Priests and LA Ermor

[thejeff]

I'm not sure about the uselessness of H1 priests. Sure, H2 or H3 are better, but it's often cheaper and easier to field 10 H1 priests than 5 H2s. And almost certainly not worth boosting standard H1 priests with Crystal Shields or artifacts. If you've got cheap Astral/Blood priests, communion is great for boosting some (No fatigue, so have the slaves banish as well.)

The key to H1 priests is quantity. For a major fight against LA Ermor, you'd want 20-30, along with some real mages and a meat shield.

[Meglobob]

I recently won a MP game with LA Ermor and I must say lvl 1 priests where a very small threat to my undead, even when massed in large numbers 20-30.

I made sure every battle I fought I had darkness, rigor mortis and protection of the sepulchre up. This meant I would often destroy far more of the enemy or equal numbers, which of course means Ermor wins given its huge freespawn every turn.

What did give me trouble was LA Ctis spamming wither bones, I lost many 1,000's of undead to that and LA Tien Chi's anchestor smiths casting multiple rain of stones. Rain of Stones destroyed a 1,500 strong undead army in a mere 4 combats rounds.

If you can destroy 75% of the undead quickly the rest will autoroute, pretty much resulting in 100% casulties for LA Ermor.