Trivia: How do you kill this unit?

[vfb]

What nation are you playing, and what turn is it?

And why is the Sphinx not scripting Body Ethereal, Luck, Astral Shield, Regeneration, Curse?

[Edi]

A big bunch of thugs with flying boots and gate cleavers, dusk daggers and other similar armor negating weapons scripted to attack large monsters are going to ruin his day in a hurry.

[sector24]

This is my MA Jotunheim game that I was playing to write the guide. So I have all magic paths except Fire, research levels are 7-9 in all magic schools, basically unlimited resources except earth gems.

I was thinking of trying to feeblemind him with Nether Darts, and then next turn sending in a couple SCs. The problem is that he's in his capital and he's scripted to sit way in the back, so even if I put my spellcasters in the front they have to walk forward for 1 or 2 turns before they're in casting range. That gives me maybe 2 or 3 volleys of Nether Darts if they don't get jammed up in the gate before the AI scripts garbage like Astral Shield and Raise Dead, etc. I'm not even sure if he can be feebleminded.

I could definitely nail him with Horror Marks and curses out of spite, but it I'll have all his provinces in a turn or two and I can probably dominion kill him first.

Are there any weapons that instantly kill casters? Like an Elf Bane for Sphinxes? It would be good to know how to deal with this in the future even if I go around him in this game.

[Shovah32]

Heartfinder sword has instant-death if MR check is failed, iirc.
An Ethereal Crossbow, Magebane or The Infernal Sword could also put the Sphinx out of commision.

Banish to Inferno/Claws of Cocytus(spelling?) should also get rid of him easily.

[llamabeast]

I'm with the gate cleaver option. Heaps of damage. Give the thug boots of quickness too, and have a couple such thugs and he will be dead in no time.

[Chris_Byler]

Heartfinder sword probably doesn't work on lifeless beings - no heart, or if they have one, it's not essential to life.

Ethereal Crossbow allows an MR save, which the Sphinx will probably pass (assuming you hit his square). Magebane will knock him out but not kill him (IIRC).

I don't know what the sphinx's chances of returning from inferno/cocytos would be. You'd think that an immobile should have zero chance of returning, but if the mechanics aren't coded that way...

I second the AN thugs. Hitting the sphinx is easy.

[Baalz]

Even better, just equip several guys with the black bows. I don't think it gives a MR check for the feeblemind.

[Taqwus]

...Mandragora, paired with Mass Flight. Sleep vines are vicious.

[sum1lost]

Give a thug a pair of the E10 hammers that crush constructs. That might work.

[archaeolept]

Taqwus said:
...Mandragora, paired with Mass Flight. Sleep vines are vicious.

yeah, that's a good one

the gate cleaver also is a great weapon in this circumstance - a few thugs w/ good MR should take him down.