Armageddon Mode

I've decided to focus on this, since it's the ONLY fun mode in the game due to the terrible AI when they use the same rules as the player in Conquest.

Dremor Anchors Turn 53 (Wiki claims 3 as reported minium but I've only seen 4 once and usually get 5)

Anchors have a random Suprmeme Unit guarding them. 
Anchors technically count as Monsters... so if they randomly spawn in Dremor territory the Dremor will actually fight them for you (not that fast of a process unless they've advanced to Thrower/Mage) 

Supreme units do not neccesarily need to be killed if you can lure them off the anchor or just range grief it...
Suggestions

Range 3 Unit + Raise/Lower Land - prevents them from coming off of the anchor and retailiating  - Canidates = Archer of Helia/Lich/Human City Catapult
ANY Invisible Ranged unit can do the same kinda.

The Supreme Units are a VERY diverse group, with some being glass-cannon types compared to the obscene tankiness of others - Overall 4! are immune to Death, 2 to Missle, 1 to Melee, and 1 to Elemental (none are immune to Life/Spirit)

If the map doesn't allow for luring them out of the way/etc, Mossy Trolls can grind them if you have 2-3 trolls for rotating (and naturally a bunch of defensive perks). In some cases the Mossy Trolls can simply kill the Anchors underenath a full health supreme unit.

Once they are killed you will get the teleport to Dremor World spell which takes a 1 hex radius (7 units max) worth of units to the final battleground.. It is MOSTLY inhabited by Dremor Warrior/Throwers with a very small amount of Sea Dremor/Dremor Mages. 

The Boss itself can instantgib armies if given the chance. 

Spirit resistance can only be gained by
1: Inherent (Arethi Agrela Temple, Human/Monster Fervus Temple Human/Undead Dauors Temple Shadow of Vendral(75 Relation Fervus Summon))
2: Perk from Adamantium
3: Perk from Pumpkin(Undead city only)
4: Level up perk for Level 4 Casters ONLY
5 : Rune of Negation researchable with 50 relationship with Krolm

In my experience the best solutions are
A: Invisibility+Ranged units - spell research is a slot machine, but this autowins and has the bonus of letting you skip having to clear a path through the rest of the enemies in the Dremer world
B: Mass Spirit of Life - Totally Immune to Boss and can kill any of the melee-only supreme units (kinda squishy against most of the ranged supreme units) Biggest downside is their obscene Mana upkeep actually makes casting the teleport to Dremor world spell dificult if massed too early.
C: Old Trolls + Court Werewolves - 50% Resistance is enough - Can take advantage of  Pestilence Swamp
D : Human Krolm - 50% Resistance + Highest Damage output if also get the Krolm Berserk spell

Although he is immune to Debuffs from Banes he is not immune to "Target on bad terrain" from lava/swamp, which makes Pesilence Swamp (and the impractical summon volcano) technically give a massive +50% after calculation damage against him.  Also has the bonus of basically limiting his movement to 2 tiles.

Stuff I'm writing late at night

Conquest -  Bribe them into peace and then just surround their capital and kill it in 3~ turns.

AI Mage resets -
Do not want Undead (if using Rogues) 
Do not want Ash-Har the Wise/Miralbus the Hat (any strategy)

The neccessary fire power can be had from Human Cuthroats 7-9, Monster Trolls (just 2) Undead Vampires (3), Koatl Spears (about 8) 
I feel like Koatl Training (Cuthroat/Koatl basically can't be counter attacked by their trash infantry) + Magnate most of the time, but am thinking of going with Glorius Tactician for damage (I think only 4 extra per unit)

Holy Ground - Extremely randomly 1-3 per map size (AVG 2 on small, 6 on XL) + 2-4 in the each underworld - On small + 1 Underworld you USUALLY have to capture 3 total, but rarely require 4 (I think god luck of only 2 required is possible)

You do not need Temples - having the required number of Holy Ground inside settlement borders is the only requirement.

Arethi have stun on their tier 2 bow archers (Smithy>Barracks>Training Ground) which makes nice work of the elementals - You certainly need to kill some to get into the underworld. For actually using your 3 Move settlers you can ideally  skip killing the later elementals, since they start their turn out of aggro range>move twice and build, compared to all other factions
I'm Liking Magnate+Favor of Grum-Gog (formerly Favor of Lunord) - Summon Rat is a super easy convenient way to scout, which is one of the main problems in this victory condition. Favor of Lunord is alright for the _1 move spell (mostly on the settlers themselves.

Defeat Avatar - Avatar spawns at 100 Favor. Favor gain is 30(Starting Perk) 20 per temple, 10 per quest (random) - Most of the time you will need to build 4 temples, although the game seems weighted to give you god related quests more often if you have holy grounds inside your settlement borders.

Definately don't fight - Agrela, Daurous, Grum-Gog (Healing or Debuffing)
Neutral but have summons - Krolm, Fervus
Has no summons - Helia, Lunord
Weakest Krypta - damage can be reduced down to just 25 by using Death immunity or just fighting using Undead

Unity - Probbably play with Conquest unchecked and just kill the other guy so you can get to the end-turn spam in peace.

Armageddon
Recomend Impossible difficulty and 2 AIs (so they will be rich and actually kill the Dremor on like 3/4 of the map without you) --- Trade Mana/spells with them liberally for massive amounts of cash
Anchors spawn around turn 53 - Unlike the normal Dremor Gates, they can appear in BOTH Aradania and the underworld, so assume in advance you'll have to go down there. All Gates are defended by a random Supreme unit - many of them have immunities, and all of them will out-trade you - Try to have  at least 2 damage types and a small number of High HP melee units backed up by a large number of ranged units.
AoE charathers (Lich, Court Werewolf, Champion of Grum GoG) prevent massive headaches.

Make 100% sure to get Adamantium/Pumpkin as an undead city - don't make special effort on most other resource tiles

Undead = faster waves / fighting anchors
Arethi = faster final boss setup

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