wendigo]

Unless this changed from Dom I, for Ashen Ermor:

Dominion strength, presence of temple & world richness determine the numbers generated, presence of fortress determines quality.

In my little playing of Ashen Ermor I have not noticed any changes to the above, although the presence of unburied corpses & existence/lack of population seem to have some effects on soulless & ghouls summoning/reanimation.

[ywl]

Originally posted by Lord Hammer:
First off, let me say what a wonderful diverse game this is! I've had 4 victories and i haven't even scratched the surface . Tonight i'm against Mictlan and they're killing me! Banish really seems to work well for them as my 120+ army is gone in minutes. I've tried Ashen and Soulgate and i don't want any vile living creatures in my "death squad". Any hints anybody? How to you oppose banish?

It's normal . That's why even with heap of bones and rotten meat, Ermor was widely regarded as a weak nation in MP. All the regular undeads are very vulnerable to banishing. Any player with some preparation can easily finish off a 100+ undeads army. The high-level undeads are wonderful but they need a good gem income to summon.

As the other mentioned, the undead priests of Ermor can cast protection spells to increase magic resistance. "Protection of the Sepulchre" and "Power of the Sepulchre" are both very good spells. A drain scale helps but it's not recommended since it'll slow your research to an incompetitive pace.

But, for most people, the answer is to give up on Ermor in Dom 1 . Except for a few very good players, I don't aware of too many people claiming they know how to handle Ermor yet.

[Taqwus]

Undead archers would probably be pretty decent against those nigh-unarmored Mictlan troops, and yes the longdead horsemen are nice too (and Pale Riders is definitely a bulk summons... along with Carrion Reanimation and the nice but hard-to-research Wight summons.)
Disease might also be a nasty weapon against Mictlan; think black servants with bane venom charms, harbingers, black death, etc. Mictlan *needs* blood magic, which effectively means they need to have a decent population in at least some provinces, plus they need to keep unrest down. Hitting their high-pop provinces with pop killers (which, incidentally, should also increase unrest) should help.

The Drain scale is nulled by the fact that you have death and can make Skull Mentors. But that is only one option to give MR.

More often than not, the longer that Ermor survives with a good dominion the stronger it gets.

Ashen Empire is particularly nasty with 9 Death and 8 Bless Effects as Unholy Knights of the Seplechure are plentiful and can form a strong core of your armies against banishment.

[PvK]

You can also deploy small squads forward with a single undead, perhaps one with good MR, away from your other undeads, to draw banishment attempts away from the others. Since banishment strikes like an inaccurate barrage, many castings can be wasted missing a single undead, which would have taken out dozens of zombies from a big group.

A necromancer or Revenant in the front raising skeletons can also do this well, but exposes the caster to danger.

Command units can hold anti-magic charms, etc.

Higher-level black priests can raise more and more powerful undead - see the manual's tables.
Wights and banes and those hounds with the bare skulls, and shades, are all somewhat tougher undead. The faster of those, and the Undead cavalry are great at the flank/rear attacks to go kill the priests, as Saxon mentioned.

PvK

[Lord Hammer]

Thanks to all of you for your excellent tips! I think i rushed the Mictlan Capitol too early while using my high level troops to commit genocide around the local provinces There's so many GOOD ways to be BAD , i just LOVE this game. The higher dominion levels definitely give you more/better undead troops with Ashen or Soulgate BTW. Tonight i'll spread my troops out instead of letting the computer do it and tell my gem carrying priests to cast the appropriate spells...Bruhahahaha!!!! Thanks again everyone .