A strategy to counter "glamour"?

[PaoloZ]

Thanks everybody!
The fact that there is no single good strategy to defeat an opponent in Dominions 3 is a fair indication of how deep this game is.
And I see it's growing with the patches. Definitely worth the money...

[PvK]

If you have some fairly cheap mages who can cast Frozen Heart or Sailor's Death, or maybe even Dehydration, putting those behind a dense block of infantry who will at least take some time to kill, might let the mages kill the expensive Hellheim units at a cost-effective rate...

Quickening could also help reduce some of the elite advantage of the Hellheimers.

[krpeters]

Here's how to defeat Helheim, every time, no matter what race you are playing:

1) On turn two, click "statistics", score graphs/pretenders, and determine if Helheim is one of your opponents.

2) If Helheim is an opponent, click "options", "quit without saving", and start a new game.

Helheim is outrageously unbalanced -- hordes of Huskarls will chew up and spit out almost anything. By the time you have effective magic to counter him he'll already own half the board. Sure, if you want a challenge you can fight him off at that point, but generally it's better just to stay away from any world he happens to inhabit.

[PvK]

Hmm. I'm beating AI Helheim as EA Ermor without too much effort (and not bothering with magic or blessings) on a small map - just national infantry. Sure their men are very skilled, but they also cost a lot more than mine.

[Shovah32]

Generally 2.5x the gold cost and around the same resource cost, not exactly alot except in huge amounts. Good thing ai cant use stealth properly.

[NTJedi]

Shovah32 said:
Generally 2.5x the gold cost and around the same resource cost, not exactly alot except in huge amounts. Good thing ai cant use stealth properly.

True the AI is poor in the following traits:
Poor at using stealth for sneak attacks.
Poor at organizing armies to attack water provinces.
Unaware most units in the game need food thus it will starve its larger armies.
Unaware it's foolish to send its giant pretender into the death match arena.
Unable to invest greater amounts of gems based on the game turn for global spells.
Unable to properly setup units on the battlefield with cold/heat/disease/poison auras thus weakening its army.
No knowledge of what items do thus giving a water bracelet to a fire mage or the assassin heart to a unit without stealth.

I'm sure there's some others, but those are just off the top of my head.