The Story of Bat Folly: (note I wanted to attack last turn, but then decided just to PING it with a scout. But didnt change orders on all my troops, which is why @pyrhic saw the ghoul suicide charge).
I attacked Niefelhiem in winter on his home, which still had 8 dominion. The bulk of my troops are cold blooded, so I knew I had a couple turns at most to do the most damage before they all froze. I also brought every type of demon I could grab, and tried to make Niefel’s home filled with unrest by hitting it with Blight and Rain of Toads whenever I could. The unrest would make my ko-onis better.
I attacked with 337 units, of which 15 were mages, 2 were banes, and one prophet bat. I had 30 merc longbowmen, 50 merc ghouls, 40 odd flying demons, mostly beast bats, and about 90 bats proper. I had a …PLETHORA of blood slaves and gems.
@kelan defended with a 4 gygjas( nature and death gems), three partially equipped Niefel Jarls, a hero (huntress), a bane, and for troops he had 12 ice drakes, 11 niefel giants, 13 Draugs, and about 50 assorted jotuns, plus 33 units of province defense (I assume this is a standard 25 PD?)?
My plan was to drown them in Imps which, with Iron bane, Blood Lust, and Darkness, would be able to make them actually do damage to the jotuns. Sprinkle in some Agony castings, and a Hellbind Heart or two for spice. ( Note the requires Alt 6 and Blood 5 or so. If you are reading this, and have not gotten to those levels or more in a couple magic schools, which I got even though I got a horrific start, you need to double down on your research). In addition, I had seen how deadly the ice drakes were against the Jinn. So I devoted my best units with the best morale to attack rear to take them out.
@Kelan 's plan was to stay close together, spam out Swarm, Summon Lamastas, and let the cold do the work.
Lets just say, his plan worked better than mine.
Good news! - the ice drakes are dead. And only 2 mages died. One of his Skrattis died.
Bad news! - the cream of my summoned devils are dead. Oh, and the ko-onis trudged slowly through the snow, suffered a minus 3 to hit because of the Order in the province, and were worthless.
More bad news! I did summon a lot of imps…but they either took out the 4 Lammastas that were summoned, or beat ineffectually on the giants.
The bulk of the kills came from the 12 Ice drakes (54), and the 3 Niefel Jarls (56). If it weren’t for those two elements, I think it would have been different.
Suffice to say, I am glad that my pretender, who would have entered the battle with 10% of her hit points, stayed one province away.
(not really sure how to screen shot and post stuff? I dont have drop box or whatever).