Routing bug

[Kristoffer O]

Or it is the flying trampler that are too powerful. Or the bladewind that kills the carrier of the staff of storms.

There are plenty of spells and items that affect the outcomes of battles. Storm is powerful, but so is flying, trampling and shock resistance (if you face wrath of the sky and storm). There are counter measures to most strategies, but some are more difficult to find or utilize.

[archaeolept]

well, I would say that storm/SoS is too powerful for it's cost; but that is true of a large number of spells/items, naturally. It does sound like the army wasn't prepared to deal w/ the standard SoS wielding pythium army, and so the original result seen was likely the flukey one.

As to why the trolls were sitting around, didn't you say they were being hit by stellar cascades? was there fatigue 100+?