How to beat Late Age Ermor?

[MaxWilson]

Ironhawk said:
Aldrenas: can you go into more detail about what thugs you are using? I have not fought LA ermor myself (due to objections over thier dominion) but from what I understand the conventional way to fight them is with massed banishments. And the way to use thugs vs them is pretty much any chasis plus a fire shield and regen.

Supposedly, Phoenix Pyre spreads the fatigue from dying among communion slaves just like spell fatigue. I'm pondering trying the following in my current game (vs. LA Ermor):

Get a bunch of cheap S1 mages.
Have them cast Communion Slave.
Communion masters cast Fire Shield, Phoenix Pyre, Summon Earthpower, Personal Luck. Then they either retreat or start firing bows or something.
Communion slaves all Attack Closest.

Phoenix Pyre is pretty weak but it has a huge area of effect that should mess LA Ermor up pretty good. Of course it would be more efficient to use all those massed communion slaves to cast H4 Banishment--but this way sounds like more fun.

-Max

[JimMorrison]

If you can get Air in there as well, could add Mass Flight.

And Maybe toss in Body Ethereal? Not sure what the relative benefits of delaying the explosions might be, though if the undeads mass up around the slaves nicely.....

Also Fire Ward could be good if you had access, I'm under the impression that chain explosions can make that strat very showy, but ultimately less effective than hoped.

[MaxWilson]

JimMorrison said:
If you can get Air in there as well, could add Mass Flight.

And Maybe toss in Body Ethereal? Not sure what the relative benefits of delaying the explosions might be, though if the undeads mass up around the slaves nicely.....

Body Ethereal won't spread to all the slaves because it's not caster-only. For the same reason you might as well choose Flight over Mass Flight (all the slaves get it automatically when a master casts it).

To fight chain reactions, throw in a Stoneskin or Ironskin. Phoenix Pyre is actually quite bad at killing anything armored.

-Max

[Alderanas]

ok so the consensus is to use communion? I love fighting LA ermor but they always beat the crap out of me. Is communion the spell that lets one mage use all the other mages on the battle fields power?

[Alderanas]

one other question that i have. Do burden of time and foul air effect lifeless creatures the same as they would an undead creature?

[Alderanas]

I am not really sure i have ever used communion. my usual tactic is to overwhelm my opponents with lots of powerful soldiers and many different types of mages spewing as many different deadly spells as possible.