sorry i havn't had internet lately and i wont for a few days (im at my friends) but here is some insight on what you need to do
you dont use that strategy throughout the whole game. You only really use it towards the end when the enemies become too hard to kill any other way (well pretty much any other way). Stick with all level 5 units like dragons and archdemons until you reach a high enough amount of leadership so that your green dragons can suck A LOT of mana from the enemies. fights like the orc heroes in elon, most fights in shettera and nameless, and almost all battles in Reha work well with this strategy. Dont pelt the enemy with fire rain or geyser every turn either. Instead, cast fire arrow and poisen skull on the biggest troops and dont use any other spell for a while. The poisen and fire damage will melt the troops into oblivion each round while you allow some time for your mana drain ability to be usable again. O and sorry, but no, there are no items that im aware of that boost your initiative that much (or any that im aware of). That is where the spell "fear" comes in handy. archdemons will be your only threat in this scenario so just make sure you take them out with excorsim/geyser/amageddon/death star asap. Keep in mind that this is not the only strategy out there, its just one that works 95% of the time for really huge armies.
Yes there is a strategy to get the enemy units closer together. Use the "grab" ability to pull enemies closer together so that you can suck out from 4 units instead of 3 (or 5 units instead of 4). Most of the time the enemies dont have a chance to move so the dragons kick ability does little use.
Razorflame, that does work for smaller enemies but later on the demons get crushed in one hit by enemies. If you have a lot of intellect, you get around 40-50 executioners (if your lucky enough to get them instead of demoness's). That 35 mana spent right there, you spend 5 mana on magic spring, then the 400 brontors take them out in 2 turns. You now have 10 mana after spending 40. Even if you cast stone skin (7 more mana and another spell that turn) they will still get wiped out pretty quickly.
Unfortuneatly, you will run out of mana evetually because troops do die after beating the shit out of them so what you must do is take out the archers and fast moving units before bears, knights, spiders, hyenas, ect. If you do this, it does not matter if you have any mana or not. You can just run away from the units and wait, once they get close to you, attack with one of your abilities. Repeat that until they are all dead.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE ABILITY IN THE MIND SKILL TREE THAT GIVES 2+ SPEED AND INITIATIVE TO ONE RANDOM UNIT. Since the stack of green dragon is your only unit, he will always recieve it. also, dont be afraid to use healing every now and then if you are low on health. healing is a must when fighting against the orc heroes in Elon.
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