How do you counter Hydras?

[Fal]

fog warriors + rain of stones/earthquake.
problem solved.

Otherwise, archers, lots of archers.

[K]

Spamming undead + archers works pretty well too.

[ArkhanTheBlack]

Just curious, which race can build or summon hydras? I can't remember seeing them in the spell list for any summonings.

[ano]

EA Sauromatia, MA Pythium and LA Pythium (sacred hydras). There's also a magic site that allows recruiting them

[Edi]

The site only allows recruitment of hydra hatchlings, which are quite useless.

[Lingchih]

The sacred Hydras of LA Pythium are quite nice. Put a little extra regen on them with your bless (N), maybe W9 too for defense and quickness, and they are awesome.

Also, the afore mentioned tactics still work against them though. Skelly spam will eventually kill them, and a ton of slingers does a nice job on them too.

[moderation]

How many slingers do you need per hydra? Slingers don't do much good in my tests. The main head has more protection than the lesser ones, so they seem to regenerate too fast for the slingers to do much damage.

Also, why are hatchlings even in the game? They seem to serve no purpose whatsoever. Aside from looking cute and venomous.