How to fight EA Abysia?

[Dragar]

I've never used fire snakes on the basis that abysia relies too much on fire already. Get some fire res happening

The smite is useful against thugs and pretenders in the early game, against numbers of troops or anything with decent MR it never does much. I've only ever gotten value out of it once, against a Cyclops whose protection and fire made him otherwise immune to me. I can't see it being a weapon in the mid game onwards, given the cost of the H3 casters