[thejeff]

I'm not familiar enough with Abysia to really address this, so just a couple of thoughts:

Astral bless doesn't help your Annointed's mr. The boost from the bless caps at 18, which you already have.

The Devil from Hordes From Hell is a commander, so that may be a more cost effective way to get them than GoR. Blood slaves are cheaper than gems.

Another brutal tactic I got hit with was Demonbred with 2 Lifelong Protections. Relatively cheap and easy, stealthy flying raiders. 2 of them can take out most PD and many thugs. It's very hard to kill 8 imps a turn. Just give them a cheap ranged item (Scepter?) so they don't close. Regular assassins would work too, just less mobile.
Regular assassins can