Soul Gate vs. Ashen Empire & Ermor Setup

[Thufir]

Peter Ebbesen said:
SG vs AE is in many ways the question of quality over quantity. Still, good arguments can be made for both being preferable. As such, I will do both.

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(Okay, so I am a Soul Gate rather than Ashen Empire type. ...)

Excellent post, Peter! You really layed out the issues here very clearly - this will help a ton in reducing my Ermor learning curve!

Personally, I'm rather quality oriented myself, and your post has encouraged me to go with my gut, and stick to SG.

Thanks again for a very informative post!

- Thufir

[Boron]

Very informative post Peter .

I have a question now too :
Is there anywhere detailed information on the freespawns of both Ermors ?

I always had the impression that AE ermor gets at least 3 times more troops than SG but this is very subjective .


I personally still favor AE ermor a bit . If the enemy has lots of priests things get ugly for AE but since you get so many freespawns you can just build a lot of small raiding Groups of 200-500 undead which can easily kill most SCs .
So forcing your enemy to build lots of anti-death mages and priests while you lose only fodder which spawns really quick again is nice .
Your enemy can use e.g. flames from the sky of course but this is expensive .
So hopefully your enemy wastes gems or is forced to buy otherwise not so useful special antiundead forces while you lose nothing .
You can make in midgame or early lategame 5-10 raiding armies each 200-500 undeads big rather easy with AE ermor .
This alone is already not so easy to stop or takes precious resources .

With SG this doesn't work as well though , at least not in my personal experience .