MA Ermor advice please

[Aezeal]

OK in my SP game I'm having quite some difficulties to destroy the larger R'heyhey forces,
The commander existing of all globes (Vastness) the weird mud like thins (greater otherness) which ahs only 3 attack and defense but which trample all my undead and the black sluglike thingies.. etc

If he has like one of the first and several of the latter 2 and about 30 illithids (in various sizes) and a few meteor guards .. With the regular armies I have around through my dominion (like 4-6 theurgs around a few dozen archers, horsewarriors, loads of undead (longdead horsemen and warriors) and a commander or 2.. The strange beasts he has crush all my infantry, spellcasters paralyze my archers.

my mages had a communion of 4 slaves, one master, casting shadow bolts and later raising dead, the other 2 theugs kept casting nether darts...
my archers where shooting the illiths in the back (hardly doing damage on 30 HP guys) my spell casters casted on the strange beasts.. hardly doing damage the infantry killed maybe one or 2 of the mudblobs but only got trampled

maybe some advice on how to do this... I can beat the AI player by just throwing LOADS and LOADS of troops at him but i'm loosing WAY and WAY more troops and I'm not liking it

[Lord_Bob]

Do you have the:
Dom 3DB at:
http://koti.welho.com/ehalttun/Dom3/ ?

If you look up illithids there you will see they are a 50 gold unit. So while you make think you are fighting "only" 30 illithids, that is 1500 GOLD in units.

From what little I know of R'yleh I think the Greater Otherness and Vastness are SUMMONED or Void Gate or some such thing monsters.

The Mindless undead are probably doing better than you think against such a swarm of high cost units.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I also would like to bring to your attention the database at Sunray's virtual library.
http://www.freewebs.com/dominions2/
It's quite handy how the units are organized by nation.
I use both databases, but the one I hit first when facing a nation I haven't fought before is Sunray's. Edi's is good as well, containing (lots more) different info in a different format, but takes several times as long to load, and is aimed a bit towards modders and mapmakers, etc.

[Aezeal]

Only 30 or not.. I'm not even getting near them those blobs and whatever .. only 10 -15 of em are taking my army apart bone by bone

I'm summoning tartarians as we speak (2nd one coming in , I just got lvl 6 consturction too so am crafting a load of weapons, I'll be summoning a load of tartarians and wraith lords next.. that should do something..

PS what do you guys think of the ether lord (ether gate)

anyway I must admit to lord bob that once that army was out of the way (and I have no idea where they have gone since I've not killed them.. maybe he has retreated and I'll encounter them later..) that as of yet I've not encountered a similar army and I'm taking provinces of him by the turn

[Evilhomer]

PS what do you guys think of the ether lord (ether gate)

Good units, but not a cost efficent summon. I would only recommend it if you are in need of a high level mage with the specific paths the ether lord has (S3D3).

[Aezeal]

yeah I admit seeing my tartarians I can see much better use for them, a ****load of HP is just nice, combined with strenght and some slots for stuff... nice nice nice

[Shovah32]

Remember to cast gift of reason on any afflicttion free tartarians(or atleast those who aren't mute/feeble minded) to get some versatile mages and potential SCs.