How to fight Ashdod

[Maraxus]

You are Vanheim. They are Giants. You have already won by mythological example. And the Edda does not read "And in the days of Ragnarök, the Giants attack Valhalla and some crazy Werewolfs fight for the gods", so produce Einheres and more Einheres.

I just ran tests:
6 fights @500 gold: 4 Sheshik Anakite vs 25 Einherias
6 fights @1500 gold: 12 Anakite vs 75 Einherias

The Anakites are blessed with Earth 9, Nature 5, besides this, commanders did not interfere meaningful.

In all 12 fights Vanheim was the clear and honorable winner, in both gold classes with about 60% casualties average.

Model problems:
-The Anakites cost only 2/5 as much resources.
-The Anakites are capital only, the Einheres are not!!
-I guess, a Water/Nature blessing could be better against Einheres although it makes them more vulnerable against Vans and Valkyries again.

With these results, I won't even try to optimize the result by using a handful of Water9-blessed Vans as a wavebreaker to get the Ashdod combat line uneven and place the Einheres behind them.

Ashdod is very powerful because of their Magic: Earth/Fire/Astral 3 and reasonably often Death 4 to top it! Good national only conjurations and all that in middle era. It's insane, but their troops are "only" average.

[Redeyes]

Summoning lesser air elementals through the combat spells worked excellently for my Pythium in countering singular SCs/raiders. 5-6 Lesser air elementals were capable of taking out everything but the strongest 20+ turn regen Adons, and were still quite capable at keeping those locked down while I rained paralysis their way.

[LDiCesare]

Originally Posted by Maraxus

The Anakites are blessed with Earth 9, Nature 5, besides this, commanders did not interfere meaningful.

Ashdod should almost never use anakites. 1 adon with a half-decent kit (just bracers of protection + pendant of luck for instance), and Earth 10 (not 9), Nature 6+ but preferably 6+.
Do einheres manage to dent that?
Plus, zammzumites will skeleton-spam.
I think Ashdod doesn't need many giant troops, if at all. They work very well with only commanders and some troops levied when they need to take down a fort.

[SciencePro]

Originally Posted by Maraxus

You are Vanheim. They are Giants. You have already won by mythological example.

hehe awesome