Been romping with my Undead until...

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 .

[Vger]

Hi,

I'm certainly no expert at D2 or Ermor, but I do so love to play them. One thing I didn't see mentioned by anyone else here was to take as high astral as you can with your pretender. Then, when you bless your sacreds, they get one added to their MR for every two levels of Astral, starting at 4. So, if you could take astral 10, you'd have +4 for all your sacred troops when they're blessed. (Plus Twist of Fate.)

Hope this helps,
V'ger gone

I think the reason that isn't or was overlooked was because most Banishments can't affect your sacred troops very well (They usually have higher MR). The blessing only affects your sacreds.

And astral is always a great pick for Ermor for a variety of reasons.

[Lord Hammer]

Well, after many hours i am kicking booty . I set my dominion at 9 as it seems apparent that is all the Undead need as opposed to supplies. My quality of units showing up is MUCH improved, and i'm keeping my cavalry separate as suggested as well as having my priest/prophet stocked with death gems and only casting power of sepulchre. The carnage is unbelievable ...no survivors, only death! With the Undead it's like the song goes: "gotta keep 'em separated" .