
Sending some mounted units to pillage their improvements can put an economic hurt on them that makes supporting an offensive army impossible. With the new AI economic improvements you might not even meet them (on a large enough map) until after they have Bronze Working. Of course, the Sheaim don't always start close enough for such a strategy to be practical.


Limited to one city without improvements, the Sheaim won't get to Bronze Working soon enough to matter. Declare war on the Sheaim and crush them if you can, and if not then torch all their improvements and kill any attempt they make to expand. The best way to deal with Pyre Zombies is proactive offense. Either the Sheaim have stagnated, or they have stopped making Pyre Zombies in favor of "more advanced" units. The Sheaim get Pyre Zombies long before I have Life II casters, and once I have Life II casters (assuming I survive that long) there is no need for Destroy Undead. I have never managed to get the ability to cast Destroy Undead in time to be important for dealing with Pyre Zombies.
