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Originally Posted by Calinda
On Karador try to use the AOE from his necromancers against him (with Target spell), also dont kill the stacks, just reduce all of them evenly, and when they are all low, kill all of them fast in a turn or 2. This way you prevent him from raising too much stuff.
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I was thinking about that, but the only tank I can get easily into their lines and cast target on it, is an emerald dragon and they aren't the best tankers vs. physical damage dealers. For instance, the black knights just love to crit them for over 1.4k damage (with a shield from the mages!!!) and that 2 dragons out of 10 down in a hit. I was a bit unlucky with the creature setup in ellinia. First of all, no hunters whatsoever (save for the 37 hunters that join you when you break the siege), so I had to do quite a bit of sacrificing to up their number. No ancient ents either. The non-ellinia based creature dwellings provided some cannoneers (good), and barbarians, human archers, royal thorns, guardsmen and swordsmen (bad). There were some griffins and I tried using them, but to no avail - as soon as the stack dropped to 140 (which happened in a few rounds, even though I was using shield from the mages, resurrection and time back), karador just used hypnotize after all my units have moved (since I generally have a better initiative) and BB griffins, because even if I wait and dispel, he would just hypnotize them the next turn and it's BB again
So I had to tuck my tail between my legs, go level up and prepare a better party setup. One of the best tanks vs. physical damage dealers that are most of Karador's army is the Knight. If I find archdemons in demonis I won't pass on them either since as a high-level Paladin I have tolerance. Horsemen may also cut it, since they have 20% physical and 20% fire resistance. We'll see. I have to go to Demonis first, and Demonis is a big place with a lot of XP roaming there.
One thing's for certain. The double battles with the powerpuff girl army (as sector24 called it) are a piece of cake. Open with mass haste, Inquisitors build rage, dryads cast lullaby, the sprites and fairies kill the lvl 4 unit (the orc shaman in my case). The next turn everything waits, dryad summons thorns and then time back on the dryads. Now you have lullaby and thorns again. Then it's easy. The future double had some units left after both lullaby's (turn 5), so cast target on one of the summoned thorns and it's GG
BTW, Vilk, you may have been right about necro call. The good question is where did I put that spell and did I sell it by mistake. If I did, it's my noobish mistake then
EDIT: I lied in this post
There are hunters in my game. There are 2.4k hunters in a tower in the absolute backside of Demonis
Now who would look for them here, surrounded by red and black dragons?!