Can normal army take out Sphinx pretender?

[Chazar]

Gargoyle said:
This fellow is more a annoyance than a threat, so I will take the road of just sealing him up in his own tomb until he just fades away.

Well, 'loosing' 5 gems per turn probably more than a mere annoyance on smaller/medium sized maps...

sushiboat said:
I think that unconsciousness would affect defense but not protection.

There definitely some passage inside the manual talking about a penetration chance of x% if fatigue is over y, where I believe y to be 80. However, since I am currently moving I wont have my manual available until 3 more weeks, so I cant check myself.

Agrajag siad:
An important thing to remember about plops and max dominion is that since a plop will spread to another province only if the province its in is "full",...

I think that there is always a chance for plops to travel, but the further away from max-dominion the current province is, the less likely is the plop to travel...so you are right that low starting dominion and high max dominion due to temples is a hinderance for dominon spread...