Are Shaman only available via the Islands? Or are there more later in the game?

And how do you get more than one stack of orc shamans? Or any other unit? Everytime I buy a unit it goes into the same stack with the rest of my units.

When you have an empty spot hold shift and click on the Orc Shamans and then click the empty spot.
If you ever loose a whole stack just do that with any spell casting creature, put 1 creature in the spot and use them to buff your troops or lay down totems or loot corpses or.....

Sammual

i realy like the elves archers. they are lvl 4 but do good ranged damage. prefect for mage.

i still use orc shamans alot in elven lands.

when do we get blackdragons ? my plan is to have an armgageddon nuker with black drakes only hehe

ai seem to attack them alot though so i have them between my giants and lvl 5 trees.

a unit i think look very cool are the demon/unded lvl 4-5 knights with black armour with gold on. when facing stacks of 150+ of these suckers i am back to kiting from lineage low lvl times 10 years ago lol. they can simply take so much punichment.

I just reached Freedom Islands, but cleared pretty much the whole first part of the game with:

Bears
Dwarven Alchemists
Beholders
Royal Snakes
Griffons

Wolf howls cannot hurt me
The Griffons are handy if I have to deal with ranged units quickly
The bears and snakes both have a fair bit of "soak" ability
The Alchemists have some great ranged attacks

And, since I'm playing a mage, my fireballs usually support them quite well

I've had this army since the early game and am now about 1/3rd through the islands and doing well

Best units: Black dragons, Arch-daemons (all demons are great) by far.

Worst units: ghosts/thorns

I'm about to hit lvl 9, and the units I've been using so far is Bowmen, Priests, 3 stacks with Bears, Ancient Bears and Polar Bears :D

The bears are really slow, but their crits are just insane, and they can soak up a LOT of dmg. I'm gonna replace my priests with Orc Shamans as soon as I can.

Just my 2 cents. /Zogun

I ended up having a stack of Giants, and 4 types of different Dragons. Couldn't hire too many, but 11-12 Black Dragons is good enough to kill almost anything that moves.

Well i'm toward the castle in the elven lands after reading the book and my shaman supply is almost up. I just put the last 100 in reserves. Hope i find some more, for now i'll change my strat from totem tanking to something else. :)

I think it's really cool that this game doesn't just give you an unlimited supply of any unit that you want. :) It really forces you to make good decisions during battle to preserve your favorite unit stacks, and it keeps the overall game interesting by preventing you from sticking to only one kind of unit with only one kind of strategy.

Also from the responses this thread has got, it's clear that there are viable strategies for just about every unit; though one person might think one sort of unit bad, another person can say that they put it to very good use. So there are hardly any "trash" units, though I think it's becoming clear that some like the shaman might have slight "abuse" potential. Nevertheless, this game has MUCH better balance than other turn-based battle games, such as Gladius (which was still a good game!)

Good design, developers! :)