Been romping with my Undead until...

[Saxon]

I just thought of something related. More generally, flying troops that can hit the rearward commanders will also work well, though most that I can think of are living.

I also like The Pelt of Feniris (I think that is the name). It does not fit in with your undead theme, but having wolves line both sides of the battle is a nice distraction. I have found that they do not do much damage, but they distract your opponent from the main force. Right now I have a lot of spell casters, so the extra couple of turns the enemy spends cleaning up the close by wolves are a couple of extra turns of spell casting. In your case, having the priests mess about with the wolves in close combat give the rest of your troops more time to advance.

[Mortifer]

Indeed, MR must be boosted.
Ermor is the best nation IHMO, if you know how to play them.

[Gandalf Parker]

Marignon was generally considered (in Dom1) to exist as a barrier to Ermor being the ultimate choice. Have you not hit them yet in this game? How do you feel Mictlan compares as an Ermor killer?

[Catquiet]

Could someone who has experience playing Ermor please list everything that affects the automatic recruitment of undead.

Be as specific as possible. For instance, I know that building a Fortress will give you better quality troops, but does the amount of resources in that province matter?

[Psitticine]

Your dominion strength, type (as in theme), and the presence of unburied corpses all affect what kinds of automatic summons you receive. I believe temples don't have a direct effect, but they do boost your dominion, and I am also pretty sure you need a higher dominion in a province for the better auto-summons.

[Wendigo]

Unless this changed from Dom I, for Ashen Ermor:

Dominion strength, presence of temple & world richness determine the numbers generated, presence of fortress determines quality.

In my little playing of Ashen Ermor I have not noticed any changes to the above, although the presence of unburied corpses & existence/lack of population seem to have some effects on soulless & ghouls summoning/reanimation.

[ywl]

Originally posted by Lord Hammer:
First off, let me say what a wonderful diverse game this is! I've had 4 victories and i haven't even scratched the surface . Tonight i'm against Mictlan and they're killing me! Banish really seems to work well for them as my 120+ army is gone in minutes. I've tried Ashen and Soulgate and i don't want any vile living creatures in my "death squad". Any hints anybody? How to you oppose banish?

It's normal . That's why even with heap of bones and rotten meat, Ermor was widely regarded as a weak nation in MP. All the regular undeads are very vulnerable to banishing. Any player with some preparation can easily finish off a 100+ undeads army. The high-level undeads are wonderful but they need a good gem income to summon.

As the other mentioned, the undead priests of Ermor can cast protection spells to increase magic resistance. "Protection of the Sepulchre" and "Power of the Sepulchre" are both very good spells. A drain scale helps but it's not recommended since it'll slow your research to an incompetitive pace.

But, for most people, the answer is to give up on Ermor in Dom 1 . Except for a few very good players, I don't aware of too many people claiming they know how to handle Ermor yet.