'Sick and Tired" Help Needed

[zephyr]

I looked for hints on the forum and found none so am posting this. I simply cannot beat the AI on "standard" in the 'Sick and Tired" mod of the campaign. I tired building just Initiates but they are too vulnerable, then I tried with Apprentices (sp?) but they have no offensive value. Each time I get overwhelmed by the Hags that seem to crop up like weeds. Please Help a clearly inferior player!

[PhilD]

There's plenty of solutions. Mixing units works for me, as does using the Apprentice's ability to slow down the enemy's conquering of cities - just reduce a Hag's influence by 1 over 2 turns, and effectively costs the enemy 1000 gold.