So what is Pythium's weakness?

[Huzurdaddi]

A friend of mine have been playing a few game together and after trying a few races we settled on Pythium and Arcoscephale.

So I look through this forum a little and I find that they are considered two of the strongest nations! Woohoo, we're not tards!

Sadly he got Pythium.

So ... uhm ... what the heck is the weakness of Pythium? Their normal troops seem "ok" nothing to write home about, a distinct lack of ranged troops but their melee troops are fine. Their casters OTOH are insane. Not only are they insanely powerful and very well setup for commune (which is gosh darn powerful) but they are sacred! So he can afford to have plenty of them. That's freaking scary.

I mean during the early parts of the game I think I can get the upper hand on him with the elephants and such. But once the mid game rolls around and he gets a critical mass of those Theurg's, Arch Theurg's and Theurg Acolytes I'm in for a real hurting (not to mention if he reads the forums he's going to do one of Alex's "The Perfect Storm's", eg: Cloud Trapeze + Wrathful Skies + Storm).

So what the heck is Pythium's weakness? Do they have one? Or do I have to basically hope that I am luckier than he is during the game to give me an edge?