My attempt at getting the highest score

[Metathron]

Well, I kinda disagree. In my experience, the guardian angel one is rather tedious to get depending on the units you use of course; as for the fire mage medal, I usually raise a huge chunk of it just by casting spells "the natural way", i.e. not by artificially prolonging battles, since in my opinion spells like fire arrow and fireball are a mage's weapon of choice from the get go.

[travelingoz]

Guardian Medal is not too bad. Just Start in Debir with 3 Arcmages split. You can easily get 15~20 casts in per battle and have the medal by the time you finish Bolo!

[KongMysen]

I hate all these medals... Its just tremendously boring spamming the same spells over and over. Obviously you will use a lot of fire arrows and stoneskin throughout the game, but reaching lvl 3 means a lot of boring and unnessesary castings.

The trap medal is aquired by killing the last unit in a stack. The best thing about traps is that they reduce ap to 0, so by using it on enemies, that dies... Not to mention the poisoning...Well you get the point.
And why cast fireball if you have fire rain? Or cast magic shield on your troll stack 3-4 times every 2nd round?

There is a little challenge in getting the medals and an absolute NEED to get them to build the perfect character, but the way you win them are just not making gameplay more fun.

[Zechnophobe]

I agree with Kong, which is why I don't go far out of my way to get those kind of medals. One game I got trapper, and it was kinda interesting. And I've gotten level 2 fire mage before, and level 3 guardian angel once. But they just aren't enjoyable enough for me to spend time on... and ultimately not that useful.

[Metathron]

I'm also not going for trapper this time around, as I became quite fed up with going for the other two spamming medals.

[McSwan]

I realized I made a mistake by kiting monterro instead of killing everything there on my run through, and it cost me enough time that I would not have made it by day 7.

So I've started back just before bolo, getting repair bots there and working my way through again. So far it's a heck of a lot easier!

[McSwan]

Been using

repair bots
repair bots
guard droids
1 green dragon
vampires

With level 3 heal for the dragons, this army can recover fairly easily from hideous casualties. I'm beginning to think that vamps are superior to black knights at the start, as they usually don't need an eviln to recover. Against undead, you do need eviln though. And vamps damage isn't great, but against most creatures they seem to hold out, maintaining there level and slowly kill the mob. Back doing Verona atm.