Orcs on the March thread

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Originally Posted by atlatea

I think it's somewhat random, sometimes tekron is the hardest, especially the dragon hero.

And 2x cast is mage greatest weapon, there are several option to deal with shamans.

Without very high int, i usually get a fast and high initiative unit (like green dragon or red dragon or horsemen or unicorn or orc veteran), stone skin lv 3 and target lv 3. Archmage is also needed in some cases, you can also add divine armor, but stone skin 3 + magic shield usually suffice.

Just cast stone skin lv 3 + target lv 3 on the dragons or horsemen, then charge them off to those shamans, then archmage cast magic shield. They won't even have a chance to do their magic axe or anything that is astral attack.

Or, summon something near them (Call of Nature, Demonologists, etc...) and cast Target on it.

Or, use Mass Magic Shackle. (I know, this doesn't work in Impossible games).

Or just blind/Sheep them. Not sure whether you can cast two Blind spells in one round with High Magic, though.

Shaman/Blood Shaman's greatest vulnerability is that they have absolutely no resistances or immunities. Heck, Hypnotizing them would work too, after you dwindle their numbers down.