Combat Puzzle, help requested =).

[ano]

Use bog beasts and you will have the minimal causalities. Bog beast is one of the most useful simple summons in the game due to exactly this reason. 6 bog beasts placed properly will kill you up to 40 priests/mages. I use it nearly in every game I play and I never regretted it. Races that have other summons with poison cloud (or hydras) may use them, of course.
Another option is, of course, chill. Should work too but I never tried/tested it.
Anyway you definitely need something that kills living beings and doesn't affect undead. Namely Cold or poison.

[chrispedersen]

Those are the two standard answers ano, I agree.

I was thinking of something more along the line of

(Big Astral Spell) -- fatigue - 200
Astral spell... kill all slaves..


Seems to me this requires 2 masters to properly do.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by ano

Use bog beasts and you will have the minimal causalities. Bog beast is one of the most useful simple summons in the game due to exactly this reason. 6 bog beasts placed properly will kill you up to 40 priests/mages. I use it nearly in every game I play and I never regretted it. Races that have other summons with poison cloud (or hydras) may use them, of course.
Another option is, of course, chill. Should work too but I never tried/tested it.
Anyway you definitely need something that kills living beings and doesn't affect undead. Namely Cold or poison.

Thanks, I should have done that in a C'tis game of mine. I used the Ankh + Foul Vapors, but it only managed to kill around 50% of my mages/priests each time. A few bog beasts on guard commander would have gone a long way to fixing that. Next time!