skelliespam

[LDiCesare]

Earthquake is so-so against C'tis. If there are astral mages around (shamans for instance), it's likely most of the skellyspammers will be body ethereal-ed and that 1 earthquake will have almost no effect in terms of killing mages unless you are the defender and cast it without summon earthpower or any other boost.
My experience with earthquake against C'tis has been rather poor. Lots of troops, preferably tramplers backes by archers, is better.

[Groundworm]

Thank you for the excellent suggestions. I was finally able to defeat his mages after multiple battles that whittled down his chaff (serpents, sirrushes, lizard infantry). This allowed my mages to target his mages early, and I killed several of them in the first few rounds with well-placed thunderstrikes. He still managed to summon a lot of skellies, but between my priests and several hastily-forged herald lances, I was able to kill most of them.