If you have set yourself on fire, do not run.

[MaxWilson]

That would be cool. You could also use an S5 and a couple of communion slaves, or an S4 with Ritual of Returning pre-cast and stoneskin boots and 6 pearls.

My experience has been that it's relatively easy to *survive* against armies of 1000+ units because not all of them can get into the fight at once, and it's relatively hard to *kill* armies of 1000+ units. Eventually they rout and 900 of them get away. Aegis works okay for wiping them out, and Antimagic + Astral Tempest or Soul Drain seem like a good combo, too. (Or Flame Storm, Wrathful Skies, etc.) Right now I'm pretty enamored of Plague as an army-killer because once you get it going it spreads quickly and almost everybody catches it, no matter what their MR. Even the ones that rout disappear into little puffs of blood as they're falling off the map.

Your other alternative is to play strategic games to cut off the provinces the routing 900 could retreat into. That works pretty well, too.

-Max