MA Pythium vs Ashod, stock

[ghoul31]

You are going to need a lot of astral mages.

So you can cast Stellar cascades, enslave mind, paralyze etc.

[Shangrila00]

That's not saying much is it? I mean MA Pythium is the undisputed king of astral. All their mages have astral. But yeah, Pythium should find it easy to deal with giants since they have easy access to AN and fatigue spells. Just start research in Evocation, and recruit Arch Theurgs as normal. As long as you can get lightning bolt before getting rushed, giants are no problem, and Stellar Cascades reverse communions pretty much render giants useless.