Best way to deal with ethereals en masse?

[rabelais]

I'm fighting Norfleets soulgate ermor. Hard to tell whether I'm winning. I suspect not.

Usually I conquer the world diplomatically, but it's fun to have an actual WAR to fight, as opposed to just playing vulture to the carrion of others mistakes

Yes, dust to dust and star fires are being used where possible, I was just hoping there was a way to get my lovely woodsmen/spearmen to contribute, I think it's interesting that there are no low-level buffs that grant "magic" or even anti-undead/demon weapons.

Seems like an omission.


Rabe the Jolly Green Lizard

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by rabelais:
I'm playing MP against someone who is fielding a great many ethereals. It's almost like they appear out of nowhere.

That's because they *DO* appear out of nowhere.

[PDF]

Fire Arrows (Ench 4) is the "more affordable" ethereal-killer, as it gives magic weapons to all your archers . Other "area fire" spells work well too, but a Nature-9 Jotun can't get anything in Fire however ...well, if you've access to Astral (Utgard) the always-useful Star Fires work, but if you were you'd use Etherealness yourself I suppoe !
With IW or Niefelheim frankly I don't have any idea except building magical weapons ... What ethereal stuff are you fighting ? If they aren't magical/mindless you can try to ruin their morale, etherealness doesn't help, if they are big baddies you can try to swarm them with Vaetti or Imps for example...

[Master Shake]

Ethereal undead die to banishment just like all the other undead. Priests, priests, and more priests. Treat priests like a normal unit. Indeed, they are less expensive than many elite units, and being sacred, cost half the upkeep. I just finished a successful campaign against Ermor as Ulm, and I had about 10 priests for every normal commander, and as many as 20 per province. Just get some stable high defense units up front, and your priests will wear away at those armies.