Mid-game help needed

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Kalenden

I've gotten to the midgame (Verona island,) and I'm having a bit of a problem. All remaining enemies are either strong to lethal, making it difficult to defeat them without a lot of losses.

I'm a lvl 20 paladin , playing on normal with 6500 leadership (+-), 50+-rage and 30 mana. my army composition is as follows:

Royal Thorns
Paladins
Inquisitors
Rune Mages
Red Dragons

I've gotten 3 Order magic and 2 in the other one (not chaos, forgot the name). Also 1 in Resurrection, and I'm working on bringing that skill to 3.
Basic strategy is to use the Red Dragons to tank, giving them stone skin and healing, making the rune mages/royal thorns summon up other units to help my main tank and using the rest of the units to resurrect any losses.

However, other heroes rape me with spells ( mostly because they are Lethal ) and non heroes are at very strong/lethal. The next island (the one with all the orcs) is also way over my level.
Any suggestions?

I'm not really a Paladin expert.

If you have Phantom, you should be fine, since you can keep phantoming the rune mages to revive.

If you have enough spare magic runes (19-20 unused magic runes), you can keep attacking with the Rune Mage and hope to trigger "sheep".

Target might help draw ranged units damage to the red dragons.

The only spell you should be worried about would be Geyser. In that case, try putting your soft units in reserve. Dog it out, until they run out of mana, then start resurrecting.

If you have enough mana for Resurrection, you might have enough for Call Phoenix.

At level 3, Ancient Phoenixes are very strong and can resurrect too!

I'm actually clearing out some normal Verona monsters (and even some map guardians) with just 2 black dragons, 2 red dragons, 2 rune mages, and the ancient phoenix. Even though I am a mage, I am just using oil mist and ancient phoenix for now.