A newbie asks...

[JonBrave]

So now I'm trying to storm this castle, this time with melee troops

Castle wall breached. His God/Leader comes plonks himself in the gateway. My melee guys stack up trying to hit him and get through, only front guys can hit. He is "ethereal", so I think what is happening is nothing, because I can't hit him, at least mostly. Over time his archers etc. ruin my army. What exactly do I need for "magic weapons" it talks about --- I don't think I have any....

[Kadelake]

Magical weapons are very rare on recruitable troops (except for Caelum, most of their troops have magical weapons). They are quite common on summoned units, though.
If you forge magical weapons and give them to your commanders they (of course) counts as magical weapons.
If you have sacred melee units and a fire 9 bless, that would give them a magical fire attack.
The fire spell flaming arrows makes your archers do bonus fire damage as well as counting as magical weapons.
Maybe the easiest way is using your mages against his pretender? Does he have 100% resistance to lightning/fire/cold? If not, that might be a good way to attack.

The two most common ways to deal with super combatants is to forge magical items and hand it to some good commanders (if you have access to a suitable chassis) or mages.

[krpeters]

Originally Posted by JonBrave

So now I'm trying to storm this castle, this time with melee troops

Castle wall breached. His God/Leader comes plonks himself in the gateway. My melee guys stack up trying to hit him and get through, only front guys can hit. He is "ethereal", so I think what is happening is nothing, because I can't hit him, at least mostly. Over time his archers etc. ruin my army. What exactly do I need for "magic weapons" it talks about --- I don't think I have any....

In my experience, the best way to take care of a Pretender holed up in his capital is to domkill him. Park a medium army to trap him, take all his other territories, then pile on priests to preach. When he runs out of dominion, he vanishes, and you can take the empty castle.

Domkill takes a while, but if you have the time... and sitting on his capital gives you a lot of breathing room