[Kathos]

This is more of a Q & A for anybody wanting to post either their successes (for others trying this great feat) or for people with questions on how to get by something in particular.

Personally I'm in the second group, having a really hard time getting past Bolo Island with no losses. I'm currently Lv. 8 Paladin with 3187 leadership and an army consisting of:
2 Cyclops
14 Paladins
21 Polar Bears
53 Royal Snakes
31 Inquisitors
My army is just barely (and I mean just barely by 3g) capped on stack size, I don't have a wide variety of spells which doesn't include slow as I have somehow not found it yet. Debir is 100%, Scarlet I still have 2 mobs I can't seem to get around 1 of which has a map and the 2 contracts on the island. Bolo as well there's the 2 mobs guarding the maps which always get me by a couple losses and some roamers that just barely get me (big groups of melee but no way of slowing them aside from dragon kick). I have grabbed the amulet from behind the robot guard and handed it in (with +50 leadership from the amulet). I'm completely broke like I mentioned, I have tried each battle 10 times with no luck trying various positions spells and tactics. I'm contemplating restarting and hoping for something better, my first time around I found paladins really quickly as opposed to this time where I didn't get them until after the amulet hand in but I did get Jim with the +700 leadership which was damn nice. My dragon has had Treasure Searcher (2 chests) since battle 8 and I have dragon egg (yellow dragon) but it has yet to help, I have sold several adventure maps as well. I can't figure out how to beat certain hero's because of their ridiculous spells that I can't heal through.
Is there a remedy to my headache's here? Or am I doomed to restart for a third time? I havn't beat the game yet but I have easily put 150+ hours into KBTL, as well as the Heroes of Might & Magic series (probably closer to 500+ hours on that) so I have a pretty good knowledge on the game I just feel like I didn't get quite a rewarding start.

Damn that's a huge post, sorry for the novel!