I suck with Pythium ... please help!

[Huzurdaddi]

Or is it truely that problematic that simply adding relief casters doesn't suffice?

No number of releif casters will buy you more than 5 turns extra. On the 6th turn they will stop casting releif. I have never seen them cast it after that point. I'm sure someone, somewhere, has seen it but I never have. So don't count on it. You *need* to get the battle over with ASAP with communion. Script the most punch spells even if they take a lot of fatigue ( thunderstike is one that comes to mind ) since time is your enemy not the guys with pointy sticks on the other side of the field.

[Graeme Dice]

Huzurdaddi said:
No number of releif casters will buy you more than 5 turns extra. On the 6th turn they will stop casting releif. I have never seen them cast it after that point.

Relief gets cast when the fatigue of your entire army starts to get to be large. Cast heat from hell, rigor mortis, or rain if you want your army to generate more fatigue so that relief gets cast more often. You can also put clockwork horrors on the field, since their fatigue generation will trigger the casting of relief.