To Blood Magic, Or Not To Blood Magic

[Boron]

Goblin said:
So far all the comments have been on how strong Blood is - it lacks battlefield magic is a given, but what are effective strategies against it (and it’s hellish hordes). One that jumps to mind is being able to identify the Blood Factories and shut them down (Fires from afar and the like). Any other ideas?

Goblin.

Vs. the Blood SCs herald lances can work very well. You need a bit blood forging capabilities on your own but then golems with ring of warrior, burning pearl, herald lances and some other items are surprisingly effective vs. blood scs and will also kill lots of devils and the like too.

Vs. the normal devil hordes and the like staff of storms + air magic is very effective as qm said.

Horde from hell raiding can be very effective. As soon as the enemy has a few good units in each province though horde from hell alone won't be enough. The imps have very bad morale so as soon as a few die the rest routs.
Normally 3-5 dead imps from the 25 imps you get with horde from hell are enough and they rout.

1 Sauromancer spamming undeads in every province + a few points of pd should be enough to defend vs. horde from hell 90% of the time.
Horde from hell is available quite early though and thus difficult to counter. Many nations/buildups can get crippled if you rush them with horde from hell spamming imho.

Maybe QM has some good ideas how to defend vs. early horde from hell raiding, i have no good ideas for that apart from playing ryleh/atlantis .