Hand of Fate. Part 2: Despair

What's the point of changing the magic orientation if your turn simply doesn't come? Their initiative is 16, and even if you reduce it with artifacts to 13, they still go first. And their attack with 9 +9 of offspring is so strong that an army of 100 titans and other minor units (proportionally) is wiped out immediately, and it's simply impossible to build up large forces in 4 months (maybe I'm just missing something).