amphiptere plus ma man's units

[Kadelake]

I agree that helmets don't seem help much. The high fatigue gained by casting rain of stones guaranties a critical hit. Maybe mass protection + a good helmet is enough?

RoS doesn't count as a magic attack so the best protection is mistform. If you can spare one turn, have the crone cast mistform and then rain of stones. Fog warriors is great but kind of hard to get for Man since it needs A4. Once you've got access to fog warriors it's no problem dropping several RoS the first turn of combat
If you have access to a crystal shield, give it to an A3 mage. Just make sure fog warriors goes of before RoS; I've just managed to kill 4 important mages by messing up the casting order.

Originally Posted by Jarkko

E1A1 Crones with earth boots and scripted with Summon Earthpower become E3A1

Crones come with at least A2. Recruitable, teleporting rain of stones casters