no spiecial chars... so no teclis, which is awsome because he is the most cheesily overpowered mage in the game. Spells will still be hard to get away with, but in my opinion its possible. 1. always do your weak spells first (IoN for example) so that the enemy is confused whether to usehis scrolls first or last, after all, he doesnt know that youre not just going to be using IoNs all the time. 2. since you will be using quite a lot of IoNs then get the vamp powers, according to what youre using for core. 3. Have one vampire (with flying or talisman of lycani) and a few other upgrades, to hunt down his mages, less mages, worse magic phase and disspell. 4. ethreal units would be good, attack his lothern sea guard, or just spearmen, so that his magc will be focused on killing them. 5. In a WD i managed to find a quite effective tactic: have 3 units of ghouls, with a powerfull vamp mage in one unit with raise ghouls and a corpse cart with +1 to IoN. The idea is to raise the ghouls faster that the enemy can kill them, and it works! then have some powerfull units on sides so that our undead core takes minimum damage. By a few rounds you should have 3 units of about 40-50 ghouls if everything goes ok.