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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leopold" data-source="post: 267143" data-attributes="member: 758">i agree with crg on this as i was about to say it.Disease em out. The humanoids can't take too much and god knows the clerics will be busy once the enemies start launching rotting flesh from catapaults on the walls at them.Idea: bury the undead hordes and place a contigency spell upon them. Wait till the valorean masses are upon them and then at night have the dead rise from the grave where the troops are and attack. Simultaneously harry the front with some of the troops from the fortress that come rushing out and have the magical being attacked by the vamps in gaseous forms.Another note would be to infiltrate some doppelgangers or polymorphed wear folk into the midst. Sow confusion amongst the troops and take out their leaders. Spells like color spray, prismatic spray, gold dust, grease, confusion, ray of enfeeblement will knock out the front line fighters and make them easy to kill. ONce the front ranks are decimated bring in the undead clerics and raise the snot out of the fallen troops before the good guys get there. Send in those shock troops to continue the battle and if you are feeling lucky send in your remaining forces on the flanks to crush your opponent. If it's fairing badly let the undead take the brunt of it and retreat to the castle. You've already covered your retreat by the undead hordes who will continue to fight until destroyed.Undead+spell+disease=win for these guys. coming out of the castle will shock the hell out of the attackers as it's completely unexpected but with your undead lying in wait they will be confused and disorganized.Idea 2: If the defenders know of who is leading the charge out there what better tactic than to go after the leaders wives, children, parents, etc. Take a list of the troops and who's commanding. Send out some vampires, augury, scry, etc. Find out who their loved ones are and go after them. You can cast spells through a scrying pool so have at it. Distress the leaders, make them think that their battle is foolish and that their loved ones are at home dying while they are out here in this god forsaken land. Send in some forces to infilatrate and propogandize the end. Bribe some soliders to just start spouting doom if they attack and watch the morale fall like a lead brick. Even the mighties of the paladins will have a tough time if his god is telling him his faithful followers families are being slaughtered while he is leading the charge.When they attack have illusions cast on trees showing the loved ones of the soliders hanging from the bows. Crucify the familes of them and put them along the path. Would it incense them? Possibly but it could also work as a deterrent.  Thrusting a contigent of undead soliders who were once valoreans shouting "Join us..Join us or you shall perish" in the wind would cause most low levels to run in fear. Unhallow the ground. Make it near high impossible to cast cure spells while in the area. Seal away acccess to the gods that they worship and nullfiy healing and augury. Allow no recon into my fortress for them to see. Summon troops to harry any airbore forces and drop bodies from up high into the masses of the troops with maggots and worms (the grey ones that burrow in your brain and kill you i forget the name). Spread contagion like above and keep hammering at the troops on the field day and night so they don't sleep with messages and nightmares.</blockquote>

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